China is planning to rewrite the Christian and Islamic holy books amid crackdown on the country’s Uighur Muslim minority. ALSO READ: China introduces mandatory face scans for phone usersThe rewritten versions must not contain any content that goes against the beliefs of the Communist Party, according to a top party official. China, for its part, claims the Uighurs is being educated in “vocational training centres” designed to combat Islamic extremism. The Uighurs are a Muslim people, speaking a Turkic language related to that spoken in Turkey. But the Turkish government has since remained silent since on the ongoing oppression of the Chinese minority.

Source: Nigerian Tribune December 28, 2019 08:37 UTC