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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday April 29 2017, @05:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the where-to-draw-the-line dept.

Officials in Xinjiang will deny benefits to children with certain Islamic or Islam-related names:

Many couples fret over choosing the perfect name for their newborn, but for Muslims in western China that decision has now become even more fraught: pick the wrong name and your child will be denied education and government benefits.

Officials in the western region of Xinjiang, home to roughly half of China's 23 million Muslims, have released a list of banned baby names amid an ongoing crackdown on religion, according to a report by US-funded Radio Free Asia.

Names such as Islam, Quran, Saddam and Mecca, as well as references to the star and crescent moon symbol, are all unacceptable to the ruling Communist party and children with those names will be denied household registration, a crucial document that grants access to social services, healthcare and education.

Muhammad, Jihad, Medina, Mujahid, Arafat, Imam, Hajj, and Yultuzay are also banned.

Also at NYT. Reuters story about other restrictions that went into effect on April 1st.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @08:07PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @08:07PM (#501652)

    For fucks sake, Mohammed himself is carved into the building of the supreme court.

    So? The song of the Marine Corps speaks about "from the shores of Tripoli", referring to the victorious battles, brought about by self-defense, over the Islamic Barbary Pirates' bases in said country.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @09:03PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @09:03PM (#501669)

    And the US military has turned the honorific "haji" into a synonym for "sand nigger."
    What they sing about is a lot less representative of the country than the supreme court.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @09:55PM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @09:55PM (#501683)

      What [the Marine Corps] sing about is a lot less representative of the country than the supreme court.

      Is this the same Supreme Court that claimed that black-skinned people aren't human? [wikipedia.org]

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @11:34PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @11:34PM (#501720)

        Its the same supreme court that overturned the dred scott ruling.
        Your tea is so weak, its tasteless.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @05:04AM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @05:04AM (#501794)

          the same supreme court that overturned the dred scott ruling.

          [citation needed]

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @11:41AM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @11:41AM (#501825)

            Don't be dense.
            There have been many rulings affirming the 1866 civil rights act that was passed in order to nullify the dred scott decision.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @02:13PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 30 2017, @02:13PM (#501857)

              How many more years do you expect it'll take for Mohummad's image to be "overturned" from public buildings as a figurehead of an ideology that calls for a global war of conquest?