In a move set to tighten government control over practicing religion in China’s western Xinjiang Province, the Muslim-majority region will introduce a set of regulations that – among other things – will require all new places of worship to reflect “Chinese characteristics and style.”

The sweeping legislation will come into force on February 1 as part of a broader multiyear campaign aimed at controlling religion in Xinjiang, which is home to mainly Muslim ethnic groups such as Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and Hui (aka Dungans).

  • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.worldEnglish
    511·
    1 year ago

    I mean china is already sending them to concentration camps doeant get much worse than that. But it seems nobody cares.

    • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      436·
      1 year ago

      The Turkistan Islamic Party keeps attacking civilians in Xinjiang but it seems nobody cares.

      • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
        42·
        1 year ago

        So you’re saying the people being systematically oppressed and marginalized are turning radical in their helplessness? How rude of them. They should just shut up and go into the gas.

        • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
          332·
          1 year ago

          Or you can rehabilitate and reeducate. You know, the thing that they’re doing

          • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
            13·
            1 year ago

            Why does the government get to decide what they can believe and what not? Fucking totalitarian bullshit.

            • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
              323·
              1 year ago

              Because the government doesn’t want a terrorist group to continue bombing the shit out of civilians so they reeducate them on not following terrorists. It’s not really a bad thing to want prisoners to be reeducated on not doing crimes.

            • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
              512·
              1 year ago

              It looks like a prison… Which it is. Have you seen how the US treats terrorists and suspected terrorists in Guantanamo? These guards don’t even have guns pointed at the back of their heads. There’s no waterboarding or torture I’m seeing either. What are you expecting to see at a prison designed to contain and rehabilitate suspected terrorists? It’s not a Disney vacation.

              • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.worldEnglish
                6·
                1 year ago

                No no no china lovingly refers to these as “vocational training schools” with voluntary attendance. The UN estimates that at least a million people where sent to these thats an awfull lot of people who must be terrorists. Let alone terrorists who volunterilly choose to be reducated. Ohh and china restricted the UN human rights commissioner who whent to visit which doesnt fill me with confidence. Also a bunch of the “students” have disapeared to who knows where.

                • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  17·
                  1 year ago

                  Well, considering that you can volunteer for reeducation or subject yourself to a prison sentence with hard labor, yeah, it’s voluntary. And it’s not just uyghers, not just Muslims, not just terrorists, but people from all over the country that’re deemed to not be serious threats, given the opportunity to get out with good behavior if they go through reeducation, then it’s really not that bad. Better than a US prison system

      • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        I’m guessing you don’t support Palestinians

          • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Even though Hamas keeps attacking civilians? Because that’d be sorta the point

            • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              If you lived in an open air prison, you’d listen to whatever radical bullshit you were told that gives you the strength to fight and the hope to escape.

                • Filthmontane@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Yeah, but I support the people and their struggle to not live in an open air prison and am against the genocide being committed so rich settlers can have beach front property in Gaza.

  • bfg9k@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    "In a move set to tighten government control over practicing religion in Germany’s Brandenberg Province, the Jewish-majority region will introduce a set of regulations that – among other things – will require all new places of worship to reflect “German characteristics and style.”

    The sweeping legislation will come into force on February 1 as part of a broader multiyear campaign aimed at controlling religion in Brandenberg, which is home to mainly Jewish ethnic groups."

    History repeats itself.

    • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      But our governemnts wont do anything to china cos they make us fat and they make ua rich.