Beyond Guantanamo: China's Uyghur Muslim Minority

China's vast northwest province of Xinjiang is home to a minority Muslim population known as the Uyghurs. Like neighboring Tibet, its people face similar problems: religious restrictions, forced abortions, imprisonment and execution. Yet the plight of Uyghurs is underreported and largely ignored in the West. They practice a moderate interpretation of Islam. They are without a prominent leader or the romantic allure that draws so much attention to Tibet. The Chinese government explains its heavy hand by labeling the Uyghurs as separatists and-after September 11th-as terrorists.

This Stanley Foundation video, filmed in November 2008, explores China's treatment of its Uyghur population through interviews with various experts and a visit to Xinjiang province.

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[qilinmelb]

How about Hawaii? Why English is taught in Hawaii schools? Why now Hawaiians can speak English? Why Hawaiians accept and live in American way even though they still have their kind of cultural inherited?

[beancube2008]

Canada is drained by US Corporations. Well trained staffs are not staying even if they bring in new people but they also get lured away after a while. US corporations will do the same to US using China, India, or some other countries. They are just middle men collectively under International Corporations but they hijacked all systems. We have to bypass them eventually.

[wxyz483]

What beautiful little children talking at the end of this video mashAllah.. Islam is also used against Muslims right here in America,go to CAIRtv youtube channel.. Islamophobia is doing very well here even Sikhs are being targeted because ignorant people think that they are Muslim..

[ericssson]

@qilinmelb Hawaii was taken by force and now it's there way of life

just like the fuckin chinese have no business in tibet Or Xinjiang

[hypocritewatcher]

Why are there so many hypocrites here commenting?! Instead of sympathizing with the suffering Uyghur people, they ramble away from the topic, hailing China as if they were on a moral high ground. If they do like Chinese abuse of Uyghur people, they should become CH citizens who have no access to youtube. To summarize what these hypocrites are saying: "let Uyghurs suffer and we continue benefiting"

[50zem]

fake video

[tempak332]

All Christians are officially terrorists after the Holocaust for causing terror to the Jews and gypsies. And all Muslims are also terrorists after 9/11. How stupid does that sound!

[africanfromafrica]

what exactly is a "moderate interpretation of islam"

[francinto]

i'm in france, ask you westerners yourself, will celtic brittany, scotland, northern ireland or some basque catalan or even quebec will be allowed to seperate easily from these countries ? this is shitty report and i don't understand why you journalist from democratic world need to make stories to against a despised regime, you are making yourself the same level as the chinese communist party. who else should we believe?

[turtle53081]

@Cackem124 Native Hawaiians are Native Americans..and the same thing happened to the Hawaiians as the other Native Americans..just like pretty much all European colonizations..Africa, Australia..Canada, South America..

[turtle53081]

@qilinmelb "One of the most detrimental actions the missionaries took towards the tradition was that they banned hula and talking Hawaiian in the schools that they erected in the mid 1800’s for Hawaiian students. With this came the decline of the language, and cultural practices, at least for another 50 years or so." -taken from an article on native hawaiian culture

[jachina]

what a dumbass reporter, learn some history you moron