{"id":956,"date":"2014-11-01T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=956"},"modified":"2014-11-01T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T12:45:00","slug":"al-qaeda-declares-war-on-china-too-the-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=956","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda Declares War on China, Too | The Diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2014\/10\/al-qaeda-declares-war-on-china-too\/\">Al-Qaeda Declares War on China, Too | The Diplomat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">Al-Qaeda central appears to have joined the Islamic State in calling for jihad against China over its alleged occupation of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">This week, al-Sahab media organization, al-Qaeda\u2019s propaganda arm, released\u00a0<a style=\"color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B7-iVRya8BbQUFYxaXVrc3Z3YU0\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">the first issue<\/a>\u00a0of its new English-language magazine\u00a0<em>Resurgence<\/em>. The magazine has a strong focus on the Asia-Pacific in general, with feature articles on both India and Bangladesh, as well as others on Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">However, the first issue also contains an article entitled \u201c10 Facts About East Turkistan,\u201d which refers to the name given to Xinjiang by those who favor independence from China. The ten facts seek to cast Xinjiang as a longtime independent state that has only recently been brutally colonized by Han Chinese, who are determined to obliterate its Islamic heritage.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Qaeda Declares War on China, Too | The Diplomat. Al-Qaeda central appears to have joined the Islamic State in calling for jihad against China over its alleged occupation of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This week, al-Sahab media organization, al-Qaeda\u2019s propaganda arm, released\u00a0the first issue\u00a0of its new English-language magazine\u00a0Resurgence. The magazine has a strong focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,130,447,456],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-al-qaeda","tag-china","tag-islamic-state","tag-jihad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}