Hui uneasy as China ’Sinicises’ religion

Unafraid: Cui dons a kopiah in his home in Jinan, where government policies towards Muslims have been alleged to abuse Islamic traditions. — AP

JINAN: Cui Haoxin is too young to remember the days of his people’s oppression under Mao Zedong.

The 39-year-old poet was born after the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76, when the Hui – China’s second-largest Muslim ethnic group – were among the masses tormented by the Red Guard.