China academic defends beer festival in Muslim region

[WorldNews]

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A Chinese Communist party academic defended a government-organised beer festival in a mainly Muslim county ahead of Ramadan by saying that locals enjoy alcohol, state media reported Tuesday. Islam prohibits alcohol but authorities in Niya county in China's troubled Xinjiang region held a beer drinking contest last Monday, three days before the start of Islam's holiest month, with cash prizes of up to $160 for winners, the Global Times said. The county is in southern Xinjiang, the heartland of the Uighur ethnic minority, who are mostly Muslim.

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