Unrest in Xinjiang: Where’s the Muslim outrage? | csmonitor.com

• Unrest in Xinjiang: Where’s the Muslim outrage? | csmonitor.com

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  • China also closed mosques last week – just one of many strict limits on freedom of expression in Xinjiang.

    It’s the kind of stuff that would arouse passionate protests if a Western country were the one cracking down. (Remember the apoplectic protests over the Danish cartoon of Prophet Muhammad?)

    But there were no Chinese flags burned in Karachi. No effigies of Hu Jintao smoldered in Cairo. No “Death to China” chants echoed through the streets of Tehran.

  • The Uighurs’ spiritual leader, Rebiya Kadeer (profiled here by the Monitor’s Beijing Bureau Chief Peter Ford), has some ideas.

    “So far the Islamic world is silent about the Uighurs’ suffering because the Chinese authorities have been very successful in [their] propaganda to the Muslim world … that the Uighurs are extremely pro-west Muslims - that they are modern Muslims, not genuine Muslims,” she said at a press conference Monday in Washington.