{"id":177132,"date":"2014-09-12T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T18:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=177132"},"modified":"2014-11-12T11:01:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T19:01:02","slug":"sensitive-words-han-jihadist-official-rumors-xu-zhiyong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/09\/sensitive-words-han-jihadist-official-rumors-xu-zhiyong\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensitive Words: Han Jihadist, Xu Zhiyong, More"},"content":{"rendered":"

As of September 12, the following search terms were blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the \u201csearch for user\u201d function).<\/em><\/p>\n

Chinese Jihadist Held in Iraq<\/strong>: Early this month, the New York Times reported that Iraq’s Defense Ministry announced\u00a0the capture of Wang Bo, a Chinese national who had been fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria<\/a>\u00a0(the Times also ran the article in Chinese<\/a>). Last year, the Times reported on\u00a0Wang as\u00a0a rare example of an ethnic Han joining a jihadist group<\/a> in the Middle East. This news comes as global concerns about\u00a0the Islamic State\u00a0are mounting, and as China continues a crackdown on violence in Xinjiang<\/a> which has targeted\u00a0members of the predominately Muslim Uyghur ethnic group<\/a>\u00a0local to the region.\u00a0While China has made efforts to tie violence in Xinjiang to the global jihadist movement<\/a> and gain international support for its counter terror campaign, Beijing\u00a0criticized Barack Obama’s recent announcement on imminent U.S.\u00a0military strikes\u00a0against the Islamic State\u00a0on the\u00a0Iraq-Syria<\/a>\u00a0border, staying\u00a0true to its characteristic commitment to non-interventionism<\/a>.<\/p>\n