Muslim Minority: Extremism Threat and Chinese Targets

muslim minority: Officials are warning of the global religious extremism threat to China, according to Toronto Star. STR / AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Gerry Shih The Associated Press Mon., March 13, 2017 BEIJING Chinese officials are issuing new warnings about the spectre of global religious extremism seeping into the country, following reports of fighters from China's Muslim minority fighting alongside militants in Syria and Iraq. Daesh militants from China's Uighur ethnic minority have vowed to return home and shed blood like rivers according to a jihadist-tracking firm, in what experts said marked the first Daesh threat against Chinese targets. Sharhat Ahan, a top political and legal affairs party official in Xinjiang, on Sunday became the latest official from a predominantly Muslim region to warn about China becoming destabilized by the international anti-terror situation and calling for a people's war. Those demonstrations are intended to declare war against terrorists, to showcase the party and the government's resolve to fight terror, resolve to preserve public safety and China's mighty combat strength, Ahan told officials gathered in Beijing for this month's National People's Congress. Over the past year, regional leaders in Xinjiang, home to the Uighur ethnic minority, have ramped up surveillance measures and police patrols and staged massive rallies intended to showcase the power of the security forces. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.