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Some points regarding this news story:

1)Reuters has shown several times over to be an unreliable, pro-kufr, corporate controlled media entity.
It has systemically propagated untrue, unsubstantiated, hypersensationalized slant against Islam and Muslims in particular.

So as a matter of habit, I for one do NOT accept it as a valid or authentic source regarding anything about Muslims, Islam, world events, domestic affairs on pivotal issues.
Rather, it most be verified by authentic, and/or more reliable sources.

2)The Chinese government as run by the Chinese Communist Party has policies to suppress Islam, such as keeping all Muslim children from attending jumu`ah prayers, withholding them from Islamic classes in certain regions, etc.


Under the pretext of unification of national education, Islamic schools were closed and their students transferred to other schools which taught only Marxism and Maoism. Other outrages included the closing of over 29,000 mosques, the widespread torture of imams, and executions of over 360,000 Muslims. Aside from the physical annihilation, Muslims have been subjected to a constant attack on their Islamic identity especially during the so-called Cultural Revolution (1966-76). For instance, posters which appeared in Peking (later to be called Beijing) in 1966, openly called for the abolition of Islamic practices. Muslims were also barred from learning their written language which incorporated the Arabic script and was influenced by Arabic, Turkish and Farsi. This change was critical as it distanced Muslims from the Arabic language, the language of the Qur'an and their Islamic aspirations. During this era many Mosques were closed down and waqf properties were confiscated. (Yusuf Abdur Rahman)


As well, the govt attempts to suppress the total number of Muslims in China by solely identifying people according to ethnic groups and assigning a religious/ethnic practice to various groups. Thus, Uighurs are granted official recognition Islamic religious practices, but Han and Manchu Muslims are not.

Western media sources, the entire world order of political entities such as the UN and all pliant governments, therefore officially accept the Chinese government's authority to omit recognition of religious identity. As a result, the world media and govts are consigned to using a preCommunist survey of religious identity dating from the early 1900s CE, which recognized around 30 million Muslims in China.



population statistics of 1936, the then Kuomintang Republic of China had an estimated 48,104,240 Muslims. Below is a reference from about the Muslim population before Communist Revolution:

"There are in China 48,104,241 Mohammedan followers and 42,371 mosques, largely in Sinkiang, Chinghai, Manchuria, Kansu, Yunnan, Shensi, Hopei, and Honan. "Ferm, Vergilius (ed.). An Encyclopedia of Religion; Westport, CT: Greenwood Press (1976), pg. 145. [1st pub. in 1945 by Philosophical Library. 1976 reprint is unrevised.]


3)Basic geography and population growth shows increase of people identifying themselves as Muslim.Despite the Communist efforts to suppress Islam in China, the same should apply there. Thus, its reasonable to accept the claims of Han Muslims that there are somewhere between 100 to 200 million Muslims in China, the majority being of Han ethnicity.


Anecdotally, I happened to meet and get to know a Han Muslim from Beijing who's family had a lineage going back generations of being Muslim. He mentioned how such was well known within China, but the government suppresses it.


Thus, one cannot trust Reuters or Western and secular media to accurately report Muslim affairs. Their prejudices and ulterior agenda forms a slant of negative propaganda.

As for what actually happened regarding this event, I do not have further information.

and Allah knows best.