Communist Party boss of China’s Muslim region points to Trump ban in battle vs religious extremism
The Communist Party boss of one of China’s major Muslim regions has cited US President Donald Trump’s immigration policies in stressing the need to combat religious extremism.
Li Jianhua, the party secretary of Ningxia, said on Tuesday that some radicals had turned religious belief, such as Islam, into extremists ideology, causing instability in the world.
Last month, a video purportedly issued by Islamic State showed Uygur-speaking fighters vowing to launch attacks in Xinjiang and “shed blood like rivers”.
“The jihad, violence and terror demanded by the extremists has resulted in Trump’s Muslim ban,” Li told reporters on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress session in Beijing.
“No matter what the purpose of this order is, he intended to prevent extremism from infiltrating into the US mainland.”
