Monday, March 26, 2018

From @chinaaid : "Muslim minorities ordered to destroy Islamic crescents on graves"

The China Aid Association is a non-profit Christian organization - based in Midland, Texas - with a mission to uncover and reveal the truth about religious persecution in China, focusing especially on the unofficial church. They do this, they explain in their website, by exposing the abuses, encouraging the abused and equipping the saints to advance the kingdom of God throughout China.

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Muslim minorities ordered to destroy Islamic crescents on graves
Distributed by ChinaAid, February, 2018 ...

YILI, XINJIANG, CHINA – In a continuing wave of persecution against Muslim minorities in China’s western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, members of the Uyghur and Kazakh minorities are being ordered to destroy any graves which bear the symbol of the Islamic star and crescent.

The Uyghurs and Kazakhs are two of China’s 56 officially recognized ethnic groups, both predominantly Muslim. The star and crescent symbol is often used on the graves of Muslims, in much the same way that Christian Protestants and Catholics use the symbol of the cross ...

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