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Why should you care?
- More than 3 million Uyghur Muslims are detained in concentration camps in East Turkistan (a.k.a. Xinjiang, China) where they suffer torture and forced to renounce their Islamic faith.
- Quran and other Islamic books have been burned, and thousands of Mosques have been demolished or turned into bars.
- Tens of thousands of children of detainees sent to Chinese orphanages to erase their Muslim identity.
- Uyghur Muslims are under heavy surveillance. They cannot go to mosques, pray, or fast. Simple Islamic greetings and even Muslim names are banned.
- Muslim girls are forced to marry non-Muslim Chinese man under the threat of their families being punished if they do not obey.
- Communist Chinese media portraits Islamic faith of Muslims as a “disease” or “tumor” that needs to be eradicated.
What can you do to help?
- Make Dua for Uyghur Muslim brothers and sisters in East Turkistan.
- Call your elected U.S. congress delegates. Ask them to support the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019 (H.R.649 and S.178) in both chambers of Congress. (Very important! Take action now!)
- Call on the administration to pressure the Chinese government to close all concentration camps.
- Raise awareness among the Muslim community around the world about the current situation of Uyghur Muslims. Promote public awareness through social media, using #Uyghur or #Uighur
- Let other Islamic organizations in United States (such as CAIR) to take an action on the matter of Uyghur Muslims.
For more information, please check the following news about the current situation of Uyghurs.
- Tracking China’s Muslim Gulag
- China is creating concentration camps in Xinjiang. Here’s how we hold it accountable.
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CAIR Action Alert: Tell Congress to Support Bill Taking Action Against Internment of Uyghur Muslims
- Who are the Uyghurs(Uighurs)?
- https://www.facebook.com/ETNationalAwakening/videos/995106523994383/
- http://akademiye.org/en/?p=685
- https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/uyghurs_facts-07092009163637.html/
- http://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/?page_id=29681
- Who Are The Uighurs? China Is Detaining This Muslim Minority By The Million.
- UK confirms reports of Chinese mass internment camps for Uighur Muslims
- 48 Ways to Get Sent to a Chinese Concentration Camp
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/13/48-ways-to-get-sent-to-a-chinese-concentration-camp/
- Oppression of Uyghur Muslims in East Turkestan | Sheikh Shady al-Suleiman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx_kapcB5Ho
- The Mass Internment of Uyghurs: “We want to be respected as humans. Is it too much to ask?”
- China’s Use of Psychological Warfare Against Uyghurs
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/09/21/chinas-use-of-psychological-warfare-against-uyghurs/
- China Declared Islam a Contagious Disease – and Quarantined 1 Million Muslims
- China Supersizes Internment Camps in Xinjiang Despite International Criticism
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-internment-camps-in-xinjiang-swell-1541052650
- ChinaFile Presents: The Situation in Xinjiang(East Turkistan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNaCM7zZlxk
- ‘Just shoot my wife and mother’ (I can’t bear them suffering in concentration camps)- BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa9w3wUWWAE
- China’s hidden camps – BBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmvyjwLxC5I
- N. Panel Confronts China Over Reports That It Holds a Million Uighurs in Camps
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/world/asia/china-xinjiang-un-uighurs.html
- How Beijing is using the Nazi propaganda playbook to justify its concentration camps to the world
- Interview: ‘I Did Not Believe I Would Leave Prison in China Alive’
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/detentions-11012018100304.html
- China’s war on Uighur identity, explained. | Al Jazeera English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc5vVat5iuc
- China’s Government Has Ordered a Million Citizens to Occupy Uighur Homes. Here’s What They Think They’re Doing.
http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/postcard/million-citizens-occupy-uighur-homes-xinjiang
- Malaysia’s Mahathir says Uighurs released because they did nothing wrong
- China is trying to erase the Uighurs and their culture
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/china-erase-uighurs-culture-181012155613937.html
- Survey: Three Million, Mostly Uyghurs, in Some Form of Political ‘Re-Education’ in Xinjiang
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/millions-08032018142025.html
- ‘We’re a people destroyed’: why Uighur Muslims across China are living in fear
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/07/why-uighur-muslims-across-china-are-living-in-fear
- An internment camp for 10 million Uyghurs: Meduza visits China’s dystopian police state
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2018/10/01/an-internment-camp-for-10-million-uyghurs
- Chinese diplomat in Pakistan goes on tweet rampage after ‘Uyghur Muslims fed pork’ reports
- Nury Turkel and the Uyghur plight
https://supchina.com/podcast/nury-turkel-and-the-uyghur-plight/
- Muslims forced to drink alcohol and eat pork in China’s ‘re-education’ camps, former inmate claims
- Ethnic cleansing makes a comeback — in China
- The Worst Totalitarian Since Mao
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-worst-totalitarian-since-mao/
- ‘Goal Is to Erase Us’: How China Runs Uyghur ‘Concentration Camps’
http://turkistantimes.com/en/news-3469.html
- Why is China putting over a million Muslims in internment camps?
https://en-gb.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/318169088951294/
- Indian Muslims protest China’s detention of Uighur Muslims
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1371976/world
- CHINA’S 21ST CENTURY GULAG
https://www.gzeromedia.com/read/chinas-21st-century-gulag/
- Uyghurs: Victims of 21st Century Concentration Camps
https://thediplomat.com/2018/05/uyghurs-victims-of-21st-century-concentration-camps/
- China’s Jaw-Dropping Family Separation Policy
- China’s Muslim Crackdown Extends to Those Living Abroad
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-muslim-crackdown-extends-to-those-living-abroad-1535718957
- Group of U.S. lawmakers urges China sanctions over Xinjiang abuses
- There’s Jim Crow in China, but no one seems to care
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-goldberg-china-jim-crow-20180821-story.html
- Why the Muslim world isn’t saying anything about China’s repression and ‘cultural cleansing’ of its downtrodden Muslim minority
- China ‘ejects’ US journalist known for reporting on Xinjiang repression
- China ‘expels’ French journalist over Uighur article
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35181299
- Exporting persecution: Uyghur diaspora haunted by anxiety, guilt as family held in Chinese camps
- The State of Muslims in China – Trip Reflections | Dr. Sh. Yasir Qadhi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dxE5BszWT8
- Chinese police are reportedly cutting the dresses off of Uighur Muslim women in public
43. Islamic Leaders Have Nothing to Say About China’s Internment Camps for Muslims
44. The war on Uighurs
https://chinachannel.org/2018/11/01/war-on-the-uighurs/
- Even in the U.S., They’re Not Safe From China
- Statement by Concerned Scholars on China’s Mass Detention of Turkic Minorities
- Academics condemn China over Xinjiang camps, urge sanctions
- The New Gulag Archipelago: How China “Reeducates” the Uyghurs and Why the World Should Be Alarmed
- Checkpoint Nation
- Keanu Reeves spotted in Chinese anti-Muslim propaganda poster in Xinjiang
- China’s Surveillance Laboratory
- Rubio Chairs CECC Hearing on The Communist Party’s Crackdown on Religion in China
- Uighur Woman: China Killed My Infant, Electrocuted Me in Muslim ‘Concentration Camp’
- US Lawmaker Accuses China of Genocide in Treatment of Uighur Muslims
- Adrian Zenz on China’s Xinjiang Re-Education Campaign
- China’s Hidden Camps
- Tracking China’s Muslim Gulag
Update on Dec. 2, 2018
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