Last major Arabic-style mosque in China loses its domes

pretty clear actions of a colonial oppressor, imo

Who is colonizing who in this case?
- Chinese people colonising turkic people

It seems weird that the CCP destroyed this Mosque and ran a massacre, apologized for it, paid for it to be rebuilt which was completed in 2009, and then promptly changed it again.

Incidentally, it had to do with who was running the CCP at each time period. Really helps to discredit Xi as some pompous moron compared to Deng who understood the value in giving people rights & liberties and not running the country like a craphole like how Mao did.

Those two are the same place? Looks like it was entirely destroyed and rebuilt as something else, I'm seeing very little similarly between the two.

They basically added a couple of floors to hide the dome. Looks like the spires got shorter though.
- I do really wonder if the dome is still hiding inside there. It looks like it might be big enough and that sounds like it would be the easy solution.

Wait, in ALL of China? Not a single mosque dome?

There's domes everywhere, not really sure what The Guardian is talking about
- Is it the wording? They said "Arabic".
  I don't know anything about building, China, mosques, etc. I'm just saying words.
Complete bullshit. I saw multiple when I was there, and some of the oldest mosques in the world are in China, dating back to at least 800AD
- shh The Guardian had a slow news day ok

Sinicism - something characteristic of or peculiar to the Chinese; a Chinese method, custom, or usage.

Learned a new word today.

I've always had a pretty sinical view about the Chinese.
- This is an amazing pun by means of play on words and phonetics to imply additional meaning. Incredible.
You'll see the prefix "sino-" a lot if you start looking into Chinese geopolitical history.

Jesus turned into a white dude and Mohamed is now Han Chinese.

Not only that but Mary, Jesus' mom is both a virgin, a mom, and white and Mexican! She's not a trinity, she's a forthnity!

Maybe they should work on demolishing some of those ghost cities instead...

There are people there now:
Reporting in a 2018, Shepard revisited a number of the so called "ghost cities" several years his book and noted that, "Today, China’s so-called ghost cities that were so prevalently showcased in 2013 and 2014 are no longer global intrigues. They have filled up to the point of being functioning, normal cities ... "
- Oh, well, if "Justapedia" says so...
  (The fuck is this website?)
- Is this satire? Ghost cities really just started to seriously get reported on in 2018 and subsequently more each following year. Also what the heck even is Justapedia? The opinion piece that the "2018 onwards" section is based on was released in 2018 itself and was proven wrong almost immediately. It's outdated. Frankly, the section doesn't even look like it belongs on the page and is phrased intentionally devious. It's completely wrong.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The last major mosque in China to have retained Arabic-style features has lost its domes and had its minarets radically modified, marking what experts say is the completion of a government campaign to sinicise the country’s Muslim places of worship.

Satellite imagery from 2022 shows the entrance pavilion decorated with a large crescent moon and star made from vivid black tiles.

Ruslan Yusupov, an anthropologist at Cornell University who spent two years in Shadian doing fieldwork, said: “Sinification of these two landmark mosques marks the success of the campaign.

Yusupov said the development of Shadian and Najiaying mosques represented “the ability of Muslims to regain religious and Islamic space after the cultural revolution.

“We just wanted to preserve our last bit of dignity, because except for Shadian and Najiaying, every [mosque] in the country has been remodelled,” said the man, who has since left China and who asked to remain anonymous because of fears for his safety.

Ian Johnson, the author of The Souls of China, a book about religion, said: “Given the tragic history of this mosque – especially that within living memory Han chauvinism already led to its destruction once – the reconstruction and renaming of it is another effort to erase local people’s beliefs and their cultural heritage.”

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This feels like something that would happen in some version of Civilization, the 4X game.

I will never understand people who are so fragile about their birth culture. Cultures should serve us humans, not the other way around. Who cares if there is a not- enough Chinese building in China? Let people build whatever architecture they want to worship their skydaddy how they feel like.

The old Chinese style building was there until the end of the Qing Dynasty or whatever

Straight from the top of my dome
\ Rock rock, rock a rock a rock the microphone

Boomfunk Mosques?

My guess is that some time within the next century or two, robot-constructed buildings are going to become a thing, and then a lot of the apparent permanence of buildings due to the cost of construction is going to go away.

Arnaud Bertrand has different opinions about this. He delves into the dishonesty of this article and why the renovation has been misrepresented.

From the garbage you posted:
https://theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/25/shadian-last-major-islamic-style-mosque-in-china-loses-its-domes
First of all, the timing of the article is fascinating. Just when the West is facilitating yet another large-scale massacre of Muslims civilians they want your attention drawn to China rearranging the architectural features of some mosques to make them look more Chinese... which they present as some sort of evil project.
Yeah, the GUARDIAN of all newspapers wants to distract you from Gaza, that is why the main news on their homepage is:
- You see, there is exactly one person working for newspapers who is in charge of writing articles.
  Whenever they write something criticizing something I am obsessed with, it's the only article posted on a given day and meant to distract the sheeple from some other horrific thing going on at the same time. That's not whataboutism, it's different because I'm doing it.
- From the Scott Trust Limited, owners of the Guardian:
  In 1992, the Trust identified its central objective as being the following:
  "To secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity: as a quality national newspaper without party affiliation; remaining faithful to its liberal tradition; as a profit-seeking enterprise managed in an efficient and cost-effective manner."
  Certainly a liberal, profit-seeking enterprise wouldn’t be biased against a socialist, communist nation… /s
https://inf.news/en/culture/99cd839e359599d0079b82992ff8fe3a.html
They had a Ming-style mosque that was destroyed in a massacre of Muslims during the Cultural Revolution in 1975, they rebuilt a warehouse-looking mosque in 1981, then the Arabic-style mosque was built in 2010.
The Guardian does write the article to make you think it's a historical landmark, and not a Chinese copy of the Eiffel Tower kind of landmark that's being rebuilt to look more like the one the government originally destroyed.
- Thanks for the historical context. I’m tired of being told to hate China, when I know very little of its history, culture and how its current government operates. I’ll make up my own mind.

Why did Biden do this?