PING!
Posted on 10/10/2019 5:59:36 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
For a profile in courage, consider a very significant move by the Trump administration this week in defense of Muslims. Just days before taking up new trade talks with China, the administration announced a dramatic stand in defense of up to 2 million Chinese Muslims in concentration camps and against companies that are using their technology to spy on the Chinese in their daily lives. Not that I expect the media to give the president and his administration points for defending the religious liberty of people around the world, but when you consider that the NBA couldn't find the character to support one pro-democracy tweet when China threatened loss of income, the move is all the more striking.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced this week that visa restrictions had been placed on Chinese diplomats alleged to have been involved in human rights violations against the Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region. The officials "are believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, the detention and abuse of Uighurs, Kazakhs, or other members of Muslim minority groups," he said. But restricting travel wasn't the administration's only move. The U.S. also blacklisted 28 Chinese companies who are believed to be involved in "surveillance and detention of minority groups," meaning that they cannot do business in the U.S. without a special waiver from the Commerce Department.
The two million-plus Muslims "are sent to re-education camps to learn how to be, quote unquote, more Chinese," said Republican Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma, who serves on the Finance Committee, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and joined me on Wednesday's Washington Watch.
"They're under heavy control. They're being managed in an area and restricted to travel. This is something we as Americans would never allow and shouldn't ever allow," he said.
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That's the Chinese way.
They're being managed in an area and restricted to travel.
So what? At least they are not being sent out as refugees.
This is something we as Americans would never allow and shouldn't ever allow," he said.
Endless meddling! It is not up to others to allow or not allow things in foreign legal systems.
He throws the calculus of his enemies into complete disarray!
I LOVE IT!
If anyone ever needed re-education, it is Muslims.
No other ideology has proven to be so incompatible with civilzed societies.
Dumb demand from our side. We need all muslims out of our country and never let them back in again, ever.
One thing China is doing right is suppressing islam. I wish it was illegal here. It is an enemy of everything our republic stood for.
Trump wants to free Muslims from Chinese re-education camps?
An obvious ploy to cover up his abject hatred of brown people.
(Sarcasm)
I don’t give a rat’s hindquarters about moslems...anywhere! Trade with Commie China should only happen if it benefits the United States of America.
Hey this might be good for my gold stock options in the morning.
Oh, he said it days ago.
Oh well
Still an incredible stance.
I wonder how others on the board feel about it?
Boy they cause a lot of trouble but they are probably getting slaughtered in the camps
The CHICOMS get this one right for all the wrong reasons.
good way to handle a political and theological group who we have been at war with since the beginning of our Nation.....”Shores of Tripoli “ ring a bell ? No such thing as a moderate muuzzie.
Exactly. Trump is right in using this against them. How can anyone object to “concentration camps?” The RATS should be doubly happy as they refuse to say anything negative concerning moooslims.
He needs to include that the Chinese ban all same sex bathrooms, enact LGBTQ rights, close their coal plants, and enact their own version of the clean water act and endangered species act.
Then watch the NBA and Hollywood actors blow their minds trying to figure out how to support that without having to support anything from Trump.
I seewhat he’s doing, but everywhere that isnt a muslim country ought to be removing every single one and never letting them back in.
This is the LAST thing we should be asking, or even better, not ask such thing at all. Let them keep their Muslims locked up, at least those will not be coming here to kill us.
NO! just NO. If you free Muslims anywhere they come to the U.S. We already have more than we can handle.
And the “media” don’t give a sh#t about Christians being slaughtered.
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