{"id":7874,"date":"2019-08-01T14:20:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T14:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7874-china-s-capital-orders-arabic-muslim-symbols-taken-down\/"},"modified":"2019-08-01T14:20:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T14:20:47","slug":"china-s-capital-orders-arabic-muslim-symbols-taken-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7874-china-s-capital-orders-arabic-muslim-symbols-taken-down\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s capital orders Arabic, Muslim symbols taken down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Authorities in the Chinese capital have ordered halal restaurants and food stalls to remove Arabic script and symbols associated with Islam from their signs, part of an<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Authorities in the Chinese capital have ordered halal restaurants and food stalls to remove Arabic script and symbols associated with Islam from their signs, part of an expanding national effort to \u201cSinicize\u201d its Muslim population.<\/p>\n<p>Employees at 11 restaurants and shops in Beijing selling halal products and visited by Reuters in recent days said officials had told them to remove images associated with Islam, such as the crescent moon and the word \u201chalal\u201d written in Arabic, from signs.<\/p>\n<p>Government workers from various offices told one manager of a Beijing noodle shop to cover up the \u201chalal\u201d in Arabic on his shop\u2019s sign, and then watched him do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said this is foreign culture and you should use more Chinese culture,\u201d said the manager, who, like all restaurant owners and employees who spoke to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>China, home to 20 million Muslims, officially guarantees freedom of religion, but the government has campaigned to bring the faithful into line with Communist Party ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in the Chinese capital have ordered halal restaurants and food stalls to remove Arabic script and symbols associated with Islam from their signs, part of an\u00a0 Authorities in the Chinese capital have ordered halal restaurants and food stalls to remove Arabic script and symbols associated with Islam from their signs, part of an expanding &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19644,"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-7874","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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