In Tibet, the governemnt encourages entire families to move to marginalize the population. My cousin and her husband (from Shanghai) informed me last night at dinner the government has treated ethnic minorities pretty badly despite all the “happy propaganda about one united country” since the founding of the PRC. Although Tibetans are highlighted because of support from celebrities, the minorities in the west of China are treated much worse. It should be no surprise why they were getting terrorist training.
No wonder the Uighurs in Gitmo thought that place was pretty nice. Compared to treatment by the Communists, their treatment at the hands of the Americans was downright royal.
My friends at MARSOC (Special Operations Command, US Marine Forces) have found tribal loyalty more important in Afghanistan than almost everything including religion since many tribes have a looser intrepretation of the Koran than in Iraq; a tradition of weak central government, illiteracy and ignorance probably help.
If it’s a question of morally supporting the PRC or the Uighurs, I’ll take “neither”, thank you.
From what I have read, the Uighurs are mainly Sunni Muslims.
And Sunni Muslims murdered 3,000 innocent Americans in NYC on 9/11/2001.
Therefore I can’t have any sympathy for the Uighurs.
By the way, what little I have seen about the Uighurs is from the famous NHK documentary the Silk Road, shot in Western China in 1980.
They did not look very repressed. Nor very pleasant.
Our welfare policies do the same thing. Look at illegal immigrant clusters far from the southwest, or Somalian enclaves in Maine or Minnesota.
As I stated earlier the Uighurs are a mix breed of Asiatic and white and have no blood connection to the Han Chinese. The problem they have, along with the Tibetans, is that the Chinese have a huge army and the west will do nothing to upset the Chinese due to economics. Right now China owns the you-know-what of the American anatomy. Soon they will own it all, literally or figuratively.
I actually envy the people of Afghanistan and óther regions of the world where family loyalty comes first. That’s why the Amercian “culture” has been engineered to break family and ethnic loyalty (unless it serves the interest of the ruling elite). The only way the New World Order stands a chance is for the loyalty to family and religion to be destroyed.
I hope the Chinese eliminate their terrorist problem of Islamic Uyghurs. They have not been treated badly at all. The Chinese have bent over backward to give them much more than the Chinese themselves have.
So we released these scum - so what? IN a world not gone mad they would have been executed after they gave up information to our security. Not released to guam and Bermuda at the behest of the Turk Muslims.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/06/uighurs_released_to_bermuda_al_1.asp