SinoIndusFriendship
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China has NOT been good to them all these years.
The Uighur culture has been slowly exterminated since 1949. Their population went from being 96% of Xinjiang population to less than 45% today. Uighur youth, including young unmarried women, are forced -- literally FORCED -- to leave their homes and go work thousands of miles away in factories on the east coast. Their farms in Xinjiang are being taken over, their homes destroyed and they are not allowed to practise Islam. These are not terrorists. They are simple peasants who practise a very moderate form of Islam -- influenced by Sufism, Buddhism and earlier traditions.
Almost all the oil and gas wealth of Xinjiang has gone to immigrant Han population, while the indigenous Uighurs continue to live in poverty. The central Chinese government has some token programs to supposedly improve Uighur life, but there is so much racism amongst Han Chinese towards the Uighurs that they are effectively
trapped in the lowest social circles.
I like China's friendship with the muslim world, but China is doing it not because they like muslims but for it's own self interests. There is nothing wrong with that. Everybody works for their own self-interest and it is good that Chinese interests coincide with muslim interests so often.
I know many muslims want to ignore the Uighur situation because it is inconvenient to talk about it, but in this case China is doing the wrong thing. The Chinese government is so heavy handed they won't even let an old Uighur woman, Rabiya Kadeer, show a movie of her life and give a talk in Australia. Why is the Chinese government so afraid to let an old woman talk?
Friend, please refrain from IGNORANT and RACIST comments! Do you know NO ONE forces people to work in the East Coast? Do you know they don't have the 1-child policy cap??? Do you know their population is EXPLODING -- Rebiya gave birth to 11 CHILDREN!!! Do you know anything about CHINA???
My Gawd! Get a grip, get your facts straight! No one is being 'exterminated'. Have you been to China? If you have you would know Uyghirs migrate all over China. And they are the IMMIGRANT who INTERMARRIED with the local Chinese. This only happened about a thousand years ago when Islam was being spread to China ---> THAT'S WHY THERE'S SO MUCH CHINESE WHO ARE MUSLIM TILL THIS DAY.
In fact Islam DISPLACED the original BUDDHISM in Central Asia. Do you know during the last several hundred years it was the ISLAMIC TURKS THAT COMMITTED GENOCIDE AGAINST THE LOCAL NATIVE INHABITANTS (thus their relative numbers grew)???
It has been, and is today the Muslims killing the natives. Northern Africa has been overrun by Arabs. The conflicts and genocide is spreading in Nigeria by Islamacists. Get a grip, it is the Fundamental Islamists that is killing off the native population in SE Asia and Africa!
Tolerance helps, but only if ALL PARTIES are tolerant. But before you can be tolerant, get your facts straight!