West China prevents the following trading names "Saddam and Islam and the Koran and Mecca"

West China prevents the following trading names "Saddam and Islam and the Koran and Mecca"

Arab and international Tuesday April 25, 2017



Many parents have the right to choose their name for the newborn, but if the decision is a difficult name, it is the Muslims of western China to double the difficulty of more and more, because their choice of name for the newborn error would mean the denial of education and government aid.

This is the new reality that Muslims Saaish in China's Zhejiang province, after authorities imposed a new list containing the names of prohibited births, according to published by the British newspaper The Guardian.

This decision comes amid a campaign of religious repression carried out by China against the Muslim region in the country, which includes more than 10 million Muslims.

On the list included names such as "Islam, the Koran, Saddam, Mecca" and any other names carrying signals to the crescent symbol and star, all these have become now banned in the province listed as approved by Communist Party officials there, and any child carries a name of this will be deprived of civil registration , which is an extremely important document because it gives its owner the right of access to social services and access to health care and education.

The newspaper noted that "the full list has not yet been published, and what the criteria are not clear still in the name of religious discrimination from others.

Human rights groups were quick to denounce the ban on names, said Sophie Richardson, director of Human Rights Watch in China, "This is only the latest in a series of new laws that restrict religious freedom as the fight against religious extremism," indicating that "these policies are breaches of gross human rights freedom of belief and expression guaranteed internationally and locally, the government was serious about restoring stability and harmony to the region as claims, if they should retreat from its repressive policies, not doubled. "

The new comprehensive legislation to combat extremism, including the prevention of long beards, banning headscarves in public places, the government had imposed last month, and entered into force on the first of April / April 2017.

This comes in the wake of a series of steps to increase surveillance in the region, which includes the waiver of passports, and put mandatory GPS tracking devices in cars, according to CNN American news.

Said James Leipold, a professor at the University if Trobe Australian, whose research focuses on minority Chinese Uighurs: "They insist on the security approach in Xinjiang."

China blames religious extremists who hold them responsible for committing violent incidents sweeping series in recent years, have left hundreds dead, it launched several crackdowns in Xinjiang, the province west of China, which is home to a minority Muslim Uighurs, where is this one province of more areas the country's congestion.

Complain of human and civil Uyghurs rights groups impose tight grip restrictions on religion and freedom of expression, he says the attacks take China on the Uighurs generally are only separate incidents from each other, caused by disagreements and local complaints, are not connected within the broad coordination campaign. The province is witnessing preventing young people from raising their beards and banning the wearing of the burqa, which covers the face.

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