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Stopping Beijing 2022 Olympic Games: It Is Not Impossible
What looked like a Quixotic movement doomed to failure is now gaining momentum internationally.
by Marco Respinti
The 2022 Winter Olympic Games should be moved away from China, if the Chinese regime does not prove that it has taken serious steps to improve its abysmal human rights record. This is the call insistently heard from important groups and individuals worried by the state of religious freedom and human rights in the land of Red Dragon.The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), one of the major organizations of the Uyghur diaspora, based in Munich, Germany, has taken the lead in this field. Last month, WUC formally addressed to Mr. Ban Ki Moon, formerly Secretary General of the United Nations and from mid-September 2017 Chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s Ethics Commission, a letter “raising its grievance in relation to the failure of the Ethics Office to follow the Rules of Procedure Governing Cases of Possible Breach of Ethical Principles” in the case of China.
FROM THE WORLD
Converts to Islam Still Discriminated in Cuba
The regime likes to advertise the religious freedom enjoyed by foreign Muslim students. Cuban converts tell a different story.by Alessandro Amicarelli
Cuban media consistently denounce Islamophobia in the United States and Europe, and claim that Islam is welcome in the island. Indeed, there have been some improvements in recent years, that observers connect with Cuba’s international relations with countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia, which advocate for the rights of local Muslims. Students from Muslim countries were never harassed for quietly practicing their religion, but the situation was different for Cuban converts. In 2015, a scholar reported that Cuba was home to 10,000 Muslims, of which 3,000 were native Cubans who had found in Islam an alternative to the Marxist atheistic education they had received.
The first Muslim convert, Pedro Lazo Torres, joined Islam in 1991 and took the name of Yahya. In 2002, Yahya founded the Islamic League of Cuba, Life was not easy for the converts, which were often prevented by the police from praying in public, until the League was officially recognized in 2007. In 2015, a small mosque was inaugurated in Calle Officios in Havana.
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