What is really going on in China?

Asalamu alaykum wa rahamarullahi wa barakatahu

I just want to share this article with you guys, its about the current ethnic fighting that is present in China. Most Muslims are not aware of it, thats the sad bit about it. Allah may give us power and the love of this deen in its entirety.

Muslim states 'silent' on Uighurs


A leading Uighur rights activist has criticised Muslim-majority countries for not speaking out against decades of alleged repression and persecution from the Chinese government.

Speaking in Washington on Monday, Rebiya Kadeer, a businesswoman who was jailed for years in China before being released into exile in the US, hit out at what she said was decades of "brutal suppression" of Muslims in China's western Xinjiang region.

Speaking after a day of unrest in Xinjiang left at least 150 people dead, Kadeer pointed to the lack of response from Muslim countries to the violence and the situation faced by the Uighurs.

"Muslim countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and a number of other Muslim countries as well as the central Asian states like Kazakhstan Kurdistan and Uzbekistan - they all deported Uighurs who had fled Chinese persecution for peacefully opposing Chinese rule, for writing something, for speaking something," she said.

She said the lack of action from Muslim countries contrasted with support given by other governments.

"Our only friend is in the West - Western democracies are supporting us and we are very grateful," Kadeeer, who heads the World Uighur Congress, told reporters.

"We certainly hope that more Muslim countries will raise our situation."

Kadeer attributed the lack of action from Muslim countries to what she said was the success of Chinese "propaganda" to the Muslim world.

"So far the Islamic world is silent about the Uighurs' suffering because the Chinese authorities have been very successful in its propaganda to the Muslim world."

That propaganda, she said, sent a message to the Muslim world "that the Uighurs are extremely pro-west Muslims - that they are modern Muslims, not genuine Muslims."

At the same time, she said, to Western countries the Chinese government "labelled Uighur leaders as Muslims terrorists with links to al-Qaeda - so the propaganda has been pretty effective on both sides."

Thelim Kine, an Asia researcher from New York-based Human Rights Watch, told Al Jazeera that Beijing's accusations of Uighur links to "terrorist" groups had intensified since the 9/11 attacks in the US.

"Because they are Muslim they have been accused of carrying out what the government calls 'terrorist activities', as well as being linked to various organisations like al-Qaeda," he said.

China's government has blamed Uighur exiles for stoking the recent unrest, singling out Kadeer for "masterminding" the riots – claims she rejected as "completely false".

While she admitted that some Uighurs had been carried out attacks during Sunday's unrest, she said the violence was a symptom of Uighur frustration and resentment at China's repressive policies.

Her group, she said, has repeatedly called for only peaceful protests and urged all sides to exercise restraint.

As protests continue in Xinjiang and police arrest hundreds after the riots, Kadeer called for an international investigation into the unrest.

"We hope that the United Nations, the United States and the European Union will send teams to investigate what really took place in Xinjiang," she said.

"We hope the White House will issue a stronger statement urging the Chinese government to show restraint, and also to tell the truth of the nature of the events and what happened, and to tell the Chinese government to redress Uighur grievances."

ameen...thanks for sharing this.

Just last Ramadan - our brothers and sisters in Uighur were banned from Tarawih prayers and restaurants had to be open at normal times and weren't allowed to be closed. Also, those under the age of 18 weren't allowed to fast. So that meant, those that did pass the age of puberty and attended school had to pretend they were not fasting. Allaahu'l musta'aan.

These are indeed trials from Allah (Jalla wa 'Aala) - but that doesn't mean it's restricted to our oppressed brethren, but those who share the same faith as them:


Quote:
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The relationship of the believer towards the people of faith is like that of the head to the body. The believer feels the pain of the people of faith just as the body feels the pain of the head.” (Narrated by Imaam Ahmad).


So, what to do:

- Make du'aa for them and do this at the times that the supplication is most likely accepted:

In your sujood
Last third of the night
Between adhan and iqamah
When it's raining

Just plz don't do one thing: Forget them.

SubhanaAllah.

JuzaakumaAllahu khairan.

May Allah 'azzawajal improve our condition, aameen!