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© Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.China bans list of Islamic names in restive Xinjiang region
By GERRY SHIH BEIJING©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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juminRhee
Not a judgement call, but don't nearly all countries have some sort of regulations on names? A child in Russia couldn't have numbers, for example; another in Finland, I believe, had the name Lucifer rejected (also a religious name). In some other countries, there are even proscribed lists that you can choose only those names.
albaleo
Banning names, veils and domes seems a sign of desperation. It would be better to know why people want to use these things.
elephant200
If someone wants to name their children with first name or last name : "Jihad". A very dangerous act indeed!
Scrote
I imagine Chinese people are still free to name their children after mass murderer Mao Zedong.
lostrune2
Parents can just use different names - one for official documents; another for the name they always use.
For ex: we have a friend Jack - everybody calls him Jack; everybody knows him Jack. But that's not his official name - his official name is hard to pronounce, so nobody uses that.
How is the government gonna stop that? People can call each other whatever they want, irrespective of official documents.