China's just as absurdly naive about Islam as many western countries are
Robert Spencer addresses news that China's communists want to "Sinicize" the Religion of Peace, which doesn't sound all that different from what some European countries seem to believe they could do:
As the Chinese Communist Party is a totalitarian entity, it views any other authority or object of loyalty as a competitor that must be destroyed. That’s why the Chinese government has cracked down so brutally upon the Uighur Muslims, and now a leading ChiCom official has announced the end goal of that persecution: the “Sinicization” of Islam. The U.S., and the West in general, can learn a great deal from what the Chinese are doing: it’s a grand lesson in what not to do.So this is basically no different from what western "specialists" tried to do, and look how it turned out. China will only doom everything and everyone further with this kind of near-sightedness. All that aside, one can only wonder what plans they have in store for Kaifeng community members, and if they'll force them to rewrite the Judaist bible/Torah so they won't think critically of communism either. What's really sad is how PC has led to situations where nobody wants to encourage Islamic adherents to leave the Religion of Peace and try out other, more civilized religions instead. Maybe in the west, the problem is that antisemites can't bring themselves to encourage converting to Judaism instead, or even Hinduism/Buddhism/Shintoism. As a result, is it any wonder the failure to combat Islam's evils has been so enormous?
[...] Sinicization, in the case of Christianity, has involved rewriting parts of the Bible to remove or alter passages that might inspire readers to think critically about Communism, forcing Christians to celebrate as heroes Communists who betrayed the Church, and requiring Christian teachers to attend Communist indoctrination sessions.
Will similar measures, applied to Islam, defang the Religion of Peace and end the possibility of jihad terror in China? That’s what Chinese Communist leaders are banking on. But they’re being short-sighted.
What is likely to happen in China, given the lessons of history, is that the “Sinicization” of Islam will proceed, and initially it will appear to be a comprehensive success. Muslims in China will appear to be practicing an Islam with Chinese characteristics, and to have assimilated completely into Communist Chinese society.
The Communist victory celebrations, however, will be premature. When the Communist Party begins to weaken, suddenly and unexpectedly, traditional Islam will begin to reemerge. Eventually, the Chinese Communists will discover that despite all their efforts, Islam has not become “Sinicized” at all, but is still pretty much what it has always been.
[...] Even as late as the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Western “experts” were confidently predicting that Islamic societies would secularize and Westernize after the pattern of secular Turkey. Since then, however, everything has gone awry for the “experts,” although they still enjoy their tenured professorships and media adulation despite having been proven wrong about everything.
Turkey has re-Islamized, and Western influences have receded drastically in Islamic societies. Where Nasser joked about the impossibility of getting Egyptian women to wear hijab, now virtually all women wear the hijab.
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