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China bans fasting in Muslim-dominated Xinjiang region
Press TV
Thu Jun 18, 2015 6:25PM
Chinese Muslims pray after breaking their fast on the first day of Ramadan at a mosque in Beijing on June 18, 2015. (AFP Photo)
China
has banned fasting for teachers, students and civil servants in the
mainly Muslim region of Xinjiang, as part of a crackdown on the Uighur
community at the start of the holy month of Ramadan.
“Food
service workplaces will operate normal hours during Ramadan," the state
Food and Drug Administration in Xinjiang's Jinghe County said in a
notice posted on its website, AFP reported.
Muslim abstain from
eating from dawn to dusk in Ramadan, but China's ruling Communist party,
which is officially atheist, has for years restricted the practice of
fasting in Xinjiang region.
"During Ramadan do not engage in
fasting, vigils or other religious activities," also read a report on
the website of the local government this week warned officials in
Xinjiang's Bole County.
Rights groups have long complained that
China’s restrictive policies have led to escalated ethnic tensions in
Xinjiang, where clashes between government forces and locals have left
hundreds killed over the past years. Chinese Muslims gather to break their fast on the first day of Ramadan at a mosque in Beijing on June 18, 2015. (AFP Photo)
“China's
goal in prohibiting fasting is to forcibly move Uighurs away from their
Muslim culture during Ramadan,” said Dilxat Rexit, a spokesman for the
exiled World Uyghur Congress, adding, “Policies that prohibit religious
fasting are a provocation and will only lead to instability and
conflict.”
Chinese officials cite security reasons for their crackdown, saying they are faced with “terrorist threats” in the region.
This
year the crackdown seems to have intensified with reports saying that
the government has ordered its police and court officials in Awat
County to “take the lead in teaching family members not to fast and not
to participate in Ramadan-related religious activities.”
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