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China’s “war on terror” is really a war on Islam
Posted by Akhi Soufyan
By: Simon Denyer
Source: washingtonpost.com
The month of Ramadan should have been a time of fasting, charity and prayer in China’s Muslim west. But here, in many of the towns and villages of southern Xinjiang, it was a time of fear, repression, and violence.
China’s campaign against separatism and terrorism in its mainly Muslim west has now become an all-out war on conservative Islam, residents here say.
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