Although the Trump administration is over, it has set a precedent by declaring China’s treatment of the Uyghur Muslims to be “genocide.” Let’s hope the Biden administration doesn’t cancel this designation. Foreign Policy published an article in December: “In Rare Unanimity, Biden Could Double Down on Trump’s Uighur Sanctions.”
It is peculiar is that there is no collective outcry in Muslim countries over China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims. The focus of those countries continues to be so-called “Islamophobia” in the West. This is the ongoing victimology subterfuge that is intended to beat down critics of Islam and stifle the freedom of speech, which is the cornerstone of any free society. The subjugation of the West remains the ultimate goal of Islamic supremacists everywhere.
“Trump admin. declares China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims ‘genocide,’” by Leah MarieAnn Klett, Christian Post, January 19, 2021:
The United States has officially designated China’s persecution of Muslim minorities in western Xinjiang Province — including mass internment, forced labor, and forced sterilization — as “genocide” and “crimes against humanity.”
“After careful examination of the available facts, I have determined that since at least March 2017, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), under the direction and control of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has committed crimes against humanity against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other members of ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement released Tuesday.
“I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs by the Chinese party-state,” Pompeo said, adding that the CCP — which he described as a “Marxist-Leninist regime that exerts power over the long-suffering Chinese people through brainwashing and brute force” — is “engaged in the forced assimilation and eventual erasure of a vulnerable ethnic and religious minority group.”
Pompeo made the determination just one day before President-elect Joe Biden takes office, making the U.S. the first country to adopt these terms to describe the CCP’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
In his statement, Pompeo called on other countries to follow suit in denouncing China’s actions.
“We will not remain silent. If the Chinese Communist Party is allowed to commit genocide and crimes against humanity against its own people, imagine what it will be emboldened to do to the free world, in the not-so-distant future.”
Johnnie Moore, the president of the Congress of Christian Leaders who also serves on the congressionally mandated U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, called the designation a “fitting, parting shot from an [sic] historic Secretary of State.”….
jirtu says
What a hypocrite! One can fill a small library with books written by scholars which testify Turkey committed genocide against the Armenians–not to mention eyewitness accounts by Germans, Austrians, Arabs, Kurds, and even some Turks. However, the U.S. refuses to recognize the genocide (all the U.S. states do) so as not to displease Turkey. And here Trump decides China has caused genocide of the Uyghurs (ironically, a Turkic people). Tramp doesn’t care less about the Uyghurs. The declaration is intended to hurt China.
Infidel says
One of the rare areas that I disagreed w/ Trump on was on Turkey and Qatar. He should have treated them w/ the same contempt that he treated Iran, and brought the State Department along w/ him
And on Armenia, he should have tried to split Russia and Turkey by getting on Russia’s side
Rob Porter says
Infidel – I will point out the seemingly forgotten reality. Before Beijing turned on the Uyghur Muslims, with considerable frequency these Muslims stabbed and hacked to death on railway stations and bus stops, non-Muslim Chinese. I predicted it was only time before Beijing turned on the Uyghur Muslims. I was right and now don’t exactly shed a tear for them. Meanwhile all over the Muslim world Christians in particular are being savagely persecuted and I don’t see any outcry from the crappy, gutless, selectively outraged Western World.
commonsense says
Amen, Rob Porter. Absolutely.
Infidel says
Rob, I get your point. And I fully understand people when they choose to look the other way on Beijing’s crackdown, if not directly cheer it on. My only point to them is that Beijing has agreements w/ most muslim countries, including its neighbors, to extradite those muslims back to China to be enslaved. As a result, the only countries that they have to flee to are non-muslim countries, and the Uyghurs then have a valid claim that they can’t flee to muslim countries w/o risking extradition back to China.
The ideal solution, as I see it, is to expel the Uyghurs to Kazakhstan, which is a huge country and which has enough real estate to resettle them, and end it there – just like Stalin expelled Crimean Tatars to Uzbekistan. That should be the permanent solution, and then, China can have the entire Xinjiang – including Qashqar, Yarqent and Hotan, and resettle it w/ Han Chinese.
My model country is Burma, which expels the muslims, and then doesn’t care where they go – be it Bangladesh, Mid-East or wherever. So the Rohingyas have moved to Bangladesh, and have been settled on an island there. China should follow this template, and just expel its Uyghur population to Kazakhstan, instead of tweeting about how they’re being good feminists and liberating them by sterilizing them, and earning themselves a Twitter ban.
Boycott Turkey says
True this is just political all because Trump doesn’t like China the Armenian Genocide is well documented there where eyewitness photos of starving children and mass graves yet Trump didn’t want to recognise the Armenian Genocide and they call this a genocide all because they don’t like China dispite there being not enough proof I don’t see photos of dead uighurs in mass graves just that there are a million uirghurs detained in camps which is wrong unless they did something wrong like commit terrorism I think this is exgergerated to call it a Genocide I not seen enough proof that it’s a genocide the UN have not declared it a genocide because there’s no mass graves
gravenimage says
Well, there was this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/06/trump-white-house-finally-if-unintentionally-invokes-armenian-genocide/
But yes–President Trump *should* have forcefully condemned the Armenian Genocide.
Boycott Turkey says
Thanks for the link Gravenimage i remeber I read a similar article to this and Trump was angry that it was invoked it’s the people in his government that where invoking it Trump himself didn’t want to and was worried about relations with Turkey it’s a shame As i remeber Trump seemed concerned about Christians being persecuted but did nothing no sanctions no condemnation he didn’t even mention Agia Sophia
roberto says
Agree.
Rob Porter says
Boycott Turkey – The Uyghur Muslims did commit terror against non-Muslims, which is why Beijing eventually turned on them. So, to a large extent my attitude is one of ‘to tell with with the Uyghur Muslims’!
Boycott Turkey says
Rob Porter yes i remeber when that happened it was on the news a few years ago when a uighar hacked a Chinese police man to death if the Uighur s had the upper hand over the Chinese they would do worse I feel that trumps decision is more to do with the trade war and corona virus
terry sullivan says
dont forget greek genocide
and turkeys ongoing invasion of northern cyprus–which eu and un tolerate
turkey should not be in nato or un or uk or europe–president is aiming for war
Boycott Turkey says
True Terry Sullivan turkeys brutal invasion of Cyprus in 1974 was ignored I am Cypriot and nothing was done to stop Turkey the Greek Genocides are not recognised the UN is pathetic
Steven Grigsby says
Excuse me but they are Muslims that would kill us all and yet you defend them. What it the point of Jihad Watch when it defends Muslims that would kill us????
jirtu says
Steven, Erdogan’s ambition is to link up with the Uyghurs (through the Central Asian stans) as he weaves the Pan-Turkic Empire with him, I presume, as Sultan. He has built underground “bridges” with the Uyghurs and many Uyghurs are now in Turkey getting indoctrinated in Erdogan’s dream. Now that there is talk Pakistan might assist Turkey get the nuclear bomb, China must be in a tizzy since Pakistan is close friend of China while Pakistan’s buddy Turkey is plotting against China.
Infidel says
Yeah, Turkey has created a group called the Turkic council, that has Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: most recently, Uzbekistan joined after the death of Karimov, while Turkmenistan has declined. However, on the Uyghurs, Turkey has been pro-Beijing, deporting Uyghurs who fled to Turkey to intermediate countries like Tajikistan, who in turn deport them to China to be enslaved again
The most ironic thing about the Uyghur situation is that almost no muslim country supports them against Beijing: in Asia, every muslim country is a part of China’s belt/road scam, and has extradition agreements similar to Turkey’s. But if there ever was an Uyghurstan/’East-Turkistan’, those Uyghurs might cold-shoulder the rest of the ummah for one generation. Just look at Bangladesh, whose people are now pretty much anti-India, or Kuwait, whose population has forgotten that had it not been for us, they’d be Iraq’s 19th province. Don’t be surprised if one day Bosnia and Kosovo turn as well, and similarly, if Xinjiang ever becomes an independent Uyghuristan, that country may be nominally secular for one generation, before discovering its islamic identity and becoming another Afghanistan
jirtu says
Agreed.
commonsense says
Good post, Infidel.
Infidel says
Steven, one thing about the Uyghur situation that makes it different: China tries to get back the Uyghurs who manage to flee so that they can enslave them. Normally, the logical course would be for Uyghurs to take refuge in Kyrgyzstan or Kazakhstan, which are similar neighboring countries w/ a common history and similar culture, and assimilate there. However, China has agreements w/ most muslim countries to have them deported, which is why Uyghurs seek out non-muslim countries to flee to. That’s why it’s worth supporting them against China, so that at least that escape route ain’t cut off, and the West isn’t forced to accept Uyghur refugees
It’s different from, say, Burma, which after it kicks out muslims, doesn’t care where they go. So those refugees can settle in Bangladesh, and other countries like in Europe or the US don’t have to worry about them
11B40 says
Greetings:
As goes the progressive wont, “genocide” seem to, like the size of the fish the man says broke his reel, be growing, encompassing more and more by its mis-usage. Just because there’s an identifiable “geno” doesn’t make the “cide” applicable. I haven’t come across anything like a body-count in my readings.
So why not an “internment” (you know, like that Japanese-American thing) or is a Samantha Power “crisis” creation thingy going on hear ???
jirtu says
What’s reprehensible is that despite tons of proof, Turkey denies committing genocide. It also sits on 90 percent of Armenia (now called Eastern Turkey). The Republic of Armenia is 10 per cent of historic Armenia. In recent months, Turkey has threatened to take over the remaining 10 per cent. I guess the only reason he hasn’t tried is because it would not please Putin. Turks talk with pride about the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in the early ’20 under dictator Ataturk. They don’t mention that the country was rescued from bankruptcy through the confiscation of Armenian property–from lands to businesses to houses to family carpets and jewelry. Several of the top Turkish financial empires are rooted in Armenian businesses Turkey confiscated and sold to these Turkish carpetbaggers.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden, when he really becomes President, he will just mindlessly just continue in the same old terribly flawed fool and terrible policies of his former boss and chief, Obama, favoring that tyrannical cruel and hostile Islamic regime of Iran.
Biden and Harris are future disasters just waiting to occur.
Westman says
Well, its over, Biden is the President. As predicted, the considerable waste of money for inaugural security was for a nothingburger. The planners never understood that once the electoral vote was over, Trump’s voters, always being true patriots, would not appear in the streets and likely not even watch the parade of the Masked Marvels.
Now President Biden can enjoy the street antics of Antifa and BLM.
Pray Hard says
The “security” was nothing but contrived leftist drama.
gravenimage says
Completely agree, Pray Hard. This was just kabuki theater.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
I actually had to look up the term “kabuki theater”
“The term kabuki has now entered the political lexicon. It is used to describe theatrical behaviour designed to get maximum media attention.”
100% spot on.
https://www.englishlanguagefaqs.com/2016/02/what-is-kabuki-theatre-how-is-this-term.html
Infidel says
That’s precisely what I did. This morning, I woke up early at 7:00, and watched Newsmax for Trump’s farewell ceremony. Once they started switching to the inauguration at 10:30, I turned it off and went back to sleep
Hope the Hollywood stars had a fun time entertaining the 200k flags that will probably get burned by BLM or Antifa at the next nationwide riots, whenever they occur
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
I, too, could not watch the US Presidential inauguration of Joe Biden that was the result of a fraudulently conducted election…
Walter Sieruk says
Most likely Donald Trump is the best American President that this country will ever have in the twenty –first century.
By contrast, president pretender Biden will be a catastrophe and calamity for America and a disaster and tragedy for the American people.
b.a. freeman says
since somewhere between 25 million and 40 million ethnic chinese died in the Great Leap Forward in the early years of the PRC, one could almost say that the CCP is actually being beneficent to the ethnically foreign uighurs, because it isn’t killing them outright. instead, the chinese strategy is actually quite rational (not to mention relatively harmless from the perspective of the CCP), given the aims of mainstream islam. those uighurs who toe the line will raise non-muslim fascists, and those who do not will not be allowed to raise new members of the ummah (their younger children are put up for adoption by eastern chinese). in either case, the Party enjoys an easing of an ominous threat to its existence by a competing criminal organization (the ummah).
yes, what the Party is doing is reprehensible, and it is probably genocide, but if they stick with their strategy, they’ll be one of very few nations with a large muslim minority that will *not* continue to suffer internal attacks from the ummah.
Walter Sieruk says
This,, sadly, being last full day of President Trump as the Chief executive of the United States of American which means the every next day Joe Biden will have his official inauguration ceremony of his presidency of the USA .
Those two events seen together ,especially the latter of the two events , may be wisely seen as a tragic omen of a coming calamity and disaster for America.
tim gallagher says
The Muslims in China get most of the attention as being severely persecuted in China, but I occasionally hear also that Christians and members of Falun Gong(?) are being persecuted. I was wondering if all three are being persecuted to the same degree. The regime in China is, without doubt, a disgusting regime and is a threat and a bully to all the countries out here in the Pacific region, including Australia, where I live. But I do wonder if it is only the Muslims who get almost all the attention in the media when it comes to the persecution in China. I just heard on the news that one of Biden’s first executive orders (I think that was the term used) would be to end the ban on Muslims from certain countries entering the USA. From my point of view, that is a dumb move, but I suppose most of their agenda will not be the sort of things that I would agree with.
somehistory says
As you say, the moslims in china get most of the attention. I have read though, that Christians are being forced to repeat the chinese propaganda in their churches as opposed to preaching the Gospel…they are being made to replace God with the chinese government.. and that other, very strict measures are being enforced against them. Christians in china are being persecuted; their situation just doesn’t get covered.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for that information, somehistory. Nothing surprises me about that evil regime that is running things in China. They’d crush anyone that stepped even slightly out of line. I am an enemy of Islam, but it does seem as though this Chinese regime’s treatment of the Muslims is pretty appalling, but I believe that the Muslims, in their usual way, did carry out some terrorist attacks in China, and the totally repressive, thuggish Chinese regime won’t put up with anyone stepping out of line. I believe your average Joe Blow in China would be treated like crap. Step out of line in even the slightest way and you’ve had it. The Muslims do seem to get nearly all the attention, at least here in Australia, when persecution by the Chinese regime is mentioned. The media don’t seem to be as bothered about the Christians being persecuted, but that is typical of most of the media. For Australia, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand China is a really big worry.
gravenimage says
Good exchange.
Boycott Turkey says
Why isn’t the ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Artaksh declared a Genocide? Thousands died and forced from there ancient homeland By Azerbaijan and Turkey. How many Uighur Muslims have been massacred ? Are there mass graves of Uighur Muslims ? Why are uighar Muslims suffering more important to Trump then Armenians and Pakistani Christians ?
jirtu says
Boycott Turkey, nobody condemned the ethnic cleansing of Armenians by Azerbaijan and Turkey late last year because Azerbaijan has oil and gas and Turkey is a NATO country. For the same reason, nobody criticizes Ilham Aliev, the long-time and inherited dictator of Azerbaijan.
Infidel says
The reason nobody condemns them is that the Azeris are muslim. Incidentally, the Arabs were thinking about condemning the Turks and Azeris, since they have their own rift w/ Turkey, but I dunno whether they ultimately got down to it
Boycott Turkey says
Jirtu I find it very infuriating the hypocrisy Genocide is not a joke you can’t just turn a blind eye to evil Turkey and Azerbaijans Genocide of Armenians and ignore it just because of Oil gas and NATO and then cry Genocide where there’s no proper proof of genocide just because China pissed you of I’m not defending China it seems to me Genocide is only recognised for Muslims by the West when Muslims Genocide Christians or Hindus its let’s just go back to sleep
jirtu says
While a number of 20th century genocides are well documented, some states use genocide for propaganda purposes. Thus, Muslims and Mister Trump claim China is committing a genocide of Uighurs, although there’s absolutely no proof. They are being mistreated but they are not victims of genocide. If tomorrow the U.S. and China become friendly, you will not hear the word genocide in relation to the Uighurs. Another “genocide” propaganda gimmick: During the Nagorno-Karabakh War nearly thirty years ago, a number of Azeri civilians were killed by Armenians during a night battle. The circumstances are unclear and each side blames the other. However, the Azeris decided–for propaganda purposes–to label the killings genocide ignoring that the word means race killing with the intention of eliminating that race–as it happened to Jews by the Nazis and to the Armenians by the Turks. The initial Azeri death count began to grow by the day. It started with 150 and rose to 600 a few days later. I don’t know what it is now. Azerbaijan began calling the killings genocide, erected monuments, produced stamps and posters and movies–all fictional constructs. Muslims automatically and merrily accepted that the killings are genocide. Thus, the word has lost some of its weight. It’s like the incidents when someone kills two people in a bar and the newspapers call it massacre. The inflation of language to impress, to mislead.
Westman says
“It is peculiar is that there is no collective outcry in Muslim countries over China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims.”
Yes, we have noticed that the various strains of Islam, contrary to their boasts of a united Islamic brotherhood, bathe in schadenfreude when another strain of Islam is suffering. If all the unbelievers were ejected from the earth, the religious factions of Islam would war with each other.
Pray Hard says
Just a way to spit in China’s face. I doubt that DT knows anything about weegurs.
Infidel says
That’s a worthy exercise in its own right
Clifford Fodor says
It’s a crazy world, and it getting worse. We should have nothing to do with Communist Red China. They are stealing our jobs, our factories, and our latest technology. They want to take us over or simply kill us. We shouldn’t care at all about the Muslims. They are at war with us. They are not a peaceful religion. They want to take us over and put us under sharia law or simply kill us. Why aren’t we doing something about the Christians who are being killed by the Muslims in Nigeria?
terry sullivan says
uk is–its still funding nigeria via foreign aid and money transfers and giving sanctuary to nigerian criminals but not to nigerian christians
ps no chines moslems wanted in uk–but boris wants 4.5 million chinese in uk–they wont be all from h-k–most will be chinese sleepers and crims?