RWStanding wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 7:54 pm
Cultural Genocide
There are two ways in which cultural genocide may be and is being perpetrated.
Firstly, by tyrannical racism, in which a minority culture is suppressed and the culture in power imposed through forced re-education. As is reportedly happening in China.
The second is by misused human rights that treat everyone and every society universally, not as equal, but as the same. And every part of the world open by right to all people.
I agree with your above two points but not the example, i.e. as is happening in China.
Firstly you committed a categorical error, i.e. Muslim-ness of Islam is not a race but an ideology.
As I had read, China is not messing with the basic culture of the Uyghur. Rather China is dealing with the evil ideology that is Islam which has a malignant, evil and violent ethos.
The fact is, it is Islam the ideology that has committed
cultural genocide on the people of the Uyghur after they had converted to Islam hundred of years ago.
The ideology of Islam [worst than Nazism] have been wiping out all sorts of cultures and social traits of people around the world since its emergence 1400 years ago and replaced them with a religious ideology that has a malignant, evil and violent ethos.
China, as reported, is very greedy and has the drive to grab as much land as they can. This is a political move.
The majority as with every majority of people will try to dominate, but China has put a lot of effort to protect its minority, note,
China officially recognizes 56 ethnic minority groups within China in addition to the Han majority. ... By definition, these ethnic minority groups, together with the Han majority, make up the greater Chinese nationality known as zhonghua minzu. Chinese minorities alone are referred to as "shaoshu minzu".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_mi ... s_in_China
China often brag about the above as a plus point and promote tourism to bring prosperity to these minorities.
Therefore we cannot conclude China is bent on cultural genocide.
Politically as with any government, China is worried the Uyghurs will seek independence and break away thus will take steps to prevent that.
The greatest threat from the Uyghurs is their religion which is very exclusive and do not promote integration with others in China and the rest of the non-Muslim community.
Thus the logical move for China was to deal with the ideology of Islam that the Uyghurs are infected with.
Point is not all Uyghurs are evil prone, but the estimated 20% of evil prone Uyghurs will definitely caused problems and posed the potential threat of independence via evil and violence. It has already happened.
There are approximately 10+ million Ugyhurs [100% Muslims?] in Xingjiang. If 20% are evil prone Muslims, there are 2 million evil prone Muslims bounded by the evil and violent ethos of Islam.
As I read, the Chinese government is SOLELY tackling the evil ideology of Islam via re-education [brainwashing] to induce them to integrate with the rest of China and prevent the inherent terrorism from Islam. The Chinese government is not deterring nor abolishing the non-Islamic cultural elements of the Uyghurs.
Personally, I don't believe the Chinese government will be successful in re-education [brainwash] the hardcore evil prone Muslims from being bonded to the evil and violent ethos of the Islam.
Note the recent case of the supposedly "re-educated" jihadist, Usman Khan, who killed two in London.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/liv ... olice-city