Beijing’s Islamic establishment reshapes the great scholar’s legacy to legitimize today’s stateengineered “Sinicized Islam,” sidelining the historical record.
Islam in China
“Sinicization” of Islam continues at Full Speed
A training course told present and future imams that “Sinicizing” the religion means putting Xi Jinping’s thought at the center of Islamic activities.
The CCP Insists that Chinese Islam Should Be “Confucianized”
References to the Jinling School hide a call to “Sinicization” intended as unquestioning alignment with the Communist Party.
“Sinicization of the Quran” in Full Swing in China
Islamic clergy from Hunan was summoned to Beijing to learn “interpretive skills” that would enable them to preach a Quran “adapted to a socialist society.”
China, Future Muslim Imams Submitted to “Patriotic” Military Training
As part of the “patriotic education” campaign, students of China Islamic Theological Seminary went through military exercises and indoctrination.
A Chinese-Russian Fraud: Kazan’s “International Seminar on Islamic Moderate Thought”
The movement for a “moderate Islam” is not moderate at all. It is a tool created by Chinese propaganda and embraced by Russia.
An International Mobilization Is Needed Against China’s Crackdown on Mosques
In Ningxia and Gansu, demolitions, closures, and repurposing of mosques show the CCP’s intention to destabilize Hui Islam.
China: Gate of Famous Beijing Muslim School “Sinicized”
The campaign to eliminate visual traces of Islam in Chinese cities continues unabated.
CCP Promotes Ma Minglong’s Thought as a Tool to “Sinicize” Islam
The 17th-century Muslim scholar is used to reduce Islam to a moral philosophy rather than a religion.
China Promotes a “Confucianized” Approach to the Holy Quran
Hailing the 17th-century Jinling School hides another attempt to create an Islam subservient to the Communist Party.