{"id":1772,"date":"2011-09-27T09:10:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T09:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2011-09-27T09:10:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T09:10:05","slug":"education-dilemma-for-china-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/09\/27\/1772\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Dilemma for China Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news1\/china_muslims-education.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>Despite living in autonomous regions, thousands of Chinese Muslims are suffering under harsh educational systems imposed by the communist government to erode Qur&#8217;an and religious studies from schools and colleges.  <!--more-->  <br \/> \u201cWe are only allowed Qur&#8217;an study once we are in college,\u201d one Hui student at the Yinchuan college in autonomous Ningxia area told The Hindu.<br \/>The Yinchuan college is not an exception.<br \/>In Ningxia, one of China\u2019s five autonomous regions, most primary and middle schools do not allow studies of the Noble Qur\u2019an or Arabic to its Muslim students.<br \/>The Chinese government claims to allow autonomous regions, home to 55 minority groups, to set up their own education systems under the Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law.<br \/>In practice, policies are set by Beijing and directed by local Communist Party secretaries, who hold more power than their government counterparts.<br \/>For example, lessons given to the 420 students at the Ningxia Islamic College are usually confusing.<br \/>In the morning, students, from China&#8217;s 10 million-strong Hui Muslim minority group, recite verses from the Qur&#8217;an and study Arabic.<br \/>When afternoon lessons resume, students shift to Chinese textbooks on Socialist theory, learning about capital, labor and Communist Party philosophy.<br \/> \u201cSocialism and Islam are, usually, not the most compatible of subjects,\u201d says Ma Ming Xian, the vice dean of the college, with a smile.<br \/>The communist message was apparent in other Muslim colleges, such as the Islamic college in Yinchuan.<br \/>At such college, teachers said their priority was to ensure that students placed \u201cpatriotism over religion\u201d.<br \/> \u201cThe country comes first, and then your religion. That is our message,\u201d said Ma.<br \/><strong><br \/>Eroding Identity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many Chinese Muslims fume at the government\u2019s education plan for aiming to eroding religion from younger generations.<br \/> \u201cBy the time students start reading the Qur&#8217;an, they are already too old and have left school,\u201d said Ilham (not his real name), a primary school teacher in Kashgar in Xinjiang&#8217;s far west.<br \/> \u201cAnd by the time they start studying,\u201d he added, \u201cthey have already lost interest.\u201d<br \/>This is not only in schools.<br \/>Local governments in both Xinjiang and Ningxia have waged a campaign against informal Qur\u2019an study sessions, arresting any local resident involved in organizing them.<br \/>Along with its campaigns on Qur\u2019an and Arabic studies, the government has also applied a new plan in Xinjiang to promote the study of Mandarin Chinese.<br \/>The plan was seen by many as aiming at eroding the Uighur Turkic language. \u00a0<br \/>In the past two years alone, Xinjiang has set up close to 1,500 bilingual schools, now making up 85 percent of all kindergartens.<br \/>In these schools, many Uighurs say religious studies and Uighur culture are given less attention.<br \/> \u201cThere has been criticism of the Chinese government popularizing Mandarin,\u201d Pan Zhiping, a scholar at the Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences, said.<br \/>Islam, the second largest religion in China, has a very long history in the western Asian country.<br \/>Historians believe that the faith was spread to China by Muslim diplomats and merchants between 630AD and 751AD during the Tang Dynasty.<br \/>According to official data, China has 20 million Muslims, most of them are concentrated in Xinjiang, Ningxia, Gansu, and Qinghai regions and provinces.<br \/>Smaller Muslim communities can also be found throughout interior China.<br \/>Unofficially, Muslim groups say the number is even higher, stating that there are from 65-100 million Muslims in China \u2014 up to 7.5 percent of the population.<br \/>Atheist China recognizes five religions \u2014 Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Taoism and Buddhism \u2014 and tightly regulates their administration and practice.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: OnIslam &amp; Newspapers<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite living in autonomous regions, thousands of Chinese Muslims are suffering under harsh educational systems imposed by the communist government to erode Qur&#8217;an and religious studies from schools and colleges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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