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| China says Muslim Uighurs have joined Islamic State group |
| 2015-03-11 |
| [Ynet] Chinese officials said Tuesday that members of the country's Moslem Uighur ethnic minority have gone overseas to fight with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, which controls sections of Syria and Iraq, and returned to take part in plots at home. Authorities in the far-western region of Xinjiang, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistain, will strengthen their crackdown on terrorism and extremism as a result, regional representatives said at a discussion on the sidelines of China's legislature. Xinjiang has seen repeated violence as members of the Moslem Uighur minority group have bristled under what they say is repressive Chinese government rule. Attacks blamed on Uighurs have also occurred in other parts of the country, including a car which plowed into Beijing's Tiananmen Gate in 2013, killing five people. "There are Uighurs that have fled overseas and joined the Islamic State," said Zhang Chunxian, Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang. "The organization has a huge international influence and Xinjiang can't keep aloof from it and we have already been affected. We have also found that some who fought returned to Xinjiang to participate in terrorist plots." He didn't elaborate. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Gives them the excuse they wanted to go after the Uighurs. Not saying its unjustified, but that it is rather convenient. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-03-11 19:28 |
| #1 Well if anyone knows what to do with them itcwould be the Chinese. |
| Posted by: chris 2015-03-11 11:39 |