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Muslims wait to attend Friday prayers at the Dongguan Great Mosque in Xining, Qinghai province, China.
Muslims wait to attend Friday prayers at the Dongguan Great Mosque in Xining, Qinghai province, China.
Islam in China is often associated with the restive Xinjiang border region, which is home to over 10 million Muslim Uyghurs, but Wang Zuoan, head of the State Administration for Religious Affairs, told 300 religious leaders at the National Congress of the Chinese Islamic Association that "extremism" is now "moving to the inland provinces."
Wang said that it was up to the clerics to become the "front line" in "resisting extremism" and "converting" Muslims to a more moderate form of the religion.
Comment: This would be much easier and more effective if authorities (both religious and political) spread some basic principles of ponerology, e.g., the statistics/demography of subclinical psychopathy and other personality disorders that corrupt political and religious ideologies, and the persuasive techniques they use to recruit new followers.
He urged Muslim communities learn "to use the law to safeguard legal interests, instead of trying to solve problems through illegal actions such as creating disturbances."
Comment: Through 30+ years of overt and covert support for radical Islam, the CIA and its partners have created a Frankenstein monster that continues to fulfil the CIA's covert agenda: destabilizing foreign countries like Russia, China, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, etc.