{"id":82906,"date":"2019-06-20T08:28:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82906"},"modified":"2019-06-20T08:01:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:01:31","slug":"bbc-faith-in-ruins-chinas-vanishing-beards-and-mosques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82906","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Faith in ruins: China&#8217;s vanishing beards and mosques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The BBC has found new evidence of the increasing control and suppression of Islam in China&#8217;s far western region of Xinjiang \u2013 including the widespread destruction of mosques.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities provided rare access to religious sites and senior Islamic officials to support their claim that their policies only target violent religious extremism, not faith itself.<\/p>\n<p>But after his official tour was over, China Correspondent John Sudworth set out to investigate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-asia-china-48696184\/faith-in-ruins-china-s-vanishing-beards-and-mosques\">Watch it all<\/a> (about 5 1\/3 mins).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BBC News &#8211; Faith in ruins: China&#8217;s vanishing beards and mosques &#8211; amazing use of satellite imagery to depict the asphyxiation of Islam in Xinjiang <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3P3aR1powx\">https:\/\/t.co\/3P3aR1powx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sofia Patel (@laramimi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laramimi\/status\/1141668447358791681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The BBC has found new evidence of the increasing control and suppression of Islam in China&#8217;s far western region of Xinjiang \u2013 including the widespread destruction of mosques. Authorities provided rare access to religious sites and senior Islamic officials to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82906\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,426,108,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-islam","category-religion-culture","category-religious-freedom-persecution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82906"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82909,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82906\/revisions\/82909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}