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Offline TomSea

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Daughter of Jailed Uyghur Scholar Ilham Tohti Accepts Sakharov Prize For Her Father
« on: December 19, 2019, 07:19:09 am »
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Daughter of Jailed Uyghur Scholar Ilham Tohti Accepts Sakharov Prize For Her Father
By Joshua Lipes 2019-12-18

The daughter of jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti accepted the European Parliament’s 2019 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on his behalf on Wednesday, calling on lawmakers to protest China’s policies in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).

Tohti, a former professor of economics at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing, was sentenced to life in prison for “separatism” by the Urumqi Intermediate People's Court in the XUAR on Sept. 23, 2014, despite having worked for more than two decades to foster dialogue and understanding between Uyghurs and Han Chinese.

The European Parliament said in October it had selected Tohti, 49, for the Sakharov Prize—its top human rights award—for “fighting for the rights of China’s Uyghur minority” in the XUAR, where authorities are believed to have detained some 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities accused of harboring “strong religious views” and “politically incorrect” ideas in a vast network of internment camps since April 2017.

Read more at: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/sakharov-12182019164513.html
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Re: Daughter of Jailed Uyghur Scholar Ilham Tohti Accepts Sakharov Prize For Her Father
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2019, 01:58:46 pm »
I don't see this situation getting better rather than uglier, and I've seen news reports that this has gone beyond XUAR to Gansu Province and to another majority-Muslim people group. For example, https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26/763356996/afraid-we-will-become-the-next-xinjiang-chinas-hui-muslims-face-crackdown .
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Re: Daughter of Jailed Uyghur Scholar Ilham Tohti Accepts Sakharov Prize For Her Father
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2019, 11:27:50 pm »
The Chinese leaders have decided to not merely "contain" islam within their borders, but to reduce it, perhaps with the intention of purging it from their lands entirely.

I can't find fault with them for endeavoring to do so.

100 years from now, Western Europe will be ruled by islam.
Perhaps Canada, perhaps even here. We certainly don't seem to be fighting islam "to win".

But China will still be... China.
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