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Beijing Restricting Hui Islam While Courting Tourists

As members of the predominately Muslim Uighur ethnic minority have found increased restrictions on their religious practice amid an ongoing “war against terrorism” focused mainly on the Xinjiang region, it has been noted that Hui Muslims enjoy much more religious freedom. In a 2014 article for TIME, Hannah Beech wrote of a “religious boom” in Hui strongholds like Linxia, Gansu, and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region; last year at ChinaFile,