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China Orders Muslims to Smoke and Get Drunk
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On May 6, 2015 @ 9:51 am In The Point | No Comments
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American progs keep wishing that this country was run like China. They want China’s high speed rail and unilateral Communist dictatorship. They love its abortion-on-commissar demand, many vegan restaurants and its artisinal factories.
But this is how China handles the rise of Islam. With mandatory booze and tobacco [2]. (via Religion of Peace [3])
“We have a campaign to weaken religion here, and this is part of that campaign,” he told the Washington-based news service.
Sounds progressive so far. But it’s not the religion(s) that lefties here want to weaken. It’s the one they love more than life itself.
China has launched a series of “strike hard” campaigns to weaken the hold of Islam in the western region.
So instead of forcing bakeries to bake gay cakes, they’re forcing Muslim stores to sell liquor.
Chinese authorities have ordered Muslim shopkeepers and restaurant owners in a village in its troubled Xinjiang region to sell alcohol and cigarettes, and promote them in “eye-catching displays,” in an attempt to undermine Islam’s hold on local residents, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported. Establishments that failed to comply were threatened with closure and their owners with prosecution.
The notice, obtained by RFA and posted on Twitter, ordered all restaurants and supermarkets in Aktash to sell five different brands of alcohol and cigarettes and display them prominently. “Anybody who neglects this notice and fails to act will see their shops sealed off, their businesses suspended, and legal action pursued against them,” the notice said.
Look, it’s the gay bakery policy applied to Muslims. And while lefties are big fans of abusing power to force gay marriage compliance, they’re not fond of China doing the same thing to Muslims.
James Leibold, an expert on China’s ethnic policies at Melbourne’s La Trobe University, said Chinese officials were “often flailing around in the dark” when tackling extremism. An acute lack of understanding leads them to focus on visible, but imprecise, perceptions of radicalism such as long beards, veils and sobriety, he said.
The result is often “crude forms of ethno-cultural profiling,” Leibold said.
“These sorts of mechanistic and reactive policies only serve to inflame ethno-national tension without addressing the root causes of religious extremism, while further alienating the mainstream Uighur community, making them feel increasingly unwelcome within a hostile, Han-dominated society,” he wrote in an e-mail.
If only those poor Chinese could understand that real power doesn’t come from force, but from James Taylor concerts. Then too, they might endlessly pursue a root cause while appeasing the enemy.
Sadly China insists on doing what works instead without regard to smart power. They’re even resorting to “crude forms of ethno-cultural profiling.”
Sulayman said authorities in Xinjiang viewed ethnic Uighurs who did not smoke as adhering to “a form of religious extremism.”
We’ve got some of that religious extremism over here too. If this country were run like China, Whole Foods would be forced to sell cigarettes.
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