Thursday, July 09, 2009

Xinjiang Muslims’ Struggle for Freedom

Islam Online, July , 9 2009


By Politics in Depth Team


Xinjiang region is to the north-west of China
Xinjiang region is to the north-west of China.

Watching China’s 2008 Olympic Mascots jumping around in their colorful customs and fireworks lightning the sky of the massive country, you would be witnessing the bright side of the communist regime.On the other side stands a picture painted with red and green. In its dark green uniform, the Chinese army is filling up lakes with the blood of inhabitants of the Muslim-majority region of East Turkistan (Xinjiang) butchering 156 protestors, wounding hundreds, and arresting 1,400.

Muslims in Xinjiang (Uighurs) have been suffering under the Chinese occupation for a long time. The region is rich with oil, gas reserves, and about 121 minerals out of the 148 that China produces. Accordingly, the communist regime has given itself a freehand to suppress the Muslim population, burn their Islamic books, tear down mosques, and work on erasing the Muslim identity off the region. The Chinese government has been ruling with iron fist for long time and all is taking place under the silence of the international community. Must it be that Xinjiang Muslims have a charismatic leader in exile like that of Buddhists of the Tibet to get international attention?

What are the motives of the Chinese government? And who are the Xinjiang Muslims?

IslamOnline.net presents this collective folder in an attempt to present a more comprehensive picture of the status of the Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.

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1 comment:

theincredible100 said...

Xinjiang is a so called imposed name on an occupied country named khrasaan or east turkistan.China in clear voilations of international treaties and laws occupied turkistan in 1949 and shortly after that carried a massive genocide and ethnic cleansing.Pakistan, the word T in it stands for turkistan but shameless pakistani governments call butcherer and robber china as friend.China is also occupying gansu,zaitoon,tibet and muslim parts of chingai.That day is not far away when china will meet the fate of Russia{USSR}.