Assassination of Juma Tayir

Juma Tayir
Juma Tayir
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	居玛·塔伊尔
Traditional Chinese	居瑪·塔伊爾
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Jūmǎ Tǎyīěr
Uyghur name
Uyghur	جۈمە تاھىر‎
Latin Yëziqi
Transcriptions
Latin Yëziqi	Jüme Tahir

Assassination of Juma Tahir
Assassination of Juma Tahir
Location	Id Kah Mosque, Kashgar, China
Date	30 July 2014 ; 6:58 a.m. (China Standard Time)
Target	Imam Juma Tahir
Attack type	Stabbing
Deaths	1 killed (Juma Tahir)
Perpetrator	Tuergong Tuerxun, Maimaiti Jiangremutila, and Nuermaimaiti Abidilimiti

On the early morning of Wednesday, 30 July 2014, Juma Tahir (Uyghur: جۈمە تاھىر, romanized: Jüme Tahir; Chinese: 居玛·塔伊尔), the imam of China's largest mosque, the Id Kah Mosque in northwestern Kashgar, was stabbed to death by three young male Uyghur extremists. Religious leaders across denominations condemned the attack.

Tahir was appointed by the government and supportive of national policies in the region.^[1] He had been a voice for peace in the insurgency involving the Uyghurs and the Han Chinese in the region.^{[citation needed]} Since the mid-1990s, the traditional methods for appointing Imams have been replaced by appointments by the state, and assassination of religious leaders have escalated.

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