A man has been detained for being derogatory toward Muslims for the comments he had made after a video was posted online that allegedly showed Muslim residents vandalizing a local restaurant in Baoding Cheap Men's Nike Air Max 97 Just Do It Black , North China's Hebei Province.
The non-halal restaurant was using chopsticks that had the Chinese characters for halal on them while also serving pork.
Police in Baoding's Baigou township said Sunday that the man, surnamed Chen, 27, will be detained for 15 days and fined 1,000 yuan ($145). He had made derogatory comments that likened Muslims to pigs.
Local officials said in a statement Sunday that the restaurant, Zaizai Music and Barbecue Bar Cheap Women's Nike Air Max 90 Rose Red , was using the "halal" chopsticks and had pork on the menu. The video posted online showed some people attacking the restaurant, and one person throwing a chair at the restaurant's window.
Some netizens posted photos of the chopsticks online and these were maliciously used by some people whose comments hurt the feelings of Muslims and incited conflicts between people from different ethnic groups. The photos and comments have led to aggressive behavior among some residents, the statement said.
The restaurant is non-halal and has been asked to suspend business for rectification. Officials did not say when the restaurant was attacked or if the perpetrators have also been detained.
Xiong Kunxin, a professor of ethnic studies at Beijing's Minzu University of China, pointed out that the incident showed the dangerous pan-halal tendency in China, which has expanded the range of halal products and services over an absurdly wide region. These products include halal water Cheap Women's Nike Air Max 90 Ultra BR Pink , halal roads and halal toilets.
Xiong added that public products and services should not be differentiated in accordance with religion as long as they do not violate Islamic doctrines.
He gave the example of the Anhui University of Science and Technology, which set up shower facilities exclusively for Muslim students in September 2016.
Such extreme cases do nothing but separate different ethnic groups and will lead to more misunderstanding, Xiong noted.
The university later reversed the decision after encountering a flood of criticism online.
TEHRAN, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Iran's top diplomat cautioned on Monday that Tehran and the world powers still have a long way to go before reaching a comprehensive nuclear deal despite progress made in recent nuclear talks.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif describe the talks of the past three days as "serious, helpful and constructive," according to state IRIB TV.
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Zarif said that the next round of nuclear talks between Iranian negotiators and representatives of the P5+1 group, namely the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany Cheap Men's Nike Air Max 90 Essential Black White , will be held on the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Council in the Swiss city of Geneva next week.
Official IRNA news agency, citing a member of Iranian negotiating team, reported that the exact date would be next Monday (March 2).
On Monday, the country's senior negotiator, Abbas Araqchi, told IRIB TV that Iran will quit nuclear talks if the other party aimed to impose their wills on Tehran in the ongoing negotiations.
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The talks should meet the interests of both Iran and the world powers, Araqchi said.
Political pressures and the media hype have not forced Iran to change its position and give up its demands, he said.
It is not something new that they have used media and political space to influence the negotiating table, the Iranian negotiator said, referring to remarks made by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday Cheap Women's Nike Air Max 270 Triple White , who said that Washington was ready to walk away from the talks if Tehran did not agree to the terms proving that it does not want atomic arms.
"We have already experienced this kind of rhetoric from the Americans, and it is regretful that they are repeating the same tone, as they know that it is a failed method," Araqchi was quoted as saying.
Gaps remain in their positions, but all the sides are trying to narrow them down to settle the issues, he said.
"We are determined to continue the talks with strong will unless we feel that the talks are not progressing in the interests of our country Cheap Men's Nike Air Max 270 Flyknit Triple White ," he said.
The scheduled fresh diplomatic efforts are preceded by the bilateral engagements between the United States and Iran that started from Friday, and as well as Sunday talks between representatives from Iran and the P5+1 group, as participating sides strive to narrow remaining gaps for a solution to the decade-long standoff over Tehran's controversial nuclear program.
It has been over a year since Iran and the world powers agreed to come back to the negotiating table for the nuclear problems in 2013. However, wide differences have kept all talking sides from arriving at a final deal.
The negotiators agreed in November 2014 to extend the deadline for another seven months and aimed to reach a political framework deal by the end of March.
by Xinhua writer Yang Shilong
NEW YORK, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Hollywood 3D blockbuster Avatar has recently got a new role -- promoting tourism for a unique national forest park located in Zhangjiajie City in central China's Hunan Province.
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