AP News The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighur Muslims as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country’s Han Chinese majority to have more children.
The practice is far more widespread and systematic than previously known, according to an AP investigation based on government statistics, state documents and interviews with 30 ex-detainees, family members and a former detention camp instructor. The campaign over the past four years in the far west region of Xinjiang is leading to what some experts are calling a form of “demographic genocide.”
The state regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks, and forces intrauterine devices, sterilization and even abortion on hundreds of thousands, the interviews and data show. Even while the use of IUDs and sterilization has fallen nationwide, it is rising sharply in Xinjiang.
The population control measures are backed by mass detention both as a threat and as a punishment for failure to comply. Having too many children is a major reason people are sent to detention camps, the AP found, with the parents of three or more ripped away from their families unless they can pay huge fines. Police raid homes, terrifying parents as they search for hidden children.
“The intention may not be to fully eliminate the Uighur population, but it will sharply diminish their vitality,” said Darren Byler, an expert on Uighurs at the University of Colorado. “It will make them easier to assimilate into the mainstream Chinese population.”
Some go a step further. “It’s genocide, full stop. It’s not immediate, shocking, mass-killing on the spot type genocide, but it’s slow, painful, creeping genocide,” said Joanne Smith Finley, of Newcastle University in the U.K. “These are direct means of genetically reducing the Uighur population.”
Az gal says
“…slow, creeping genocide.” Muslums can dish it out, but they can’t take it.
Az gal says
Even the Chinese Muslum women are obese (some).
bill says
I’m all for keeping muslims in check, but the ccp is EVIL. The sooner the world realizes that the better. Never forget they INTENTIONALLY let the virus spread around the world, while saying it wasn’t contagious at the same time.
Klaas says
Did we know that the numbers are right?
Did you know that the 1 child politics was not for minoritys?Yes,M, had back im time the right for more than 1 child in China.
ps:Its a real Genocide under UN Laws.
Linda Rivera says
The report FAILS to state that FORCED ABORTIONS have been done on NON-Muslim women in China for Many, Many Decades.
Munich says
If preventing excessive procreation equals genocide, then the Chinese also committed genocide against their own people. However, ethnic Chinese are now much better off than before the compulsory birth control measures. That was probably the first genocide in history that did not annihilate a nation but made it stronger.
Daniel Triplett says
Except that due to “One Child” policy, because Chinese parents all want boys, they were aborting or drowning all the girls. So, now China has way more men than women of child-bearing age.
Lots of interesting theories about what this means for China, but none of it’s good.
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002092/chinese-couples-want-boys-%E2%80%94-trust-me%2C-im-a-fertility-doctor
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
Hey Chinese Muslims – if you want to stop being harassed by the government, just drop your beliefs and think what the government tells you to think! – because guess what, that’s EXACTLY the position I am faced with.
I have to pretend not to be against your vile religion if I want to “fit in” in Dhimmi Britain, and keep hold of a job. I have to sit here and have friendly conversations with Muslim taxi drivers or Muslim customers, etc where I skirt around and avoid the topic of my sexual preference. I have to talk to people who are only one three-letter-word-that-rhymes-with-“pay” away from going apeshit and beheading me if they found out I was a homo, and they would do it if thought they could get away with it (and give it a couple more years, they might be able to fully get away with it in broad daylight in Britanistan)
Your religion is the religion of death and oppression so I have very few feelings of regret for your treatment if any.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
China also oppresses Christians too. You don’t have to google far to find out about that.
Since this is the only major power in the world that doesn’t let Muslims run rampant over them you just have to be glad that there’s at least one, even if their methods are horrible and they are those of the old Soviet government…
China Scholar says
I think the true picture is much more complex than any of the commenters seem to realize. Y’all know about the evils of islam and the evils of communism, but y’all don’t know nearly as much about the history of the Xinjiang region and the Uighur people.
The Uighurs have been living in that area for a lot longer than it has been part of China. The Uighur and Khazak cultures are very different from most other muzz cultures, which is one of the reasons the Arabs so readily throw them under the bus. The peoples of the steppes accepted islam as a “religion” but they never accepted many of the political or cultural aspects of it. This is fundamentally different from the way it was spread in most other regions, such as India and Malaysia.
Also, the way the Chinese govern minorities is very paternalistically condescending, so the Uighurs had every reason to expect the Chinese government to give them the same autonomy as they give most of the other Chinese minority groups.
Linda Rivera says
The UK government would disagree with your comment.
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/china/terrorism
Terrorists are likely to try to carry out attacks in China.
Although foreigners haven’t been specifically targeted, attacks may occur in places visited by foreigners.
Since early 2014, a number of explosions and knife attacks have occurred in public places, including in busy railway stations, resulting in injuries and fatalities. You should take particular care during national holidays or when transiting public transport hubs, and always follow the advice of the local authorities.
There have been no recent attacks in the main tourist areas.
The risk is higher in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous region.
According to the Chinese government, most attacks are carried out by Uyghur separatists with possible links to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). You should take particular care and remain vigilant when travelling to or within Xinjiang.
Peter35 says
But the Uighers are not exactly like the other Chinese minority groups, are they?
Tell me when the Miao e.g.have ever attacked and murdered Chinese people; something the Uighers have done many times, because as you know, Uighers belong to the ummah.
BareNakedIslam says
This policy is a reaction to the many Muslim terrorist attacks they staged in China, which didn’t make the news here.
patrick doyle says
china smelled the coffee
MTMLA says
Several conservative commentators criticize China for keeping the Uighurs in concentration camps.
Daniel Triplett says
They could just make this simple, with two options for the Chinese Muslims:
1. Apostasy, with no internment camp
2. Internment camp, with immediate freedom upon apostasy
Liz says
What the chicoms are doing to the muslims is evil.
But, it is no more evil than what the muslims have done to the Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, pagans, Yazidis, animists, Zorastrians, Druze, and Bahai’s over the last fourteen hundred years, and their devastation continues.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
I don’t see how fighting evil is evil…
The chinese arent doing it for “goodness” though they’re doing it because of their insane commitment to conformity where everyone is required to be the same Communist zombie.
Verk says
Well said.
Andrew says
For years China had a one child policy due to many people being in China that the Government couldnt feed, however these muslims ignored the policy while everybody else understood it, plus these muslims want a separate part of China to be known as their islamc country, and now morons in the West are telling the Chinese they are wrong in trying to control the destruction of China by people who follow a fascist religious cult.
Michael Copeland says
UNLIKE Western leaders, China’s leaders are aware of Islam’s hostile imperative:
“Islam must dominate, and not be dominated”
“The Koran grants Muslims dominion over the world” – Hassan al-Banna
“Islam requires the earth, not just part, but the whole planet” – Maududi
“Yes, we will be masters of the world!” – Safwat Hegazy
“Holy war… duty to convert everybody …by persuasion or by force” – Ibn Khaldun
See “Islam’s Agenda: Muslims Speak”:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/02/islams-agenda-muslims-speak/
Linda Rivera says
As known, God gave everyone a Free Will to CHOOSE — Bible: Choose this day whom you will serve. Islam Opposes that.
Islam OPPOSES our Majestic Creator, the HOLY ONE, being the Master of the world.
Bikinis not Burkas says
It has to do with Quran 33:1
The Logician says
What China does to control and very much 8limit Islam and Muslims, America and Europe need to do the same things.
Classy Infidel says
As numbers increased, they wanted their own autonomous Muslim province. China saw the writing on the wall. Muslims never stop when their first demand is granted. It only gets worse with time.
I figure China knows about the history of Muslim conquests. Thus, it acted accordingly to preserve its territory and limit its already overpopulated nation (1.4 Billion people).
I must admit, at times, I’ve felt bad for them but common sense reignited.
BareNakedIslam says
CI: that’s exactly right.
Martelson says
I know. I don’t like approving this with the communist Chinese overlords, but the Uighur Muslims caused this for themselves by allowing the usual Islamic herd behaviors against any and all other people. There is nothing good about the Chinese communists in the past, and not in the now. But – these people acted like Islamic people always end up being – an enemy in your country. And this government will not let this go unpunished. Clearly, the current Chinese regime has made the choice to end the existence of these people. At least, it is not a systemic program of death camps. Time will be allowed.
Like I said – I don’t like it, but this would be a good example for Muslims of what might happen if Islam cannot be a problem in the world. The world can go on quite well without Islam. The Uighur earned this.
Deborah Elliott says
Draconian is the right word for it. This is shameful, terrible. But China has had limits for a long time; this is not new.
Ray Jarman says
The amazing factor in the ongoing crackdown of every sort in Xinjiang of the Muslim population is that I have heard no outrage from the nations that one would expect. Not Qatar, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan or any Islamic nation has objected. I guess money does speak louder than honesty.
BareNakedIslam says
Ray, in one of my posts on this, several Arab countries support their crackdown on the Uighurs.
Arnold Jackson says
What pisses me off is there are some right-leaning news sites that seem to decry Cina’s treatment of Uighurs when they tell this story, but then denounce Islam in other stories.
BareNakedIslam says
AJ, virtually every news outlet condemns China’s treatment of the Uighurs. Only BNI supports them in this.
Steve S says
The Chinese communists don’t want any competition from Islamic fanatics. There is room in China for only one group of totalitarians and that is the communist party. They sure as hell don’t want any sort of theocracy as competition.
Amboyduke says
Steve…
I’m not sure about the following, because the choice is sort of a damned if you do, damned if you don’t kind of thing…but I would rather live under a Chinese Commie regime than under a Muslim one…
Not much of a choice, but I think the Chinese would get the nod…yup, pretty damned sure…
Cleavis Nowell (@CleavisNowell) says
The Chinese use a chemical to sterilize female crescent SS hyenas. PRC should feel free to take the Colonel Sanders approach toward islamists always !