660 Chinese workers embrace Islam in KSA to save their contract of Harmain Train Project

Mukhametzhar-haji, an Uighur warden of a mosque, speaks during an interview at the mosque in Almaty July 15, 2009. As clashes between Uighurs and Han Chinese erupted in July in the Xinjiang capital Urumqi - just a days' drive from Almaty - many of Kazakhstan's 300,000 Uighurs found themselves torn between anger and despair for their kinfolk across the border. Picture taken July 15, 2009. To match feature CENTRALASIA-UIGHURS/ REUTERS/Pavel Mikheev (KAZAKHSTAN CONFLICT RELIGION)
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Updated at: 1910 PST, Thursday, September 10, 2009
MAKKAH: Six hundred and sixty Chinese nationals working on the Haramain train construction project have embraced Islam in a ceremony in Makkah.

Abdul Aziz Al-Khudhairi, Makkah Governorate Undersecretary, who witnessed the declaration of the shahada described the event as a “direct response to critics of the government for contracting Chinese company.”

“We received hundreds of letters opposing the signing of a contract with the Chinese company and demanding that Muslims be contracted,” Al-Khudhairi said. “Six hundred and sixty of them have now embraced Islam.

Now those who were calling for them to be dismissed are happy at their embracing Islam.

The numbers will also go up, as this is only the beginning, and represents around ten percent of the 5,000 working on the Haramain train.”

Al-Khudhairi demanded that “our conduct reflect the teachings of our religion and our words should match our deeds to have an effect on people”. “We must also respect human rights,” he added.

Meanwhile, as many as 2,722 people have embraced Islam at the Cooperative Office for Call, Guidance and Awareness of Communities in Al-Taif Governorate.

The Office’s Director General Sheikh Mohammed Bin Ibrahim Al-Sawat pointed out that the office has also distributed during that period 1,247,694 copies of the Holy Qur’an, religious books and pamphlets as well as 225, 901 religious cassettes.