| Assassination of Juma Tahir | |
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| Location | Id Kah Mosque, Kashgar, China |
| Date | 30 July 2014 6:58 a.m. (China Standard Time) |
| Target | Imam Juma Tahir |
Attack type | Stabbing |
| Deaths | 1 killed (Juma Tahir) |
| Perpetrator | Tuergong Tuerxun, Maimaiti Jiangremutila, and Nuermaimaiti Abidilimiti |
| Juma Tayir | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 居玛·塔伊尔 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 居瑪·塔伊爾 | ||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||
| Uyghur | جۈمە تاھىر | ||||||
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On the early morning of Wednesday, 30 July 2014, Juma Tahir (Uyghur: جۈمە تاھىر, romanized: Jüme Tahir; Chinese: 居玛·塔伊尔), the imam of China's largest mosque, the Id Kah Mosque in northwestern Kashgar, was stabbed to death by three young male Uyghur extremists. Religious leaders across denominations condemned the attack.
Tahir was appointed by the government and supportive of national policies in the region.[1] He had been a voice for peace in the insurgency involving the Uyghurs and the Han Chinese in the region.[citation needed] Since the mid-1990s, the traditional methods for appointing Imams have been replaced by appointments by the state, and assassination of religious leaders have escalated.