China bars Uyghur muslims from praying in mosques - WION

[TexasTowelie]

In several areas of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Chinese authorities prohibited most Uyghurs from worshipping for the Eid-ul-Fitr holiday in mosques and even in their homes.

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1. The godless Chinese and our godly Christians

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-true-history-of-religious-tolerance-61312684/?no-ist= ;

Madison also made a point that any believer of any religion should understand: that the government sanction of a religion was, in essence, a threat to religion. "Who does not see," he wrote, "that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?" Madison was writing from his memory of Baptist ministers being arrested in his native Virginia.
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