Didnt realize this thread was from 2017 when i still cared.
It's funny because China wants to be a Benevolent Dictator state, but does not have the technology or the culture to do it - yeah yeah they are putting cameras everywhere and they have the Social Credit Score thingie but they are still awash with corruption and incompetence.
Frankly i am bigly on the fence when it comes to religious rights; because, well, you all already have religious rights. There is literally no way to get inside your head and stop you from being convinced that the invisible man in the sky doesn't exist.
What china is afraid of is organized religion; by organized i mean capable of being a political adversary to the government. And i'm kinda cool with that. Again, when the government is authoritarian, corrupt and incompetent, there's no way that whatever ideology they have will have good results, but their heart is in the right place, so to speak.
Now, here Mr ChatGPT is obviously trawling for any post where they can spread pro-Islam propaganda, which goes to show how everyone is playing the same game, as much as they can. Frankly my distrust for Islam is .. not too far off from my distrust of ANY religion, just like i don't like propaganda from any group, regardless of what cultural image they sell. Example? I don't like Israel massacring Palestinians; i don't like Israel in general trying to manipulate everyone, but i wouldn't want unrestricted Palestinian immigration either - i only just barely like myself, and at most tolerate those who are really, really similar in culture to ME, much less someone who is of a completely different culture, that actually believes in religion, and that religion isn't even mine.