Posted on 05/23/2019 10:25:23 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a bill Tuesday that, if enacted, would call for sanctions[...] over the mass imprisonment of potentially millions of Muslims in concentration camps in eastern Xinjiang province.
[...] building hundreds of “re-eduation centers” that it claims are “vocational training” facilities for Uighurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other minorities. [...] “concentration camps” – locations where they are taken by force to learn Mandarin, renouncing their Muslim faith, memorize communist propaganda songs, and engage in slave labor.
Survivors report the widespread use of torture, including electroshock and sleep deprivation, [...] killing.
Up to 3 million Muslims and others of inconvenient ethnic or religious identity [...]
[...] Menendez (D-NJ) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced the bill. It received widespread bipartisan support[...] [:] Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Chuck Grassley (R-IA). [...]
The bill urges President Donald Trump to “condemn abuses against Turkic Muslims by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang and call on Chinese President Xi[...] immediately close the ‘political reeducation’ camps.”
[...] “impose targeted sanctions[...] The bill also suggests that Chinese corporations building and maintaining the camps should be added to the Department of Commerce “Entity List” that restricts business with Americans.
The bill’s major requirement, [...] is a report on national security threats to the United States that may arise from the abuses in Xinjiang from the Director of National Intelligence. [...]
as many as 1,200 concentration camps for Muslims. [...] “at least a million but likely closer to 3 million citizens out of a population of about 10 million”
[...]
Outside of the camp, residents of Xinjiang say that China has turned their province into a sprawling surveillance state and are using force and threats of imprisonment to get residents to abandon their Uighur identity and Islam. [...]
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Hopefully this resolution will be left unsigned.
Bad move...in this case I side with the Chinese over the Muzzies
Of all the things to get on the ChiComs for, and they pick this?!?!?!
This disgusts and frightens me. Where is the concern for the holocaust / genocide against Christians around the world? Very troubling that this gets attention and action while the much bigger problem gets swept under the rug/disappeared.
Because its just muslims and onto be Chrisians next.
Kick em out. Who cares where?
Why the torture and reeducation that with muzzies probably wont take anyway.
Maybe we can negotiate with China to take a bunch of our muslims....beginning with three or four in Congress.
Sad, one of the few things the Chicoms get right
... you have to remember they are hooking Christians too, and equating the two.
All the damned problems America has. And the US Senate dives in to protect Chinese moslems. Dirty traitorous SOBs
This is a tough one. On the one hand, you don’t want persecution of religious people. On the other hand, some religious people have a habit of cutting necks.
Hey liberals, even China can be right occasionally.
No.
It should be dead, dead, dead because Christians are not “next.”
Christians have been a continuous target and are being targeted now.
So no, we do not need and will never need a resolution that specifies Muslims and ignores Christians.
The conventional wisdom today is that there's a lack of "bipartisanship" in the House and Senate. In fact, there's plenty of it. The problem is, it's always for the wrong issues, such as defending Muslims around the world.
The same people who opposed protective tariffs or any kind of retaliation for China’s intellectual property theft and skewed trade practices against the US are now calling for sanctions. The message seems to be: do what you want to harm America, but don’t you dare harm a Muslim “minority” in your own country!
So why don’t we say Christians then, and only focus on Muslims?
China should get 10 billions dollars as a reward for taking necessary action.
Well, wrong reason, right outcome.
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