|
REPORT ABUSIVE REPLY
|
|
Message Subject
|
Breaking: Interpol Looking at 35 Year-Old Uighur Passenger on MH370
|
|
Poster Handle
|
Anonymous Coward |
|
Post Content
|
Uighur?
Where is he from?
I don't get it, that's a country?
Quoting: Just Some Guy There are two groups of Muslims in China: Hui Muslims and Uighur Muslims. While Hui Muslims enjoy freedom to practice their religion, Muslim Uighurs face strict government repression in far-western Xinjiang province. Bao says while the Hui have happily assimilated with the majority Han, the Uighurs have not.
Part of the problem is language differences. While the Hui and Han both speak Mandarin, the Uighurs speak their own Turkic dialect and write in Arabic script.
Others say the Uighurs strong desire for autonomy explains the difference in treatment.
“Some Uighurs in Xinjiang are extremists and they want to separate from China,” says Bao. “In the case of Ningxia's Hui people, they do not have conflicts with other groups, and they live in harmony with Han and other Chinese people.” [ link to www.aljazeera.com] Yes--Beijing has to be very careful that the anti-Muslim sentiment it is whipping up doesn't spill over onto Hui. Because the Hui might actually choose the Uyghur brothers over the Han brothers, in the end. It's not true that Uyghurs have been trying to separate. They're hurting like anyone else under foreign occupation, but have taken it gracefully and of course the reality is that, just as in Tibet, there's little option. Neither Tibetans nor Uyghurs are predisposed to violent resistance, as six decades of occupation has clearly shown. But after 9/11 and its attendant world mobilization against Muslims, China saw a golden opportunity to snatch more land and resources from Uyghur areas--and to be able to do so by simply inventing a "Uyghur terrorist problem." Note how there were magically no Uyghur terrorists in Urumchi before 9/11. Very convenient new problem. Now Kashgar town is being ethnically cleansed, daily, of the people who actually own the shops; their land and buildings are turned over to investors from China's wealthy east coast.
|
|
|
Please verify you're human:
|
|
|
Reason for reporting:
|
