Muslims Attack China: Vow to disrupt the 2008 Olympics
A day after two men attacked a military police unit in the country’s far northwest, killing 16 and wounding 16 others, the Chinese authorities sought to portray the ambush as an act of terrorism and said the men were members of an outlawed organization they contend has links to Al Qaeda.
The terrorists are Muslims belonging to China’s ethnic Uighur minority. Two men were arrested. The authorities said the two arrested men had spent a month planning the attack as part of an effort by homegrown Islamic terrorists to disrupt the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing.
The real disturbing thing about this report is the knee-jerk response a so-called American expert was reported as saying after the attacks.
“Dru C. Gladney, a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California, who is an expert in China’s Muslim population, said the attack did not resemble the kind of well-organized terrorist plot that characterizes other groups in South Asia. He said that if the group had been interested in disrupting the Olympics, it would have been better served by targeting a larger city or even an Olympics venue. “There is no clear connection to the Olympics,” he said.
Methinks Dr. Gladney just gave the terrorists a great idea, lets hope I’m wrong.
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