Muslims free to observe Fasting in China

The Chinese government has given full freedom to the Muslims and allowing them to observe fasting in Ramazan. Muslims in China have full rights to practice Islam.

Propaganda in media is showing totally different picture that Muslims in China don’t have freedom to follow Islam whereas situation on ground is totally different.

When news appeared from different Western media that china has banned fasting in Ramazan this scribe contacted his Chinese Muslim friends who are living in Xinjiang Muslims majority region of China. They said “we have full freedom to observe fasting during Ramazan and there is no resection by the government”.

While talking to ‘The News’, Muhammad Ali a Chinese Muslim, who is government servant said that they are fasting in Ramazan freely and there is no restriction by the government even for government employees. “Muslims are free to follow Islam like in Pakistan,” he added.

Ali further told that Xinjiang is the Muslims majority region of China and they have around 24,400 mosques and many religious colleges in which number of Muslims are getting Islamic education. Not only this during Eids and traditional festivals, Muslims enjoy holidays here, which shows they are free to practice Islam in China.

He further told that like other parts of the world a number of religious believers provide free ‘iftar’ to fasting people and the local governments help them to arrange religious activities go in order.

Ali further told that every year number of Chinese Muslims performs Haj and Xinjiang government helps them to get medical treatment and other facilities.

Then to get second opinion ‘The News’ contacted another Chinese Muslim friend, Yasir, who is university professor,, he said, news from western media that fasting is ban in China is totally baseless, as all the Muslims are fasting in Ramazan freely like other parts of the world.

Yasir said they are also concerned why this western media giving false news that Muslims are not free to follow their religion. By giving such impression what they want to achieve.

He said everyone is free to follow his religion in China because law gives them full protection to practice religion no mater one is Muslim, Christian or follow any other religion.

“Muslims are free in this country that’s why one can find Halal food easily in Xinjiang, because this in no restriction by government on Muslim to setup Halal food restaurant,” he added.

He further told that thousands of books have been translated and published on Quran and Selections from Al-Sahih Muhammad Ibn-Ismail al-Bukhari in different languages, which are available in open market.

Yasir told that Xinjiang has distributed 43 Islamic publications in different languages of minority ethnic groups, totalling over one million copies, including over 230,000 copies of new Koran and over 29,000 copies of Basic Knowledge of Islam, both in the Uygur language.

He said every year Xinjiang sent number of Chinese Muslims students to Pakistan, Egypt and other Muslim countries for further studies, and to improve their religious knowledge.

After analysing the comments of the Chinese Muslims friends this scribe found that facts are totally different. The freedom of religious belief in Xinjiang cannot be matched by that in any other historical period, and is undeniable to anyone who respects the facts.