CHINA-INTERNAL: RELIGIOUS RESTRICTIONS IN XINJIANG

Al Jazeera reported on January 17, 2018 that Chinese government authorities have banned Muslim children from attending religious events during winter break in Linxia county in Gansu province where there are many members of the Muslim Hui ethnic minority. The notification for the ban has been posted online by the Education Bureau. The notification prohibits children from entering religious buildings over their break. Students are also not allowed to read scriptures in classes or in religious buildings. The notification stipulated that all students and teachers should heed the notice and work to strengthen political ideology and propaganda. Xi Wuyi, a Marxist scholar at the government's Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and an outspoken critic of rising Islamic influence in China, welcomed the move by the authorities.





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