Chinese Han ‘jihadist’ fights along with Syrian rebels
1 April 2013 6:31 AM IST
A Chinese national of the majority Han ethnic community has turned Jihadi militants and joined the ranks of the Islamic militants to fight against the Bashar regime in Syria, according to a media report on Sunday.
Bo Wang, who calls himself Yusuf after his conversion to Islam was filmed firing his Kalashnikov rifle in YouTube video, the New York Times reported.
He told the person filming him that after reading the works of Sayyid Qutb, the modern Islamist theorist, he had gone to study in Libya and witnessed the revolution there. Then he travelled to Syria to help overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad, which he said ‘is butchering every Muslim here in cold blood, including children and women’, the report said.
He spoke in Putonghua (a Chinese language). He called himself Yusuf, but a subtitle in English on a YouTube said his Chinese name was Bo Wang. On the surface, he appeared to be an extremely rare example of an ethnic Han Chinese joining a jihadist group in the Arab world, the Times said.
The video first got the attention of some Chinese last week, when it was posted on YouTube and then on Youku, a popular site.
Bo Wang, who calls himself Yusuf after his conversion to Islam was filmed firing his Kalashnikov rifle in YouTube video, the New York Times reported.
He told the person filming him that after reading the works of Sayyid Qutb, the modern Islamist theorist, he had gone to study in Libya and witnessed the revolution there. Then he travelled to Syria to help overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad, which he said ‘is butchering every Muslim here in cold blood, including children and women’, the report said.
He spoke in Putonghua (a Chinese language). He called himself Yusuf, but a subtitle in English on a YouTube said his Chinese name was Bo Wang. On the surface, he appeared to be an extremely rare example of an ethnic Han Chinese joining a jihadist group in the Arab world, the Times said.
The video first got the attention of some Chinese last week, when it was posted on YouTube and then on Youku, a popular site.
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