{"id":1087,"date":"2015-06-18T04:08:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T04:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/1087-china-bans-ramadan-fast-for-uyghur-s\/"},"modified":"2015-06-18T04:08:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T04:08:01","slug":"china-bans-ramadan-fast-for-uyghur-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/1087-china-bans-ramadan-fast-for-uyghur-s\/","title":{"rendered":"China bans Ramadan fast for Uyghur\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"margin: 12pt 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.6666660308838px; line-height: 11.8559999465942px;\">parts of the far western Xinjiang district have banned Muslims<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.6666660308838px; line-height: 11.8559999465942px;\">, students and teachers from fasting during the holy month of Ramadan<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 12pt 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"margin: 12pt 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12pt 0in; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;\">Adding to Uighur Muslims\u2019 concerns, some parts of the far western Xinjiang district have banned Muslim party members, civil servants, students and teachers from fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, reviving every year\u2019s religious restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;\">A spokesman for the exiled Uighur group decried Chinese authorities\u2019 calls on Uighur civil servants not to observe fasting in Ramadan, seeing it as aimed at controlling the Islamic faith.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><br \/> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;\">According to the government\u2019s website, halal restaurants in Jinghe County, near the Kazakh border, were encouraged by food safety officials to stay open during day hours in Ramadan.<br \/> Halal restaurants that will keep its doors open in Ramadan will be rewarded by fewer visits from food safety inspectors, the website stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;\">Every year, Chinese authorities have repeatedly imposed restrictions on Uighur Muslim in the northwestern region of Xinjiang every Ramadan.<br \/> Earlier in December, China banned the wearing of Islamic veiled robes in public in Urumqi, the capital of the province of Xinjiang.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>parts of the far western Xinjiang district have banned Muslims, students and teachers from fasting during the holy month of Ramadan \u00a0 Adding to Uighur Muslims\u2019 concerns, some parts of the far western Xinjiang district have banned Muslim party members, civil servants, students and teachers from fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, reviving every &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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