{"id":6796,"date":"2018-12-12T15:57:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T15:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/6796-china-continues-to-counter-the-islamic-identity-for-ugur-muslims-amid-international-silence\/"},"modified":"2018-12-12T15:57:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T15:57:35","slug":"china-continues-to-counter-the-islamic-identity-for-ugur-muslims-amid-international-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/6796-china-continues-to-counter-the-islamic-identity-for-ugur-muslims-amid-international-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"China continues to counter the Islamic identity for Ugur Muslims amid international silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s relentless campaign to erase the identity of the Uighurs continues, as the world remains silent.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>China\u2019s relentless campaign to erase the identity of the Uighurs continues, as the world remains silent.<\/h4>\n<h4>Notwithstanding the estimates, the number of Uighur Muslims being arrested, uprooted from their families and lives, and imprisoned in concentration camps \u2013 for no other reason than being Uighur and Muslim \u2013 is rising with each passing day.<\/h4>\n<h4>In August, a United Nations human rights panel reported that nearly 1.1 million Uighur Muslims were being held in concentration camps in Xinjiang \u2013 the autonomous region in western China, home to approximately 11 million Uighurs. Gay McDougall, who sits on the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, claimed that the imprisoned population could be as high as 2 million.<\/h4>\n<h4>Shortly after the UN broke the news of the concentration camps, Sigal Samuel of The Atlantic reported that inmates were \u201cforced to renounce Islam, criticize their own Islamic beliefs and those of fellow inmates, and recite Communist Party propaganda songs for hours each day.\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s relentless campaign to erase the identity of the Uighurs continues, as the world remains silent. \u00a0 China\u2019s relentless campaign to erase the identity of the Uighurs continues, as the world remains silent. 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