CCP Uses Religion as ‘Means to a Political End’: US Religious Freedom Commission
State-controlled religious organizations have been involved in altering, censoring, and controlling the content of religious texts such as the Bible and the Qur’an, as well as doctrines, sermons, and hymns, to ensure their alignment with the CCP’s interpretation of religion, policy, and political objectives.
Atheism in China: Netizens Ridicule Propaganda Book
Most of those who commented affirmed their belief that God exists, based on Christianity, Taoism, Buddhism, Islam, and even non-religious philosophy. In fact, some argued that the existence of the world proves that there is a God who made it.
Communism and Terrorism
Glenn Robinson, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in California, said: “Modern jihadism is distinctively Leninist.” Journalist Chuck Morse has also noted: “Radical Islam is nothing more than Communism cloaked in the traditional garments of Islam.”
Xinjiang: The Dynamics of Genocide Revealed
The driving force of many of President Xi Jinping’s policies lie grounded in a disdain for “hostile foreign powers” including the Islamic world, which are suspected of conspiring against China. A deep-seated legacy of mistrust for “barbarians” who hover on the edge of the Middle Kingdom has also given rise to a deep-seated suspicion of non-Han Chinese which contains strong racist features. These elements are convenient hooks on which to hang anti “barbarian” policies and persecution. “Because these people could hurt us,” is the subliminal message woven into justifying a genocide and the endorsement of it.
Replacing God: The Chinese Communist Party’s Century-Long War Against Faith
Millions of Falun Gong adherents have been held in prisons, labor camps, psychiatric hospitals, and other detention facilities in China. Hundreds of thousands have been tortured in those venues in a bid to force practitioners to give up their belief.
US House Reintroduces Bill to Ban All Xinjiang Goods Made With Forced Labor
Beijing’s repression of Uyghurs, perpetrated through its network of internment camps and mass surveillance system, has drawn international condemnation. According to an archived U.S. State Department website estimate, more than a million Uyghurs and other minority groups are held without charge in such facilities.
China Conducts Two Trials in Crackdown on Audio Bibles
The meeting concluded that the new “official edition” of the Bible must not contain any content that contradicts socialism, and paragraphs deemed wrong by censors will be amended or retranslated.
China Is Biggest Long-Term Threat to Britain, Says UK Spy Chief
Russia currently poses the biggest state-based threat to Britain, but China will become more dangerous in the future, Ken McCallum told reporters in London in his first public remarks as the new head of MI5. He said Russia was delivering “bursts of bad weather,” while Beijing is “changing the climate.”
Morally Ensnared in Xinjiang: A Young Researcher Reflects on Genocides
In the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic groups cannot practice Islam, speak their language, or engage with their culture. Since 2017, the Chinese government has been imprisoning Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic groups in Xinjiang’s “reeducation” camps. Up to two million people are estimated to be currently imprisoned. Prisoners are tortured and forced to abandon their religion and culture
Where Ties With Communist China Are Close, the Coronavirus Follows
The Epoch Times Editorial Board | New Tang Dynasty Severe COVID-19 outbreaks highlight different countries’ entanglements with Beijing In the final weeks of 2019, a novel coronavirus outbreak occurred in the city of Wuhan, in central China. As the world welcomed a new decade, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) opted to suppress information about the emerging crisis […]