Will Triple Eights in the East lead to Muslim terrorist attack from the West?

From the Xinjiang Uyghur region of China, home of the northern route of the Silk Road there in Urumqi, comes a threat one must have known was surpressed by the Chinese military and police for a long period of time, one that, perhaps once isolated, may soon become global in nature. This terrorist threat presents itself recently in an allout attack which killed 16 policemen and injured 16 more, from witin this Muslim populated land, just days before the Beijing Summer Olympics. It also makes those of us who remember the importance of numbers in these attacks, like 9-11-01 New York and Washington attack, 7-7-05 London attack or the purported 6-6-06 Toronto and Ottawa plot, will these Games become the 8-8-08. Remember as well, Emperor Shenzong, nicknamed the Divine Ancestor for his creation of the modern welfare state, who as the sixth emperor of Song Dynasty, invited Uzbekistani Muslims from Bukhara led by Prince Amir Sayyid to help create a buffer zone between his and the Liao empires, by settling between the Sung capital of Kaifeng and Yenching, what is now modern day Beijing.

Later becoming part of a rapidly expanding governing strategy for the land, Mongols forcibly recruited and relocated hundreds of thousands of Western and Central Asian Muslims immigrants to help them administer their new found empire, academically, socially and economically becoming more superior than natives of the land they had took over, using their strong skill set in engineering and architecture to begin and finish the construction of their Yuan Dynasty capital, Khanbaliq, or present day Beijing, as led by Hui architect Yehdardin and the Han architectural learnings. Eventually, the Qing Dynasty kept the mantra of the Manchu in play, that being divide and conquer, keeping Muslims, Hans, Tsang or Tibetans and Meng or Mongolians fighting one another and remaining in conflict, which eventually led to neverending revolts in Shensi, Gansu and of course Xinjiang only almost a century ago, which continued to be surpressed through acts of genocide or a washing off of the Muslim peoples by the Manchu government. By the beginning of the First Great War, this oppression, then forced unification, led to all three Xibei San Ma Muslim warlords taking over the Chinese provinces of Ningxia, Gansu and Qinghai during the Nationalist Warlord Era for the glory of Muhammad and in the name of Allah, fighting both the Communists and the Japanese.

To ignore the Hui people of the Northwest would be a huge mistake for the Communists of the Northeast, though capitalism since 1978 has softened the Cultural Revolutionary chokehold upon them, traditions have been maintained as recently proved with the attack days ago, the current revival to reorganized their past associations for Islamic culture, to recoordinate interethnic activities among Muslims and need of an upsurge in religious expression has been sadly also encoded with a push within by terriorist organizations to gain support from those without. As freedoms have been hard to come by for them, now would be the right time in their mind to make them pay for the perceived hardships since their internal defeat, if an Islamic nation is to be independently founded in China, Muslims just may use that attack to be its starting point towards its own freedom as their own people, especially as their seems to be no other way out in the Great Big Red. As with Munich, we saw how those Black September gunmen used Olympic athletes to make a point, Beijing could just as easily become a Red August, expanding from not just athletes, but spectators too, held globally hostage for all the world to see.