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Chinese Party Officials Say Radical Islam is Gaining Momentum in China

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">Europe and the U&period;S&period; aren&rsquo&semi;t the only areas being targeted by radical Islamic terrorists&comma; China&rsquo&semi;s Communist Party just warned citizens that Islamic extremism in China is a very real problem&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">Ningxia Communist Party Secretary Li mentioned that President Donald Trump&rsquo&semi;s recent travel ban is an example of how to prevent &ldquo&semi;religious extremism from seeping into all of American culture&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">&&num;8220&semi;What the Islamic State and extremists push is jihad&comma; terror&comma; violence&period; This is why we see Trump targeting Muslims in a travel ban&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Jianguo referring to&nbsp&semi;Trump&rsquo&semi;s executive order banning citizens from six nations with a large Muslim population from entering the U&period;S&period; &&num;8220&semi;It doesn&&num;8217&semi;t matter whether the&nbsp&semi;anti-Muslim policy is in the interests of the U&period;S&period; or it promotes stability&semi;&nbsp&semi;it&&num;8217&semi;s about preventing religious extremism from seeping into all of American culture&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">Another official Sharhat Ahan&comma; a top political party official in Xinjiang&comma; warned on Sunday that a &ldquo&semi;people&rsquo&semi;s war&rdquo&semi; is needed as the country is becoming destabilized by the &&num;8220&semi;international anti-terror situation&period;&&num;8221&semi; Xinjiang is a predominantly Muslin area of China&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">&ldquo&semi;Over the past year&comma; regional leaders in Xinjiang&comma; home to the Uighur &lpar;pronounced WEE-gur&rpar; ethnic minority&comma; have ramped up surveillance measures and police patrols and staged massive rallies intended to showcase the power of the security forces&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes&nbsp&semi;<em>The Associated Press&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">According to Ahan these efforts are being done to &ldquo&semi;declare war against terrorists&comma; to showcase the party and the government&rsquo&semi;s resolve to fight terror&comma; resolve to preserve public safety and &lpar;China&rsquo&semi;s&rpar; mighty combat strength&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">&ldquo&semi;In Xinjiang&comma; where hundreds of people have died in recent years in violent attacks&comma; the government&rsquo&semi;s rising rhetoric has coincided with new security measures that activists say exacerbate a cycle of repression&comma; radicalization and violence&period; The government&comma; meanwhile&comma; says Xinjiang faces a grave separatist threat from Uighur fighters linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group&comma; though it provides little evidence for such claims&period; IS released a video in late February purportedly showing Uighur fighters training in Iraq and vowing to strike&nbsp&semi;China&comma; according to the SITE Intelligence Group&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes&nbsp&semi;<em>The Associated Press&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">However&comma; President Xi Jinping has previously encouraged the party to help the country&rsquo&semi;s ethnic and religious minorities assimilate&period; But&comma; now he seems to be more focused on Uighur separatists&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">&ldquo&semi;The Uighurs remain a specific and acute problem for China&comma; as illustrated by last week&rsquo&semi;s release of an&nbsp&semi;ISIS video&nbsp&semi;full of trained Uighur fighters vowing to return home to China from the battlefields of Syria and Iraq to &ldquo&semi;shed blood&period;&rdquo&semi; President Xi responded by calling for a &ldquo&semi;great wall of iron&rdquo&semi; against Uighur separatists in Xinjiang province&comma;&&num;8221&semi; writes&nbsp&semi;<em>Breitbart&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">&ldquo&semi;In retaliation for the tears that flow from the eyes of the oppressed we will make your blood flow in rivers&comma; by the will of God&comma;&rdquo&semi; said one Uighur militant in the video&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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