Dude, even California skateboarders can end up jihadists. That doesn't have anything to do with whether most violence in, say, San Franciso, is a "violent Muslim" issue. I'm sure some Uyghur boys have gotten caught up in the jihad idea, and I'm also pretty sure there are more white Americans, Australians, British, and Canadian jihadis overall than Uyghur.

The point is that the conflicts in Urumchi are not and never have been religious, but rather economical and political. Of course the military suppression of religion (and more accurately, culture) doesn't help, and of course Uyghurs are mad when soldiers come up and rip off women's head scarves in the middle of the street, as they have been doing (you can find home videos of Chinese soldiers boasting about this) since occupation. So of course religion and culture are not complete non-issues, but they're not THE issues. The main issue is plain old human friction which results naturally when you invade a neighboring country and try to force them to be "Chinese," and then take all their stuff and relabel them a "Chinese minority."