Posted on 09/26/2017 6:41:26 AM PDT by posterchild
Gas stations are fenced off with razor wire, and guards demand drivers' IDs to enter. Cameras lining the streets "capture every square inch" of the city, one resident boasts. Thousands of the region's newest security jobs, says Zenz, are for video and Internet surveillance staff.
The new police state comes with an eerie soundtrack. Along the streets, you hear the same pair of Mandarin-language propaganda songs: a jolly children's song about obeying traffic laws, and a more somber acoustic tune that promotes core Communist values. The government forces shops and restaurants in Uighur neighborhoods to broadcast these two songs all day on a loop all.
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In other parts of Xinjiang, the government has set up political re-education centers, where Uighurs who have managed to travel abroad are detained upon reentry — sometimes for months — and forced to watch propaganda videos and take classes in Mandarin language and Chinese identity before being released.
At a nearby coffee shop, a young Uighur woman says police now stop residents on the street and force them to hand over their phones. Then they plug them into a computer and force residents to download a government app.
"The app automatically checks to see if other apps on your phone are safe," she says, meaning permitted by the government. "If not, it'll ask you to delete them. It'll also detect videos about terrorism and things like that. Some apps, like the camera apps that girls like that make you prettier, aren't allowed."
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Meanwhile the Evening MSM News focuses on
non-existent “Russian collusion” while ignoring
the sale of uranium to Russia by Mueller and the
Clinton Foundation,
and on next week’s possible weather (to support
their non-existent “man-caused global warming”)
while ignoring Obama’s and Congress’ imposition
of incurable diseases into every American city
secretly and in the dark.
China doesn’t bother being politically correct, unlike the US. The government is actively working to protect the people from Muslim terrorism. What the Chinese government is doing is profiling.
Sounds like an ideal place to relocate the NFL.
Oh, those progressive Chinese...
Uighur=muslim
One can’t be too careful...
A few years back, I went on YouTube and searched for Uighur music, since I am a world music fan. But because “Uighur” can also be spelled “Uygur,” half of the results the YouTube search engine returned were videos of Cenk Uygur, an annoying former [P]MSNBC news anchor. Nothing this Uygur said ever made sense to me; maybe that’s why the network replaced him with the fake reverend, Al Sharpton.
The Muslim threat is very real not matter where they are.
China protecting itself from Islamic terrorists.
As a matter of fact, the Uighurs are turning increasingly to an ISIS type radicalism. The Chinese have every reason to be on guard particularly with the increase in knife attacks from Uighurs.
They’d protect themselves better if they either threw them out or left their territory altogether...
Partially from the infiltration of Islamic radicalism, but the bedding for the seeds of terror were planted by the Chinese totalitarism. Uighurs were generally peaceful and tolerant. China started to put the squeeze on them and this is the blow back. This won't stop the rise of radical islam into the Uighur community.
Seems pretty light-handed for China.
As I recall Kublai Khan had problems with the Uighurs in the Western provinces of China. I guess nothing has changed since the mid-1200s.
The Chinese know it will not so they are proactively protecting themselves.
What they don’t realize is that people are smart enough to play the game while cheating at it. Getting around the Great Firewall of China is that country’s favorite pasttime.
NPR has to be conflicted. Two of its idealized parties are in conflict with each other. That is Mohammedans and Communists.
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