Though the Pahalgam terrorist attack on Hindus is not the first time terrorists have attacked Hindus and Indian defence forces, it has been a routine barbaric action for many decades. The terrorists trained by the Pakistan army receive local backing in India; without local assistance, a attack is impossible. The locals who support these terrorist actions receive political and NGO assistance under the guise of “Majahab” and selfish motives. The dark alliance between anti-India elements and a few political parties is brainwashing Muslims against the country and the Hindu community. Even though Muslims in India have received equal treatment and benefits compared to Hindus, many Muslims still harbor animosity toward them.
I am not claiming that all Muslims are the same, but majority good Muslims never publicly oppose these terrorists’ horrific deeds against mankind and the nation. If good Muslims and intellectuals believe that the current governmend in India is anti-Muslim, they should research and learn about how Muslims are treated in China by the ideology that the Muslim community believes is closer to them and has a place for them. There has been no single demonstration against the Chinese government by an Islamic group or nation. Good Muslims should evaluate and study this strategy to understand how various political parties, left-wing Islamic organisations, and countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Turkey exploit religious beliefs for personal gain.
See how inhumane practices are occurring against Muslims in China.
The vast majority of Chinese Muslim adults are from ten ethnic minority groups that practice Islam, the two largest of which are the Hui and the Uyghur. The majority of China’s Muslims dwell in the northwestern region, specifically in Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang. Chinese authorities and international researchers estimate that there are 18 million Muslim adults in China.
International organisations have accused the Chinese government of violating human rights and committing genocide against Uyghurs Muslims. Some Chinese Muslim professors have reportedly been jailed, while foreigners studying Islam in China have been prevented from visiting the country. The US administration has revealed the Chinese Communist Party for what it is: a Marxist-Leninist tyranny that wields power over the long-suffering Chinese people via brainwashing and brutality. They have focused their attention on the CCP’s treatment of the Uyghur people, a Muslim minority population mostly found in Western China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
Their extensive documentation of the PRC’s actions in Xinjiang confirms that, at least since March 2017, local authorities have dramatically escalated their decades-long campaign of repression against Uyghur Muslims and members of other ethnic and religious minorities, including ethnic Kazakhs and ethnic Kyrgyz. Their morally repugnant policies, practices, and abuses are designed to systematically discriminate against and surveil ethnic Uyghurs as a distinct demographic and ethnic group, restrict their freedom to travel, emigrate, and attend schools, and deny other fundamental human rights such as assembly, speech, and worship. Uyghur women have been subjected to forced sterilisation and abortions by PRC officials, pushed into marrying non-Uyghurs, and separated from their family.
How have Muslim beliefs been restricted in China?
Human Rights Watch stated in 2022 that 500,000 people have been punished since 2017, according to Xinjiang official estimates. According to the Associated Press, in China, around one in every twenty-five persons were sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges, and they were all Uyghurs. Most prisoners incarcerated in reeducation camps were never charged with a crime, and they had no legal recourse to protest their confinement. According to media reports, the detainees appear to have been targeted for a variety of reasons, including traveling to or contacting people from any of China’s twenty-six sensitive countries, such as Turkey and Afghanistan; attending mosque services; having more than three children; and sending texts containing Quranic verses. Human rights organizations claim that being Muslim is considered as their only offense, and that many Uyghurs have been called extremists for no other reason than that they follow their faith. Beijing views all Uyghurs as having the potential to be terrorists or terrorist supporters. Attacks at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a local government office, a train station, and an outdoor market were attributed by officials to Uyghurs.
In order to spin fantastical stories about contented Uyghurs taking part in educational, counterterrorism, women’s empowerment, and poverty alleviation initiatives, party officials have barred international observers from entering Xinjiang and condemned credible reports about the deteriorating situation on the ground. The Uyghurs are being portrayed as “malignant tumors,” their faith is being compared to a “communicable plague,” and they are encouraging the Party faithful to deliver a crushing blow by telling them that “you can’t uproot all the weeds hidden among the crops in the field one-by-one; you need to spray chemicals to kill them all.” they are sending such darker messages.
The administration of Xinjiang enacted an anti-extremism ordinance in 2017 that forbade the wearing of veils and the growth of long beards in public. Additionally, it formally acknowledged the use of training facilities to eradicate extremism. The practice of arbitrary imprisonment by regional officials increased under the leadership of Chen Quanguo, the secretary of the Xinjiang Communist Party. Journalists from Xinjiang have reported that many facets of Muslim life have been eradicated. Since 2014, members of the Communist Party have been enlisted to remain in Uyghur homes and document any actions deemed “extremist,” such as Ramadan fasting. Authorities have demolished thousands of mosques, frequently on the grounds that the structures were poorly built and dangerous for worshipers. The local government has started a campaign against halal food, which is cooked in accordance with Islamic law. Officials have threatened to jail anyone who disobeys birth-control orders or has too many children, and Uyghur and other minority women have reported forced sterilisations and insertions of intrauterine devices. According to Zenz’s analysis of official data, the natural population growth rates—which do not include population change due to migration—in the two prefectures in Xinjiang with the largest Uyghur populations decreased by 84 per cent between 2015 and 2018 and by even more in 2019. Mohammed and Medina are among the names that Uyghur parents are prohibited from giving their children.
The treatment of Muslims in China is entirely different from that in India. In addition to religious activities, Muslims are granted access to all government policy benefits, including the president, vice president, governors, chief ministers, and numerous other important government positions. Is it possible for scholars, journalists, and respectable Muslims to genuinely examine how Muslims in China, lower caste Muslims in Pakistan, and in Bangladesh are treated and compare it to India? Every religion and religious individual is safe and free to live their life in accordance with their beliefs as long as Hindus make up the majority. But what will happen to this wonderful country and Hindus when the Hindu population drastically declines? Every patriot should be concerned about this.
