Al Qaeda tells China's Uyghurs to prepare for holy war

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KRonn

October 08, 2009, 11:33:44 AM


Quotehttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/08/china.uyghur.threat/index.html

Al Qaeda tells China's Uyghurs to prepare for holy war

(CNN) -- A high-ranking al Qaeda leader has called on China's minority Uyghurs to prepare for a holy war against the Chinese government.
Security has been increased recently on the streets of Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital.

Security has been increased recently on the streets of Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital.

"There is no way for salvation and to lift this oppression and tyranny unless you ... seriously prepare for jihad in the name of God and carry your weapons against the ruthless brutal invader thugs," Abu Yahia Al-Libi said Wednesday in a video on an Islamist Web site. He delivered his message in Arabic.

The Uyghurs are Muslims in western China's Xinjiang province. Some Islamists refer to the region as East Turkistan.

Al-Libi's proclamation was in reaction to the violence that has recently shaken Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital. There, long-simmering resentment between minority Uyghurs and majority Han Chinese erupted into riots and left more than 200 people dead in July.

The following month, a series of stabbings -- with syringes used as weapons -- added to the unrest.

"What we saw and heard in the recent events in Turkistan was not accidental and didn't happen overnight. This is an intifada (an uprising) and a usual response to the decades of oppression, the organized cleansing and the systematic repression until the people had enough," Al-Libi said.

"This was not the first uprising that the oppressed Muslim people carried out, because they keep grieving and struggling to preserve their identity against the aggressors."

Chinese officials could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday.

Al-Libi regularly produces video messages and has, in the past, called on Pakistanis and Somalis to resist their "apostate" governments. He is considered one of al Qaeda's top strategists and one of its most vocal leaders in its propaganda campaign

In his latest message, Al-Libi called on Muslims worldwide to support the Uyghurs. And he vowed that China will suffer the same fate that the former Soviet Union did when it invaded Afghanistan in the 1980s -- only to be thwarted by Islamist fighters.

"To you, the state of atheism and obstinacy: You are coming to an end and you will face the same fate of the Russian bear of disintegration and division," he said. "You will encounter the same defeat when your nation will fight in its own backyard the humble minority of Muslims who are stronger in faith."

In July, a leader of an al Qaeda-linked group also denounced Chinese treatment of Uyghurs and threatened revenge.

The leader of the Turkistan Islamic Party, in a video on Islamic Web sites, blamed the Chinese for "genocide."
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The speaker urged Uyghurs to "kill the Chinese communists where you find them, take them and besiege them and ambush them wherever you can."

Slargos

#1
October 08, 2009, 11:45:36 AM
Oh please let Al-Q start a spat with the only major power currently willing to actually treat with them the way they deserve.  :menace:

Valmy

#2
October 08, 2009, 11:56:09 AM
Yes....yesssss....piss of the Chinese Government...please...
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Valmy

#3
October 08, 2009, 11:56:51 AM
Quote from: Slargos on October 08, 2009, 11:45:36 AM
Oh please let Al-Q start a spat with the only major power currently willing to actually treat with them the way they deserve.  :menace:

They will be praying they were merely being waterboarded by Dick Cheney if the Chinese get their hands on them.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

DisturbedPervert

#4
October 08, 2009, 12:04:23 PM
In other news, China tells China's Uyghurs to prepare for genocide.

saskganesh

#5
October 08, 2009, 12:06:33 PM
did Al Qaeda promise significant cash and support or just well wishes?
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viper37

#6
October 08, 2009, 02:21:15 PM
Command & Conquer: Generals.
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#7
October 08, 2009, 02:28:44 PM
Quote from: Valmy on October 08, 2009, 11:56:09 AM
Yes....yesssss....piss of the Chinese Government...please...
They'll jsut kill of all the Uyghurs. It's not like they'll send in the waves of chinese fodder into Afghanistan or Iraq.
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Josquius

#8
October 08, 2009, 03:20:16 PM
Nice news.
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Razgovory

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October 08, 2009, 03:40:46 PM
Quote from: Slargos on October 08, 2009, 11:45:36 AM
Oh please let Al-Q start a spat with the only major power currently willing to actually treat with them the way they deserve.  :menace:

Because that worked so well for the Soviets.
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Ed Anger

#10
October 08, 2009, 03:46:19 PM
Quote from: viper37 on October 08, 2009, 02:21:15 PM
Command & Conquer: Generals.
:D

just put snipers in buildings and everybody dies.
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Valmy

#11
October 08, 2009, 03:49:05 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 08, 2009, 03:40:46 PM
Because that worked so well for the Soviets.

Yeah that was the Soviet's problem....there would be an international socialist paradise now if it was not for the Muslim resistance in Afghanistan.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Barrister

#12
October 08, 2009, 04:12:02 PM
How is this possibly news?

AQ tells all muslims to prepare for Holy War.  It's their answer to everything.

China is opressing Uyghurs?  It's time for HOLY WAR!!!111
France bans the headscarf?  It's time for HOLY WAR!!!111
McDonalds hamburgers aren't hal'al?  It's time for HOLY WAR!!!111
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Razgovory

#13
October 08, 2009, 04:42:18 PM
Quote from: Valmy on October 08, 2009, 03:49:05 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 08, 2009, 03:40:46 PM
Because that worked so well for the Soviets.

Yeah that was the Soviet's problem....there would be an international socialist paradise now if it was not for the Muslim resistance in Afghanistan.

Missed the point.  "treating them the way they deserve" as Slargos suggests didn't work for the Soviets.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Habbaku

#14
October 08, 2009, 04:54:42 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 08, 2009, 04:42:18 PM
Missed the point.  "treating them the way they deserve" as Slargos suggests didn't work for the Soviets.

Didn't work out very well for the Afghans, either.
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