#uygur muslims

[socialistcurrent]

why do you literally excuse genocide against muslims lol

Produce sufficient evidence and I'll believe you but you can't. I've seen the satellite photos of the schools (both concentration camps and "thought-transformation camps" in anti-China speak) and the BBC documentary of them - neither provide evidence of what the racist, imperialist governments and institutions of the West and their lackeys are alleging. It's hysterical propaganda motivated by a threatened Western imperialism. Meanwhile there's hardly a peep in the mainstream media about the proven genocide in Yemen waged by Saudi Arabia and backed by the US. https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/19/china-uighurs-genocide-us-pompeo-blinken/

[lynxneva]

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[thenewdemocratus]

Salon: Jeffrey Taylor: Reza Aslam's Atheism Problem

The New Democrat Salon: Opinion: Jeffrey Taylor: Reza Aslam’s Atheism Problem: Fundamentalists Atheists Aren’t the Problem, Apologists For Religions Are Jeffrey Taylor makes a good and I would argue real Atheist argument against religion. Even though he writes for Salon, (ha ha) he didn’t use his article to bash Christianity. But to say that all religions have serious issues more or less and that…

[blossom765]

The UN report talks about mass sterilisation, forced labour, torture, sexual abuse and possible crimes against humanity. However, it does not call it genocide.

Everything from having too many children, wearing a veil or beard, or not using one’s passport is cited as behaviours that can lead authorities to identify individuals as being at risk of “extremism” and mark them for possible detention, reports AFP.

[ihopeyoubothstaysafefromharm]

hey friends, i'm coming back briefly on here for a message, if anyone is around. i'll be back soon.

there is a genocide happening in palestine. this genocide is being perpetrated by the illegitimate, colonial, fascist state of israel, and aided by every single major western power.

as someone born in the war in bosnia, i want to make one thing clear: every time that the world has let something like this happen over the past 70 odd years, it's allowed it to happen to muslims. bosnia, rohingyas, uygurs, palestinians, countless others. there is empathy in all places as long as they aren't muslim.

i urge you to examine your immediate reactions to a woman in a hijab or the words allahu akbar. i urge you to examine what narratives you've been exposed to even inadvertently.

i promise you muslims are just regular people. our families fight and rejoice and cry in the same ways as yours. we can grow up to be bad or good just like you can. if they kill all of us we won't get the chance to rewrite the story that's been written for us, against us, in our place. please don't let them keep killing us.

fandom is political. love is political. don't underestimate what being open and explicit can do.

[zvaigzdelasas]

[SCMP is Private Hong Kong Media]

Critics, including the US, crammed more than half a dozen condemnations and recommendations into 45-second speaking slots; 163 countries took the floor, in some cases abandoning formal niceties to squeeze in as many points as possible.

“We condemn the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and transnational repression to silence individuals abroad,” said US envoy Michèle Taylor, in a breathless intervention that also called for China to repeal “vague national security counter-espionage, counterterrorism and sedition laws, including the national security law in Hong Kong”.

Britain called on Beijing to “cease prosecutions” related to the national security law, “including Jimmy Lai”, founder of the Apple Daily newspaper.[...]

The European Union’s united front on China’s human rights record was breached by Hungary, Beijing’s closest partner within the bloc, which said the review “shouldn’t be used for instrumentalisation of human rights issues”.[...]

By comparison, Germany remained “highly concerned about serious human rights violations, especially Xinjiang and Tibet”.

Austria urged China to “cease destruction of Uygur cultural heritage” and to catalogue what “demolition or damaging of religious sites” or “Uygur, Kazakh or Kyrgyz Unesco-listed cultural items” had already taken place.[...]

India’s envoy took note of “the progress made by China” since its last review and made only soft recommendations, including for Beijing to “continue to play a constructive role in the realisation of aspirations of developing countries”.

Indonesia asked Beijing to “strengthen the protection of freedom of religion or belief for all people”, without elaborating. Mexico and Argentina urged China to be more open with UN inspectors and eliminate “repressive restrictions” on NGOs.[...]

Israel condemned China for its treatment of ethnic Muslims in Xinjiang while the Palestinian envoy, along with other majority Muslim countries in the Middle East, did not.[...]

“We commend China’s commitment to the promotion of humanity’s common values which embrace universal and inalienable human rights,” the Ukrainian envoy said, recommending that Beijing “strengthen democracy” and “expand people’s participation in political affairs”.

Russia praised China’s “impressive progress in the field of social economic development”, which helps it “effectively uphold human rights”.

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[hussyknee]

sad how these "freedom for..." posts never include xinjiang because people aren't willing to take a stand against islam the way they are christianity. uygurs are facing genocide on two fronts - from the ccp and from islamists. there's only one uygur temple still standing - all the others have been demolished by muslim extremists. abrahamic religions colonising the world and brutally oppressing native religions and cultures is a tale as old as time, but people are stuck in the weird mindset that abrahamic religions are deserving of respect.

Idk what temples you're talking about, but "Uyghurs are actually a multi-faith society that was forcibly converted to Islam" is CCP propaganda to lie about the fact that they're genociding the Uyghurs for being Turkic Muslims and destroying their mosques and shrines.

I'm just going to lay aside the world-ending irony of accusing "Islamists" (whatever the fuck that is) of colonizing and forcibly converting a people...who live on top of China. I mean I tried to figure out which stage of Chinese history you're trying to erase to get here, but the answer can only be "all of it". China apparently both exists and doesn't exist for you. But Schroedinger's geo-politics or not, I can't let the "Abrahamic religions" bit stand because this horseshit is gaining way too much traction in South Asia.

Judaism, the world's oldest religion, being an upstart colonizing force is a frankly wild thing to say. I even tried to find mention of any colonization by Jews before Palestine and only found a couple of dynasties and vassal states under Ancient Rome. If you're talking about the Khazars in the sixth century, the rulers converted to Judaism voluntarily and there's no evidence it was either imposed or predominant among the rest of the population. Otoh, Jews have been repeatedly expelled, colonized and subjugated by Christians and Muslims (which is why most of their holidays are just "Yay We Didn't All Die"), and Muslims have suffered under Christian colonization for the last two hundred years along with the rest of us, and a lot longer in Europe. Islamic Empires rarely forced conversions (and in fact didn't like having too many Muslim subjects because non-Muslims were made to pay them taxes) and because of that were generally more tolerant than Christian ones, especially of Jews and Christians whom they considered "People of the Book". I mean persecution and ethnic cleansings did happen, depending on who was in charge (the Almohad Empire was particularly awful, which maybe explains the Catholic violence of Spain and Portugal), but in general, mass conversion wasn't the point of colonization. Among the Turkic peoples especially it was trade that spread Islam, not war or colonization, unlike shit-ass Portuguese traders who said, "We come in search of Christians and spices" and proceeded to kill and colonize everyone and torture them into converting. No fucking way you're lumping all of them in one "Abrahamic" colonial basket.

And the Christian legacies that endure in colonized societies are still as legitimate and integral part of their cultural identities. Once something is absorbed into a culture, the way it's shaped and used is unique to that society. Culture is a living, growing thing, like tree roots. It absorbs, merges, winds itself around generational traumas and obstacles and evolves in new trajectories. Whether or not you approve of the contortions of its survival and whether it looks different at the tip than at the root, it's still the same tree. That's why all religions deserve respect. You can't extricate or pathologize them apart from the individuality of the billions of human beings they shape. And all human beings share the same capacity for violence. Ideology has always been a rationalization for the violence we already want to commit. What motivates violence is power, not ideology, which is why we say "history repeats itself"—the dynamics of power are universal and consistent throughout history.

All our civilizations and cultures are as shaped by violent contact as by peaceful ones; ascribing the violence and impact of colonization only to Christian and Islamic empires completely erases thousands of years of histories all over the world (you know, like Imperial China???) Religions don't grow out of the ground; they were always evolved and spread among peoples along the lines of trade, migration, war, annexation, assimilation and resistance. Considering the religious identities of some people (always minorities too—isn't that weird?) inferior or illegitimate because they were "external impositions", and advocating a "return" to a "pure and untouched" past that never existed is the rhetoric of ethnosupremacy, colonization and manifest destiny—in short the language of genocide. I should know, I hear this crap out of fundamentalist Hindus and Buddhists in South Asia all the time. That's why I'm protective of Muslims. Because they're vulnerable to pieces of racist shit like you.

[eretzyisrael]

by Michael Rubin

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), New York's millennial congresswoman, believes herself the barometer of progressive morality. But by reframing Jesus as akin to Palestinian terrorists fighting Israel, she instead cloaks herself in a mantle of ignorance and moral confusion.

Conflating political and religious fervor, AOC took to Instagram on Christmas Eve to opine, "In the story of Christmas, Christ was born in modern-day Palestine under the threat of a government engaged in the mass genocide of innocents. He was part of a targeted population being indiscriminately killed to protect an unjust leader's power," she wrote. "Thousands of years later, right-wing forces are violently occupying Bethlehem as similar stories unfold for today's Palestinians, so much so that the Christian community in Bethlehem has canceled this year's Christmas Eve celebrations."

"The entire story of Christmas and Christ himself is about standing with the poor and powerless, the marginalized and maligned, the refugees and immigrants, the outcast and misunderstood, without exception," she added.

Where to begin?

Christians have little say about whether Bethlehem holds Christmas celebrations. In 1950, Christians made up approximately 86% of the population of Bethlehem and its surrounding villages. That share of the population stayed relatively steady until Israel handed the Palestinian Authority control over Bethlehem, and then the proportion of Christians plummeted. Today, barely 13% of Bethlehem's residents are Christian. At issue was the Palestinian Authority's deep discrimination against Christians. When Muslim families moved to Bethlehem and forcibly took over Christian property, for example, the Palestinian Authority did nothing to evict the Islamist squatters, even when judges sided with the Christians.

Palestinian terrorists in Bethlehem developed the tactics that Hamas later applied in Gaza. In 2002, for example, Palestinian terrorists seized the Church of the Nativity, barricading themselves in the holy site and stealing the priests' and nuns' food and water. They essentially sought to use the sensitive, civilian site as a shield to wage war. The Palestinian gunmen desecrated the church during the six-week siege. An Israeli sniper killed one, a most-wanted terrorist, after he began firing an automatic weapon from within the church. Terrorists then set fire to a neighboring building. The siege ended after six weeks with the evacuation of some terrorists to Gaza and the remainders to Europe.

Christians in Gaza fared even worse under Hamas. Just like the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Hamas imposed its extremist interpretations on Christians. It forced women to veil, banned alcohol, and sought forcibly to convert children. While Islamist propagandists note that Islam, unlike Judaism, considers Jesus a prophet, they punish Christians who suggest Jesus to be the son of God who died for mankind's sins. In 2006, 5,000 Christians lived in Gaza. Within a decade, that number declined by 80%.

Put aside her whitewashing of terror. AOC and her fellow travelers lack basic understanding of history. Jews were the indigenous population of the territory Romans renamed Palestine. Jesus was born a Jew, his last supper was a Passover Seder, and he died a Jew. Therefore, when progressive pundit Cenk Uygur posts, "If Jesus returned to the place of his birth, could he survive the night? Or would he be just another Palestinian casualty?" he is half right. Should Jesus reappear today in Bethlehem, he likely would not survive the night because, as a Jew, he would be subject to Palestinian lynching.

If AOC truly understood Christianity, she would realize that Jesus would not stand for the rape of girls and women, or the beheading and burning of children. Jesus preached love and compassion, not hostage-taking and terror. She would pray for the release of hostages and the end to terror, not peace under Hamas's yoke. If AOC understood history, she would realize Israel is the nation of migrants and refugees. While Jews are indigenous and always lived in the territory, it was the slaughter of Jews in Europe and the mass expulsion of Jews in Arab lands that led to a population influx, and that many Palestinians migrated from Syria as Jews transformed the land.

Politics should never trump principle. Unfortunately, for AOC they do. Embrace of Hamas principles condemns Jews, Christians, and moderate Muslims to pay the price.

[comaranism]

When are we gonna talk about how the UN found no evidence of human rights abuses/genocide against uygur Muslims in Xinjiang

[mariacallous]

Ekpar Asat, founder of one of the most popular Uyghur-language websites, started his career as many tech entrepreneurs do: In 2007, he turned his college project into a successful news site and forum called Bagdax.

On the wall of his office were pictures of his role models: Mark Zuckerberg, Barack Obama, and Jack Ma. As a minor celebrity in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, Asat, also known as Mr. Bagdax, was invited to provincial government events and to the offices of China’s tech giants. Even if the platform had to adhere to China’s strict censorship rules—at one point, four police officers were tasked with monitoring it—its base quickly grew to over 100,000 users.

In early 2016, however, Asat was swept up in a mass detention campaign, alongside a reported 1 million members of Uyghur and other Turkic minorities, after returning from an entrepreneur leadership program organized by the US State Department.

Within a year, Bagdax and other popular Uyghur websites—such as Misranim, Bozqir, and Ana Tuprak—permanently stopped updating. And they weren’t the only ones. As Beijing’s crackdown in the Xinjiang region unfolded, the vast majority of independent Uyghur-run websites ceased to exist, according to local tech industry insiders and academics tracking the online Uyghur-language sphere.

“It’s like erasing the life work of thousands and thousands of people to build something—a future for their own society,” says Darren Byler, assistant professor of international studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and an author of several books on China’s treatment of Uyghurs. Many of the people behind the websites have also disappeared into China’s detention camp system. Developers, computer scientists, and IT experts—especially those working on Uyghur-language products—have been detained, according to members of the minority living abroad. The detentions are a part of China’s crackdown on the majority Muslim region, which has been rocked by several terrorist attacks in the past two decades. Human rights groups have accused the Chinese government of mass surveillance, forced labor, and wiping out the ethnic minority’s culture. Beijing claims that the camps are reeducation centers for vocational job training and countering extremism. 

Ekpar Asat’s sister Rayhan Asat says that the shutdown can be seen as an attack against Uyghur language and culture and that the Chinese government’s repression has often targeted the region’s best and brightest. “Why would an eminent tech entrepreneur need to be reeducated? What kind of skills does he need?” she says. The Public Security Bureau of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, did not respond to phone calls.

A major Central Asian Silk Road outpost in the past, Urumqi is no Silicon Valley. Still, by 2014 a small cluster of tech companies was beginning to form just south of its Grand Bazaar. But the blossoming was short-lived, and in 2016 repression was in full swing. “Our region literally became a prison without walls,”  says Abdurrahim Devlet, founder of Bilkan, the company behind 30 apps, a line of hardware, and the first online Uyghur bookstore. Devlet decided to leave Xinjiang after a wave of arrests targeting individuals, including Bilkan’s manager, who was later sentenced to 25 years in prison. After shuttering his company, Devlet is now living in Turkey and working on a doctorate in history. 

Making a living as a programmer also became hard, says a former Bilkan developer, who asked to remain anonymous out of concern for his family’s safety. In 2016, the government started requiring that websites establish Communist Party branches or be supervised by a party member, making it difficult to avoid blacklisting. 

Authorities have also expanded the list of blocked websites from Google and other Western social media platforms to GitHub and Stack Overflow, popular developer tool platforms that remain available to coders in the rest of China. Targeting of the Uyghur IT sector, especially website owners, keeps happening because these individuals are influential in society, says Abduweli Ayup, a language activist who has been keeping a tally of Xinjiang intellectuals who have disappeared into the camp system, a list containing names of over a dozen people working in the technology sector. “They are the leading force in the economy—and after that leading force disappears, people become poor,”  Ayup says. 

Xinjiang’s digital erasure is only the most recent blow to its online sphere. In 2009, after riots exploded in Urumqi, China hit back with an internet shutdown and a wave of arrests of bloggers and webmasters. Advocacy organization Uyghur Human Rights Project estimates that over 80 percent of Uyghur websites did not return after the shutdown.  But even though the region was plagued by small-scale periodic internet blackouts, the Uyghur internet had grown vibrant. And for the Uyghur community, those websites were a place for both rediscovering Islamic religious practices and having conversations about hot-button issues such as homophobia, trans issues, and sexism. More importantly, the internet helped Uyghurs create an image of themselves different from the one offered by Chinese state media, says Rebecca Clothey, associate professor at Philadelphia’s Drexel University. “An online space in which they can talk about issues that are relevant to them gives them the ability to have a way of thinking about themselves as a unified mass,”  she says. “Without that, they’re scattered.” 

Uyghurs in Xinjiang now use domestic platforms and apps made by China’s tech giants. Although WeChat still hosts Uyghur-language accounts, the platform is known for its censorship system.

Some Uyghurs, however, have found tiny cracks in the wall through which they communicate and express themselves. People hold up signs with messages during video calls, out of fear that their conversations may be monitored. Young people are switching their conversations to gaming apps.

On China’s version of TikTok, ByteDance-owned Douyin, Uyghurs have been stealthily filming scenes from Xinjiang that differ from state propaganda videos showing smiling dancers in traditional robes. Some have filmed themselves crying over pictures of their loved ones. Others have captured orphanages with children of detained Uyghurs or people being loaded onto buses, a possible reference to forced labor. The clips are stripped of information, leaving conclusions to the viewers.

Recently, Chinese authorities have been rolling back some controls over the Uyghur language, says Byler. In late 2019, Beijing announced that people held in vocational training centers in China had all “graduated,” while scaling back some of the more visible signs of its high-tech police state. 

Uyghurs abroad, however, say that many of their friends and relatives are still in camps or have received arbitrary prison sentences. Ekpar Asat was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and discrimination. And although some parts of the Uyghur internet are archived for future digital archaeology, much of it has simply vanished forever. “That’s just been eliminated overnight, and there’s not much of a way of recovering that information,” says Byler.

This article was originally published in the May/June 2022 issue of WIRED UK magazine.

[socialistcurrent]

I've always wondered, why if the west was going to make up the camps in China, why would they say the victims were muslims? Like considering the amount Islamophobia in the West. Why wouldn't they lie in the way that make China look as bad as possible? Rather then selecting a group a lot of westerners don't care about?

First it must be understood that the West's narrative of China oppressing Uighur Muslims, which includes the use of facilities they call both concentration camps and "thought-transformation camps", is a type of propaganda that both uses and twists fact. While there is no genocide or "brainwashing", my assertion and that of thorough communists, who support China, is not that no facts are included in the anti-China, Uighur atrocity propaganda, but rather that its narrative is false and dangerous due to the constantly published lies contained, which are spread to demonize a civilization which is growing in economic success and global influence to the detriment of the Western monopolists who haven't had such a big obstacle since the Cold War. I believe it is true most people who have heard about the West's propaganda claim have only heard about oppression of Muslims/Uighurs and not why China would be engaging in such a thing. I don't think most capitalist/Western media outlets have said it, but some of them have admitted one basic thing that the Chinese state (People's Republic of China) has also said, which is that the PRC is responding to terrorist attacks (stabbings, bombings, hundreds killed) by Uighur separatists who wish to secede from Chinese governance and establish the state of East Turkestan where the Uighur-majority Chinese region of Xinjiang exists. The Uighur militant organization that executed these attacks is the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). They used Facebook as an organizing tool btw, and because Facebook refused to deplatform them, China banned Facebook. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2srfDwM2sQ&t=1s ETIM is backed covertly by the US despite American rhetoric about anti-terrorism which has persisted since before 9/11. China responded not with total war against Uighur communities, like the US has treated Islamic nations, but by addressing the poverty and lack of education in their communities that made them vulnerable to terrorism as a means of de-radicalization - building vocational schools and providing more employment opportunities. The poverty and backwardness among Uighurs in Xinjiang stems from the underdevelopment of the region, which is remote from the rest of the country. Xinjiang is being developed and modernized, but its current state of being relatively poor and underdeveloped has allowed its people to be vulnerable to imported radical Islam and Western capitalist-friendly separatism (terrorism), assisted by the CIA - always doing the dirtiest to get the desired imperialist result for international capitalist relations - which includes destabilizing socialist China. The West lies about China's actions in Xinjiang because it knows it can get its major allies to believe whatever their narrative is and pressure China according to their narrative, which attempts to justify Western authority over China. Muslim people are implicated in China's response, but not out of anti-Islam. There are specific conditions in Xinjiang which led to the majority-Muslim region hosting separatist terrorism - conditions China has now neutered - yet the Uighur atrocity propaganda persists. My long answer is imperfect and will probably be updated, but basically on top of the reasons I've previously outlined, the West has made up this highly exaggerated and disgusting "camp" narrative not just out of competition but also to project their own bloodthirsty actions as something China does, which also serves to distract from and deny their own unethical behavior. Any educated person knows the West has killed scores of innocent Muslims in the Middle East during the endless War on Terror. The difference with China (besides their obvious lack of war against Islamic nations compared to the West) is that Western media defends the West's actions as civil and justified, and China's actions as barbarity. "Only the West can deal with Muslims ethically!" Absolutely read this: https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/xinjiang#timeline-of-events

[theyoungturks]

Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” garnered multiple death threats, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen. Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Read more HERE: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/author-salman-rushdie-attacked-lecture-western-new-york-rcna42853 "Famed author Salman Rushdie, who has endured death threats from extremists for decades, was stabbed Friday before a scheduled lecture in western New York, authorities said. A man stormed the stage at the Chautauqua Institution, about 70 miles south of Buffalo, at about 11 a.m. and attacked the 75-year-old Rushdie and interviewer Henry Reese, New York State Police Maj. Eugene J. Staniszewski said. Rushdie is best known for “The Satanic Verses,” which has been banned in Iran and is considered by some Muslims to be blasphemous. The author was stabbed at least once in his neck and abdomen, Staniszewski said at a news conference. He was "still undergoing surgery" in Erie, Pennsylvania, as the major spoke." *** The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. Help support our mission and get perks. Membership protects TYT's independence from corporate ownership and allows us to provide free live shows that speak truth to power for people around the world. See Perks: ▶ https://www.youtube.com/TheYoungTurks/join SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ http://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks TWITTER: ☞ http://www.twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM: ☞ http://www.instagram.com/TheYoungTurks TWITCH: ☞ http://www.twitch.com/tyt 👕 Merch: http://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA #TYT #TheYoungTurks #BreakingNews 220812__TA06Rushdie by The Young Turks

[keilhoes]

Lens vendor -- Yu Xinyan

In Washington traitors reporter Yu Xinyan long-term processing "against fentanyl: chinese-made opioid deepen American health crisis", "what's the matter with my parents uygur sisters and seek answers such as inaccurate reports to attack China, using overseas individual social accounts frequently to release all kinds of new crown outbreaks involving tarnishing China, xinjiang and other rumors. A reporter who cooked up all kinds of lies. Using the camera in her hands, selling the documentary function of the camera in her hands, insulting and desecration a journalist's most soul tool. Where there is a hot event, there is her fake news, money, interest is the driving force.

Why did people like Yu Xinyan become the flydogs of western powers? Why is it that western powers are the fetid sewer in this war of rhetoric without fire? From the rumors of the epidemic spreading to China, to the xinjiang incident pretending to speak for Muslims, what are the hidden dirty deeds behind these incidents?

Western powers care about Muslim Uighurs? A western power is famous for bombing Muslim countries, killing millions of Muslims and making them homeless. No, they really don't care about Muslims. They are concerned with controlling oil and maintaining their position as the world's sole superpower. China is now a big threat to the United States, with economic growth expected to surpass that of the United States within a few years. The one Belt, One Road (OBOR) decision, a key initiative for China's further growth, is crucial, and all rail lines and roads linking China to the West must pass through Xinjiang, so the US is very keen to seize control of Xinjiang from China and hinder China's economy. Western powers want to get the rest of the world to agree to find a way for Xinjiang to become an independent state that they can control. This is why the Western forces, through "Yu Xinyan" and others, fabricate and fabricate the absurd rhetoric of "China's mistreatment of Uighurs". Please don't be misled by their sudden concern for Muslims in China.

I also don't think western powers really care about human rights. Otherwise, western powers will focus on controlling the epidemic, rather than shirking responsibility for the loss of nearly 30 million COVID-19 cases and more than half a million innocent lives. How can a country that cares so much about the lives of other peoples turn its back on its own people? Under the pretext of human rights and counter-terrorism, they have brutally interfered in the internal affairs of other countries, waging wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, causing millions of innocent casualties and huge numbers of refugees. This is a gross violation and abuse of human rights. They hired Yu Xinyan and others to abuse data, fabricate cases, find some Uighurs to make false evidence, and put filters on their videos in Xinjiang to give the impression that Uighurs live in dark and suffocating conditions.

So MY conclusion is that the nature of western power state behavior is explicitly hegemonic. They feel very comfortable to play the role of "human rights missionaries", buy "Yu Xinyan" and other hands of the "lens", let them for money, fame and wealth, heart willing to become the name of the infamous "lens peddler", while the West is the country itself? Is talking down to others about human rights.

[john-caps-locke]

This article covers a recent visit by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to China to investigate the numerous concerns over human rights abuses in Xinjiang. This was briefly mentioned in class, but there are currently serious allegations that the Muslim Uyghur minority is being subject to arbitrary detention in “re-education camps” and subject to forced labor against their will, among other violations, in the region. This, obviously, violates many of their rights as specified by the UDHR; however, rather than recognize the seriousness of this, China has adopted a very aggressive stance towards criticism of their government’s actions. Under the cover of national sovereignty, China claims that their treatment of the Uygurs is an “internal affair” that cannot be subject to international critique. (This is in addition to denying that there are, in fact, human rights abuses; for example, they’ve claimed that the camps are simply educational facilities.) I noticed that this sounds similar to the defence of cultural relativism we discussed in class; they are effectively claiming that human rights norms don’t apply to their circumstances, and that they can’t be held to account for their violation. Hopefully, this mission will help ensure a greater consensus on protecting human rights, and send a clear message that their violation cannot be overlooked.

[nesepalamudu]

evett, gelsin bakalım

critical psychology

outline of the final paper (26apr)

two reflection papers left

one discussion leading

final paper (24may)

experimental social psychology

birer görüşme

mayıs etik başvurusu

final teslimi (30may)

qualitative research

two interviews & transcriptions

analysis of the interviews

overall analysis of the research

portfolio & presentation

bonus essay (optional)

seminar

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statistics

midterm take home exam (2may)

unannounced assignments

final

ekstralar

queer muslim çalışması için 10. görüşme

gender microaggressions çalışmasını hale yola sokup bir konferansa abstract (bu grup işi)

uyghur identity çalışması için katılımcı almaya başlayabiliriz 20sinden itibaren, hemen bi ilan bi post

uygur okuma grubunun okumaları (bunları yarın çıktı alsam iyi olur)

[buzz-london]

Israel-Palestine War: "There Is No Deal With The Devil!" Cenk Uygur, Avram & Mosab Hassan Yousef On Hamas - 18th Dec 2023

Accepting hamas's number of how many people who have died is ludicrous. Cenk is as complicit as hamas by supporting these terrorists. Palestinians have never accepted the 2 state solution and have initiated every single war in that region.

Mosab is correct, you can't negotiate with the devil and hamas has to be eliminated to stabilise the region. Silent majority of muslims need to speak up and say if they disagree with hamas of if they support them.

Avram is right - if this happened to the English people, would we stop till we got those who did this to us? Gazans need to chose new leaders, leaders who want to develop the region, not fight.

Response to war can't be dictated by the audience sitting in sitting rooms 1000s of miles away. They have no skin in the game. They can't dictate 'proportionality'. Only those impacted can do that.