China warns that foreign inspired Islamism is expanding throughout China and threatening the “rule of law.” China’s religion tsar warns that “foreign Islam” is infiltrating “Chinese Islam” posing a threat to national security. Beijing recently ordered the population of a Muslim-majority region to hand in their passports to police. RT.com reports: Islam in China is often associated with the restive Xinjiang border region, which is home to over 10 million Muslim Uyghurs, but Wang Zuoan, head of the State Administration for Religious Affairs, told 300 religious leaders at the National Congress of the Chinese Islamic Association that “extremism” is now “moving to the inland provinces.” Wang said that it was up to the clerics to become the “front line” in “resisting extremism” and “converting” Muslims to a more moderate form of the religion. He urged Muslim communities learn “to use the law to safeguard legal interests, instead of trying to solve problems through illegal actions such as creating disturbances.” China is strictly secular, and Wang also railed against the increasing adoption of religious practices in everyday life among the Islamic population, which stands at about 23 million – about the same as the number of Muslims living in the EU. “We [...]
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