China Declares Islam to be a Contagious Disease

China has a boat load of problems, no doubt, but this headline makes you realize that maybe they are getting something really right.  Islam IS a nasty religion that brings suffering, ignorance and poverty to everyplace it gets a foothold.

But the territory of Xinjiang, in northwest China, is home to a large population of Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim, Turkic ethnic group. The Chinese government has long worried that the Uighurs will attempt to establish an independent homeland in the region, which they commonly call East Turkestan. In 2009, ethnic riots in Xinjiang claimed hundreds of lives; since then, individual Uighur nationalists have carried out multiple terrorist attacks.

So, to combat the impression that Uighurs have any cause for wanting their own separate state — let alone for deploying violence to achieve it — Xi Jinping’s government has decided to declare Islam a contagious “ideological illness,” and quarantine 1 million Uighurs in reeducation camps, according to an estimate from the United Nations. In interviews, former inmates from these camps say that they were made to renounce their faith, sing Communist Party songs, consume pork, and drink alcohol; other reports suggest some of the truly “ideologically sick” have been tortured and killed.

https://www.jewsnews.co.il/2018/08/30/china-declared-islam-a-contagious-disease-and-quarantined-1-million-muslims.html