Palestinians, Uighurs, and the Curiously Selective Media
A month ago, in China’s Muslim Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, 140 Muslims were killed by the Chinese riot police. We are talking about Uighur Muslims whose lives on the media market only represent a fraction of the value of Arab Muslims killed by Jews.
I realize that nine Islamist activists who love to sing the evergreen “Death to Jews” — really, innocent folklore in those regions — killed by Israeli soldiers is an act without comparison in the world. It is the lowest and vilest thing that happened since the Holocaust. How dare they kill peace-loving Islamists who sing innocent lyrics like “Death to Jews”?
Still, think about what happened there in China. An astonishing 140 Muslims killed by the Chinese police. Okay, it’s not like nine killed by Jews, but it’s pretty bad.
There was almost no mentioning of these deaths in the Western media, but here and there you can find some reference to this “Holocaust’ (if the Turks and Palestinians call the death of nine Muslims a Holocaust, we easily can call this a Holocaust too, can’t we?).
What happened? AFP news agency quoted Alim Seytoff, general secretary of the Uighur American Association in Washington, as saying that police had begun “indiscriminately” shooting at protesting crowds.
Gee, that’s awful, isn’t it? Really, really awful. I mean, not as bad as nine peace-loving extremist Muslims killed by Jews, but still, pretty bad.
What do these Uighur Muslims want? Here it is: “Xinjiang’s eight million Uighurs have complained of political, cultural and religious persecution by Beijing and there have been repeated calls by Uighurs for independence.”
Love it! Nice job…but it still won’t stop the pathological hatred of Jews in our world, unfortunately.
Oh, please, the Chinese could kill ALL the Muslims in China & no one would say a word, not even Muslims. It would be ignored, just like Darfur or any REAL genocide. This goes far, far beyond hypocrisy or double-standards. There is a real agenda at play these days, an anti-Israel (anti-Jew actually) agenda by Leftists & their Muslim allies & the Western media is just a cog in the machine. But, have no doubt, the real target is America & everything it stands for.
While I don’t like any one party system…are you listening BHO?…China does have a basic right to maintain order within its recognized borders. Would that we would do the same along the US-Mexico border.
Leon, you wrote another good article. A little cynical but it could be done another way. The overreaction of the world in generally about what happened to the 9 people, the boarding etc. its scary. Keep up the good work and try to open more eyes.
And then there’s this:
“AN elite North Korean suicide squad of human torpedoes may have been involved in the sinking of a South Korean ship in mysterious circumstances.”
http://www.news.com.au/world/north-korea-sunk-south-korean-warship-killing-46-sailors/story-e6frfkyi-1225856989612
Islam insists that “believers” rightly should be on top and in charge, that neither secular law nor rule by “unbelievers” is legitimate. And for centuries Muslims have been the clear authority over a vast territory. That, for them, is the proper state of affairs.
The consequence of this mindset is that believing Muslims simply can’t function as a loyal, law abiding minority. Their response to such an indignity depends both on their numbers and the dominant culture. In the US, they want special accommodation (then demonstrate their true loyalties as in the Fort Hood massacre). In Europe, they establish “no go” zones where national authority is challenged. In southern Thailand, parts of Nigeria and Kenya, and the Philippines they push for autonomy or the regional imposition of Islamic law. And where they can, they push for independence. Thus, an untenable theological situation can be made right.
Now one can better understand why Arabs and Muslims have such an abiding loathing for Israel. Not only are those “infidel” Jews sitting on Islamic “waqf” land, but Jews have authority over Muslims! But whereas the world Muslim community won’t dare challenge mighty China (even the US holds its tongue), they think they have a good chance against Israel.
Who really cares about the Uigurs and their tribulations. It is time for Americans to take care of America and to hell with the rest of the world. If Muslims are suffering in some remote part of the world, maybe it is retribution for all the horror, misery and death that Islam has brought to our planet.
I’m pretty sure the point of the article was to ridicule those who make such a big deal about the 9 blockade runners, but ignore 140 muslims when they are killed by someone who isn’t Jewish.
It is because everyone is out to get the Jews! Everyone hates the Jews! Noone really cares about the Muslims!
The Western media won’t snap any wet towels at Beijing for the same reason the tinker-toy anarchists of Black Bloc never show up at APEC Summits in Shanghai, where they’d get the chance to go toe-to-toe with the pointy end of a real police state. They are largely cowards with a political agenda, and from the Soviet Union to Pol Pot to Jihadism we’ve seen them pander to politically-fashionable grievance groups and ignore or excuse violence committed in the name of politically-correct causes. And when the facts on the ground don’t fit their narrative, they’ll simply make it up (Jenin, Falluja, flotilla embargo, whatever).
This is why thousands of missiles hurled indiscriminately into Israel isn’t news, but would be if Jews hurling missiles into Gaza.
China knows how to take care of its muslim problem, the world needs to learn a thing or two from the chicoms. The muslims only respect force and terror give it to them.
mr. de winter: stop this death to Jews..stop feeding the fire… so what that the chines commit crimes against muslims or an y one else… that does noe excuse israel murdering people at poit blank
The article was meant precisely for people like you who consider the Jews to be dangerous people because they dare defend themselves from the Jihadist monsters masquerading as “peace activists”.
It would be funny if it weren’t so sad…
“While I don’t like any one party system…are you listening BHO?…China does have a basic right to maintain order within its recognized borders.”
Does it include Tibet, occupied illegally by China and repressed brutally for over 60 years?
What about the illegal occupation of North Cyprus by Turkey?
What about Turkish repression of the Kurds?
I am referring to the far Western reaches of recognized China…Uighur Xinjiang.
As far as Tibet is concerned, during some dynasties it was contained within what were then recognizable China. I leave that region’s status as an open question. Most likely it, like Xinjiang, will become an “autonomous region”.
One could argue the same for Xinjiang, but for the twentieth century and at least part of the Qing dynasty it was part of “China”.
Like Europe with Muslim migration, both areas will soon be over-run by the major Han ethnic group, which are 90-95% of the Chinese population. Tibet and Xinjiang will then be moot points…at best.
BTW, is Islam a “recognized” religion under PRC’s constitution? Stay tooned…
@#9 Miriam : What I find funny is the repeated ‘shot at point blank range’ line. Let’s see, you’re a soldier, cornered with couple of your team down and little chance of rapid, sufficiently large backup in the next 15 seconds, and several angry people are coming at you with knives, clubs, and there’re possibly guns- either brought with them, or taken from your downed comrades- There are more of them than you, and they are obviously going to kill you…I guess you can be really, really fair and just say ‘I won’t shoot at point blank range, unless the knife is already in my guts!’
I know, I know, they’d still be wrong for shooting the knife wielding “peace” activist…but at least they’d be dieing a lingering death in punishment.
Sigh…you know, if you want to argue whether Israel has the right to blockade or not, feel free, it’s a (semi) legitimate issue (I think they do). But seriously, these “peace” activists went looking for trouble- you don’t take weapons or something remotely weapon-like when you know you’re going to be boarded, unless you are looking for trouble or some sort of media martyrdom. That only 9 people died is actually the surprising thing. I figured it would have been more protracted a fight- with the “peace activists” chanting what equates to death to israel, I would have thought more of them would have welcomed the chance for martyrdom to take down a Jew. Had they been real peace activists, they’d have either taken the offer safe port and observed shipment of their supplies, or they’d have taken a page from the books of Dr. Martin Luther King or Ghandi, and resisted peacefully (chaining themselves to the boat? barricading and hunger strikes maybe?). Those men and their followers were peace activits in the truest, most honorable sense of the phrase.
As for the rest- I believe the reason no “peace activists” (or msm) mess with the Chinese is that they know the Chinese really don’t care about world opinion, and they’ll either end up dead, or languishing in a Chinese prision after learning the error of their way and ‘admitting’ to non-peaceful, ill-intentions of formenting violence. These kinds of activists are lying hypocrites, not morons. Still, I’d like to see them try…
In the future when peace-loving delivery persons refuse to be escorted to an Israeli or Egyptian port to have cargo examined & choose to run the blockade, I suggest a couple of well-aimed torpedoes from a few thousands yards. That should eliminate Miriam’s problem of Jews “off-ing” Muslims at point blank range.
“Miriam” and others of your ilk: Egypt has a blockade on Gaza too. did you know that? funny, I don’t remember reading anything about protest marches against the evil Egyptians for keeping the poor Gazans miserable and starving, have you? no UN condemnations of the bad Egyptians who also refguse to let ships through? no?
so I guess it’s just bad if the Jews do it, right?
There’s only one explanation why the IDF commandos were so easily ambushed and surprised by the Turkish Islamists – the Turkish government must’ve assured the Israeli officials that there would be no trouble whatsoever and the Israelis swallowed the bait hook, line, and sinker. In short, the Israelis were set up. Clearly, the lessons of Iran haven’t been learned. Israel used to have a great relationship with Iranian security and army officers too, but once the Islamists took over, the Israeli “friends” turned against Israelis in no time at all. The bottom line is that one can never trust Islamists b/c they’ve been brought up in a culture where lying to non-Muslims means no dishonor at all; in fact, it’s the right thing to do and the non-Muslims aren’t even considered human unless, of course, the convert to Islam. The only true friends the Israelis have are American Christians, and it behooves the Israelis (and the American Jews as well) to accept the friendship selflessly offered to them. It’s time to grow up.
To #12: “Sigh…you know, if you want to argue whether Israel has the right to blockade or not, feel free, it’s a (semi) legitimate issue (I think they do)”.
You might want to read this:
Helsinki Principles on the Law of Maritime Neutrality
5.1.2(3) Merchant ships flying the flag of a neutral State may be attacked if they are believed on reasonable grounds to be carrying contraband or breaching a blockade, and after prior warning they intentionally and clearly refuse to stop, or intentionally and clearly resist visit, search, capture or diversion.
5.1.2(4) Merchant ships flying the flag of a neutral State may be attacked if they:
(a) engage in belligerent acts on behalf of the enemy;
(c) are incorporated into or assist the enemy’s intelligence system;
(e) otherwise make an effective contribution to the enemy’s military action, e.g., by carrying military materials, and it is not feasible for the attacking forces to first place passengers and crew in a place of safety. Unless circumstances do not permit, they are to be given a warning, so that they can re-route, off-load, or take other precautions.
5.2.1 Visit and search
As an exception to Principle 5.1.2 paragraph 1 and in accordance with Principle 1.3 (2nd sentence), belligerent warships have a right to visit and search vis-à-vis neutral commercial ships in order to ascertain the character and destination of their cargo. If a ship tries to evade this control or offers resistance, measures of coercion necessary to exercise this right are permissible. This includes the right to divert a ship where visit and search at the place where the ship is encountered are not practical.
5.2.10 Blockade
Blockade, i.e. the interdiction of all or certain maritime traffic coming from or going to a port or coast of a belligerent, is a legitimate method of naval warfare. In order to be valid, the blockade must be declared, notified to belligerent and neutral States, effective and applied impartially to ships of all States. A blockade may not bar access to neutral ports or coasts. Neutral vessels believed on reasonable and probable grounds to be breaching a blockade may be stopped and captured. If they, after prior warning, clearly resist capture, they may be attacked.
Muslims always start out with calls for independence, once they have a majority in a particular region of a country. Expect Michigan Muslims to begin that call for a separate Islamic state soon. Then, having chewed off a piece, they go back for another piece until they have it all. I regreat the loss of life, but see history replaying itself in Xinjiang. Ask India.
Palestinians, Silesians and Prussians and the curious case of consequences of waging a war of annihilation on your neighbors and losing, 1948 vs 1945.
#13. when you are right you are right!!!! The Egytian government is just as evil as the Israeli government. I should have mentioned it…
Now we’re making progress! How about Iran, Syria, and Turkey?
The Uyghur problem in Xinjiang is nothing to do with religion, islam or muslim. It is about human right, right to live like a human. Do not be confuse.
Nobody is going to challenge China on its handling of a Muslim population in China because unlike the dhimmi west China would not put up with it for one second. Never mind scurrying around, wringing its hands in anguish and groveling in the face of an Islamic media onslaught claiming extreme victim hood, preying on the idiotic western penchant for self flagellation over its largely self imposed acceptance of guilt, by the intellectual elite, for all the evils in the world (not the intellectual elite who are far too brilliant to be guilty of such insensitivity and stupidity and will expect their rightful place in the Caliphate when the stupid west succumbs) . China would gladly send these Muslim militants off to the salacious paradise they all crave…..and deserve to have as a culture that claims to prefer death in paradise to life in their hell hole of Islamic paranoia. If we in the west are sincere in our expressed desire to be sensitive to the tenets of all cultures we should be happily helping them to realize their most fervent desire…..death. Aalahu Akbar!
Actually, there was one circumstance where Uyghurs have high media value: when they were prisoners, of the arch-evil Bush, in Guantanamo. Remember all the fuss about the Uyghurs and how mean we were to them? Of course, they had been to Al Qaeda training camps. And, after determining they were no threat to us, we were trying to release them, but no country would have them (especially not the oh-so-humanitarian Europeans). We finally turned them loose in the Bahamas (no doubt after paying a nice bribe to Bahamian officials), at which point they lost their media value.
I am especially dismayed at Erdogan; after all, the Uyghurs are a fellow Turkic people.
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