Monday, June 23, 2008

China Demos Mosque for not Supporting Olympics

I don't even know where to begin. Yahoo News


BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have demolished a mosque for refusing to put up signs in support of this August's Beijing Olympics, an exiled group said on Monday.

The mosque was in Kalpin county near Aksu city in Xinjiang's rugged southwest, the World Uyghur Congress said.

The spokesman's office of the Xinjiang government said it had no immediate comment, while telephone calls to the county government went answered.
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"China is forcing mosques in East Turkistan to publicize the Beijing Olympics to get the Uighur people to support the Games (but) this has been resisted by the Uighurs," World Uyghur Congress spokesman Dilxat Raxit said in an emailed statement.

Beijing says al Qaeda is working with militants in Xinjiang to use terror to establish an independent state called East Turkistan.

2 comments:

#1 infidel said...

UH! where do you start ?
On one hand they are abusing people Again !
On the other they are fighting Terrorism ?
something smells funny!

kyros said...

and the terrorists are protesting the olympics.