Muslims in China´s `Little Mecca´ Fear Eradication of Islam
(WorldNews China)

Linxia: Green-domed mosques still dominate the skyline of China’s “Little Mecca�, but they have undergone a profound change - no longer do boys flit through their stone courtyards en route to classes and prayers. In what locals told AFP they fear is a deliberate move to eradicate Islam, the atheist ruling Communist Party has banned minors under 16 from religious activity or study in Linxia, a deeply Islamic region in western China that had offered a haven of comparative religious freedom for the ethnic Hui Muslims there. China governs Xinjiang, another majority Muslim region in its far west, with an iron fist to weed out what it calls “religious extremism� and...