So called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous regional government and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous census recently published the book “year of 2008 in Xinjiang”. According to this book East Turkistan has total 23 thousand 900 mosque s, but most of them are very small mosques that only for 50 or 60 people. More than 29 thousand religious personnel and 1800 government trained imams are currently working in those mosques. Although imams and religious staffs had special train from the communist government in order to distort Islam for the benefit of the government, Chinese government still have strict restriction for those mosques. For example, ETIC learned that following people are not allowed to go mosque in East Turkistan:

1. Members of the Chinese Communist Party
2. Students and people under 18
3. Government workers and retired government workers
4. Cadres of the villages and counties
5. Women

According to this information, it is obvious that Chinese government’s atheist ideology mainly target the women and young generation of Uyghurs under 18 to gradually eradicate the Islam from East Turkistan..