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And so they attacked China? You sure make a lot of sense.
@Developereo:
Xinjiang terrorist attack kills 15 - People's Daily
Whereas the international media don't want to use the word "terrorist" in their headlines, but pay attention to the quotes from Chinese officials:
Violence in western Chinese region of Xinjiang kills 21 - CNN
Chinese officials used the word "Jihad" multiple times.
The US State Department put the group on its terrorist watch list in 2002, but has since removed it amid doubts about whether the group is a real organization.
@ how CNN calls it "violence killed 21"... So Boston thing was "violence killed 3 in the Northeastern US", too?
RIP to the victims.
Have any of the criminals been linked to a terrorist organization or cause. Is it related to the Xinjiang issue, or a case of common criminals?
P.S We still don't know whether it was the ETIM in this case or not & as I observed earlier on - Knives, a single firearm & axes don't really seem like the weapons of choice for Al-Qaeeda linked Militants ! Either our cooperation is working out better than we - on the outside - know or these weren't Muslim Extremist as opposed to being just disgruntled Uighurs that got caught by the security forces & decided to retaliate with knives, axes & a gun !
Sounds like a confrontation started by overzealous "community workers" who decided to enter and search private property because "suspicious" Uighurs lived there. In any case , it is a case of gang violence at worst, not planned terrorism.
They sound like morons. Using knives, however long, against police with modern weapons?
I agree with you totally. All sane people can see logic in this. It has been proven many times that converted people become more fanatic then the people who converted them...
The Hui Muslims of China outnumber the Uighur and they are all patriotic Chinese. The main motive behind the ETIM is to seperate because they say they are Turks and not Chinese. The movement was encouraged by the Soviets after the split from the Chinese in the cold war but after they failed the first time around (defeated by a Hui Muslim general no less) they reorganized and started to play the religion card to get into Afghanistan to train when the Taliban were in control. As you know the Taliban supported anyone who was Muslim so they let them in. After 2001 they were bombed into oblivion when we invaded so they are weak now but some may still be in North Waziristan, Pakistan. Yet even today they do not find sympathy from many Muslim countries for many reasons mainly
-Everyone knows they are actually in an ethnic battle with the Chinese so only Turkic nations support them (by support I mean moral although covert who knows).
-Most Muslim countries want good relations with China because US is viewed suspiciously and the Chinese are seen as a counter weight.
-Lastly the Uighurs have a different Islamic jurispudence than most other "movements" whereas most movements are Wahabbi/Salafi the Uighurs are Sufi militants and so the countries that would otherwise happily donate to Wahabbi groups *cough ksa qatar cough* are not so obliging towards them.
@Armstrong @Chinese-Dragon @ChinaToday
Sufi militants ? Never heard this before
Xinjiang terrorist attack kills 15 - People's Daily
Chinese officials used the word "Jihad" multiple times.
...Xinjiang terrorist attack kills 15 - People's Daily...Chinese officials used the word "Jihad" multiple times. But I guess you think that is a conspiracy too?
Unrest in China's Xinjiang kills 21 people: local official - Channel NewsAsia
Atleast this news item does not suggest a terrorist attack, but a police raid that went violent and the police claiming the people raided were plotting terrorist acts.
Some of the knives recovered by police were more than a meter long, according to Hou Hanmin, spokesperson for the Xinjiang government. She told CNN that some of the captured assailants said under interrogation that they had watched videos "from overseas" that featured violence and acts of terrorism.
"Then they made those large, lethal knives and wanted to use them for Jihad," she said, referring to the Arabic term meaning "struggle."
"They had been training in their own house for several months. They were affected by extremism and hoped to commit themselves to Jihad."