Text Message: Death Threat and Tao Yingsheng

text message: Soon a pig's head was buried in the ground at the future Nangang mosque, the culmination of a rally in which dozens of residents hoisted banners and circled the planned building site, according to Brandon Sun. Then the mosque's imam received a text message carrying a death threat In case someone in your family dies, I have a coffin for you and more than one, if necessary. It quickly escalated into something more sinister. How did things get stirred up to this point the imam, Tao Yingsheng, said in a recent interview. It's also posing a dilemma for the ruling Communist Party, which has allowed Islamophobia to fester online for years as part of its campaign to justify security crackdowns in its restive region of Xinjiang. Who had even heard of the Nangang mosque before On the dusty plains of the Chinese heartland, a bitter fight over a mosque exemplifies how a surge in anti-Muslim sentiment online is spreading into communities across China, exacerbating simmering ethnic and religious tensions that have in the past erupted in bloodshed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.