Percentage of Muslim characters by story setting
MUSLIM CHARACTERS ARE OFTEN SHOWN AS ‘FOREIGNERS’
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MUSLIM CHARACTERS ARE RACIALLY PROFILED IN SERIES
MUSLIM CHARACTERS ARE RACIALLY PROFILED IN SERIES
Race/ethnicity of Muslim characters across 200 series, 2018-2019
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Race/ethnicity of Muslim characters across 200 series, 2018-2019
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Number and percentage of 200 series missing Muslim characters
MUSLIM CHARACTERS FACE AN EPIDEMIC OF INVISIBILITY ON SCREEN
Number and percentage of 200 series missing Muslim characters, 2018-2019
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Number and percentage of 200 series missing Muslim characters, 2018-2019
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MUSLIM GIRLS & WOMEN REMAIN UNDERREPRESENTED ON SCREEN
MUSLIM GIRLS & WOMEN REMAIN UNDERREPRESENTED ON SCREEN
Percentage of Muslim female characters across 200 popular films by country, 2018-2019
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Percentage of Muslim female characters across 200 popular films by country, 2018-2019
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Percentage of Muslim characters across 200 popular series, 2018-2019
MUSLIM CHARACTERS ARE MISSING IN POPULAR EPISODIC SERIES
Percentage of Muslim characters across 200 popular series, 2018-2019
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Muslim Narratives Still Centered on Terrorism & Extremism
Muslim Narratives Still Centered on Terrorism & Extremism
Across the qualitative analysis, there were several elements observed that point to a prevailing narrative in popular television series when it comes to Muslim characters. That focus was undeniably on terrorism and extremism. Muslim characters were most likely to have jobs as criminals (37.2%) and almost onethird (30.6%) of Muslims were shown as perpetrators of violence. Taken together, these findings demonstrate that popular series not only presented individual Muslim characters as linked to terrorism, but that storytellers actively created and disseminated entire storylines focused on terrorist activities.
The majority of Muslim characters in the sample appeared across three series in particular: Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Our Girl, and Next of Kin. The storylines in these programs all centered around issues of extremism or terrorism. These series told the story of a CIA analyst who uncovered a terrorist cell and the process of investigating the activities of the major players. Another centered on a British military unit training Nigerian forces to fight Boko Haram militants and rescue kidnapped girls. The final series revolved around the disruption experienced by a Pakistani family living in London when their lives intersected with the activities of a terrorist group in Pakistan.
In other words, whether told from the perspectives of U.S. or U.K. law enforcement or when centered on Muslim characters, storylines were
still linked inextricably to extremism. As we noted in our prior study on film, the continual emphasis on violence and extremism can have
profound negative consequences for Muslims. The justified violence against Muslims and the 22 presentation of this community as antagonistic to the West may serve to sanction real-world aggression towards Muslims. Evidence suggests that these factors may facilitate both learning of aggression as well as desensitization among viewers.31 Indeed, Muslims on screen were also likely to be shown as victims of violence. When Muslim characters died, they perished violently. Whether at a national level or in terms of interpersonal interactions, the continual representation of Muslims as violent and dangerous is one that can have devastating outcomes for individual Muslims both in the U.S., U.K., Australia, and
New Zealand, and to those living around the globe. Collapse Read »
Across the qualitative analysis, there were several elements observed that point to a prevailing narrative in popular television series when it comes to Muslim characters. That focus was undeniably on terrorism and extremism. Muslim characters were most likely to have jobs as criminals (37.2%) and almost onethird (30.6%) of Muslims were shown as perpetrators of violence. Taken together, these findings demonstrate that popular series not only presented individual Muslim characters as linked to terrorism, but that storytellers actively created and disseminated entire storylines focused on terrorist activities.
The majority of Muslim characters in the sample appeared across three series in particular: Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Our Girl, and Next of Kin. The storylines in these programs all centered around issues of extremism or terrorism. These series told the story of a CIA analyst who uncovered a terrorist cell and the process of investigating the activities of the major players. Another centered on a British military unit training Nigerian forces to fight Boko Haram militants and rescue kidnapped girls. The final series revolved around the disruption experienced by a Pakistani family living in London when their lives intersected with the activities of a terrorist group in Pakistan.
In other words, whether told from the perspectives of U.S. or U.K. law enforcement or when centered on Muslim characters, storylines were
still linked inextricably to extremism. As we noted in our prior study on film, the continual emphasis on violence and extremism can have
profound negative consequences for Muslims. The justified violence against Muslims and the 22 presentation of this community as antagonistic to the West may serve to sanction real-world aggression towards Muslims. Evidence suggests that these factors may facilitate both learning of aggression as well as desensitization among viewers.31 Indeed, Muslims on screen were also likely to be shown as victims of violence. When Muslim characters died, they perished violently. Whether at a national level or in terms of interpersonal interactions, the continual representation of Muslims as violent and dangerous is one that can have devastating outcomes for individual Muslims both in the U.S., U.K., Australia, and
New Zealand, and to those living around the globe. Collapse Read »
Muslim Characters fit a Narrow Prototype in Popular Series
Muslim Characters fit a Narrow Prototype in Popular Series
The few Muslims who did appear in popular storytelling embodied a limited profile. More than twothirds (69.4%) of Muslim characters were male, and roughly half (52%) were Middle Eastern/North African (MENA). These findings reflected the trends identified in popular films. Compared to top movies, however, in top series, there was a greater proportion of Asian Muslim characters. Gains for Black Muslim characters in series were small, and one Hispanic/Latino Muslim character was noted. The 21 increased diversity in representation of Muslim characters in top series was a welcome change from film. However, the similar emphasis on MENA Muslim characters in popular series reinforces an ethnic stereotype about Muslims that may have real-world ramifications for individuals from this identity group. The nature of portrayals on screen may foster assumptions about the religious or political beliefs of those who identify as MENA and may even influence how people from this background are treated. In addition to gender and race/ethnicity, other indicators reflected a lack of variability in how Muslim characters were presented on screen. Only 1 Muslim character was part of the LGBTQ community, and no Muslim characters were shown with a disability. Moreover, nearly half of Muslims were young adults (21-39 years old), while there were only 2 elderly characters and no Muslim children age 0 to 5. This narrow bandwidth of opportunities is problematic in two ways. One, it presents Muslims as a homogenous group, a denial of the reality that Muslims include people across the age span, those living with disabilities, and even those who identify as LGBTQ. Second, it limits the roles and work available to Muslims who hope to portray their faith on screen. The lack of older Muslim characters means that actors from this identity group may not find work across the life span, creating a barrier to sustainable careers, ongoing employment and even ability to access U.S. health insurance. From the qualitative analysis, it was also clear that Muslims characters were generally portrayed as “foreign,” in line with longstanding stereotypes present in entertainment.30 Muslims were depicted as residents of countries outside the U.S., U.K., Australia, or New Zealand. The immigrant or visitor status of Muslims who did appear in these countries was also emphasized through language or direct reference. These findings were, again, similar to those found in top films from the same countries. The overall impression across both film and series was that Muslims are from or live in “other” places. This offers little opportunity for viewers to see Muslims reflected in their communities and as neighbors and co-workers on screen. Collapse Read »
The few Muslims who did appear in popular storytelling embodied a limited profile. More than twothirds (69.4%) of Muslim characters were male, and roughly half (52%) were Middle Eastern/North African (MENA). These findings reflected the trends identified in popular films. Compared to top movies, however, in top series, there was a greater proportion of Asian Muslim characters. Gains for Black Muslim characters in series were small, and one Hispanic/Latino Muslim character was noted. The 21 increased diversity in representation of Muslim characters in top series was a welcome change from film. However, the similar emphasis on MENA Muslim characters in popular series reinforces an ethnic stereotype about Muslims that may have real-world ramifications for individuals from this identity group. The nature of portrayals on screen may foster assumptions about the religious or political beliefs of those who identify as MENA and may even influence how people from this background are treated. In addition to gender and race/ethnicity, other indicators reflected a lack of variability in how Muslim characters were presented on screen. Only 1 Muslim character was part of the LGBTQ community, and no Muslim characters were shown with a disability. Moreover, nearly half of Muslims were young adults (21-39 years old), while there were only 2 elderly characters and no Muslim children age 0 to 5. This narrow bandwidth of opportunities is problematic in two ways. One, it presents Muslims as a homogenous group, a denial of the reality that Muslims include people across the age span, those living with disabilities, and even those who identify as LGBTQ. Second, it limits the roles and work available to Muslims who hope to portray their faith on screen. The lack of older Muslim characters means that actors from this identity group may not find work across the life span, creating a barrier to sustainable careers, ongoing employment and even ability to access U.S. health insurance. From the qualitative analysis, it was also clear that Muslims characters were generally portrayed as “foreign,” in line with longstanding stereotypes present in entertainment.30 Muslims were depicted as residents of countries outside the U.S., U.K., Australia, or New Zealand. The immigrant or visitor status of Muslims who did appear in these countries was also emphasized through language or direct reference. These findings were, again, similar to those found in top films from the same countries. The overall impression across both film and series was that Muslims are from or live in “other” places. This offers little opportunity for viewers to see Muslims reflected in their communities and as neighbors and co-workers on screen. Collapse Read »
A new report released by the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative investigates the portrayal of Muslim characters in TV
A new report released by the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative investigates the portrayal of Muslim characters in TV, revealing that not only are Muslims nearly absent from episodic content, but they are still stereotyped in negative ways.
]Full Report here[/url]
A new report released by the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative investigates the portrayal of Muslim characters in TV, revealing that not only are Muslims nearly absent from episodic content, but they are still stereotyped in negative ways.
The report, titled “Erased or Extremists: The Stereotypical View of Muslims in Popular Episodic Series” comes from Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, with support from Academy Award winner Riz Ahmed and his production company Left Handed Films, the Ford Foundation and Pillars Fund.
The 2022 study explores quantitative and qualitative aspects of Muslim representation in 200 top-rated television shows from 2018 and 2019 aired in the U.S., U.K., Australia, and New Zealand, ultimately highlighting a disheartening reality. The full report is available here.
In 2021, Variety exclusively unveiled the coalition’s plans to address this issue head on with the creation of The Blueprint for Muslim Inclusion, which outlines recommendations to the industry on how to support Muslim storytellers and increase representation.
In the column below, researchers Al-Baab Khan, Dr. Smith, & Dr. Katherine Pieper detail their findings and explain how the industry can enact meaningful change, because, as they write, “the way that Muslims are portrayed onscreen and their absence behind the camera is no laughing matter.”
Today, we are borrowing a line from Christopher Hitchens. Followers of Islam are not only lacking comedic chops, but they are not members of the LGBTQ+ community, they rarely have romantic relationships, and they are without disabilities. Did you know that 70% of Muslims globally are men (which, should lead to a population crisis, right?).
While none of this is true, it would be your reality if you watched episodic television or streaming content in the U.S., U.K., Australia or New Zealand and were learning about characters with this faith-based orientation. Yep, you guessed it. We released another study (underscore another), and the view of Muslims is wildly inaccurate.
Muslims represent 1% of all characters (8,885) across 200 popular TV shows in four countries — and less than one-tenth of 1% of all characters were in comedy series (a total of five characters). To add insult to injury, Muslims are too often shown as perpetrators or targets of violence, and more than 30% are part of extremist groups. These stereotypes have been perpetuated for decades, and these egregious tropes can contribute to aggression toward, and fear of, this community.
These results are not a surprise. But we have to ask why they keep occurring. We examined the identity of 6,117 writers, directors and producers across the 128 U.S. shows in our sample.* Less than 1% were Muslim. In fact, there were only five Muslims who worked a total of eight times. Three were Asian women, and one was an Asian man. Only one Muslim worked as a director: a Black and Middle Eastern/North African woman. In other words, you might see more Muslims at your local bar during happy hour than you would behind the camera in TV.
Is film any better? Nope. Across 1,500 top-grossing films from 2007 to 2021, there were only 12 (11 men, one woman) Muslims that worked as directors, writers or producers. The only Muslim woman to work in top-grossing films over the last 15 years was the same Muslim woman who worked as a director in our TV sample. That means only one Muslim woman director worked across 1,500 top-grossing films and 128 popular scripted series. We’ll say it again: One. Muslim. Woman. Director.
And this is “woke” Hollywood.
If nothing you’ve read has been a surprise so far, maybe this will be: change is easy. It’s decision-makers who have somehow made it hard. Change starts behind the camera in two ways. First, people creating content have to come from more than just one community or identity group. When this happens, what we see onscreen is different. We have a great deal of evidence to support this. So we need more writers, directors and producers (and composers, and gaffers, and all manner of other positions…) who are Muslim. We need philanthropists and artist programs to support the development of new Muslim storytellers and the careers of those who are already working. What’s more, these creatives must be given space to tell a variety of stories about their community and not just funding to repackage old tropes that are familiar to non-Muslim executives and audiences with a limited worldview.
Second, we need casting directors to evolve. There are thousands of characters who appear on our screens every year. Casting directors put many of them there, but somehow, Muslims are almost always depicted in the same light. It’s time to expand that view. Muslims can be funny. Muslims can be serious. Muslims can surf. They can be veterinarians. They can shop at grocery stores, and go to public parks, and ride on buses, and live next door and work in the next cubicle. And if that’s not enough, Muslims are not only Middle Eastern/North African, as our data would suggest. Muslims can be Indonesian, Filipino, Nigerian, Eastern European, Hispanic/Latino, Black, and yes, even American. What they don’t need to be any more is shown as suicide bombers, carrying weapons and dying violently.
We need to see Muslims at the center of stories. We’ve seen this recently with “Ramy,” “Ms. Marvel” and “We are Lady Parts.” These shows made it to our screens because agents and managers promoted Muslim talent, and because executives saw the value of these narratives. We need agents, managers and executives to continue to see that stories about Muslims have an audience. But getting a green light from the top isn’t the only thing stories centered on Muslims need. Stories about Muslims need marketing and advertising that is on par with what stories with white men at the center receive. They need critics from the community to review them. And, most importantly, they need to last. We’ve seen this happen — series that center on diverse communities are made, they reach audiences… and then they are canceled after one season. Muslim stories, like Muslim characters, cannot be killed off en masse.
The way that Muslims are portrayed onscreen, and their absence behind the camera, is no laughing matter. But the joke is really on Hollywood. After all, how much longer can an industry that dehumanizes, disparages and demonizes 25% of the world’s population sustain itself in that same global marketplace? It can’t.
*The authors would like to thank Dr. Rene Weber and Musa Malik at UCSB Media Neuroscience Lab for assistance with the behind the camera TV and film Muslim data analysis. For behind-the-camera information, Muslim identity was determined through a variety of methods, but only those individuals with publicly available information on their faith were included as Muslim. On screen data comes from reports supported by Ford Foundation, Pillars Fund, Riz Ahmed and Left Handed Films.
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]Full Report here[/url]
A new report released by the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative investigates the portrayal of Muslim characters in TV, revealing that not only are Muslims nearly absent from episodic content, but they are still stereotyped in negative ways.
The report, titled “Erased or Extremists: The Stereotypical View of Muslims in Popular Episodic Series” comes from Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, with support from Academy Award winner Riz Ahmed and his production company Left Handed Films, the Ford Foundation and Pillars Fund.
The 2022 study explores quantitative and qualitative aspects of Muslim representation in 200 top-rated television shows from 2018 and 2019 aired in the U.S., U.K., Australia, and New Zealand, ultimately highlighting a disheartening reality. The full report is available here.
In 2021, Variety exclusively unveiled the coalition’s plans to address this issue head on with the creation of The Blueprint for Muslim Inclusion, which outlines recommendations to the industry on how to support Muslim storytellers and increase representation.
In the column below, researchers Al-Baab Khan, Dr. Smith, & Dr. Katherine Pieper detail their findings and explain how the industry can enact meaningful change, because, as they write, “the way that Muslims are portrayed onscreen and their absence behind the camera is no laughing matter.”
Today, we are borrowing a line from Christopher Hitchens. Followers of Islam are not only lacking comedic chops, but they are not members of the LGBTQ+ community, they rarely have romantic relationships, and they are without disabilities. Did you know that 70% of Muslims globally are men (which, should lead to a population crisis, right?).
While none of this is true, it would be your reality if you watched episodic television or streaming content in the U.S., U.K., Australia or New Zealand and were learning about characters with this faith-based orientation. Yep, you guessed it. We released another study (underscore another), and the view of Muslims is wildly inaccurate.
Muslims represent 1% of all characters (8,885) across 200 popular TV shows in four countries — and less than one-tenth of 1% of all characters were in comedy series (a total of five characters). To add insult to injury, Muslims are too often shown as perpetrators or targets of violence, and more than 30% are part of extremist groups. These stereotypes have been perpetuated for decades, and these egregious tropes can contribute to aggression toward, and fear of, this community.
These results are not a surprise. But we have to ask why they keep occurring. We examined the identity of 6,117 writers, directors and producers across the 128 U.S. shows in our sample.* Less than 1% were Muslim. In fact, there were only five Muslims who worked a total of eight times. Three were Asian women, and one was an Asian man. Only one Muslim worked as a director: a Black and Middle Eastern/North African woman. In other words, you might see more Muslims at your local bar during happy hour than you would behind the camera in TV.
Is film any better? Nope. Across 1,500 top-grossing films from 2007 to 2021, there were only 12 (11 men, one woman) Muslims that worked as directors, writers or producers. The only Muslim woman to work in top-grossing films over the last 15 years was the same Muslim woman who worked as a director in our TV sample. That means only one Muslim woman director worked across 1,500 top-grossing films and 128 popular scripted series. We’ll say it again: One. Muslim. Woman. Director.
And this is “woke” Hollywood.
If nothing you’ve read has been a surprise so far, maybe this will be: change is easy. It’s decision-makers who have somehow made it hard. Change starts behind the camera in two ways. First, people creating content have to come from more than just one community or identity group. When this happens, what we see onscreen is different. We have a great deal of evidence to support this. So we need more writers, directors and producers (and composers, and gaffers, and all manner of other positions…) who are Muslim. We need philanthropists and artist programs to support the development of new Muslim storytellers and the careers of those who are already working. What’s more, these creatives must be given space to tell a variety of stories about their community and not just funding to repackage old tropes that are familiar to non-Muslim executives and audiences with a limited worldview.
Second, we need casting directors to evolve. There are thousands of characters who appear on our screens every year. Casting directors put many of them there, but somehow, Muslims are almost always depicted in the same light. It’s time to expand that view. Muslims can be funny. Muslims can be serious. Muslims can surf. They can be veterinarians. They can shop at grocery stores, and go to public parks, and ride on buses, and live next door and work in the next cubicle. And if that’s not enough, Muslims are not only Middle Eastern/North African, as our data would suggest. Muslims can be Indonesian, Filipino, Nigerian, Eastern European, Hispanic/Latino, Black, and yes, even American. What they don’t need to be any more is shown as suicide bombers, carrying weapons and dying violently.
We need to see Muslims at the center of stories. We’ve seen this recently with “Ramy,” “Ms. Marvel” and “We are Lady Parts.” These shows made it to our screens because agents and managers promoted Muslim talent, and because executives saw the value of these narratives. We need agents, managers and executives to continue to see that stories about Muslims have an audience. But getting a green light from the top isn’t the only thing stories centered on Muslims need. Stories about Muslims need marketing and advertising that is on par with what stories with white men at the center receive. They need critics from the community to review them. And, most importantly, they need to last. We’ve seen this happen — series that center on diverse communities are made, they reach audiences… and then they are canceled after one season. Muslim stories, like Muslim characters, cannot be killed off en masse.
The way that Muslims are portrayed onscreen, and their absence behind the camera, is no laughing matter. But the joke is really on Hollywood. After all, how much longer can an industry that dehumanizes, disparages and demonizes 25% of the world’s population sustain itself in that same global marketplace? It can’t.
*The authors would like to thank Dr. Rene Weber and Musa Malik at UCSB Media Neuroscience Lab for assistance with the behind the camera TV and film Muslim data analysis. For behind-the-camera information, Muslim identity was determined through a variety of methods, but only those individuals with publicly available information on their faith were included as Muslim. On screen data comes from reports supported by Ford Foundation, Pillars Fund, Riz Ahmed and Left Handed Films.
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A Brummie police officer joined Muslim colleagues in an 'empowering' moment as they sat down for Friday prayers.
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A Brummie police officer joined Muslim colleagues in an 'empowering' moment as they sat down for Friday prayers. PC Jakob stood next to fellow police officers in prayer at Bahu Trust Mosque in Sparkbrook.
Muslims hold a congregational prayer every Friday called 'Jumah', one of the most important prayers of the week. PC Jakob, part of the Springfield police team, wanted to 'get a real feel of the Friday prayers'.
The team said the act showed the diversity and breaking down of barriers within their police force. The prayer was also led by Hafiz Emad Choudhury, one of the police officers.
Read more: Delight as Guz Khan's Man like Mobeen to return for fourth series on BBC Three
In a tweet shared to the Springfield WMP Twitter, it said: " #Sparkhill Such an empowering Jummuah Prayer @bahutrustuk today led by our very own @ImaamCop.
"To top this PC Jakob wanted to get a real feel of the Friday prayers and has volunteered to experience it. So many barriers broken within our Policing Community. We are diversity!"
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A Brummie police officer joined Muslim colleagues in an 'empowering' moment as they sat down for Friday prayers. PC Jakob stood next to fellow police officers in prayer at Bahu Trust Mosque in Sparkbrook.
Muslims hold a congregational prayer every Friday called 'Jumah', one of the most important prayers of the week. PC Jakob, part of the Springfield police team, wanted to 'get a real feel of the Friday prayers'.
The team said the act showed the diversity and breaking down of barriers within their police force. The prayer was also led by Hafiz Emad Choudhury, one of the police officers.
Read more: Delight as Guz Khan's Man like Mobeen to return for fourth series on BBC Three
In a tweet shared to the Springfield WMP Twitter, it said: " #Sparkhill Such an empowering Jummuah Prayer @bahutrustuk today led by our very own @ImaamCop.
"To top this PC Jakob wanted to get a real feel of the Friday prayers and has volunteered to experience it. So many barriers broken within our Policing Community. We are diversity!"
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Mohammed Shafi Saheb, founder of Shafi Muslim High School , Laheriasarai in 1932
Late Mohammed Shafi Saheb , Bar at Law from London , Minister of PWD , Govt of Bihar in 1952 , Vice Chairman District Board , Darbhanga , Village Ekhatha , Darbhanga now Madhubani, founder of Shafi Muslim High School , Laheriasarai in 1932.
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India’s so-called nationalists who live in California, USA are threatening even women protesters
India’s so-called nationalists who live in California, USA are pushing, and threatening even women protesters who are protesting against Indian regime’s anti-Dalit and anti-Muslim policies and politics.
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Reminder to anyone who would like to be part of the noble action of donating, September 7th from 1-6! Hope to see you there!
Reminder to anyone who would like to be part of the noble action of donating, September 7th from 1-6! Hope to see you there!
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China extends DNA sample collection to Tibet under ‘crime detection’ program, had earlier done so for Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang
China extends DNA sample collection to Tibet under ‘crime detection’ program, had earlier done so for Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.
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Ambassador Xiao Qian keep lying to the world, he says the UN report on Uyghurs and other Muslim groups in China's Xinjiang region is "an absolute fabrication".
Ambassador Xiao Qian keep lying to the world, he says the UN report on Uyghurs and other Muslim groups in China's Xinjiang region is "an absolute fabrication".
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THIS IS HOW THE ARAB REGIMES ARREST THE UYGHURS MUSLIMS AND HAND THEM OVER TO CHINA
Many of China's Muslims of the Uyghur minority escaped the oppression of their government and decided to reside in Arab countries. However, since 2017, the Arab regimes have repeatedly attempted to extradite them to Beijing.
Many of China's Muslims of the Uyghur minority escaped the oppression of their government and decided to reside in Arab countries. However, since 2017, the Arab regimes have repeatedly attempted to extradite them to Beijing.
The American network, NBC News, revealed the secret on April 25, 2022, confirming that the Beijing government provided “gifts” to Arab regimes in the form of projects and economic benefits in exchange for a position against the Uyghur minority.
It emphasized that the Chinese authorities, in order to suppress the Muslim Uyghur minority, are intensifying cooperation with the governments of Arab countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the UAE, whether to arrest them or to cooperate in defending China against international criticism over the persecution of its Muslims.
Simultaneously, the Kissinger Institute for Chinese-American Affairs of the Woodrow Wilson Center released a study entitled The Great Wall of Steel that revealed unprecedented details about the extent of Arab governments' complicity with China to deport Uyghurs.
The study showed that more than 1,500 Uyghurs in Arab countries were arrested or extradited, or forced to return to China to face detention and torture.
It said that Beijing targeted more than 5,500 Uyghurs outside China in Arab and Middle Eastern countries with cyber-attacks to spy on them and threaten their family members residing at home, with the complicity of Arab governments as well.
Since 1949, Beijing has controlled the territory of East Turkestan, which is the homeland of the Muslim Uyghur Turks, and called it Xinjiang, meaning "the new frontier".
Official statistics indicate that there are 30 million Muslims in the country, 23 million of whom are Uyghurs, while unofficial reports confirm that the number of Muslims is about 100 million, or about 9.5 percent of the total population.
In 2017, the Chinese authorities in Xinjiang began a campaign to arrest Muslim women and men from the Uyghur, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz ethnic minorities and detain them in camps designed under the pretext of " ridding them of terrorist and extremist tendencies," according to China’s claim.
Between one and two million Uyghurs and members of other minorities from Xinjiang are believed to be held in the camps, where they are forced to study Marxism, renounce their religion, work in factories, and face abuse, according to human rights groups.
'Gifts' and Complicity
NBC News issued a study entitled the Great Steel Wall in 2022, researchers identified several reasons for the complicity of Arab regimes with Beijing in the suppression of China's Muslims.
The Great Steel Wall report chronicles the efforts of the Chinese Ministry of State Security to harass, detain, and extradite Uyghurs from around the world, and the cooperation it receives from Arab governments in the Middle East and North Africa in unprecedented detail.
The author of the report, Bradley Jardine, of the Kissinger Institute of the Wilson Center, says that these gifts are Chinese projects in Arab countries, including Egypt, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia, with billions of dollars, and their goal is to facilitate trade between China and the Arabs.
Scholar Adrian Zenz, who has studied China's systematic oppression of the Uyghurs, explained that Beijing uses its economic influence and "gifts" in the form of infrastructure projects.
These projects are represented by the Belt and Road Initiative, and they benefit Arab and Islamic countries that sympathize with the Uyghur crisis and put pressure on them as well.
He stressed that "the Chinese are afraid of the opinion of Muslim peoples regarding their treatment of the Uyghurs, and they have made exceptional efforts to influence the governments of those countries and their public opinion."
The researcher Jardine, who is also director of research at the Oxus Association for Central Asian Affairs, wrote in Time magazine on March 24, 2022, that "the Arab world is not only silent about the Chinese oppression of the Uyghurs, but it is complicit."
He asserted that Arab countries actively help Beijing in justifying abuses and retaliation against the Uyghurs and that at least six governments in the Arab world: Egypt, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the UAE have detained and extradited Chinese Muslims to Beijing.
Torture and Murder
The Oxus Association says: "The Egyptian police arrested more than 200 Chinese Muslims from their homes, restaurants, mosques and even airports, most of them students at al-Azhar University, and a large number were transferred to the notorious Tora and Scorpion prisons."
It asserted, in a report entitled: Beyond the Silence: Cooperation between Arab Countries and China in the Cross-Border Repression of the Uyghurs, that Chinese detainees in Egypt assured that Chinese intelligence officers interrogated them inside Egyptian prisons.
"The Uyghurs who fled the crackdown in Egypt believed that al-Azhar University would protect them, but they were "surprised" when the police arrested them and revealed that it had killed two Uyghur students in custody and deported 76 of them to China," according to the association.
According to a report by NBC News, in 2017, the Egyptian police arrested Uyghur students at a university in Cairo and deported them to China and other places in the Middle East.
On June 19, 2017, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior signed an agreement with the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, during the visit of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi to Beijing to attend the BRICS summit focused on "fighting terrorism and security cooperation between the two countries", without details.
The agreement was followed by a campaign by the Egyptian security services against Muslim students from East Turkestan in China (the Uyghurs) who are studying at al-Azhar or residing in Egypt for fear of returning to their country and being subjected to torture.
Omer Kanat, an activist of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, said that "the Egyptian authorities are forcing the students to sign documents stating that they belong to extremist groups at the request of the Chinese government, which accused them of terrorism, with the aim of justifying their deportation to China," according to a statement published in June 2017.
The news was also confirmed by the New York Times on July 6, 2017, confirming that 12 of these students had already been deported to China and that 22 others were awaiting deportation, as it quoted three Egyptian aviation officials at the time.
Arabic 'Trap'
Reports by NBC News, the study of the Great Steel Wall, and Time magazine confirm that China's Muslims were not spared from arrest, even on the pilgrimage, which turned into a trap for them, as Saudi Arabia arrested an Uyghur coming to it.
In the report published in Time magazine, Bradley Jardine pointed out that the Chinese intelligence services used the pilgrimage to lure fugitive Uyghurs residing in Europe, and deport them to China with the complicity of the Saudi government.
Such as the arrest of the Uyghur Osman Ahmed Tohti, after he came for Hajj in 2018 from Turkey, where he resides legally.
The UAE, which has strong relations with China, also played a role in the arrest of Uyghurs and was described as a "regional intelligence center for the Chinese security services."
It was reported that Chinese Muslims residing in the Netherlands were lured to Dubai and their families in Xinjiang were pressured to ensure their compliance in cooperating with Chinese intelligence to spy on Chinese Muslims abroad.
Saudi Arabia appears on China's list of "suspicious" countries to which the Uyghurs travel, "and the kingdom has increasingly cooperated with Beijing," according to the American network, NBC News.
It confirmed that the Saudi authorities had deported at least six Uyghurs to China in the past four years who were performing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca or entered the country legally, according to the report.
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Many of China's Muslims of the Uyghur minority escaped the oppression of their government and decided to reside in Arab countries. However, since 2017, the Arab regimes have repeatedly attempted to extradite them to Beijing.
The American network, NBC News, revealed the secret on April 25, 2022, confirming that the Beijing government provided “gifts” to Arab regimes in the form of projects and economic benefits in exchange for a position against the Uyghur minority.
It emphasized that the Chinese authorities, in order to suppress the Muslim Uyghur minority, are intensifying cooperation with the governments of Arab countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the UAE, whether to arrest them or to cooperate in defending China against international criticism over the persecution of its Muslims.
Simultaneously, the Kissinger Institute for Chinese-American Affairs of the Woodrow Wilson Center released a study entitled The Great Wall of Steel that revealed unprecedented details about the extent of Arab governments' complicity with China to deport Uyghurs.
The study showed that more than 1,500 Uyghurs in Arab countries were arrested or extradited, or forced to return to China to face detention and torture.
It said that Beijing targeted more than 5,500 Uyghurs outside China in Arab and Middle Eastern countries with cyber-attacks to spy on them and threaten their family members residing at home, with the complicity of Arab governments as well.
Since 1949, Beijing has controlled the territory of East Turkestan, which is the homeland of the Muslim Uyghur Turks, and called it Xinjiang, meaning "the new frontier".
Official statistics indicate that there are 30 million Muslims in the country, 23 million of whom are Uyghurs, while unofficial reports confirm that the number of Muslims is about 100 million, or about 9.5 percent of the total population.
In 2017, the Chinese authorities in Xinjiang began a campaign to arrest Muslim women and men from the Uyghur, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz ethnic minorities and detain them in camps designed under the pretext of " ridding them of terrorist and extremist tendencies," according to China’s claim.
Between one and two million Uyghurs and members of other minorities from Xinjiang are believed to be held in the camps, where they are forced to study Marxism, renounce their religion, work in factories, and face abuse, according to human rights groups.
'Gifts' and Complicity
NBC News issued a study entitled the Great Steel Wall in 2022, researchers identified several reasons for the complicity of Arab regimes with Beijing in the suppression of China's Muslims.
The Great Steel Wall report chronicles the efforts of the Chinese Ministry of State Security to harass, detain, and extradite Uyghurs from around the world, and the cooperation it receives from Arab governments in the Middle East and North Africa in unprecedented detail.
The author of the report, Bradley Jardine, of the Kissinger Institute of the Wilson Center, says that these gifts are Chinese projects in Arab countries, including Egypt, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia, with billions of dollars, and their goal is to facilitate trade between China and the Arabs.
Scholar Adrian Zenz, who has studied China's systematic oppression of the Uyghurs, explained that Beijing uses its economic influence and "gifts" in the form of infrastructure projects.
These projects are represented by the Belt and Road Initiative, and they benefit Arab and Islamic countries that sympathize with the Uyghur crisis and put pressure on them as well.
He stressed that "the Chinese are afraid of the opinion of Muslim peoples regarding their treatment of the Uyghurs, and they have made exceptional efforts to influence the governments of those countries and their public opinion."
The researcher Jardine, who is also director of research at the Oxus Association for Central Asian Affairs, wrote in Time magazine on March 24, 2022, that "the Arab world is not only silent about the Chinese oppression of the Uyghurs, but it is complicit."
He asserted that Arab countries actively help Beijing in justifying abuses and retaliation against the Uyghurs and that at least six governments in the Arab world: Egypt, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the UAE have detained and extradited Chinese Muslims to Beijing.
Torture and Murder
The Oxus Association says: "The Egyptian police arrested more than 200 Chinese Muslims from their homes, restaurants, mosques and even airports, most of them students at al-Azhar University, and a large number were transferred to the notorious Tora and Scorpion prisons."
It asserted, in a report entitled: Beyond the Silence: Cooperation between Arab Countries and China in the Cross-Border Repression of the Uyghurs, that Chinese detainees in Egypt assured that Chinese intelligence officers interrogated them inside Egyptian prisons.
"The Uyghurs who fled the crackdown in Egypt believed that al-Azhar University would protect them, but they were "surprised" when the police arrested them and revealed that it had killed two Uyghur students in custody and deported 76 of them to China," according to the association.
According to a report by NBC News, in 2017, the Egyptian police arrested Uyghur students at a university in Cairo and deported them to China and other places in the Middle East.
On June 19, 2017, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior signed an agreement with the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, during the visit of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi to Beijing to attend the BRICS summit focused on "fighting terrorism and security cooperation between the two countries", without details.
The agreement was followed by a campaign by the Egyptian security services against Muslim students from East Turkestan in China (the Uyghurs) who are studying at al-Azhar or residing in Egypt for fear of returning to their country and being subjected to torture.
Omer Kanat, an activist of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, said that "the Egyptian authorities are forcing the students to sign documents stating that they belong to extremist groups at the request of the Chinese government, which accused them of terrorism, with the aim of justifying their deportation to China," according to a statement published in June 2017.
The news was also confirmed by the New York Times on July 6, 2017, confirming that 12 of these students had already been deported to China and that 22 others were awaiting deportation, as it quoted three Egyptian aviation officials at the time.
Arabic 'Trap'
Reports by NBC News, the study of the Great Steel Wall, and Time magazine confirm that China's Muslims were not spared from arrest, even on the pilgrimage, which turned into a trap for them, as Saudi Arabia arrested an Uyghur coming to it.
In the report published in Time magazine, Bradley Jardine pointed out that the Chinese intelligence services used the pilgrimage to lure fugitive Uyghurs residing in Europe, and deport them to China with the complicity of the Saudi government.
Such as the arrest of the Uyghur Osman Ahmed Tohti, after he came for Hajj in 2018 from Turkey, where he resides legally.
The UAE, which has strong relations with China, also played a role in the arrest of Uyghurs and was described as a "regional intelligence center for the Chinese security services."
It was reported that Chinese Muslims residing in the Netherlands were lured to Dubai and their families in Xinjiang were pressured to ensure their compliance in cooperating with Chinese intelligence to spy on Chinese Muslims abroad.
Saudi Arabia appears on China's list of "suspicious" countries to which the Uyghurs travel, "and the kingdom has increasingly cooperated with Beijing," according to the American network, NBC News.
It confirmed that the Saudi authorities had deported at least six Uyghurs to China in the past four years who were performing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca or entered the country legally, according to the report.
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Muslim Concentration Camps in China | China’s cost-free gulag for Muslims
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China’s prolonged detention of more than 1 million Muslims in Xinjiang represents the largest mass incarceration of people on religious grounds since the Nazi era. Yet, disturbingly, China has incurred no international costs.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, the brain behind the scheme, and his inner circle have faced no consequences for sustaining the Muslim gulag since at least March 2017. Despite two successive U.S. administrations describing the unparalleled repression in Xinjiang as “genocide” and “crimes against humanity,” Western actions against China have largely been symbolic.
The just-released report on Xinjiang by the United Nations’ human rights office cites serious human-rights violations there and recommends that Beijing take “prompt steps to release all individuals arbitrarily deprived of their liberty” in that sprawling ethnic-minority homeland.
Yet this report, paradoxically, is a fresh reminder that China has escaped scot-free, with little prospect that it will be held to account for its mass internment of Muslim minorities, including expanding detention sites in Xinjiang since 2019. The Xinjiang repression also includes forced sterilization and abortion, torture of detainees, slave labor and draconian curbs on freedom of religion and movement.
The report’s release came after nearly a yearlong delay and just minutes before the four-year term of Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, ended. U.N. investigators had compiled the Xinjiang report almost a year ago, but Bachelet kept stalling its release, despite growing pressure from Western countries.
In May, after lengthy discussions with Beijing on arrangements, Bachelet undertook a controversial official visit to China, the first by a U.N. high commissioner for human rights since 2005. During her tenure, Bachelet – a former Chilean president and political detainee under dictator Augusto Pinochet – stayed mum on the Chinese repression in Xinjiang (and Tibet). She said nothing on the crackdown in Xinjiang even when she briefly visited that region during her restrictive China tour, which glossed over abuses by Xi’s regime.
Bachelet had earlier acknowledged that she was under “tremendous pressure” over the report, with China asking her to bury it. The eventual release of the report, minutes before Bachelet’s retirement at midnight on Aug. 31, indicated that she did not want her successor or temporary replacement to take credit for publishing it. Failing to release the report would have left a glaring black mark on her tenure.
Days before her retirement, Bachelet sent a copy of the report to Beijing because, as she explained in a Sept. 1 statement, she “wanted to take the greatest care to deal with the responses and inputs received from the (Chinese) government last week.” In response to the 48-page U.N. assessment, China wrote a 131-page rebuttal, with its foreign ministry calling the report a “farce.”
China has been emboldened by the international community’s indifference and indulgence. It successfully hosted the 2022 Winter Olympics, probably the most divisive games since the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, which helped strengthen the hands of Germany’s Adolf Hitler.
Underscoring China’s growing economic power and geopolitical clout, even Muslim countries, by and large, have remained shockingly silent on the Xinjiang repression. As if that weren’t bad enough, the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation in March honored Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi as a speaker at its foreign ministers’ forum in Pakistan.
Xi’s Muslim gulag has made a mockery of the 1948 Genocide Convention, to which China acceded in 1983 (with the rider that it does not consider itself bound by Article IX, the clause allowing any party in a dispute to lodge a complaint with the International Court of Justice). The Genocide Convention requires its parties, which include the United States, to “prevent and punish” acts of genocide.
Chinese authorities have subjected Uyghur and other Muslim groups in Xinjiang, including ethnic Kazakhs and Kyrgyz, to Orwellian levels of surveillance and control over many details of life. As Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo warned, China is weaponizing biotechnology to “pursue control over its people and its repression of members of ethnic and religious minority groups.”
The Xinjiang repression is aimed at indoctrinating not just political dissidents and religious zealots but entire Muslim communities by imposing large-scale deprogramming of Islamic identities. A gulag archipelago of 380 internment camps (or “reeducation hospitals,” as Beijing calls them) has become integral to this larger assault on Islam.
It is against this background that the carefully worded U.N. report warns that, “The extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim groups … and deprivation more generally of fundamental rights enjoyed individually and collectively, may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.” The report cited “patterns of torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” in the detention centers, including “credible” allegations of sexual violence.
The U.N. report may carry the imprimatur of the world’s only truly universal organization and its member states, yet China was quick to pour scorn on it. Just as it rubbished a 2016 international arbitral tribunal ruling that invalidated its territorial claims in the South China Sea, China ridiculed the U.N. report, calling it a pack of “disinformation and lies.”
The 1945-46 Nuremberg Military Tribunal, set up after Germany’s surrender in World War II, prosecuted those involved in crimes against humanity, the same crimes now being perpetrated in Xinjiang. Yet, with China a rising power, there seems little prospect that Chinese officials behind the Muslim gulag will face similar justice.
Indeed, just as China responded to the tribunal’s ruling by accelerating its expansionism in the South China Sea, including militarizing the region, it could step up its repression in Xinjiang until it manages to fully Sinicize and tame Muslim groups.
Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of nine books, including the award-winning “Water: Asia’s New Battleground” (Georgetown University Press). Follow him on Twitter @Chellaney.
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China’s prolonged detention of more than 1 million Muslims in Xinjiang represents the largest mass incarceration of people on religious grounds since the Nazi era. Yet, disturbingly, China has incurred no international costs.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, the brain behind the scheme, and his inner circle have faced no consequences for sustaining the Muslim gulag since at least March 2017. Despite two successive U.S. administrations describing the unparalleled repression in Xinjiang as “genocide” and “crimes against humanity,” Western actions against China have largely been symbolic.
The just-released report on Xinjiang by the United Nations’ human rights office cites serious human-rights violations there and recommends that Beijing take “prompt steps to release all individuals arbitrarily deprived of their liberty” in that sprawling ethnic-minority homeland.
Yet this report, paradoxically, is a fresh reminder that China has escaped scot-free, with little prospect that it will be held to account for its mass internment of Muslim minorities, including expanding detention sites in Xinjiang since 2019. The Xinjiang repression also includes forced sterilization and abortion, torture of detainees, slave labor and draconian curbs on freedom of religion and movement.
The report’s release came after nearly a yearlong delay and just minutes before the four-year term of Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, ended. U.N. investigators had compiled the Xinjiang report almost a year ago, but Bachelet kept stalling its release, despite growing pressure from Western countries.
In May, after lengthy discussions with Beijing on arrangements, Bachelet undertook a controversial official visit to China, the first by a U.N. high commissioner for human rights since 2005. During her tenure, Bachelet – a former Chilean president and political detainee under dictator Augusto Pinochet – stayed mum on the Chinese repression in Xinjiang (and Tibet). She said nothing on the crackdown in Xinjiang even when she briefly visited that region during her restrictive China tour, which glossed over abuses by Xi’s regime.
Bachelet had earlier acknowledged that she was under “tremendous pressure” over the report, with China asking her to bury it. The eventual release of the report, minutes before Bachelet’s retirement at midnight on Aug. 31, indicated that she did not want her successor or temporary replacement to take credit for publishing it. Failing to release the report would have left a glaring black mark on her tenure.
Days before her retirement, Bachelet sent a copy of the report to Beijing because, as she explained in a Sept. 1 statement, she “wanted to take the greatest care to deal with the responses and inputs received from the (Chinese) government last week.” In response to the 48-page U.N. assessment, China wrote a 131-page rebuttal, with its foreign ministry calling the report a “farce.”
China has been emboldened by the international community’s indifference and indulgence. It successfully hosted the 2022 Winter Olympics, probably the most divisive games since the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, which helped strengthen the hands of Germany’s Adolf Hitler.
Underscoring China’s growing economic power and geopolitical clout, even Muslim countries, by and large, have remained shockingly silent on the Xinjiang repression. As if that weren’t bad enough, the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation in March honored Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi as a speaker at its foreign ministers’ forum in Pakistan.
Xi’s Muslim gulag has made a mockery of the 1948 Genocide Convention, to which China acceded in 1983 (with the rider that it does not consider itself bound by Article IX, the clause allowing any party in a dispute to lodge a complaint with the International Court of Justice). The Genocide Convention requires its parties, which include the United States, to “prevent and punish” acts of genocide.
Chinese authorities have subjected Uyghur and other Muslim groups in Xinjiang, including ethnic Kazakhs and Kyrgyz, to Orwellian levels of surveillance and control over many details of life. As Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo warned, China is weaponizing biotechnology to “pursue control over its people and its repression of members of ethnic and religious minority groups.”
The Xinjiang repression is aimed at indoctrinating not just political dissidents and religious zealots but entire Muslim communities by imposing large-scale deprogramming of Islamic identities. A gulag archipelago of 380 internment camps (or “reeducation hospitals,” as Beijing calls them) has become integral to this larger assault on Islam.
It is against this background that the carefully worded U.N. report warns that, “The extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim groups … and deprivation more generally of fundamental rights enjoyed individually and collectively, may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.” The report cited “patterns of torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” in the detention centers, including “credible” allegations of sexual violence.
The U.N. report may carry the imprimatur of the world’s only truly universal organization and its member states, yet China was quick to pour scorn on it. Just as it rubbished a 2016 international arbitral tribunal ruling that invalidated its territorial claims in the South China Sea, China ridiculed the U.N. report, calling it a pack of “disinformation and lies.”
The 1945-46 Nuremberg Military Tribunal, set up after Germany’s surrender in World War II, prosecuted those involved in crimes against humanity, the same crimes now being perpetrated in Xinjiang. Yet, with China a rising power, there seems little prospect that Chinese officials behind the Muslim gulag will face similar justice.
Indeed, just as China responded to the tribunal’s ruling by accelerating its expansionism in the South China Sea, including militarizing the region, it could step up its repression in Xinjiang until it manages to fully Sinicize and tame Muslim groups.
Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of nine books, including the award-winning “Water: Asia’s New Battleground” (Georgetown University Press). Follow him on Twitter @Chellaney.
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during 1940s/50s Mao talked abt how Muslims deserve self-rule incl. Islamic law but changed tune
Yup actually during the "revolutionary" days (when they needed support) Soviets feigned respect for Islam. It very quickly changed by mid-1920s. Something similar with China as well, during 1940s/50s Mao talked abt how Muslims deserve self-rule incl. Islamic law but changed tune
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Retired three-star admiral Mike Franken said in his twitter:America's first mosque was built in Iowa state.
Retired three-star admiral Mike Franken said in his twitter: Seems Fox and Chuck Grassley's staff are hot to paint me 'liberal.' Bit of history, duh... Iowa was first state to open college for women, elect women to public office, accept women to the BAR, accept interracial marriage, outlaw segregation, and built America's first mosque.
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At least eight people have been killed after a suicide bomber detonated explosives near the entrance of the Russian embassy in Kabul
At least eight people have been killed after a suicide bomber detonated explosives near the entrance of the Russian embassy in Kabul, security sources have told Al Jazeera。
The dead include two employees of the embassy, the Russian foreign ministry said on Monday, adding that an “unknown militant” set off an explosive device near the entrance to the consular section of the embassy at 10:50am (06:20 GMT).
Police said the attacker was shot dead by armed guards as he approached the embassy gate in Darul Aman area in southwest of Kabul.
“The suicide attacker, before reaching the target, was recognised and shot by Russian embassy [Taliban] guards,” Mawlawi Sabir, the head of the police district where the attack took place, told the Reuters news agency.
It was not immediately clear if the attacker was able to set off the blast before being shot, or if the gunfire detonated the explosives.
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The dead include two employees of the embassy, the Russian foreign ministry said on Monday, adding that an “unknown militant” set off an explosive device near the entrance to the consular section of the embassy at 10:50am (06:20 GMT).
Police said the attacker was shot dead by armed guards as he approached the embassy gate in Darul Aman area in southwest of Kabul.
“The suicide attacker, before reaching the target, was recognised and shot by Russian embassy [Taliban] guards,” Mawlawi Sabir, the head of the police district where the attack took place, told the Reuters news agency.
It was not immediately clear if the attacker was able to set off the blast before being shot, or if the gunfire detonated the explosives.
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Record floods in Pakistan have killed more than 1,300 and displaced more than 33 million people
Record floods in Pakistan have killed more than 1,300 and displaced more than 33 million people, with the country now facing the spread of waterborne diseases and other health challenges in the affected regions http://aje.io/u9t45o
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Dozens of Lebanese and Syrian refugees stranded for days at sea on a sinking fishing boat.
"They have been at sea for over 10 days already and several EU authorities have been informed – why is nobody intervening?" Dozens of Lebanese and Syrian refugees stranded for days at sea on a sinking fishing boat.
https://aje.io/jpycu4
From Al Jazeera English
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https://aje.io/jpycu4
From Al Jazeera English
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BREAKING: Israel says ‘high possibility’ its army killed Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
BREAKING: Israel says ‘high possibility’ its army killed Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh http://aje.io/8xmu9r
From Al Jazeera English
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From Al Jazeera English
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September 12 at 1pm for Atrocities Against Uyghurs: Law and Politics | Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
Join us on Monday, September 12 at 1pm for Atrocities Against Uyghurs: Law and Politics.
RSVP — http://bit.ly/Uyghur9-12
Location: Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
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RSVP — http://bit.ly/Uyghur9-12
Location: Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
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East London Mosque hosted 'faith talks' event.
East London Mosque hosted Professor Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem, OBE, notable academic at SOAS
niversity of London and translator of the Qur'an (Oxford classic edition), who spoke at our 'faith talks' event.
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niversity of London and translator of the Qur'an (Oxford classic edition), who spoke at our 'faith talks' event.
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Pro-Palestine activists set up an information stall in Brighton, England
Pro-Palestine activists set up an information stall in Brighton, England as part of their efforts to raise awareness about the Palestinian cause and in solidarity with Palestinian people.
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More than 470 Palestinians, including 39 children and 16 women, were arrested by the Israeli occupation forces during August 2022
More than 470 Palestinians, including 39 children and 16 women, were arrested by the Israeli occupation forces during August 2022, according to Prisoners Advocacy Groups.
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Buchanan's 1795 journal even records people calling Arakan by the name 'Rooinga'
It's important today to recognise the Rohingya are indigenous to Myanmar + entitled to citizenship + justice. The historical record notes the shared Muslim + Buddhist character of historic Arakan. Buchanan's 1795 journal even records people calling Arakan by the name 'Rooinga'
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The Chinese government is violently demolishing the dome of the Islamic and Quran learning College in Beijing
Xi Jinping launched the Second Cultural Revolution, according to a video posted by a Beijing citizen.
The Chinese government is violently demolishing the dome of the Islamic and Quran learning College in Beijing, the video shows on Sept. 3, 2022.
The Quran learning Academy is within the second ring road of Beijing. Funding was provided by a donation of more than $900,000 from the Islamic Development Bank to build the new Beijing Islamic and Quran learning Institute on the site of the former Tianqiao Mosque. The main buildings include a teaching building, a worship hall (which can accommodate 150 worshipers at the same time), ablution rooms, a dining hall, dormitories, a library, meeting rooms, etc. The architecture combines Chinese tradition with Arabic style. on November 15, 1994, the Beijing Quran Learning Institute was completed and resumed enrollment. Since Xi Jinping's "Chinese-ization of Islam" policy in 2017, China has demolished a large number of mosques in Xinjiang, Yunnan, Ningxia, Qinghai, Henan, Gansu, and Inner Mongolia, banned the Quran, shut down Quran and Arabic learning schools, and maliciously erased halal restaurants and minority Muslim communities' languages and Islamic symbols. Muslim groups like the Uighurs, Kazakhs, and Hui are forcefully indoctrinated with Han Chinese racist and Chinese hegemonic ideology. The intention is to destroy the Islamic faithful in China and implement a policy of complete genocide and cultural cleansing of the Muslim community in mainland China.
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The Chinese government is violently demolishing the dome of the Islamic and Quran learning College in Beijing, the video shows on Sept. 3, 2022.
The Quran learning Academy is within the second ring road of Beijing. Funding was provided by a donation of more than $900,000 from the Islamic Development Bank to build the new Beijing Islamic and Quran learning Institute on the site of the former Tianqiao Mosque. The main buildings include a teaching building, a worship hall (which can accommodate 150 worshipers at the same time), ablution rooms, a dining hall, dormitories, a library, meeting rooms, etc. The architecture combines Chinese tradition with Arabic style. on November 15, 1994, the Beijing Quran Learning Institute was completed and resumed enrollment. Since Xi Jinping's "Chinese-ization of Islam" policy in 2017, China has demolished a large number of mosques in Xinjiang, Yunnan, Ningxia, Qinghai, Henan, Gansu, and Inner Mongolia, banned the Quran, shut down Quran and Arabic learning schools, and maliciously erased halal restaurants and minority Muslim communities' languages and Islamic symbols. Muslim groups like the Uighurs, Kazakhs, and Hui are forcefully indoctrinated with Han Chinese racist and Chinese hegemonic ideology. The intention is to destroy the Islamic faithful in China and implement a policy of complete genocide and cultural cleansing of the Muslim community in mainland China.
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The Israel occupation issues a decision to demolish the house of the Jerusalemite Fadi Obeid in Al-Isawiya town
AlQastal News: It was only built since 7 months, the Israel occupation issues a decision to demolish the house of the Jerusalemite Fadi Obeid in Al-Isawiya town.
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Uyghur genocide camps | Roziqari Dawut, 27, the so-called reason of his imprisonment was having complex social relations。
Innocent Uyghur man was sentenced.Roziqari Dawut, 27, the so-called reason of his imprisonment was having complex social relations, 7 members of the family were detained and gathering a crowd to disturb social order. Where is he? Was he killed?
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