1/6 My interpretation of the demolition of significant mosques (part or whole) in Xinjiang, based on @shawnwzhang 's gathering of satellite evidence: https://t.co/BekCNCnoj0 @XJscholars— James Millward (@JimMillward) April 24, 2019
Business Insider: Before-and-after photos show how China is destroying historical sites to monitor and intimidate its Muslim minority
* China is waging an unprecedented crackdown on a Muslim minority called the Uighurs, who live in the country's western frontier region, Xinjiang.
* Muslims have for centuries settled in the region, sometimes referred to as East Turkestan.
* As part of its crackdown, which has seen the installation of facial-recognition cameras and seemingly arbitrary detentions, China's government has also destroyed traditional Uighur architecture including mosques and large parts of an ancient city called Kashgar.
* Before-and-after images show the extent of some of the destruction of these historical locations.
China is installing a 21st-century police state in its western frontier of Xinjiang, which is home to the Uighurs, a majority-Muslim ethnic minority.
It involves installing hundreds of thousands of facial recognition cameras, making Uighurs download software on their phones, and holding at least 1 million Muslims in prison-like detention centers.
Beijing is waging this crackdown partly because it sees Uighurs as a national security threat, and has tried to stoke Islamophobia to justify its controversial policies in the region.
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WNU Editor: This story deserves far more coverage than what it has been receiving.
Hat tip to Robert for this link.
2 comments:
How is it that this story does not make news!? Oh yes, it involves China who likes to intimidate people into submission, but stories against any Jews, Christians or US is fair game.
This is the exact same playbook of what China did to Tibet. It destroyed many Buddhist temples and monasteries while keeping, even restoring, a handful of prominent ones in order to present a Potemkin village of how they were improving things for the Tibetans.
Chris
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