Authorities in China's Xinjiang region are prohibiting parents from giving children some names with "religious background." The restrictions are part to secularize Xinjiang, which is home to roughly 10 million Uighurs, a Turkic people who mostly follow Sunni Islam.
Top officials have said that radical thought has infiltrated the region from Central Asia, protracting a bloody, yearslong insurgency that has claimed hundreds of lives. Government has urged local governments to better assimilate their minorities into the majority Han Chinese culture.
Local officials have strongly discouraged or prohibited veils, while government-linked commentators have called for bans of Middle Eastern religious architectural styles. Saddam," ''Arafat," Medina" and "Cairo." are on the list ". Just a thought.
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