Xinjiang region
Published April 28, 2017 Fox News
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In this Thursday, May 1, 2014 file photo, an Uighur woman carries a toddler as children play near a cage protecting heavily armed Chinese paramilitary policemen on duty in Urumqi in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
In this Thursday, May 1, 2014 file photo, an Uighur woman carries a toddler as children play near a cage protecting heavily armed Chinese paramilitary policemen on duty in Urumqi in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (AP)
BEIJING – Authorities in western China are prohibiting parents from naming their children Islamic names in the latest effort to dilute the influence of religion on life in the ethnic Uighur minority heartland.

"Muhammad," ''Jihad" and "Islam" are among at least 29 names now banned in the heavily Muslim region, according to a list distributed by overseas Uighur activists.

If a parent chooses one of the barred names, the child will be denied government benefits.

The names listed on the government document disseminated by Uighur groups include several related to historic religious or political figures and some place names.

"Imam," ''Hajj," ''Turknaz," ''Azhar" and "Wahhab" are on the list, as are "Saddam," ''Arafat," Medina" and "Cairo."Judgment calls about which names are deemed to be "overly religious" will be made by local government officials, according to Radio Free Asia, the U.S.-funded radio service which first reported the naming directive.

An official at a county-level public security office said some names were banned because they had a "religious background." It is unclear how widespread the ban is or whether it is tightly enforced. The official refused to identify herself, as is common with Chinese officials.

The naming restrictions are part of a broader government effort to secularize Xinjiang, which is home to roughly 10 million Uighurs, a Turkic people who mostly follow Sunni Islam.

Top officials including Xinjiang's Communist Party chief have publicly said that radical Islamic thought has infiltrated the region from Central Asia, protracting a bloody, yearslong insurgency that has claimed hundreds of lives.

Government-linked scholars and high-ranking officials, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, have urged local governments to better assimilate their Muslim minorities into the majority Han Chinese culture, and many ethnic policy hard-liners have decried a trend of so-called "Arabization" affecting China's 21 million Muslims.

Aside from the prohibition on Islamic names, local Xinjiang officials have, at times, strongly discouraged or prohibited Islamic veils, while government-linked commentators have called for bans of mosques with domes or other Middle Eastern architectural styles.

Uighur activists and human rights groups say that radical thought had never gained widespread traction, but restrictions on religious expression are fueling a cycle of radicalization and violence.

For instance, "Mehmet," the widely seen Turkic version of "Muhammad," is considered "mainstream" in Xinjiang and would likely be permitted, RFA reported.

Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the overseas World Uighur Congress activist group, called the naming directive a policy bearing a "hostile attitude" toward Uighurs.

"Han parents choosing Western names are considered trendy but Uighurs have to accept Chinese regulations or else be accused of being separatists or terrorists," Raxit said.

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Good

Well,its all good if it works for them and since the majority are overwhelmingly hindu and buddhist.
But I feel that conscious suppression of the minority islamic population may later lead to the escalated conflict that they are trying to avoid in the first place.

EVarn:
Well,its all good if it works for them and since the majority are overwhelmingly hindu and buddhist.
But I feel that conscious suppression of the minority islamic population may later lead to the escalated conflict that they are trying to avoid in the first place.

It can't happen it China, they don't take shit

EVarn:
Well,its all good if it works for them and since the majority are overwhelmingly hindu and buddhist.
But I feel that conscious suppression of the minority islamic population may later lead to the escalated conflict that they are trying to avoid in the first place.

Every non-muslim country that value her people need to suppress Islam because that religion thrive in hate and also suppress any minority where they're dominant.

Pharaoh9:



It can't happen it China, they don't take shit

Syria didnt take poo until the ISIS,Al-Nusra and other ethnic rebel militias tore the country into pieces.

EVarn:
Syria didnt take poo until the ISIS,Al-Nusra and other ethnic rebel militias tore the country into pieces.

So you're comparing Syria with China?

I give up

Sealeddeal:
Every non-muslim country that value her people need to suppress Islam because that religion thrive in hate and also suppress any minority where they're dominant.

When it comes to religion,ethnicity and race,suppression will only lead to more agitation.We should learn from history,suppression has never worked,it only leads to conflict.
The new spate of anti-islam rhetoric that has taken root worldwide will only serve to make the religion more popular,infact,people who formerly did not care for islam are now beginning to get sympathetic to their cause simply because they percieve a global persecution.

Pharaoh9:


So you're comparing Syria with China?

I give up

China may be the second biggest economy in the world and a world military power,but it has a very high population of poor people who can be lured by the promise of wealth and radicalized.
In any case,10 million suppressed muslims are a disaster waiting to happen.

EVarn:
China may be the second biggest economy in the world and a world military power,but it has a very high population of poor people who can be lured by the promise of wealth and radicalized.
In any case,10 million suppressed muslims are a disaster waiting to happen.

You don't know what you're saying,
what you mean can only happen in India

Pharaoh9:



You don't know what you're saying,
what you mean can only happen in India

You are at liberty to believe whatever you want.Anyway,its simply my opinion.

So make i change name because i wan stay in china this world don spoil