Assassination of Juma Tayir

Assassination of Juma Tahir
LocationId Kah Mosque, Kashgar, China
Date30 July 2014 (2014-07-30)
6:58 a.m. (China Standard Time)
TargetImam Juma Tahir
Attack type
Stabbing
Deaths1 killed (Juma Tahir)
PerpetratorTuergong Tuerxun, Maimaiti Jiangremutila, and Nuermaimaiti Abidilimiti
Juma Tayir
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese居玛·塔伊尔
Traditional Chinese居瑪·塔伊爾
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJūmǎ Tǎyīěr
Uyghur name
Uyghurجۈمە تاھىر
Transcriptions
Latin YëziqiJüme Tahir

On the early morning of Wednesday, 30 July 2014, Juma Tahir (Uyghur: جۈمە تاھىر, romanizedJüme 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the Han Chinese in the region.[citation needed] Since the mid-1990s, the traditional methods for appointing Imams have been replaced by appointments by the state, and assassination of religious leaders have escalated.

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