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2008-04-10 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by gorb 2008-04-10 05:01|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The region in question is primarily muslim, and is called by most natives "East Turkestan" though the PRC calls it the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, and the natives are mainly of Turkic language and origin thus setting them apart by ethnicity and language as well as religion from Han Chinese (in contrast to Hui Chinese, who are muslims be religion and follow muslim holidays, family laws, etc but are linguistically Chinese)

Most inhabitants are not terrorists of course. How many support violenct action to end Chinese rule is not clear to me. AQ sympathizers have attempted to take over the ethnically based "resistance" movement, as they have in places like Chechnya, Bosnia, etc.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-04-10 09:20|| 2008-04-10 09:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Kidnap for political purposes, or for financial?

It could be a true story as I believe there are thousands of people that would want to pull this off, but it seems awfully convenient to use this story to clamp down on a troublesome province.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-10 09:27|| 2008-04-10 09:27|| Front Page Top

#3 I second DarthVader's and Steve's in-line on China.
According to local teewee, SF Comical and al-Rheumatism, China's pit-bull immigrants were viciously attacking the Buddhists in SF yesterday.

SF a multiculturalist Dream Boat, "can't we all just get along"?

/Schadenfreude & Sangfroid rulz

Posted by RD">RD 2008-04-10 10:11|| 2008-04-10 10:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Quelle horreur!

Kinda convenient, though, huh?

Posted by Snaving Stalin4500 2008-04-10 21:10|| 2008-04-10 21:10|| Front Page Top

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