China closing hundreds of mosques in northern regions, rights group says

[Raj-Hindustani]

China closing hundreds of mosques in northern regions, rights group says​

China closing hundreds of mosques in northern regions, rights group says​

HRW says other mosques altered, for example through removal of minarets, as part of sinicisation campaign

Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent
@amyhawk_
Tue 21 Nov 2023 23.00 GMT

Chinese authorities have closed or altered hundreds of mosques in the northern regions of Ningxia and Gansu, homes to the highest Muslim populations in China after Xinjiang, as part of broader efforts to “sinicise” China’s religious minorities, according to a report.
Researchers at Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the Chinese government was significantly reducing the number of mosques in Ningxia autonomous region and Gansu province.

The Chinese Communist party (CCP) has long maintained a tight grip over China’s religious and ethnic minorities, and since 2016 when Xi Jinping, China’s leader, called for the sinicisation of China’s religions, the pace and intensity of mosque alterations has increased.

In April 2018, Beijing issued a directive stating that government officials should “strictly control the construction and layout of Islamic activity venues” and “adhere to the principle of demolishing more and building less”.
The researchers at HRW analysed satellite imagery to examine the mosque consolidation policy in two villages in Ningxia. It found that between 2019 and 2021, the domes and minarets were removed from all seven of the mosques. Four of the mosques were significantly altered: three main buildings were razed and the ablution hall of one was damaged.
Hannah Theaker, a lecturer at the University of Plymouth who has researched the topic with David Stroup, of the University of Manchester, said the removal of ablution facilities was a way of “basically immediately ensuring that you cannot use them, [so that] it has effectively been removed as a place of worship, without being visible.”
Theaker and Stroup estimate that about 1,300 mosques in Ningxia – a third of the total number registered – have been closed since 2020. That estimate does not include mosques that have been closed or demolished because of their unofficial status, most of which happened before 2020.
HRW was not able to determine the exact number of mosques that have been closed or modified in recent years, but government reports suggest it is likely to be hundreds. In Zhongwei, a city with more than 1 million residents, authorities said in 2019 that they had altered 214 mosques, consolidated 58, and banned 37 “illegally registered religious sites”. In the town of Jingui, authorities said they had “rectified” more than 130 sites “with Islamic architectural features”.
An imam in Ningxia interviewed by Radio Free Asia said the mosque consolidation policy meant that any mosques within 2.5km of each other had to be merged. “When mosques are closed, many young and middle-aged people will no longer go to mosques to participate in religious activities, and the next generation will slowly lose faith and have no confidence in Islam … in this way, Muslims are slowly being sinicised,” he was quoted in RFA as saying.
Maya Wang, the acting China director at HRW, said the “closure, destruction and repurposing of mosques is part of a systematic effort to curb the practice of Islam in China.”
A Chinese government spokesperson said: “People of all ethnic groups in China are fully entitled to the freedom of religious belief as prescribed by law. Following policies that protect freedom of religious belief, China, like other countries, administers religious affairs in accordance with law. We are resolute in rejecting and fighting religious extremism. Believers’ normal religious activities are guaranteed in accordance with law and their customs respected.”
The mosque consolidation policy is not confined to Ningxia and Gansu. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute estimates that 65% of Xinjiang’s 16,000 mosques have been destroyed or damaged since 2017.
In May, hundreds of police clashed with protesters in a Hui Muslim town in Yunnan province, in south-west China, over attempts to dismantle parts of an important local mosque.

China closing hundreds of mosques in northern regions, rights group says

HRW says other mosques altered, for example through removal of minarets, as part of sinicisation campaign

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Report: Hundreds of mosques in China converted or closed since 2018

Human Rights Watch said the ‘consolidation’ policy has been implemented in northwestern China.

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[Raj-Hindustani]

Demolishing Faith: The Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques and Shrines​

Demolishing Faith: The Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques and Shrines - Uyghur Human Rights Project

The Chinese government’s current crackdown in the Uyghur region is aimed at eliminating Uyghur ethnocultural identity and assimilating them into an undifferentiated “Chinese” identity.

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[etylo]

China closing hundreds of mosques in northern regions, rights group says​

China closing hundreds of mosques in northern regions, rights group says​

HRW says other mosques altered, for example through removal of minarets, as part of sinicisation campaign

Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent
@amyhawk_
Tue 21 Nov 2023 23.00 GMT

Chinese authorities have closed or altered hundreds of mosques in the northern regions of Ningxia and Gansu, homes to the highest Muslim populations in China after Xinjiang, as part of broader efforts to “sinicise” China’s religious minorities, according to a report.
Researchers at Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the Chinese government was significantly reducing the number of mosques in Ningxia autonomous region and Gansu province.

The Chinese Communist party (CCP) has long maintained a tight grip over China’s religious and ethnic minorities, and since 2016 when Xi Jinping, China’s leader, called for the sinicisation of China’s religions, the pace and intensity of mosque alterations has increased.

In April 2018, Beijing issued a directive stating that government officials should “strictly control the construction and layout of Islamic activity venues” and “adhere to the principle of demolishing more and building less”.
The researchers at HRW analysed satellite imagery to examine the mosque consolidation policy in two villages in Ningxia. It found that between 2019 and 2021, the domes and minarets were removed from all seven of the mosques. Four of the mosques were significantly altered: three main buildings were razed and the ablution hall of one was damaged.
Hannah Theaker, a lecturer at the University of Plymouth who has researched the topic with David Stroup, of the University of Manchester, said the removal of ablution facilities was a way of “basically immediately ensuring that you cannot use them, [so that] it has effectively been removed as a place of worship, without being visible.”
Theaker and Stroup estimate that about 1,300 mosques in Ningxia – a third of the total number registered – have been closed since 2020. That estimate does not include mosques that have been closed or demolished because of their unofficial status, most of which happened before 2020.
HRW was not able to determine the exact number of mosques that have been closed or modified in recent years, but government reports suggest it is likely to be hundreds. In Zhongwei, a city with more than 1 million residents, authorities said in 2019 that they had altered 214 mosques, consolidated 58, and banned 37 “illegally registered religious sites”. In the town of Jingui, authorities said they had “rectified” more than 130 sites “with Islamic architectural features”.
An imam in Ningxia interviewed by Radio Free Asia said the mosque consolidation policy meant that any mosques within 2.5km of each other had to be merged. “When mosques are closed, many young and middle-aged people will no longer go to mosques to participate in religious activities, and the next generation will slowly lose faith and have no confidence in Islam … in this way, Muslims are slowly being sinicised,” he was quoted in RFA as saying.
Maya Wang, the acting China director at HRW, said the “closure, destruction and repurposing of mosques is part of a systematic effort to curb the practice of Islam in China.”
A Chinese government spokesperson said: “People of all ethnic groups in China are fully entitled to the freedom of religious belief as prescribed by law. Following policies that protect freedom of religious belief, China, like other countries, administers religious affairs in accordance with law. We are resolute in rejecting and fighting religious extremism. Believers’ normal religious activities are guaranteed in accordance with law and their customs respected.”
The mosque consolidation policy is not confined to Ningxia and Gansu. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute estimates that 65% of Xinjiang’s 16,000 mosques have been destroyed or damaged since 2017.
In May, hundreds of police clashed with protesters in a Hui Muslim town in Yunnan province, in south-west China, over attempts to dismantle parts of an important local mosque.

China closing hundreds of mosques in northern regions, rights group says

HRW says other mosques altered, for example through removal of minarets, as part of sinicisation campaign

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So, even if it's true from British(bullshit) sources. Then, what you Indians and your masters Israelis and Americans have been doing to Muslims lately ? Killing them eh, lol.

 

[GreatHanWarrior]

Demolishing Faith: The Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques and Shrines​

Demolishing Faith: The Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques and Shrines - Uyghur Human Rights Project

The Chinese government’s current crackdown in the Uyghur region is aimed at eliminating Uyghur ethnocultural identity and assimilating them into an undifferentiated “Chinese” identity.

uhrp.org

Will the Palestinian people believe in “rights group"?

 

[Raj-Hindustani]

Most People in this place cry crocodile tears when something happens to Muslims in India or anywhere else, but they remain silent when it occurs in China because of cordial ties.

This is another reason why, in most situations, the world does not listen to them when they point the finger at others because they know that their accusations are purely political, highly selective, and have nothing to do with religion.

 

[GreatHanWarrior]

Demolishing Faith: The Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques and Shrines​

Demolishing Faith: The Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques and Shrines - Uyghur Human Rights Project

The Chinese government’s current crackdown in the Uyghur region is aimed at eliminating Uyghur ethnocultural identity and assimilating them into an undifferentiated “Chinese” identity.

uhrp.org

Will the Palestinian people believe in the "rights group"?

Most People in this place cry crocodile tears when something happens to Muslims in India or anywhere else, but they remain silent when it occurs in China because of cordial ties.

This is another reason why, in most situations, the world does not listen to them when they point the finger at others because they know that their accusations are purely political, highly selective, and have nothing to do with religion.

Baby. Go assassinate the Sikhs.

Most People in this place cry crocodile tears when something happens to Muslims in India or anywhere else, but they remain silent when it occurs in China because of cordial ties.

This is another reason why, in most situations, the world does not listen to them when they point the finger at others because they know that their accusations are purely political, highly selective, and have nothing to do with religion.

Baby. Go assassinate the Sikhs.

 

[Raj-Hindustani]

So, even if it's true from British(bullshit) sources. Then, what you Indians and your masters Israelis and Americans have been doing to Muslims lately ? Killing them, lol.

Okay, so why doesn't the so-called saver of the Muslim community, people do not criticise China in the same way that they condemn Israel, India, the United States, etc.?

Isn't it all about the connections in politics? and it's not about the faith?

and all destruction is visible in the satellite pictures. People should come with proof if those are photoshopped and disagreed on it.

 

[etylo]

Okay, so why doesn't the so-called saver of the Muslim community, people do not criticise China in the same way that they condemn Iran, India, the United States, etc.?

Isn't it all about the connections in politics? and it's not about the faith?

Becos people don't believe in your Indian BS.

 

[GreatHanWarrior]

China closing hundreds of mosques in northern regions, rights group says​

China closing hundreds of mosques in northern regions, rights group says​

HRW says other mosques altered, for example through removal of minarets, as part of sinicisation campaign

Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent
@amyhawk_
Tue 21 Nov 2023 23.00 GMT

Chinese authorities have closed or altered hundreds of mosques in the northern regions of Ningxia and Gansu, homes to the highest Muslim populations in China after Xinjiang, as part of broader efforts to “sinicise” China’s religious minorities, according to a report.
Researchers at Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the Chinese government was significantly reducing the number of mosques in Ningxia autonomous region and Gansu province.

The Chinese Communist party (CCP) has long maintained a tight grip over China’s religious and ethnic minorities, and since 2016 when Xi Jinping, China’s leader, called for the sinicisation of China’s religions, the pace and intensity of mosque alterations has increased.

In April 2018, Beijing issued a directive stating that government officials should “strictly control the construction and layout of Islamic activity venues” and “adhere to the principle of demolishing more and building less”.
The researchers at HRW analysed satellite imagery to examine the mosque consolidation policy in two villages in Ningxia. It found that between 2019 and 2021, the domes and minarets were removed from all seven of the mosques. Four of the mosques were significantly altered: three main buildings were razed and the ablution hall of one was damaged.
Hannah Theaker, a lecturer at the University of Plymouth who has researched the topic with David Stroup, of the University of Manchester, said the removal of ablution facilities was a way of “basically immediately ensuring that you cannot use them, [so that] it has effectively been removed as a place of worship, without being visible.”
Theaker and Stroup estimate that about 1,300 mosques in Ningxia – a third of the total number registered – have been closed since 2020. That estimate does not include mosques that have been closed or demolished because of their unofficial status, most of which happened before 2020.
HRW was not able to determine the exact number of mosques that have been closed or modified in recent years, but government reports suggest it is likely to be hundreds. In Zhongwei, a city with more than 1 million residents, authorities said in 2019 that they had altered 214 mosques, consolidated 58, and banned 37 “illegally registered religious sites”. In the town of Jingui, authorities said they had “rectified” more than 130 sites “with Islamic architectural features”.
An imam in Ningxia interviewed by Radio Free Asia said the mosque consolidation policy meant that any mosques within 2.5km of each other had to be merged. “When mosques are closed, many young and middle-aged people will no longer go to mosques to participate in religious activities, and the next generation will slowly lose faith and have no confidence in Islam … in this way, Muslims are slowly being sinicised,” he was quoted in RFA as saying.
Maya Wang, the acting China director at HRW, said the “closure, destruction and repurposing of mosques is part of a systematic effort to curb the practice of Islam in China.”
A Chinese government spokesperson said: “People of all ethnic groups in China are fully entitled to the freedom of religious belief as prescribed by law. Following policies that protect freedom of religious belief, China, like other countries, administers religious affairs in accordance with law. We are resolute in rejecting and fighting religious extremism. Believers’ normal religious activities are guaranteed in accordance with law and their customs respected.”
The mosque consolidation policy is not confined to Ningxia and Gansu. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute estimates that 65% of Xinjiang’s 16,000 mosques have been destroyed or damaged since 2017.
In May, hundreds of police clashed with protesters in a Hui Muslim town in Yunnan province, in south-west China, over attempts to dismantle parts of an important local mosque.

China closing hundreds of mosques in northern regions, rights group says

HRW says other mosques altered, for example through removal of minarets, as part of sinicisation campaign

www.theguardian.com

Subscribe to the Financial Times

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Report: Hundreds of mosques in China converted or closed since 2018

Human Rights Watch said the ‘consolidation’ policy has been implemented in northwestern China.

www.rfa.org

The weird thing is. Why isn’t the West talking about the “genocide of Uyghurs” now?

China closing hundreds of mosques in northern regions, rights group says​

China closing hundreds of mosques in northern regions, rights group says​

HRW says other mosques altered, for example through removal of minarets, as part of sinicisation campaign

Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent
@amyhawk_
Tue 21 Nov 2023 23.00 GMT

Chinese authorities have closed or altered hundreds of mosques in the northern regions of Ningxia and Gansu, homes to the highest Muslim populations in China after Xinjiang, as part of broader efforts to “sinicise” China’s religious minorities, according to a report.
Researchers at Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the Chinese government was significantly reducing the number of mosques in Ningxia autonomous region and Gansu province.

The Chinese Communist party (CCP) has long maintained a tight grip over China’s religious and ethnic minorities, and since 2016 when Xi Jinping, China’s leader, called for the sinicisation of China’s religions, the pace and intensity of mosque alterations has increased.

In April 2018, Beijing issued a directive stating that government officials should “strictly control the construction and layout of Islamic activity venues” and “adhere to the principle of demolishing more and building less”.
The researchers at HRW analysed satellite imagery to examine the mosque consolidation policy in two villages in Ningxia. It found that between 2019 and 2021, the domes and minarets were removed from all seven of the mosques. Four of the mosques were significantly altered: three main buildings were razed and the ablution hall of one was damaged.
Hannah Theaker, a lecturer at the University of Plymouth who has researched the topic with David Stroup, of the University of Manchester, said the removal of ablution facilities was a way of “basically immediately ensuring that you cannot use them, [so that] it has effectively been removed as a place of worship, without being visible.”
Theaker and Stroup estimate that about 1,300 mosques in Ningxia – a third of the total number registered – have been closed since 2020. That estimate does not include mosques that have been closed or demolished because of their unofficial status, most of which happened before 2020.
HRW was not able to determine the exact number of mosques that have been closed or modified in recent years, but government reports suggest it is likely to be hundreds. In Zhongwei, a city with more than 1 million residents, authorities said in 2019 that they had altered 214 mosques, consolidated 58, and banned 37 “illegally registered religious sites”. In the town of Jingui, authorities said they had “rectified” more than 130 sites “with Islamic architectural features”.
An imam in Ningxia interviewed by Radio Free Asia said the mosque consolidation policy meant that any mosques within 2.5km of each other had to be merged. “When mosques are closed, many young and middle-aged people will no longer go to mosques to participate in religious activities, and the next generation will slowly lose faith and have no confidence in Islam … in this way, Muslims are slowly being sinicised,” he was quoted in RFA as saying.
Maya Wang, the acting China director at HRW, said the “closure, destruction and repurposing of mosques is part of a systematic effort to curb the practice of Islam in China.”
A Chinese government spokesperson said: “People of all ethnic groups in China are fully entitled to the freedom of religious belief as prescribed by law. Following policies that protect freedom of religious belief, China, like other countries, administers religious affairs in accordance with law. We are resolute in rejecting and fighting religious extremism. Believers’ normal religious activities are guaranteed in accordance with law and their customs respected.”
The mosque consolidation policy is not confined to Ningxia and Gansu. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute estimates that 65% of Xinjiang’s 16,000 mosques have been destroyed or damaged since 2017.
In May, hundreds of police clashed with protesters in a Hui Muslim town in Yunnan province, in south-west China, over attempts to dismantle parts of an important local mosque.

China closing hundreds of mosques in northern regions, rights group says

HRW says other mosques altered, for example through removal of minarets, as part of sinicisation campaign

www.theguardian.com

Subscribe to the Financial Times

A subscription to the Financial Times provides you with the insights and perspective you need to succeed, now.

ig.ft.com

Report: Hundreds of mosques in China converted or closed since 2018

Human Rights Watch said the ‘consolidation’ policy has been implemented in northwestern China.

www.rfa.org

The weird thing is. Why isn’t the West talking about the “genocide of Uyghurs” now?

Okay, so why doesn't the so-called saver of the Muslim community, people do not criticise China in the same way that they condemn Israel, India, the United States, etc.?

Isn't it all about the connections in politics? and it's not about the faith?

well

Okay, so why doesn't the so-called saver of the Muslim community, people do not criticise China in the same way that they condemn Israel, India, the United States, etc.?

Isn't it all about the connections in politics? and it's not about the faith?

well

Okay, so why doesn't the so-called saver of the Muslim community, people do not criticise China in the same way that they condemn Israel, India, the United States, etc.?

Isn't it all about the connections in politics? and it's not about the faith?

and all destructions are visible from the satellites pics....

Hey. Indians. How many Sikhs did you kill today?

 

[Raj-Hindustani]

The weird thing is. Why isn’t the West talking about the “genocide of Uyghurs” now?

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The weird thing is. Why isn’t the West talking about the “genocide of Uyghurs” now?

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Only Chinese or your pal in Pakistan can believe on such sugarcoating .

There are satellite photos available. People tend to believe more in facts and evidence than in clickbait or propaganda videos.

 

[GreatHanWarrior]

Only Chinese or your pal in Pakistan can believe on such suckercoating.

There are satellite photos available. People tend to believe more in facts and evidence than in clickbait or propaganda videos.

Hey. Indians. How many Sikhs did you kill today?

Speak loudly. You also support the Israeli massacre of Palestinian children like the Uyghur brothers.

Only Chinese or your pal in Pakistan can believe on such sugarcoating .

There are satellite photos available. People tend to believe more in facts and evidence than in clickbait or propaganda videos.

Human rights? Even if you are human???

Only Chinese or your pal in Pakistan can believe on such sugarcoating .

There are satellite photos available. People tend to believe more in facts and evidence than in clickbait or propaganda videos.

Human rights? Even if you are human???

 

[GreatHanWarrior]

Only Chinese or your pal in Pakistan can believe on such sugarcoating .

There are satellite photos available. People tend to believe more in facts and evidence than in clickbait or propaganda videos.

Now send all satellite images of the “Uyghur genocide”. Please. Let's see what the truth is! Okay?

Let's see what the truth is!

First! Hangzhou New Mosque. Built in 2017!

Use all your courage. Frontal debate. Okay?

Only Chinese or your pal in Pakistan can believe on such sugarcoating .

There are satellite photos available. People tend to believe more in facts and evidence than in clickbait or propaganda videos.

Now send all satellite images of the “Uyghur genocide”. Please. Let's see what the truth is! Okay?

Let's see what the truth is!

First! Hangzhou New Mosque. Built in 2017!

Use all your courage. Frontal debate. Okay?

 

[Raj-Hindustani]

Now send all satellite images of the “Uyghur genocide”. Please. Let's see what the truth is! Okay?

Let's see what the truth is!

First! Hangzhou New Mosque. Built in 2017!

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Use all your courage. Frontal debate. Okay?


Now send all satellite images of the “Uyghur genocide”. Please. Let's see what the truth is! Okay?

Let's see what the truth is!

First! Hangzhou New Mosque. Built in 2017!

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Use all your courage. Frontal debate. Okay?

If you do inside the camps, and will ask for the satelite images?

 

[GreatHanWarrior]

If you do inside the camps, and will ask for the satelite images?

YOU ～ “There are satellite photos available. People tend to believe more in facts and evidence than in clickbait or propaganda videos.”

Let's look at the facts and evidence. Okay?

I heard. India supports Israel's bombing of schools and hospitals. Perhaps Indians believe that schools and hospitals are camps?

If you do inside the camps, and will ask for the satelite images?

YOU ～ “There are satellite photos available. People tend to believe more in facts and evidence than in clickbait or propaganda videos.”

Let's look at the facts and evidence. Okay?

I heard. India supports Israel's bombing of schools and hospitals. Perhaps Indians believe that schools and hospitals are camps?

If you do inside the camps, and will ask for the satelite images?

This is a Xinjiang hospital. In fact, it is a concentration camp. Isn't it?

If you do inside the camps, and will ask for the satelite images?

This is a Xinjiang hospital. In fact, it is a concentration camp. Isn't it?

 

[buntalanlucu]

really sad to see PDF mods alllow blatant fake news like this poisoning the forum , as usual from indian trolls and indians pretending to be 'american' with their fake american flag in profile