Central Asia, Xinjiang, Islam

Turmoil in Central Asia - While the international community focuses on the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, it is paying far too little attention to the storm brewing just beyond the country's northern borders, in Central Asia , by Martha Olcott and Johannes Linn - WSJ

Central Asia: Islamic Group on the Rise - Diplomatic Courier

Hizb ut-Tahrir and U.S. allies in Central Asia - Eurasia Daily Monitor

Radical Islam stirs in China's remote west - In a backstreet of the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, Chinese authorities have been spray-painting signs on dusty mud brick walls to warn against what it says is a new enemy -- the Islamic Liberation Party. - Reuters

The reality of China's jihadist threat - The Chinese government is blaming the attack in Kashgar on Islamic terrorists. But there is very little evidence that al-Qaida is backing them , by Jason Burke - Guardian