{"id":270805,"date":"2017-04-01T17:13:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T21:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=270805"},"modified":"2020-10-26T23:07:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T03:07:32","slug":"china-uighurs-xinjiang-ban-on-long-beards-and-veils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fr\/china-uighurs-xinjiang-ban-on-long-beards-and-veils\/","title":{"rendered":"China Uighurs: Xinjiang ban on long beards and veils"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Are they crazy? Banning long beards in the country of Lao Tsu and Confucius, the two most revered philosophers, it\u2019s so funny\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>China has introduced new restrictions in the far western region of Xinjiang in what it describes as a campaign against Islamist extremism.<\/p>\n<p>The measures include prohibiting &#8220;abnormally&#8221; long beards, the wearing of veils in public places and refusing to watch state television.<\/p>\n<p>Xinjiang is the homeland of the Uighurs, a traditionally Muslim group who say they face discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Recent years have seen bloody clashes in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government blames the violence on Islamist militants and separatists.<\/p>\n<p>But rights groups say the unrest is more a reaction to repressive policies, and argue that the new measures may end up pushing some Uighurs into extremism.<\/p>\n<p>Though similar restrictions have already been in place in Xinjiang, they become legally sanctioned as of this weekend. Reuters news agency reports that the new laws also ban:<\/p>\n<p>Not allowing children to attend government schools<br \/>\nNot abiding by family planning policies<br \/>\nDeliberately damaging legal documents<br \/>\nMarrying using only religious procedures<\/p>\n<p>The rules also state that workers in public spaces, such as stations and airports, are now required to &#8220;dissuade&#8221; those who fully cover their bodies, including veiling their faces, from entering, and to report them to the police.<\/p>\n<p>The restrictions were approved by Xinjiang lawmakers and published on the region&#8217;s official news website.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities had previously imposed other measures, including restrictions on granting passports to Uighurs.<\/p>\n<p>Uighurs are ethnically Turkic Muslims<br \/>\nThey make up about 45% of Xinjiang&#8217;s population; 40% are Han Chinese<br \/>\nChina re-established control in 1949 after crushing the short-lived state of East Turkestan<br \/>\nSince then, there has been large-scale immigration of Han Chinese<br \/>\nUighurs fear that their traditional culture will be eroded<\/p>\n<p>Why is there tension between China and the Uighurs?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-39460538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-39460538<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Are they crazy? Banning long beards in the country of Lao Tsu and Confucius, the two most revered philosophers, it\u2019s so funny\u2026 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":281072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}