IS Threatens to "Shed Blood Like Rivers" in China

• 03.06.2017, 15:20
•  Asia,  World

The Daily Signal

The Islamic State released a slickly produced propaganda video detailing for the first time "scenes from the life of immigrants from East Turkistan [i.e. Xinjiang] in the land of the Caliphate", the Nation reports.

The video, in which a Uighur militant exclaims that the Islamic State will "shed blood like rivers" to avenge Beijing’s "oppression" of Muslims in the Western region of Xinjiang, provides not only a highly stylized view of Uighur militants’ training with heavy weaponry and snapshots of their daily life in the "caliphate," but is also punctuated by two brutal executions of alleged "informants."

The video demonstrates the intensification of the Islamic State’s threat to China. In 2014, Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi argued that China was on a par with states such as Israel, India, and the United States as an "oppressor" of Muslims.

This was followed by the group’s execution of a Chinese citizen, Fan Jinghui in Iraq in November 2015.