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Muslims try to block China mosque demolition in rare public demoBEIJING -- Thousands of Muslims gathered at a mosque in northwestern China on Friday to protest its planned demolition in a rare, public pushback to the government's efforts to rewrite how religions are practiced in the country. A large crowd of Hui people, a Muslim ethnic minority, gathered outside the towering Grand Mosque in the town of Weizhou on Thursday, local Hui residents told The Associated Press by phone."We just won't let them demolish it," said Ma Sengming, a 68-year-old woman who said her daughter was at the protest outside the newly built mosque in the region of Ningxia.The protest comes as faith groups that were largely tolerated in the past have seen their freedoms shrink as the government seeks to "Sinicize" religions by making the faithful prioritize allegiance to the officially atheist ruling Communist Party. Islamic crescents and domes have been stripped from mosques, Christian churches shut down and bibles seized, and Tibetan children have been moved from Buddhist temples to schools.Read more at: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-hui-muslims-mosque-demolition-weizhou-ningxia-communist-party-religion/
I have no problems with the Chinese -- or anybody else, for that matter -- demolishing mosques.I look forward to the day it will become standard policy in all the nations of The West.(sorry if you don't like that, I couldn't care less)
