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A high-ranking Chinese official disclosed that Turkey is luring the Uyghur residents of his country's Xinjiang province into war of insurgency in Syria.

"Al-Baghdadi Alters Strategy" According to an internal memo from Islamic State (IS), also known as ISIS or Daesh, a copy of which is held by the Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS), the organisation’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is putting the brakes on recruitment campaigns for volunteers in Germany, France, Morocco, Jordan and Saudi Arabia out of concern that foreign agents may attempt to infiltrate the organisation in this way. However al-Baghdadi wants to increase recruitment from areas which he believes are harder for Western intelligence services and their Arab nation allies to infiltrate. The target of choice is China’s Muslims, particularly ethnic Uighur.

"Their ultimate goal is still to fight back into China," Pan Zhiping, a former head of Central Asia studies at Xinjiang's Academy of Social Science, said.

It added "terrorists, separatists and extremists" from China's west had managed to bypass strict border controls through the porous mountainous regions of southern China. The terror group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has said in a previous speech that "Muslim rights are forcibly seized in China, India, Palestine" in his efforts to recruit Muslims around the world.

Uighurs in the firing line in China? Chinese government leaders accuse group deported from Thailand of planning to join ISIL.

Jul 13, 2015 Chinese Official: Turkey Hiring Uyghur Citizens to Fight among ISIL Ranks in Syria TEHRAN (FNA)- A high-ranking Chinese official disclosed that Turkey is luring the Uyghur residents of his country's Xinjiang province into war of insurgency in Syria."The Turkish diplomats in Southeast Asia have given Turkish ID cards to Uyghur citizens of Xinjiang province and then they have sent them to Turkey to prepare for war against the Syrian government alongside ISIL," the Arabic-language Iraq al-Qanoon news website quoted Tong Bichan, head of the Criminal Department of China's Public Security Ministry as telling reporters on Monday. Uyghur Muslims are a Chinese minority group who speak Turkish language. Earlier this month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan admitted that Ankara has directly supported terrorists in Syria. "If it were not due to the support of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar for the militants in Syria, they could not have achieved anything," Erdogan said, Turkish-language daily Hurriyat reported. He noted that Ankara, Riyadh and Doha have supplied military and logistical backup for the terrorists.Erdogan's remarks came as his Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu denied any cooperation between Turkey and Saudi Arabia in supporting the foreign-backed terrorists. In late June, the London-based al-Hayat newspaper reported that 12,000 Turkish forces are ready for military intervention in Syria under the pretext of creating a buffer zone to protect the Turkish borders against the threat of the terrorist groups. 14 Jul, Three 'Xinjiang terrorists' shot dead by police in China

Police in the north-eastern Chinese city of Shenyang have shot dead three "knife-wielding" men, state media said, calling them Xinjiang terrorists.

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A woman was also injured in the raid which took place on Monday afternoon. Xinjiang province, home to a significant Muslim Uighur population, has seen several clashes and public attacks in recent years, which police have attributed to terrorists.Monday's incident was one of the few such clashes outside of Xinjiang. Several state media outlets quoted a statement posted on Monday night on micro-blogging site Weibo. The account is owned by the government of Liaoning province, whose capital is Shenyang. The statement appeared to have been taken down by Tuesday morning. It remains unclear why it was removed, but China regularly censors online content deemed to be sensitive.'Shouting slogans' The statement, as reproduced in Chinese media, said that police caught 16 "terrorism suspects" in a raid in Shenyang. During the raid, officers entered a rented apartment where they "discovered Xinjiang terrorist suspects" and were attacked by four people "wearing headgear, holding long knives, and shouting 'holy war' slogans," the statement said. Police then retreated and called for back-up. More than 200 officers, including an anti-terrorist unit, evacuated nearby residents and surrounded the building. A cherry picker was used to reach the seventh-floor apartment.Pictures of the raid posted on a Weibo account owned by state broadcaster CCTV showed armed, uniformed men stationed on a rooftop and in a cherry picker cabin. Police said they also took into custody a 28-year-old Uighur woman and three children. China has seen frequent reports of deadly clashes with police and public attacks in Xinjiang attributed to terrorism, but few incidents have been reported outside of the restive region. In March 2014 a stabbing spree in Kunming city which killed 29 people was blamed on Xinjiang separatists, as was an October 2013 incident where a car ploughed into a crowd and burst into flames in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Rights groups have accused China of persecution and torture of the Uighur minority, but China has rejected such claims.

13 Jul 2015 Uighur Muslims complain of cultural and religious suppression, along with economic marginalisation in China's far western region of Xinjiang. For some, the only escape is to leave. Chinese government leaders accuse Uighur separatists of fomenting what they call "terrorism". Now, Beijing has gone a step further, saying more than 100 Uighurs deported from Thailand on Thursday were heading to join the wars in Syria and Iraq. The UN refugee agency condemns the deportations as a "flagrant violation of international law". Rights groups fear the Uighurs will be tortured back in China. It is adding to a growing controversy surrounding the treatment of Uighurs trying to escape what they say is persecution at home.

China responds to protests as relations worsen over Beijing's policies towards the Muslim Uighur minority.06 Jul 2015 China has no "ethnic problem" in its far west, and Muslim Uighur minorities there enjoy freedom of religion, the country's foreign ministry has said, following anti-China protests in Turkey over Beijing's treatment of the group. "Uighurs live and work in peace and contentment and enjoy freedom of religion under the rules in the constitution," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters at a regular briefing on Monday. "So the so-called 'Xinjiang ethnic problem' you mentioned that has been raised in some reports simply does not exist." Relations between China and Turkey have worsened over Beijing's policies towards the Uighur people, whose traditional home is in the far western region of Xinjiang.


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Paris Intelligence Online 25 Feb 15, "Al-Baghdadi Alters Strategy" According to an internal memo from Islamic State (IS), also known as ISIS or Daesh, a copy of which is held by the Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS), the organisation’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is putting the brakes on recruitment campaigns for volunteers in Germany, France, Morocco, Jordan and Saudi Arabia out of concern that foreign agents may attempt to infiltrate the organisation in this way. However al-Baghdadi wants to increase recruitment from areas which he believes are harder for Western intelligence services and their Arab nation allies to infiltrate. The target of choice is China’s Muslims, particularly ethnic Uighur. Several hundred Uighur are currently in the area held by Islamic State and Beijing is able to do little to monitor them (see here). The Uighur have solid ties with Turkey, with whose language their own shares common roots

China’s campaign against separatism and terrorism in its mainly Muslim west has now become an all-out war on conservative Islam, residents say. Chinese militants from the restive region of Xinjiang are leaving the country to receive "terrorist training" from Isis (now known as the Islamic State) in order to conduct attacks in China, state media have reported. "They not only want to get training in terrorist techniques but also to expand their connections in international terrorist organisations through actual combat to gain support for escalation of terrorist activities in China," an unidentified Chinese "anti-terrorism worker" was quoted as saying by China's Global Times. The report is the first connection made by Chinese state media between the radical Islamist group and separatist militants in China's Xinjiang region. "Their ultimate goal is still to fight back into China," Pan Zhiping, a former head of Central Asia studies at Xinjiang's Academy of Social Science, said. It added "terrorists, separatists and extremists" from China's west had managed to bypass strict border controls through the porous mountainous regions of southern China. The terror group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has said in a previous speech that "Muslim rights are forcibly seized in China, India, Palestine" in his efforts to recruit Muslims around the world.

The Uyghur threat to China 1 15 March, Peace is gone.It looks that US ‘regime change policy’ in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, and Syria has backfired. The policy was counter-productive and faulty, introducing un-ending instability in the region. The violence of ISIL/ISIS has gone beyond the Middle East. Now the violence has been even threatening door steps of Europe and Americas alike. Republics in Central Asia have been receiving ISIL/ISIS threats. Additionally, Japan faces a dilemma about its Middle East policy after two Japanese nationals were killed by ISIL in January and Japanese Prime Minister shortened his Middle East tour.Who was behind the formation of the ISIL/ISIS? What were the objectives? Or the group was the combination of forces defeated by the United States and NATO in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Egypt, and Yemen etc. Things are not yet clear but brutal inhumane activities are underway. One can term the ISIL/ISIS as a real multinational Jihadi group.The group is even bigger group than formed during the Afghan war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s. The US authorities have confirmed the travel of over at least 20,000 Jihadis in war zone At least 3,400 travelled from Europe to join the ISIL/ISIS, they mentioned.They say Russia, France, and Germany are important places for the recruitment of ISIL/ISIS Jihadis. They have also come from the United States. More than one thousand have come from the South East Asia especially from Indonesia and Malaysia. There are reports that Jihadis from Afghanistan and Pakistan also travelled to war zone in Iraq and Syria.

China has been threatened in a big way by ISIL/ISIS. Unlike China, Pakistan officially denies the existence of ISIL/ISIS in Pakistan but Chinese officials admit the presence of Islamic State operators and sympathizers in China. Recently, the existence of ISIL/ISIS was confirmed by Zhang Chunxian, Secretary of the Communist Party of China at Xinjiang. Militants carried out a number of disruptive activities all over China. Chinese officials have also confirmed that a number of Uyghurs

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have joined the Islamic militant group, which controls parts of Iraq and Syria. A Chinese media source mentioned that around 300 Uyghurs have joined ISIL. Global media also made such confirmation of Uyghurs involvement in Iraq and Syria.

Uyghurs have a separatist movement, known as the East Turkmen Islamic Movement (ETIM) in Chinese western autonomous province of Xinjiang. They are an ethnic Turkic-speaking minority in China. They want a separatist State of their own in China.Authorities in China convicted over 700 terrorists, separatists, and related criminals last year. The ETIM has close links with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), Taliban, and Al-Qaeda. There is a Uyghur-American Association (UAA) based in Washington, D.C with an objective to promote self-determination of Uyghurs. No such association or group was allowed to form a body or to operate from inside Pakistan. The spread of militancy in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran in the past three decades has also affected the Chinese Muslims. Many of them became radicals and extremists. Many of them were trained in Pakistan’s tribal areas and inside Afghanistan. These regions were the breeding grounds for renewed Uyghurs violence in China. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban provided a springboard to Uyghurs to operate against Chinese authorities. Uyghurs have fled to Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar, fanning more terrorist activities inside China. Turkey is a home to some Uyghur exiles and a source of irritation between Turkey and China. Uyghurs have an ethnic legacy attached to northern areas of Pakistan.They used to be traders between Kashgar and northern areas under the British control of the Subcontinent. Some Uyghurs came to Pakistan after the Communist revolution in 1949.Soon after Pakistan’s independence, some expected Pakistan to encourage feelings of sovereignty in Xinjiang as another Muslim State on its northern border, but Pakistan did not pay heed to that idea.

The Pakistan-China trade was originally carried by Uyghurs until more regular trade was evolved between the two countries. Uyghurs used Pakistan as a transit point to pilgrimage to Mecca by the 1980s. Some Uyghur students came to study at Madaris run by Hizb-e-Islami and Taliban in Pakistan and settled down there. They were recruited by Al-Qaeda and the Pakistani government banned Uyghur students. On the demand of the Chinese Government, many were deported and extradited to China. The Uyghur’s and Pakistanis developed a good people-to-people-contact but Pakistan never fueled the separatist and terrorist tendencies among the Uyghurs. Rather, Pakistan has always taken punitive measures and fully endorsed China’s policy on Uyghurs. Generally, Uyghurs are moderate Muslims and belong to Sufi traditions of Islam. The involvement of powers cannot be ruled out in fanning Uyghur’s terrorism and separatism. The motive could damage the cause of a rising China and the growing strategic and economic partnership between the two countries especially the building of the gigantic China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, which would bring enormous benefits to Xinjiang Autonomous Region and Pakistan.C: Oct 2014, Al Qaeda declared war on China 2, when it issued its English-language magazine Resurgence, with a section entitled “10 Facts About East Turkistan” critical of China’s Uyghur policies in Xinjiang. This sudden focus on China follows on the heels of ISIS condemning China in July, when Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi named China first in a string of 20 countries as battlegrounds to wage jihad, as well as threatened to occupy Xinjiang in its aspirant caliphate. The Chinese suspect Turkey is supporting Uyghur separatist organizations such as East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and East Turkestan Education and Solidarity Association (ETESA) that recruits from a large Chinese Uyghur Diaspora of more than 25,000 in Istanbul. According to counter terror expert Jacob Zenn, the Uyghur terrorist group Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) also has a network in Istanbul to recruit Chinese fighters.

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“East Turkestan,” in Al Qaeda-speak 3, refers to a region of the world roughly corresponding to China’s vast, unstable hinterland region of Xinjiang. The “Ten Things” outlined in the piece are mainly a list of grievances against China’s oppression of the Muslim Uighur population there and the area’s unique and ancient Islamic heritage. It doesn’t take a terrorism expert to understand the meaning here: Al Qaeda believes Chinese control of the region is not just a historical anomaly, but also an unjust seizure of the Ummah’s land, land that should be reincorporated into the movement’s intended Islamic Caliphate. The mention of Xinjiang/East Turkestan in the magazine points to the growing salience of the region for global jihadist groups and the increasingly-violent homespun insurgency taking place there.

It also notes that China is most worried about Al Qaeda’s call to believers to disrupt shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and the Straits of Malacca, both of which are vital trade routes for the world and for China.

2009, On Oct. 7 4, a top-ranking al-Qaeda leader issued a call to the Islamic world to battle a great nation of infidels. Through a video posted on the internet, Abu Yahya al-Libi condemned this superpower for perpetrating "injustice and oppression" against Muslims and "looting their wealth" — a script similar to others read out from secret hideouts over the course of post-9/11 American-led campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. But the country in the crosshairs of al-Qaeda's latest diatribe was not the U.S. or any of its allies in the West. It was China. "There is no way for salvation and to lift this oppression and tyranny unless you ... seriously prepare for jihad in the name of God and carry your weapons against the ruthless brutal invader thugs," Abu Yahia Al-Libi Al-Libi called on Muslims worldwide to support the Uyghurs. And he vowed that China will suffer the same fate that the former Soviet Union did when it invaded Afghanistan in the 1980s -- only to be thwarted by Islamist fighters. "To you, the state of atheism and obstinacy: You are coming to an end and you will face the same fate of the Russian bear of disintegration and division," he said. "You will encounter the same defeat when your nation will fight in its own backyard the humble minority of Muslims who are stronger in faith.

2014, According to Dr Christina Lin 5 ‘Islamic State and Al Qaeda have both declared war on China, and claim Xinjiang as part of an Islamic Caliphate’ Is the Islamic State a real threat for China? Yes, in many ways it is more of a direct threat to China than to the US or Europe. Geographically it is much closer to China than to the US, and Beijing is increasingly dependent on Mideast energy supply while US is diversifying away from the region. Islamic State and Al Qaeda have both declared war on China, and claim Xinjiang as part of an Islamic Caliphate. This is a direct threat to China’s core interests of territorial integrity, internal stability, and energy security.

Imams forced to dance and say they receive money from the Communist Party of China and not from Allah 13 February 2015, The Chinese, who occupy the Muslim country of Eastern Turkestan (a so-called "Chinese" Xinjiang-Uygur region), forced under threat of punishment Muslim imams to

dance in the street and swear they would not teach Islam to children. The imams were driven to a town square and forced to dance in sync, chanting slogans in support of Red China, according to World Bulletin. In addition, the imams were forced to say that all their income comes from the Communist Party not from Allah. Many of them were forced to carry Red China's flags. Chinese Communist officials also made a speech in front of the participants and strongly recommended young people "to stay away from the mosques". Crowds of Muslim students

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who were rounded up and forced to participate were told that "prayer is harmful to health", and "dance is beneficial". Teachers were instructed not to mention Islam to children, and ordered to swear they would never teach students the basics of Islam. Department of Monitoring, Kavkaz Center

BEIJING 27 Nov 2014. Accusing Pakistan of conducting selective crackdown against militant groups, former Afghan intelligence chief has cautioned China against confining its crackdown on terrorism to just one militant group in Xinjiang which he said is a part of a wider network of Taliban and al-Qaeda backed groups destabilising the region. Contesting Pakistan's assertion of deploying over a lakh troops in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), former Afghanistan intelligence Chief Amarullah Saleh asked if that many troops were deployed why the militant groups continue to function. FATA is a tribal region bordering Afghanistan where several militant groups are active. "Because Pakistan army is conducting selective operations and selectivity creates a space which is exploited by Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP)," Saleh said, speaking at a strategic dialogue here on "China, India, the UK and Afghanistan: A Partnership for Stability" in which representatives of the four countries, including former Indian Army Chief Retd Gen N C Vij, took part. TIP is the other name for East Turkistan Islamic Movement which is active in China's Xinjiang where over 11 million Uygur Muslims were restive over increasing settlements of the Hans from the other provinces. China blames ETIM, an al-Qaeda backed outfit fighting for the independence of Xinjiang, for all major terrorist attacks in the country. Pakistan military in recent months said a number of ETIM militants were killed in its air and land operations in FATA (tribal) area. "ETIM or TIP did not go there to establish base. The very basic question who invited them to FATA and provided training and sanctuaries and the other infrastructure which should be destroyed," Saleh said. China should not be satisfied with getting few of the ETIM militants as it is part of the large network of groups like Taliban, al-Qaeda in the region including Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Central Asia, Saleh said. The conference was organised by Royal United Services Institute (UK) along with the China Institutes for Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) and the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) in India. "If they (China) go deeper and look at support infrastructure, they will automatically realise that ETIM is part of a network which operates in the region. We would like China to pay attention to whole picture," Saleh said. "For Afghanistan, ETIM is one corner of the problem not the entire problem. So we would like China to pay attention the whole picture in the area of security and in the areas of Taliban militant groups who oppose and fight constitutional order in Afghanistan and they have sanctuaries across our border," he said "We also expect China to get deeper involvement in the area of security not only against ETIM but also with the like minded groups in the region. He also praised India's contribution to Afghanistan," he said. "India is an established partner and a house hold name. India means movies, higher education, medical tourism, training of Afghan security forces, scholarship and a thousand Afghans travels to India every day," he said, adding that India has gone out of the way to assist Afghanistan in many ways. Indian representatives at the meeting said the objectives of India and China fighting against terrorism is the same as both the countries face the same problem. Lieutenant General (Retd) Ravi Sawhney, official at Vivekananda International Foundation said that while India has no leverage to influence Pakistan to crackdown on the militant groups, China which has close relations with Islamabad can persuade to cooperate with Afghanistan in stabilising the region.

State news agency says 15 people, including 11 assailants, killed in Shache district of violence-hit western region. Last updated: 29 Nov 2014 Up to 15 people have been killed in an attack in China's western Xinjiang region, according to the state news agency. Xinhua said besides the dead, 14 people were injured in what it said was a terrorist attack on Friday in Shache county. The Tianshan news portal said on Saturday that the attackers used vehicles, knives and explosives in the assault. The dead included 11 of the attackers, it said. The district of Shache, or Yarkand in the Uighur language, was


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the scene of violent clashes in July, shortly before the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Xinjiang is frequently hit by unrest prompted by fierce tensions between China's ethnic Han majority and the Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs, with authorities regularly blaming Uighur fighters for the violence. Some Uighurs in the region region are hostile to the Communist Part's leadership. They say they are victims of discrimination and left out of the benefits of development in Xinjiang, which has seen an influx of Han Chinese moving in from elsewhere in the country.

1 March, China Silently Making Its Way To Afghanistan – Analysis 6. The first round of recent strategic trilateral dialogue between China, Pakistan and Afghanistan has been held on 10 February 2015 in Kabul. Though, the meeting that was concluded between the three sides has mainly focused on the Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process for which both Pakistan and China has expressed their full support like the past meetings.What lies besides this is important for India. From the year 2012, when the first Afghanistan-China- Pakistan trilateral dialogue was held in Beijing, to 2015 meeting that has been recently held, a lot of changes can be identified in the Chinese approach towards Afghanistan. In 2012, Chinese interest in Afghanistan was limited to supporting Pakistan to increase its influence and control in the country. But slowly and strategically, China has increased its role and influence in the economic and political scenarios in Afghanistan through its direct involvement and intensified its Afghan Diplomacy. In the recent meeting, the three sides agreed to carry out practical cooperation program under the Trilateral Strategic Dialogue and to deepen cooperation in the fields of counter-terrorism and security. It has been argued that China’s increased involvement in Afghanistan is in view to fill the power vacuum created in the aftermath of the US and NATO troops’ withdrawal with increasing apprehension that the void could lead to Al-Qaeda and Taliban staging a comeback. China has already beefed up security along the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Afghanistan to prevent infiltration of the militants supporting the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM). It is this movement that is said to be behind the violent attacks in the volatile Xinjiang where the Uyghur Muslims were restive over settlements of Hans.However, the recent developments in which China has extended support to build a hydro-dam and improve railway and highway connectivity between Pakistan and Afghanistan proves that it is no more going to keep a low position and the Communist giant seeks to play a larger role in the war-torn country. Furthermore, bilateral meetings were also held between Afghanistan and Chinese sides to discuss the greater role China could play. Other then these, many meetings have been held between Afghanistan and Chinese sides at foreign ministerial levels to discuss the cooperation between the two countries. Recently, a delegation representing the Taliban insurgency recently visited China where it held talks with Chinese officials, but few details were made available to media by either side. These recent diplomatic activities by China and its increasing interest in Afghanistan could be understood as a part of China’s ambitious effort to increase its influence and control in South Asia. China, in the recent past, has build strong inroads in Sri-Lanka, Nepal and Myanmar challenging India and changing the power dynamics in the region. *Anuradha Rai has been awarded her Doctoral degree from CIPOD/SIS/JNU.

C: back in Jan, As the Global Times piece notes, Beijing is concerned about Uyghurs leaving China to take part in jihad elsewhere in the world – and potentially returning to China to carry out terrorist activities. Global Times estimated in December that there are around 300 Chinese nationals fighting for Islamic State (IS). At the time, Global Times noted that many Chinese travel to Turkey before heading to Syria, suggesting a connection between Turkey and Uyghurs wishing to join global jihad. Chinese officials and media alike tied last year’s deadly uptick in terrorist attacks on Chinese soil to increasing collaboration between local terror groups (notably the East Turkestan Islamic Movement or ETIM) and international organizations like Al Qaeda. In response, China has moved to sever

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connections between Chinese Uyghurs and foreign extremists — both physically and virtually. As part of the year-long “crackdown on terrorism” that began last May, Beijing is drumming up awareness about the danger of online propaganda from terrorist groups like IS and punishing any Chinese citizens who shares such material.

And back in Oct 2014 7, An al Qaeda propaganda magazine has described the far western Chinese province of Xinjiang, home to the native Uighur Muslim population, as a region that needs to be “recovered [into] the shade of the Islamic Caliphate.” Jihadist organizations like al Qaeda and the Islamic State have been making a push to recruit members from the Muslim minority in China. However, Uighur exile activists in the U.S. reject the idea that Xinjiang needs to be "reclaimed" into any caliphate, and appeals by radicals to Uighur Muslims. “The Uighur people will simply ignore such claims,” Alim Seytoff, president of the Uyghur American Association and director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, said in an interview. (The groups use a variant spelling.) “These claims are mostly likely attempts by these groups to lure and recruit disillusioned young Uighurs to their cause. That is not going to happen because Uighurs do not share their ideology.” The first issue of Resurgence, an English-language magazine produced by a media wing of al Qaeda, As-Sahab, includes an article about the Islamic community in East Turkistan, as they call the territory the Chinese call Xinjiang, titled “Did You Know? 10 Facts About East Turkistan.” As pointed out by the South China Morning Post of Hong Kong, the article features many inaccuracies about the area and China’s rule over it to further their belief that the Muslim religion and its followers are threatened by Han Chinese. For example, it claims that teaching the Quran is illegal in China, when in fact China recognizes Islam as one of the country’s five official religions. Though restrictions have been put on government officials practicing Islam, the country does not have a blanket ban on practicing the religion.

Suicide Bombings in China: Beyond TerrorismThe latest suicide bombing in Shandong fits in a tragic pattern that has nothing to do with classic terrorism. By Shannon Tiezzi July 22, 2015 A suicide bomber attacked a park in the city of Heze in China’s Shandong province on Monday, killing two (including the bomber) and injuring 24, with three people receiving “relatively severe” injuries. According to the official Weibo account of Heze’s public security bureau, the explosion took place at 10:34 pm local time on Monday at the west gate of Heze’s Huxi park.Heze authorities identified the bomber as Jie Xingtang, a 32-year-old villager from Shan County (where Heze is located). Their Weibo post (cited by People’s Daily) described him as an unemployed and a long-term sufferer of liver cirrhosis, a condition that has worsened recently according to the Heze authorities. Those explanations were the only hint into Jie’s motives for carrying out the bombing. An investigation into that, as well as how Jie created the bomb, is ongoing.China has endured suicide bombings before. A terrorist attack in Xinjiang’s capital, Urumqi, last May saw five suspects detonate car bombs in a crowded market, killing themselves and 31 others. Earlier, in April 2014, two suicide bombers carried out an attack at an Urumqi railway station, in what International Business Times called “the first known suicide attack in the country.”The rise of suicide bombings as a technique for terrorists in China’s Xinjiang province, where tensions between ethnic Uyghurs and Han Chinese are high, is indeed a noteworthy (and troubling) development for China. But suicide bombings in China are not a new phenomenon, although generally the attacks have less to do with ethnic tensions and more to do with an individual’s discontent, as seems to have been the case in Shandong this week. These attacks aren’t terrorism in the classic sense — the individuals behind them seem motivated not by grand political aspirations (the establishment of a separate state or the downfall of the government) but by personal frustration: the loss of a job, land seized by a local government, a beating by China’s law enforcement.

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In May 2012, a 26-year-old man blew himself up in a housing demolition office in Yunnan province, killing two villagers and one government official. The attack may have been linked to plans to demolish villagers’ homes; on the day of the attack, officials and villagers were signing agreements to pay villagers for their land and houses.In September 2012, in Shandong province, a man conducted a suicide bombing in a government office, injuring six officials. According to the BBC, the man had been paralyzed in a work accident and believed he had been “denied proper compensation.” And in November 2013, a series of home-made bombs exploded outside the Shanxi provincial office of the Chinese Communist Party, killing one person and injuring eight.Perhaps most famous is the case of Ji Zhongxing, who set off a bomb hidden in his wheelchair at the Beijing International Airport in July 2013. Before detonating the bomb, Ji had been prevented by a policeman from passing out leaflets recounting how he became paralyzed after being beaten by local law enforcement officers. Ji’s case actually gained a good deal of sympathy from Chinese netizens–probably because he was the main victim of his bombing attempt, and reportedly warned passers-by that he had a bomb just before he detonated the device. Social media users described him as a “good person,” not the sort of label that bombers usually earn.In each of these cases—and possibly Jie’s as well, although information is still scarce—the bomber was motivated by a sense of being treated unjustly by local government officials, coupled with a lack of alternative options for expressing grievances. As a recent Diplomat article noted, China’s petition system is supposed to be the avenue of last resort for the Chinese people, but the system is overburdened and inefficient.It now appears a handful of Chinese have chosen an extreme, deadly path for airing their grievances—suicide bombings. These cases receive less media attention, both in China and abroad, than the classic terrorist bombings in Xinjiang and Beijing, but they are more common, and perhaps more dangerous to China in the long run.


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