{"id":7372,"date":"2019-07-31T13:29:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T08:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=7372"},"modified":"2019-07-31T13:29:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T08:29:42","slug":"chinas-capital-orders-arabic-muslim-symbols-taken-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/7372","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s capital orders Arabic, Muslim symbols taken down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in the Chinese capital have ordered halal eating places and meals stalls to take away Arabic script and symbols related to Islam from their indicators, a part of an increasing nationwide effort to \u201cSinicize\u201d its Muslim inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>Employees at 11 restaurants and shops in Beijing selling halal products said that officials had told them to remove images associated with Islam, such as the crescent moon and the word \u201chalal\u201d written in Arabic, from signs.<\/p>\n<p>Government workers from various offices told one manager of a Beijing noodle shop to cover up the \u201chalal\u201d in Arabic on his shop\u2019s sign, and then watched him do it.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign against Arabic script and Islamic images marks a new phase of a drive that has gained momentum since 2016, aimed at ensuring religions conform with mainstream Chinese culture.<\/p>\n<p>China, house to 20 million Muslims, formally ensures freedom of faith, however the authorities has campaigned to carry the devoted into line with Communist Social gathering ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in the Chinese capital have ordered halal eating places and meals stalls to take away Arabic script and symbols related to Islam from their indicators, a part of an increasing nationwide effort to \u201cSinicize\u201d its Muslim inhabitants. Employees at 11 restaurants and shops in Beijing selling halal products said that officials had told them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1380,31,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7375,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372\/revisions\/7375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}