China's Repression of Muslims

The full extent of Beijing's evil is finally coming into view. As the world watches the ongoing democratic uprising in Hong Kong, it is impossible to ignore the greater backdrop of oppression and egregious human rights abuses across China: more than 1 million religious minorities now in Xinjiang’s modern-day concentration camps, vast efforts at cultural reprogramming, and regular physical torture.

A Muslim woman who escaped from a state "re-education" camp in China has said inmates were gang raped, subjected to torture and medical experiments and forced to eat pork.

In the Name of God, the Benevolent, the Merciful. All praise is due to Allah and may the Creator send His blessings and salutations upon our master Muhammad, upon whom be peace, as well as upon his family and companions.

We, Imams, scholars and community leaders, hereby affirm and declare the following fundamental points:

In this video Shaykh Yasir Qadhi gives a short history and explanation about what is happening to the Uighur population in East Turkestan (now referred to as Xinjiang).  This was part of a longer video given by the Shaykh titled The State of Muslims in China - Trip Reflections.

In response to an outbreak of violence, the instigation of which remains unclear, the Chinese government has cracked down, and cracked down hard, on the Uighur minority in China's northwest province, Xinjiang. According to Chinese media reports, always softened, more than 150 people have already been killed, many of them Han Chinese, with at least a thousand Uighurs plucked from the streets, branded agitators (or, worse, "splittists") and thrown into jail. The government has swiftly clamped down on Internet communications and the entire area, one sixth of the nation, is in a state of siege.