China bans Islamic baby names in Muslim majority Xinjiang province

[ariel]

List comes after new rules prohibit 'abnormal beards' and wearing the burqa in public

Chinese authorities have banned Islamic baby names in the country’s largest Muslim province, as part of a crackdown on alleged "extremism" that monitors say restricts fundamental rights.

A document entitled “Naming Rules for Ethnic Minorities” prohibits names used by Muslim parents around the world including Imam, Hajj, Islam, Quran, Saddam, Medina and Islam, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported.

It applies to the Muslim-majority province of Xinjiang, where the Communist Party has been imposing ever tighter restrictions on religion in what it claims is a battle against “extremism”, amid a separatist uprising by Uyghur rebels.


Any babies with “overly religious” names will be barred from the hukou household registration system governing access to healthcare and education, a police official in the regional capital of Urumqi told RFA, which was founded by the US government and advances its foreign policy.

“You're not allowed to give names with a strong religious flavour, such as Jihad or names like that,” he added.

"The most important thing here is the connotations of the name...[it mustn't have] connotations of holy war or of separatism."
Muslims from the Uyghur ethnic group, which is the majority in Xinjiang, are being urged to “stick to the party line” and avoid anything seen as “promoting terror and evil cults”.

A list of banned names was previously detailed in Hotan prefecture in 2015 but has now reportedly been rolled out throughout Xinjiang, which is home to an estimated 10 million Muslims.

Human Rights Watch said the latest “absurd” prohibition was part of a slew of new regulations “restricting religious freedom in the name of countering ‘extremism’.

“These policies are blatant violations of domestic and international protections on the rights to freedom of belief and expression,” said China director Sophie Richardson.

“Violent incidents and ethnic tensions in Xinjiang have been on the rise in recent years, but the government’s farcically repressive policies and punishments are hardly solutions.
“Instead, they are only going to deepen resentment among Uyghurs.”

The reported list of names emerged less than a month after authorities in Xinjiang imposed new rules prohibiting the wearing of “abnormal” beards or burqas in public places, and imposing punishments for refusing to watch state television or radio programmes.

It included a ban on “naming of children to exaggerate religious fervour”, but did not immediately give specifics.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7700646.html

[Böri]

They also crack down on Xtians and Xtians are also 'martyred, so İ wouldnt call Chinks as necessarily Islamophobic. They are anti-religion and normal since Communist party rules there. Xinjiang isnt Muslim majority anymore.

[crazyladybutterfly]

this is stupid. it is only going to go in favor of extremists

[Böri]

Christians are more persecuted than even Muslims because they work to convert core Han Chinese mass. Islam is religion of ethnic minority. Some Xtian groups even claim China burry Christians alive.



Marx said religion is opiate of people and Mao said it's silly superstitions and in 1960s they even mass executed Tibetan Buddhist monks. So its not smth only with Muslims.

[Pahli]

Uighurs are known to have many extremists and terrorists, fuck them.

[LoLeL]

A document entitled “Naming Rules for Ethnic Minorities” prohibits names used by Muslim parents around the world including Imam, Hajj, Islam, Quran, Saddam, Medina and Islam, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported.

Quran?! Really?! I never heard Muslims choose the Quran as a name.

[ariel]

Quran?! Really?! I never heard Muslims choose the Quran as a name.

Maybe its common among uyghurs

[Böri]

Uighurs are known to have many extremists and terrorists, fuck them.

Kiro you must be trolling to make statement like this. Chinks are intelligent, they see West hates Islam so when they crack down on Uighurs they say 'we fight against terror, and it works so the whole world is silent. And when they crack down on Xtians and even burry them alive they say 'domestic security issues, and when they deal with Tibet Buddhist Monks its 'we fight against separatism, so nothing to do with especially Uighurs.

[Pahli]

Kiro you must be trolling to make statement like this. Chinks are intelligent, they see West hates Islam so when they crack down on Uighurs they say 'we fight against terror, and it works so the whole world is silent. And when they crack down on Xtians and even burry them alive they say 'domestic security issues, and when they deal with Tibet Buddhist Monks its 'we fight against separatism, so nothing to do with especially Uighurs.

Yes it does, Uighurs are known to be very religious and have been anti-Chinese for quite a long because they claim the whole Xinjiang as their own, but go ahead and read history about them, gives me no reason to feel sympathy for them.

[LoLeL]

Maybe its common among uyghurs

Yeah, but Isn't it against Sharia and Islamic rules? Quran is their holy book and using it as a name may be insulting for the majority of Muslims. I think it's similar to someone who calls himself/herself Allah. Am I wrong?