ISIS Extends Recruitment Efforts to China With New Chant

That should keep the Chinese busy instead of bullying their Asian neighbors.

The Uighur element in China has been looking for support for a very long time.

Saudi Arabia is the root if Islamic extremism. They spread the religious underpinning of terrorism around the world. This is 100% funded by oil money.

The US needs to legalize and promote massive oil exports. This will be expensive, but it will cost no lives, American or otherwise, and will avert the next trillion dollar war that we are edging towards.

Without the distortions of massive oil revenues, the balance of power and influence within Islam will shift to countries where Islam is a faith, not a battle cry.

It is probably not a good idea for ISIL to try and antagonize China.

China will be ruthless in demonstrating that they will not put up with Islamic radicals.

Obama can take some notes.

This is more of the classic scenario. The 'enemy of our enemy is our friend' - ISIS doctrine is as arrogant as it is clueless. Bringing the US and China together to fight them as a common foe is great for America and the free world - deadly for militant Islam. And - as Richard Pryor once said about China "I wouldn't mess with over a billion of anything". Let's hope this nasty chapter in human history can be burned and buried soon.

An important development, yet another example of Huntington's civilizational battles. China and India are as threatened as the western world

The leaders of the Islamic State adhere to an ultra-Orthodox form of Sunni Islam called Salafism, one that is not popular among Chinese Muslims. Salafists denounce many other Muslims as heretics, including other Sunnis, and are especially hostile toward Shiite Muslims. The sect is tiny, but Saudi Arabia, a United States ally, promotes Salafism and its close cousin Wahhabism, whose adherents seek to “purify” Islam of modern influences.
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Are we allowed to ask WHY Saudi Arabia is a US ally? Are we allowed to ask why Mr. Obama insisted that Saudi Arabia be present at the meeting to discuss the future of Syria? And why is Mr. Obama echoing the Saudi demand that Assad must go?

Or are we just going to bash Mr. Trump and not ask any of the hard questions?

Thanks, this article gives a good picture of how ISIS relates to the political unrest in Xinjiang. They would like to gain recruits from among the repressed Uighurs and Hui. Basher al Assad and Xi Jinping are alike in claiming their political oppositions to be terrorists.

REALITY: obama as a leader is a failure and an embarrassment to the office of president in his handling of the middle east situation

And yet people constantly call this "un-Islamic." If this were a Christian group the media wouldn't have a problem talking about it but everyone is afraid of being "Islamophobic" and they're also, rightly, afraid of becoming a victim of Islamic terrorism.

I don't think ISIS wants to tangle with China. The Chinese government is not known for a soft touch and a concern for collateral damage.

ISIS must be wrapped up in this end-world scenario, because so far they've pissed off the US, the French, Russia, many Arab neighbors, and now China. There is no way they can continue this trend without getting crushed by some government or other who will come in hot and heavy after being pushed too far.

If radical Islamists aggravate China, China unlike the West will be ruthless and deadly towards them. They will be unleashing the wrath of the world against them. I would like to see them eradicated from the face of the earth.

That ISIS recruits marginalised Uighurs in China doesn't surprise at all. Beijing has long faced criticism for the perceived harsh restrictions it places on religion and culture in the restive province of Xinjiang, where the majority of Uighurs live.
No doubt the IS also seeks to recruit the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, who have been terrorised by the hawkish Buddhists.
In August a deadly blast killed some 20 people in Bangkok. Two Chinese nationals from the Muslim Uighur minority had been arrested. They had allegedly confessed their roles in the bombing, in retaliation against Thailand's deportation of 109 Uighur refugees to China. The Uighurs had been in Thailand for over a year and claimed to be Turkish. Ankara was enraged and the Thai consulate in Istanbul was ransacked by protesters.
But Beijing insisted that the refugees were illegal migrants in Thailand, on their way "to join jihad."
ISIS seems to have discovered Thailand as its soft target. It had recently announced that it would send a death squad to Thailand to attack Russian tourists there.

Good article but does the Times really need to print the terrorist nasheed in full? It is ISIS propoganda, the publishing of which seems rather unwise at the moment. Give us a taste, one or two lines, and leave it at that, we do not need to read the whole crazy megillah. It is not literature, just a frantic call to arms by murderers.

America has always accused China of religious persecution and lack of human rights. Yes, China as a society has its problems. Compared with the West, the Chinese government does impose tighter control over religious practices. And while the average Chinese can safely discuss corruption and human rights violation among each others, they won't be allow to do so in the media. However, things are really not as bad as what the Western media depicts, especially when it comes to the treatment of Chinese Muslims. For instance, one-child policy had never been applied to them, or to any ethnic minorities. Also, affirmative action enables them to go to universities with lower grades. If you don't believe me, please Google, "Shadian, Yunnan", the center of Islam in China. It has been going through a huge revival in recent years. Those Chinese Muslims have full access to religious activities. They even banned alcohol in their city. Chinese Muslim girls are free to wear hijab and some even cover from head to toe. I'm saying this as a Chinese person (no, I don't work for the party's propaganda office) that it is very hurtful to us whenever there were terrorist attacks against innocent Chinese citizens, people in the West would assume that these attacks were "punishment" for religious oppression and minority discrimination and dismiss them as terrorism. The fact is terrorism is real and a problem to all of us. As a Chinese, I hope my government can join the fight against terrorism.

"The sect is tiny, but Saudi Arabia, a United States ally, promotes Salafism and its close cousin Wahhabism, whose adherents seek to “purify” Islam of modern influences."

Clearly Saudi Arabia is a major problem. Why are they still treated as an ally? Their regime is as evil as North Korea. Where is the American politician, from either party, that will speak out against the Saudis? WIth China facing more terrorism, maybe they will start putting pressure on Saudi Arabia - doubtful though.

We don't need more bombs or boots. We need a strong international coalition to pressure Saudi Arabia. If they didn't have lots of oil, it would have happened long again. Maybe the time is coming soon - oil prices are low and their production is not nearly as large percentage of the world's supply as it once was.

ISIS may be the best thing that has happened for US-Sino relations since the Philadelphia Orchestra performed in Beijing in 1973. Let's all get together and eliminate ISIS and their barbaric threats to civil society.

"We are mujahid...To die fighting on the battlefield/Is our dream."
And our dream is to give you your dream.

ISIL presents a unique opportunity to the world"s superpowers to come together and put an end to this scourge. ISIL represents a threat to all of the civilized world. This is a moment in history for the leaders of the United States, China and, Russia along with the EU and partners in the Middle East to work together and put the politics aside. ISIL has shown a ruthless disregard for life and the capacity to radicalize those who have nothing else to live for. Perhaps this crisis is the single best chance at preserving peace for the long term. If ISIL has demonstrated anything, it is their complete and total disregard for law and order. The question is whether or not the governments of the civilized world are willing to sacrifice their differences for a greater good.

As the article correctly pointed out, the Uighurs constitute less than half of the Chinese Muslim population, yet they committed most of the terrorist attacks. The Hui people, the Kazakhs, the Kyrgyz, the Uzbeks, etc., who also follow Sunni Islam as the Uighurs do, live together with the Hans without much conflict. So it's apparent that the Uighur terrorists were mainly driven by separatist motives, further fueled by religious zeal of course.

Americans & their leaders must learn what exactly is Salafism/Wahabbism - must learn the extent of its connection to terrorist ideology - must learn how it is propagated around the world including whether and to what extent by the Saudis - & must finally demand specific reforms of the Saudis, reforms that if neglected will be costly for them politically.
How blind they are! At the very least, anyone can see that the royals there, the guardians of Mecca, will be the ultimate target. They are hastening to their own destruction.