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Ban on burqa in Xinjiang

January 14, 2015International AffairsOmkar Sawant
Xinjiang province

Xinjiang province

Legislators in Xinjiang province – a region of China with a large Muslim population, have approved a ban on women wearing a traditional Islamic garment known as a burqa in public.

Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region has approved a regulation banning the wearing of the burqa in the regional capital of Urumqi.

On this backdrop, many Xinjiang experts have warned that the ban on burqa and the heavy-handed enforcement of it may further provoke the region’s minority Uighurs.

What is Xinjiang?

  1. Xinjiang is an autonomous province of China.
  2. About 45% of the population of Xinjiang is Muslim.
  3. Xinjian is home to the Uighur people who speak a Turkic language
  4. The region has been in news for many years due to violence that the government of China attributes to Islamist militants or separatists.
  5. The Uighur minority say that the government’s repressive policies and controls on Islam are the reasons for unrest.
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