November 9, 2006

Chinese Jihad?

One thing these aspiring mujahid should remember about Communist China: it won't hesitate to torture or imprison religious minorities, especially ones who preach its downfall. From MEMRI:

On November 8, 2006, Islamist Web sites posted a 32-minute video showing mujahideen training and operating in the Xinjiang (Shing Yang) District in western China, referred to in the video as "Eastern Turkestan."

The film begins with a scrolling text outlining the following:

How Islam was introduced to western China
The geography and demography of Eastern Turkestan.
The modern history of Muslims in Eastern Turkestan, with an emphasis on the treatment of Muslims and Islam since the advent of Communism in China.
The circumstances leading to the establishment of the Islamic Party in Eastern Turkestan.
Next, the film presents evidence indicating involvement of the Islamic Party in Eastern Turkestan in the production of bombs and hand grenades, and in attacks. The film then shows two masked mujahideen delivering messages urging Muslims in Eastern Turkestan to engage in jihad and to establish an Islamic state in Eastern Turkestan.

The speakers claim that since the Chinese government compels Muslim youth to know Communist ideology and is determined to corrupt Muslim youth's beliefs and morals, Muslims must wage jihad and free themselves from Chinese rule. They add that under these circumstances, jihad is not just a collective duty incumbent upon the Muslim community as a whole (fard kifaya), but is also a personal duty (fard 'ayn) incumbent upon every single Muslim, and that therefore all Muslims must participate in jihad either directly [i.e., by fighting] or indirectly [i.e., by assisting the mujahideen

Read it all.