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Islamic landmark in China: the Dongguan mosque in Xining, the capital of Qinghai province, western China. David Stroup

China: removing ‘Arab‑style’ features from country’s biggest mosques the latest move in campaign of Muslim assimilation

David R. Stroup, University of Manchester

The removal of distinctive ‘Arabian-style’ features at the entrance to one of China’s biggest mosques is the latest move in a campaign of forcible assimilation of China’s Muslim minorities.
Chinese paramilitary police stand duty in People’s Square where hundreds of Uighers first started a protest that erupted into rioting in July 2009. Five years later, China started imprisoning Uighers in “re-education hospitals.” (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

The ominous metaphors of China’s Uighur concentration camps

Aidan Forth, MacEwan University

The metaphors used to defend the 21st century’s largest system of concentration camps are chillingly similar to Nazi Holocaust-era justifications.

Related Topics

  1. China
  2. Forced sterilisation
  3. Genocide
  4. Migrants
  5. Uighurs
  6. Uyghurs
  7. Xinjiang
  8. Xinjiang province

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