Religion: Moslems Next

Christians have long felt the hard hand of persecution in Communist China; now it may well be the Moslems' turn. Radio Moscow last week attacked Moslem religious leaders as reactionary and fanatical and the Moslem religion as "a remnant of the past." And in China the press admitted that 300 Moslems, angered at their underprivileged status under the Red regime, rioted last week at Wu Lung Tsun, a village near Peking, destroying houses and stocks of grain and rallying later at the local mosque to hear their leader, one Liu Ming Sheng, congratulate them. "We have done well," he was quoted...

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