Tango01 | 04 May 2019 8:57 p.m. PST |
"The United States accused China on Friday of putting well more than a million minority Muslims in "concentration camps," in some of the strongest U.S. condemnation to date of what it calls Beijing's mass detention of mostly Muslim Uighur minority and other Muslim groups. The comments by Randall Schriver, who leads Asia policy at the U.S. Defense Department, are likely to increase tension with Beijing, which is sensitive to international criticism and describes the sites as vocational education training centres aimed at stemming the threat of Islamic extremism…." Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Stryderg | 05 May 2019 10:20 a.m. PST |
I don't see how that could possibly end badly. </sarcasm> |
JMcCarroll | 05 May 2019 11:17 a.m. PST |
Are they the face of things to come? |
ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 05 May 2019 11:31 a.m. PST |
link An earlier more detailed BBC News story, with obligatory satellite imagery and some pictures of Chinese internal security forces. Seems to developing into a bit of a 'thing' for the Chinese state that anyone who isn't Han is a threat to the states cohesion… |
15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 05 May 2019 12:21 p.m. PST |
It seems the Chinese are overreacting to the threat of Islamic extremism by trying to pre-empt terrorism from ever taking root. Christians are not perceived as to be a threat to state security so there are no concentration camps for Christians that we know of. |
goragrad | 05 May 2019 7:23 p.m. PST |
At least they aren't chopping them up for spare parts as is done with Falun Gong practitioners. |
Stryderg | 06 May 2019 8:45 a.m. PST |
Christians are being imprisoned individually instead of in groups. They are perceived to be a threat because they believe in a power greater than the state. Yay Communism! |
15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 06 May 2019 9:13 a.m. PST |
At least they aren't chopping them up for spare parts as is done with Falun Gong practitioners. True, but give them time. Good thing Scientology doesn't have the cult following Falun Gong has in China. Yay Communism! Actually the state-controlled capitalism of China is more akin to the nationalism of Nazi Germany than true communism, which preaches equality and egalitarianism. Elitism and bourgeois tendencies are uncommunistic characteristics. |
Stryderg | 06 May 2019 12:50 p.m. PST |
oops. Yay state-controlled capitalism that's more akin to the nationalism of Nazi Germany! |
Steve Wilcox | 06 May 2019 1:10 p.m. PST |
Yay state-controlled capitalism that's more akin to the nationalism of Nazi Germany! :) |