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Re:'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's... by _bxg1 on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @12:45PM (#19860605)
Attaching agreed-upon bad things like authoritarianism and terrorism and oppression onto arbitrary symbols like Islam and secularism is fallacious. Those superficial symbols make for terrible indicators of actual evil, and rhetoric like the above only serves to increase the injustice done to innocent people. See the recent Christchurch attack.
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Re:'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's... by chewz on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @02:27PM (#19861562)
OP is right in observing that Islam is not compatible with political system in China. Islam has certain political goals built in. Chinese system requires political monopoly and keeping religion private matter. Hence the confrontation is logical and unavoidable.

Not that I am saying what is happening is right.

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Re:'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's... by _bxg1 on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @03:54PM (#19862262)
"Islam has certain political goals built in"

From looking at the texts, you could say this about most major religions. From looking at the people, things are much less simple.

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Re:'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's... by chewz on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @04:39PM (#19862682)
Hence China have been persecuting also Falun Gong, Christians and Tibetan Buddhists.

Interesting question is why China have decided on such massive social engineering Kulturkampf[1] project in Xinjiang?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulturkampf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong#Speculation_on_rati...

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Re:'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's... by growlist on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @12:47PM (#19860635)
Isn't Islam the only religion that says that all other religions are false?
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Re:'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's... by mercer on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @02:00PM (#19861343)
Most Christian denominations I've encountered claim the same, and often even narrow that claim to their specific denomination (many Evangelicals believing that Catholics won't make the cut when it comes to going to heaven, for example).
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Re:'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's... by _bxg1 on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @12:54PM (#19860716)
Upvoted assuming that was /s
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