This Business Insider articles attributes the Muslim world’s silence about the Chinese government’s brutally repressive tactics toward the Uighur Muslims to economic interests. It may also be because the Muslim countries understand and respect strength and even brutality and injustice, while despising the weakness of Western states that are so afraid of charges of “Islamophobia” that they will sacrifice thousands of their nation’s girls to avoid the charge. “Islamophobia” charges and demands for special accommodation only work when one’s target is weak, ignorant, and easily intimidated. This is not to say that all of China’s actions against the Uighurs can be justified; the Communist Chinese government doesn’t feel restrained by the principles of human rights that all states should accept.
“Why the Muslim world isn’t saying anything about China’s repression and ‘cultural cleansing’ of its downtrodden Muslim minority,” by Alexandra Ma, Business Insider, August 27, 2018:
China’s crackdown on its Uighur citizens, a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority group, has faced heavy international scrutiny in recent months.
In August the United Nations said it was “deeply concerned” by reports that China had forced as many as 1 million Uighurs into internment camps in Xinjiang, western China. In April, the US State Department said it had heard of Uighurs who had “disappeared” or were unexpectedly detained.
Meanwhile, Muslim countries have been deafeningly silent.
Over the past year alone, activists have found evidence of Chinese authorities tracking Uighurs’ cellphone activity and forcing them to cut off their beards and dresses. Others say China has demanded the Uighur diaspora hand over personal information— and threatened their families if they do not.
Chinese officials have denied the camps exist, though have acknowledged a program of “resettlement” for people it refers to as extremists. Business Insider has contacted the Chinese government for further comment.
It’s not as if Muslim countries haven’t spoken out about human rights in the past. As Myanmar’s military ramped up its violence against Rohingya Muslims late last year, citizens in Jordan and Iran staged multiple protests in solidarity with the Rohingya.
Saudi Arabia’s mission to the UN also condemned the situation online.
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, an international consortium which calls itself “the collective voice of the Muslim world,” also pledged this May to set up a “proper investigation” into the Rohingya crisis.
So why hasn’t anyone said anything about China’s Uighur issue?
Many Muslim-majority countries aren’t speaking out because they don’t want to jeopardize their economic relationships in China, experts say.
Several states in Central Asia and the Middle East are part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a massive project launched in 2013 linking 78 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania through a network of railroads, shipping lanes, and other infrastructure projects.
Many of these deals entail China giving hefty loans to economies with a bad credit rating, which countries such as Pakistan are already finding difficult to repay. And it appears that these economic partnerships are stopping these countries from speaking out about Xinjiang.
Simone van Nieuwenhuizen, a Chinese politics researcher at University of Technology Sydney, told Business Insider: “Like most states, many Muslim-majority countries have increasingly close economic relations with China.
“There is a general consensus that speaking out about the situation in Xinjiang might jeopardize the development of economic ties, and it is therefore not in their interests to do so.”…
Krishna says
the closest ideology to islam is none other than communism as both have zero tolerance towards other faiths and only way radical Muslims can taste Islam’s intolerance and hostility towards other faith is by living in communist countries like china
Susan B says
The closest ideology to islam is nazism.
Susan B says
The closest ideology to islam is nazism.
Krishna says
no nazis were racially hostile but commies and islamist are extremly intolerant when it comes to faith
christianblood says
Krishna
Nazism is a hate and supremacism based on supposed racial purity!
Islamism is a hate and supremacism based a supposed religious purity! Communism was the state enforcing its utopian socialist ideals on societies by force even to point of mass-murder and mass-incarceration!
christianblood says
Krishna
With its superiority complex, the closest ideology to islam is Nazism.
Islamists believe their religious supremacism over the rest of humanity and others should either convert to islam, pay jizya or die! Similarly, Nazis believe in their fanatical racial, supremacist fascism and they thought the rest of humanity, the luckiest ones should be their slaves and be worked to death and all the “lower” races should all die!
gravenimage says
Fascism, Communism, and Islam are *all* totalitarian creeds.
christianblood says
gravenimage
(…Fascism, Communism, and Islam are *all* totalitarian creeds…)
And so is the Liberal Capitalist Imperialism spearheaded by the USA!
In fact, no country has invaded and bombed smaller countries and killed more civilians since 1945 than USA! These horrible invasions and bombings were all covertly done in the guise of spreading “democracy” and “human rights”. Just see the list below to understand what I am talking about:
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/US/Bombing_campaigns_since_1945
gravenimage says
One of the things christianblood hates is our having faced down Fascism. Does he *really* the think the world would have been better with Hitler?
J D S says
All of this racist, islamaphobia carp that Muslims are using is a big part of their strategy to take over the Wes and force Islam upon it.
My favorite: There are no planes roaring overhead dropping bombs on our cities. No grind of tank tracks in our streets. No stomp of marching boots in our streets. Citizens aren’t being dragged from their homes and shot or imprisoned…yet we are silently bring taken over by an ideology that is repugnant to our very easy of life and…THE WESTERN WORLD STANDS STILL !
Rarely says
The World, and Canada in particular, eagerly awaits words of wisdom from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that will contain a strong rebuke designed to put China in it’s place and Canada’s economy in the sewer. The earth quakes and holds it’s breath.
kabooooooooooooooooom says
Don’t count on wisdom from Trudeau; the part-time Drama instructor even has trouble following English-language package instructions on how to make Chinese Fried Rice.
Rarely says
Sarcasm.
BTW Trudeau is far more English than French. I believe that of his great grandparents, only his paternal one was French Canadian, not that it matters. In any event he is 100% bi-lingual.
JAT 349 says
(shiny pony) Tuedeau is 100% stupid.
alex smythe says
It’s probable that his biological father was a Cuban, Fidel Castro, and not Pierre Trudeau. He looks more similar to Fidel than Pierre, if you’ve seen teh side-by-side comparisons of all three of them.
Warble Gloaming says
Rice?
He followed the instruction that says “Turn into a dish and fluff up with a fork”.
gravenimage says
Now *that* is funny.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Stocks rally as US and Mexico reach deal to replace NAFTA”
https://www.rt.com/business/436972-nasdaq-rally-nafta-deal/
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/27/president-trump-announces-united-states-mexico-trade-agreement/
This underlines Trudeau’s incompetence. Trump repeatedly offered Canada a unilateral deal because he understood that our two economies are intertwined. But Trudeau, always the virtue-signaler didn’t want to cut Mexico out. Look Mexico was okay with cutting Canada out.
Renate says
Well, then! If the Muslims world-wide aren’t saying anything about the Chinese crackdown on the Uighurs, there’s the West’s blueprint for how to handle Muslims. Muslims are not carrying out terrorism in China. What China is doing, is working.
mgoldberg says
They sure have… go back over the last ten yrs and see the lists of slaughters there, in China. Same as everywhere else. The marxists understand order and tyranny.They are experts and they have no tolerance for the homicidism of Islam. However Islam has been there for centuries and were separate in many ways but chinese in many ways. Until the late 20th century, of course. Now… the Jihad is all the rage in Islam and this is what they’ve got.
Avenger says
Renate,
The Chinese government is responding to continued terrorist attacks on non muslim Chinese. The Uighur are as vile and murderous as any Sunni Muslim in the Philippines, Pakistan, Syria, Turkey, etc. They usually kill the nonbelievers with knives instead of bombs or firearms.
China will deal with these fanatics using force, the West would give them more social welfare and psychological evaluations.
Renate says
Instead of all this murder and mayhem in the West, we should follow the Chinese example and use force if Muslims respect force. (No more “Mr. Nice Guy” in the West.)
Clearly, Muslims want us all to return to the 7th century. We should send a strong signal that they can if they want to, but they’re not going to take us with them.
gravenimage says
mgoldberg and Avenger are right–there have been many Jihad terror attacks in China, like the terrible Kunming attack:
“Knife-wielding attackers kill 29, injure 130 at China train station”
https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/01/world/asia/china-railway-attack/index.html
There have been many others.
elee says
As I understand it Uighur fighters are much prized in ISIS for their ferocity, probably meaning in plain English their willingness to kill main and enslave kafirs, combatant or otherwise. As I understand things, Chechens from Russia have the same reputation.
One can accuse the Chinese of many things but I don’t think stupidity is one of them. How can China be hurt by exporting lots of pissed-off Uighur zealots to ISIS & its like? Why it’s enough to make you think they read that modern Muslim classic “The Management of Savagery”!
livingengine says
Rebiya Kadeer, Uyghur leader in exile, orchestrates uprisings in China from America.
“While the protests that preceded the July 2009 riots were ostensibly a response to the death of two Uighur workers in Guangdong, the Chinese government catapulted Kadeer into the limelight when it claimed the WUC, which she heads, had planned the riots.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebiya_Kadeer#July_2009_riots
Kepha says
I doubt Rebiya Kadeer has much influence on any of the Sharki Turkistan separatist movements operating in Xinjiang. There are groups on the ground there, and probably supporters finding ways to hide out in neighboring countries, despite China’s diplomatic influence with Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan.
The Chinese government will very happily smear anyone of any ethnicity or creed who encourages dissent. That goes for Han people who call for political reform or who have become Christians as well as Uighur Muslims.
As for the deaths of Uighur workers in Guangdong, workplace safety in China has been in the toilet for everyone.
gravenimage says
Muslim countries silent about China’s repression of Uighur Muslims
………………….
They probably realize that playing the victim is not apt to cut any ice with China.
The Istanbulian says
The muslim world is also quite silent on the plight of palestinians in arab countries, Kurds, Darfurians, and loads of other muslims getting shafted in the islamic world.
Jews will go in and get their kin; muslims slaughter their brethren.
gravenimage says
True. I am a Gentile, but I was involved in a small way in the efforts to save the Jewish “Falasha” in Ethiopia and the “Refuseniks” in the Soviet Union.
Ren says
Western countries should take China as an example to repress the muslims.
Enten says
China seems to know who their enemies are.
Schrödinger says
Several years ago, the back-to-life Islamic State Caliph al Baghdadi proclaimed no nation oppresses its Muslim population more than the Chinese. This may be correct, although China’s side kick Nth Korea ought be worthy of an honourable mention.
Scarcely a day passes without our enemedia aiding and abetting the UN’s (read the OIC’s) latest manoeuvrings in seeking to condemn Myanmar’s “persecution” of “its Rohingya Muslims”. There’s now a concerted effort underway to prosecute a long list of key figures for the crime of genocide, with Aung San Suu Kyi especially singled out for admonition though not yet quite added to the list. By contrast, although recent murmurings emanated from the enemedia about China’s internment of about a million Uighur for the purpose of “reeducation”, this seems to have been quietly dropped; lately I’ve seen no more than a ticker tape mentioning China’s denial of the accusation.
Meanwhile China’s Communist Party has issued a revised set of regulations concerning CCP members behaviour, threatening punishment for “spreading political rumours” and stating those who “cling to religious beliefs” will be expelled from the Party — which is officially atheist. I have very little to say about China that’s favourable, and fully support Trump’s efforts to impose tariffs and curb some of their outrageous behaviour, including cybercrime and massive theft of intellectual property etc. However when it comes to dealing with the Muslim world, Western nations have much to learn and borrow from China’s lead if they’re to survive.
eduardo odraude says
The Chinese government is an authoritarian dictatorship engaged in many of the crimes that dictatorships generally do because they can operate in the dark, having no independent press to expose evil. But many of the Chinese people are of course wonderful. It is a tragedy that the Chinese people have no choice for now but to live under such a government. Perhaps one day it will liberalize and become a democracy. What a tremendous difference that would make for the whole world in so many ways.
Goutam says
Muslims understand and possibly respect the raw application of physical force. The Chinese have understood this and hence subjecting the Uighur jihadis to their proper medicine.
The democratic world has a completely incorrect assessment of Islam: that Muslims, like most of humanity, possess the core values of love, compassion, gratitude, mercy, empathy etc. and can be won over by endless supply of these behavioural traits. The democratic world fails to understand that Islam is not a religion or culture, but an out and out war doctrine for perpetuity. When we are at war, we don’t spare the weaklings, we don’t show any mercy and we don’t respect the softer sides of human mind. At war, every action is based on hard facts related to the pure physical strength of your enemies and yourself.
Therefore, until the democratic world understands and acknowledges the true nature of Islam, they will not be able to solve the Islamic riddle. The jihadis will continue to play havoc in democratic countries irrespective of the amount of appeasement offered. Being the eternal warriors of an eternal war doctrine, the jihadis only accept one principle: the ruthless application of raw physical force. And that’s what communist China is offering them plentiful.
eduardo odraude says
People determined to adhere to the totalitarian jihadist example of Muhammad cannot be won over by love or compassion, only by submission to Islam. But sometimes love and facts and reason can cause an individual Muslim to abandon Islam.
tim gallagher says
Our western way of life provides a very pleasant lifestyle with a good level of personal freedom about how we choose to live our lives, good level of human rights, etc. It is a far more pleasant life than the far more controlled life most people live in China. However, our mellow western way of life can’t cope well at all with the enemy ideology, islam. Muslims will try to swamp our countries and take over. China’s tougher attitude is surely a better way of coping with the enemy Muslims. Burma also, throwing out its Muslim troublemakers, is displaying a better way of dealing with Muslims than the western countries. Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland, all no doubt being criticised for their tough attitude towards Muslims, are also displaying a better way of dealing with Islam by shutting Muslims out of their counties. As good as our mellow western way of life is, when not dealing with a clear enemy such as Muslims are, it is pretty hopeless at coping with the issue of Islam. Our nations have to toughen up a lot to deal with Islam. We need to keep Muslims out and deport as many of the Muslim enemy as possible. Anything else will end up creating terrible problems for all our countries. Islam is the opposite of our way of life and is at war with us, so we have to act in a very tough way to win this war, much like China acts. To my mind, it’s them or us, when it comes to Islam. Islam is totally incompatible. We need to win and being nice and mellow won’t achieve what needs to be done. Muslims definitely exploit the softness and decency (and gullibility, such as people believing “Islam is peaceful”, etc) of western nations.
eduardo odraude says
The Muslim world knows that the Chinese government is a dictatorship and cannot be moved by petition and complaint except with great efforts, and perhaps not even then. The Muslim world complaining to the Chinese government about human rights would be the pot calling the kettle black anyway.
The strange thing is whole societies putting their own eyes out. That is what societies that forbid freedom of speech are doing. Self-blinding. Such societies are also crippling their own limbs when they reject individual freedom. And if you insist that freedom is essential, the authoritarians who disagree will insist the opposite, which means they insist on wearing blindfolds and having their arms and legs tied up.
ibrahim itace muhammed says
Most of such alleged repression of Muslims in China are being exaggerated by evil United States when it realised that muslim nations are shifting to China for mutual beneficial economic relations instead of suffocating tie with armed robber treacherous evil United States. Such empty Propaganda will not work. China is amending it’s harsh treatment of Muslim Ughurs.wicked armed robber crusaders!!
gravenimage says
Look–it’s a Muslim who doesn’t care if China is repressing Muslims so long as they are backing Mohammedan regimes.
But when have Muslims *ever* cared about anyone’s human rights?
Mano says
China and Burma are doing good job in persucuting these islamic scum. Unlike the west.
Look for eg in Greece, illegal muslums blocking a major greek highway and attacking cars
https://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/08/27/angry-migrants-blockade-main-greek-highway-video/
Carolyne says
There was a poster on a forum to which I used to participate named “Bob.” Bob was really funny and an excellent poster. I am stealing the following from him:
“Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?”
Well, we know where we are going and some of our leaders seem to want us to stay in this “Handbasket.”
jewdog says
This indifference shows the utter hypocrisy of all the human rights talk when it comes to the “Palestinians”.
The priority is jihad, which is also why women and children are used as human shields.
Obbop says
Western countries are gentle with barbarians and observe the results. A strong country that places its self-interests first knows there is but one way to handle barbarians that will happily and gladly enslave or kill you and rape your daughters and wives. The West should emulate China. Barbarians respect only strength.
Morticiaa says
Rather than killing them
They are trying to de program them
Islam is an extreme cult
They are on the right track
They live next to Afghanistan and Pakistan
And two other Islamicmic Stan countries
Where most of the people are into backward
Islamic theocratic societies
Bravo to the Chinese for their efforts to humanize
These primitive cults
infidel says
As much as I detest the Chinese for their vile Commie ideo, THEIR WAY OF DEALING WITH THESE RASCALS is the CORRECT WAY..
SuchindranathAiyerS says
The opportunity to bait China blows wind into the sails of the US-NATO opinion and decision makers dependent on Sunni Petro Dollars for living beyond their means. A Classic “In-Off”
yohanan says
Next day 28 Aug, The Atlantic had article on China’s suppression of Uighars that China internalizes it as upon a medical contagion analogy.
Sigal Samuel. “China Is Treating Islam Like a Mental Illness”. The Atlantic. Aug. 28, 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/china-pathologizing-uighur-muslims-mental-illness/568525/