The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called the United Nations Human Rights Council’s vote against holding a debate on the Uyghur (so-called) genocide “shameful.” CAIR also called on Muslim nations to unite in supporting Uyghur Muslims and other Turkic minorities targeted by the Chinese Communist Party. (But as regular BNI readers know, most Muslim nations couldn’t care less about the Uyghurs)
CAIRThe UN Human Rights Council on Thursday voted against holding a debate on alleged abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic minority groups in China’s Xinjiang region. The draft decision to hold the debate was presented by the United States last month, following the August release of a report stating that China’s human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic groups in Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity.
Following lobbying by Beijing, the council voted 19-17 against holding a debate, with 11 countries abstaining. Several Muslim nations were among those who voted against holding the debate. (I rest my case)
In a statement, CAIR Deputy Executive Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said:
“It is tragic and shameful that the UN Human Rights Council and so many Muslim-majority member nations have refused to even discuss the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign of genocide against Uyghur Muslims.
“The evidence is clear: China has imprisoned over a million Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps, banned them from practicing Islam, forced them work in factories as slave laborers, raped and sterilized countless women, and destroyed hundreds of ancient mosques, among other crimes against humanity designed to erase Uyghur Muslim culture.”
“The Chinese Communist Party is waging a war against Islam in the Uyghur region of China, and the Muslim world must use our collective economic and political power at the United Nations to expose and stop it.”
Why should the West condemn China’s harsh treatment of its Uyghur Muslims when the Islamic world is actively collaborating with China’s global campaign against the Uyghurs?
In fact, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) — a 57-Muslim country consortium that calls itself “the collective voice of the Muslim world” issued a report saying that it “commends the efforts of the People’s Republic of China in providing care to its Muslim citizens; and looks forward to further cooperation between the OIC and the People’s Republic of China.”
Daniel Greenfield The war of letters began when 22 countries penned a letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council condemning China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minority communities.
The letter in defense of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang was signed by France, Germany, Canada, Sweden and 18 other, mostly Western and European, countries. The case of the missing Muslim signatories was solved when the People’s Republic of China fired back with its own letter signed by 37 countries.
This letter in defense of China’s crackdown on Islam was signed by 16 Muslim countries. While some of the Muslim signatories were drawn from African countries, the letter was also signed by ambassadors for the leading Arab governments including Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Syria, and Kuwait. Pakistan, the world’s second largest Muslim country, also signed on.
Louis says
Erdogan is sitting on all those he jailed and us still jailing after the recent revolt from the revolting. What if?
ME Infidel says
“Erdogan has put China’s money above Chinese Muslims.” What ever happened to the narrative that all Muslims are loyal to the Ummah above all else?
Az gal says
Muslums don’t care. Too easy to take over the West now. China will come later.
Paul says
The CCP is so evil.
They brought COVID to the world & so much more.
We should not lose sight of that.
People need to go to Gordon Chang’s twitter page & read his articles & watch on TV ,
He talks about the truth of the evil CCP & what they do.
BareNakedIslam says
Nobody here supports China’s totalitarian government but in the case of Muslims only, they get it right. You know, China is the one country where Islam is not seen as a threat to their culture and citizens.
Windows98 says
So you think that it’s good that communist Red China is murdering and torturing Muslims? Do you think it’s good that Uyghur Muslim women are being raped by the CCP communazis? Do you think it’s good that the organs and hair of Uyghurs are being harvested? If you think any of those, then not only do you hold the same views about the Uyghurs as the Islamic governments who support this but also the same views as extreme leftists as well!
BareNakedIslam says
I couldn’t care less about what happens to Muslims in China.
VMS says
“ it effectively censures all expressions of Uyghur culture, even normal religious and linguistic traditions.” Could it be that the “normal” Muslim traditions involve religiously sanctioned violence against the non-believers?
Linda Rivera says
It’s despicable that the media seldom report about the extreme suffering and severe persecution and imprisonment of Christians and other Non-Muslims that has been going on for a VERY long time in communist China.
I’m OUTRAGED that the United Nations Human Rights Council doesn’t hold emergency sessions to discuss the ongoing worldwide MUSLIM GENOCIDE of CHRISTIANS which is particularly horrific in Africa.
Fritz the Cat says
Almost 25% of the world population is Muslim.
Think how peaceful life would be if that percentage was zero.