pretty clear actions of a colonial oppressor, imo
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It seems weird that the CCP destroyed this Mosque and ran a massacre, apologized for it, paid for it to be rebuilt which was completed in 2009, and then promptly changed it again.
Incidentally, it had to do with who was running the CCP at each time period. Really helps to discredit Xi as some pompous moron compared to Deng who understood the value in giving people rights & liberties and not running the country like a craphole like how Mao did.
Those two are the same place? Looks like it was entirely destroyed and rebuilt as something else, I'm seeing very little similarly between the two.
They basically added a couple of floors to hide the dome. Looks like the spires got shorter though.
I do really wonder if the dome is still hiding inside there. It looks like it might be big enough and that sounds like it would be the easy solution.
AFAIK these domes are beautiful on the inside, I would assume they kept it, but we're talking cultural revolution levels of narrow mindedness here, so who knows?
Edit: from the satellite imagery I'd say its gone.
Wait, in ALL of China? Not a single mosque dome?
There's domes everywhere, not really sure what The Guardian is talking about
Is it the wording? They said "Arabic".
I don't know anything about building, China, mosques, etc. I'm just saying words.
No, there's many many Hui Arabic-style mosques.
Maybe The Guardian doesn't know about them and doesn't consider them "major", but that sounds like The Guardian's problem.
Complete bullshit. I saw multiple when I was there, and some of the oldest mosques in the world are in China, dating back to at least 800AD
shh The Guardian had a slow news day ok
Sinicism - something characteristic of or peculiar to the Chinese; a Chinese method, custom, or usage.
Learned a new word today.
I've always had a pretty sinical view about the Chinese.
This is an amazing pun by means of play on words and phonetics to imply additional meaning. Incredible.
You'll see the prefix "sino-" a lot if you start looking into Chinese geopolitical history.
Jesus turned into a white dude and Mohamed is now Han Chinese.
Not only that but Mary, Jesus' mom is both a virgin, a mom, and white and Mexican! She's not a trinity, she's a forthnity!
Maybe they should work on demolishing some of those ghost cities instead...
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The last major mosque in China to have retained Arabic-style features has lost its domes and had its minarets radically modified, marking what experts say is the completion of a government campaign to sinicise the country’s Muslim places of worship.
Satellite imagery from 2022 shows the entrance pavilion decorated with a large crescent moon and star made from vivid black tiles.
Ruslan Yusupov, an anthropologist at Cornell University who spent two years in Shadian doing fieldwork, said: “Sinification of these two landmark mosques marks the success of the campaign.
Yusupov said the development of Shadian and Najiaying mosques represented “the ability of Muslims to regain religious and Islamic space after the cultural revolution.
“We just wanted to preserve our last bit of dignity, because except for Shadian and Najiaying, every [mosque] in the country has been remodelled,” said the man, who has since left China and who asked to remain anonymous because of fears for his safety.
Ian Johnson, the author of The Souls of China, a book about religion, said: “Given the tragic history of this mosque – especially that within living memory Han chauvinism already led to its destruction once – the reconstruction and renaming of it is another effort to erase local people’s beliefs and their cultural heritage.”
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This feels like something that would happen in some version of Civilization, the 4X game.
I will never understand people who are so fragile about their birth culture. Cultures should serve us humans, not the other way around. Who cares if there is a not- enough Chinese building in China? Let people build whatever architecture they want to worship their skydaddy how they feel like.
The old Chinese style building was there until the end of the Qing Dynasty or whatever
Straight from the top of my dome
Rock rock, rock a rock a rock the microphone
Boomfunk Mosques?
My guess is that some time within the next century or two, robot-constructed buildings are going to become a thing, and then a lot of the apparent permanence of buildings due to the cost of construction is going to go away.
