Chinese Muslims’s battle to protect holy Quran from Xi Jinping’s Communist govt

NEW DELHI: The newest reportage coming from China’s Xinjiang on confiscation of Quran has left all the world in a surprising state. Radio Free Asia reported a number of disturbing incidents from Xinjiang whereby Muslims have been compelled to get rid of the holy Quran in rivers to save lots of themselves from torture by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities.

The latest such incident was reported from Aidarly village of the Panfilov district of Almaty the place a number of Muslims disposed of their Quran books within the Ili river. The report acknowledged that such incidents have turn out to be a typical development in China. The same had lately taken place in Khorgas river as effectively.

According to stories, to stop the holy ebook from being desecrated by the CCP, and to save lots of themselves from being tortured for possessing it, Muslims in Xinjiang have been disposing off the Qurans in rivers flowing in the direction of Kazakhstan, after wrapping it in plastic sheets. 

They imagine that this fashion, they not solely will have the ability to save themselves but in addition can preserve the piousness of the ebook alive and finally shield their spiritual teachings.

Over the previous few years, particularly after Xi Jinping got here to energy, quite a few incidents of seizures of Quran after search operations and consequent punishment to Muslims in Xinjiang have been reported incessantly. 

As the seizures accelerated, Muslims started to bury their Quran underneath the bottom. However, Chinese authorities have been good sufficient to find the development, resulting in the unlucky incidents of mass dispose-offs of the holy ebook. Besides the Quran, Chinese officers in Xinjiang additionally seized different spiritual paperwork and books.

Muslims, who refused at hand over the Quran to the federal government authorities or tried to cover it, ended up being despatched to coaching camps or receiving the punishment of as much as three years of imprisonment.

Uighur and Turkic students see this development as China’s try of ethnic cleaning of Muslims in Xinjiang and wipe out Islamic tradition. They additional argue that such incidents are resulting in an excessive identification disaster for Muslims of the area as their ethnic tradition is falling prey of Chinese makes an attempt of sinicization.

Instead of elevating concern over the human rights abuse, China’s United Front Works Division (UFWD) officers have begun to lift the problem as a possible risk to China’s picture within the Muslim world and advocate for a robust censorship on reportage of such information. Activists have argued that the CCP intelligentsia has recommended the Chinese authorities speed up the method of sinicization of Quran — a course of the place CCP promotes its personal model of Quran by morphing the precise one.

Ridiculously, it’s believed that the Chinese authorities is engaged on strengthening patrols alongside the rivers flowing from Xinjiang to neighbouring nations to grab the Qurans flowing within the rivers. It additionally plans to accentuate restrictions on the motion of Uighur and Muslims from different Turkic communities exterior China.

Amidst all the things, probably the most placing truth is the utter silence of Muslim nations like Pakistan and Turkey on the persecution of Muslims and the elimination of their spiritual symbols. Prominent Uighur activists like lishat H Kokbore have argued {that a} nation like Pakistan is doing the most important hazard to Islam by protecting mum over persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang and have criticised the Imran Khan authorities for doing a cope with China to maintain quiet on the problem in return of financial favours. Earlier, when requested in regards to the persecution of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang by the CCP authorities, Imran Khan refused to remark and argued that he didn’t know a lot in regards to the matter.

 Nevertheless, the Muslim Ummah is more and more getting conscious of the hostile situation of Muslims in Xinjiang and this specific subject additionally appears to have gotten an enormous traction within the Ummah. Scholars imagine that the incidents of floating Quran in rivers has began to get traction the world over and is actually going to affect its Belt and Road (BRI) initiative as these incidents may disgruntle Muslim nations to an incredible extent. Similar apprehensions are being expressed by UFWD Officials of their op-eds and publications, suggesting the federal government to censor such information at any value.

Above all, the bravery displayed by the Muslims of Xinjiang in defending the dignity and purity of Quran by guaranteeing that it reaches secure arms, has undoubtedly touched the hearts of numerous people. These tales have already turn out to be part of folklore within the Uighur society.