‘South Korean groups preach in Muslim nations’

China’s official media on Tuesday accused South Korean Christian groups of converting young Chinese and sending them for proselytising in Muslim countries, a day after Pakistan said the two Chinese nationals killed by ISIS were involved in “preaching” in the country.

The state-run Global Times mainly highlighted the comments by Pakistan interior minister Chaudhry Nisar that Lee Zingyang, 24, and Meng Lisi, 26, who were kidnapped from Jinnah town Quetta in the restive Balochistan province on May 24, and killed allegedly by Islamic State militants had entered Pakistan on business visas.

The minister was informed that the two were part of a group of Chinese citizens who obtained business visas from the Pakistani embassy in Beijing and entered Pakistan. But instead of doing business, they had gone to Quetta, where they pretended to learn Urdu from a Korean business owner but “were actually engaged in preaching Forbidden proselytising,” the Global Times reported.

“The tragedy triggered off a new wave of anger against Islamic terrorism among the Chinese public, who have already been victimised by terrorism and extremism in the country’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,” it said.

Global Times accused South Korean Christian groups of converting young Chinese and sending them for proselytising in Muslim countries

The paper said the slain Chinese nationals were engaged in preaching Forbidden proselytising

They were killed by ISIS