China passes law to SINICISE Islam within the next five years

“Sinicization” is to make something Chinese in character or form
that would attempt make Islam more Chinese in nature within the territory

• China has passed a new law that seeks to “Sinicize” Islam within the next five years and might do that with other four religions in the country. The move came after Chinese government officials met with representatives from eight Islamic associations.
• There are over 20 million Muslims in the country. Islam is one of the five officially recognized religions in atheist China. The other four are Taoism, Buddhism, Catholicism, and Protestantism.
• The term “Sinicization” is a government’s enforcement term that would attempt to make compatible of any ideas or concepts or religion or politics or anything into more Chinese or more squinted to Chinese culture.
• Xi Jinping-government held talks with eight Islamic associations and came to a consensus over the need to “guide Islam to be compatible with socialism and implement measures to Sinicize the religion.”
• Earlier, the practice of Islam was prohibited in China due to Chinese value system disagreements with Islam values. Thereafter, China was brought under heavy international criticism for reportedly detaining over 1 million Muslim Uighurs in indoctrination camps in Xinjiang.

The Reasons behind China’s move on Sinicise

• The China has been having a value system based or religious practice based differences with Islam practices. The differences are more in recent past. Therefore, the China government coerced few Chinese practices on Islam religious people.
• Chinese authorities in Xinjiang removed the crescents from the mosque and Authorities began requiring everyone in the village to gather for the weekly Chinese flag-raising ceremony. It was also reported that the authorities confiscated prayer mats and copies of the Quran.
•  The Chinese authorities religious schools and Arabic classes and barring children from participating in Muslim activities. In the past week alone, Chinese authorities in Yunnan province have closed down three mosques established by the marginalized Hui Muslim ethnic minority.
•  As per the United Nations, the officially atheist ruling Communist Party is known to have held over a million Uighur Muslims in an internment camp, where they were forced to denounce Islam and take an oath of allegiance to the government.

China move after global criticism on
Chinese Ethnic Cleansing in the name of Atheism

After the worldwide criticism on China’s ethnic cleansing behavior, now the Chinese government is ready to accept the Islam religion but with modified form in respect of China’s atheistic ideology. So, that’s how the Sinicise procedure is being legislated in the country.