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How China Kept Lid on Ramadan

The Los Angeles Times reports on the lengths that authorities went to in Xinjiang to ensure that the Muslim Uighur population there didn’t celebrate the holy month of Ramadan in August: In the aftermath of violent protests this year by Uighurs, the ethnic Turkic and Muslim minority living in northwestern China, authorities have deepened their campaign against religious practices — particularl