> A perfectly logical action. Only way to fight Al Quaeda.
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> CHINA DEMOLISHES MOSQUE OVER OLYMPIC ROW
>
> 24 Jun 2008, 0017 hrs IST,REUTERShttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/China_Mosque_razed_over_Olym...
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> BEIJING: Chinese authorities in Xinjiang have demolished a mosque for
> refusing to put up signs in support of this August's Beijing Olympics,
> an exiled group said on Monday.
>
> The mosque was in Kalpin county near Aksu city in Xinjiang's rugged
> southwest, the World Uyghur Congress said.
>
> "China is forcing mosques in East Turkistan to publicise the Beijing
> Olympics to get the Uighur people to support the Games (but) this has
> been resisted by the Uighurs," World Uyghur Congress spokesman Dilxat
> Raxit said in an email.
>
> Beijing says al-Qaida is working with militants in Xinjiang to use
> terror to establish an independent state called East Turkistan. Oil-
> rich Xinjiang is home to 8 million Turkic-speaking Uighurs, many of
> whom resent the growing economic and cultural influence of the Han
> Chinese.
>
> Dilxat Raxit added that the mosque, which had been renovated in 1998,
> was accused of illegally renovating the structure, carrying out
> illegal religious activities and illegally storing copies of the
> Muslim holy book the Koran.
>
> The Olympic torch relay passed through Xinjiang last week under tight
> security.