China is total garbage and I say that as a Taiwanese person who hates them deeply.
But I dunno if you really want to use treatment of Muslims by countries as the differentiator. The US I would say is by far the worst when it comes to that. I mean the US has murdered countless Muslim people, men, women and children and continue to do so whether it's a Republican or Democratic administration that's in power. Murdering brown Muslim people in the Middle East is one of the few bipartisan things left.
It's amusing seeing people from the west or pro-west ppl suddenly championing for Muslim rights given the track record of their democratically elected governments.The highly Islamophobic West which with each year is trying to make life for Muslims in the West even more shitty with the growing acceptance of far-right extremists sure is great. This affects Muslims in all ways in life: profiling, verbal and physical assault, media dehumanization, employment, real estate etc. Intensified post 9/11 but already there even before that. It's only marginally better than the situation in China in the sense that the ship isn't sinking as fast but it's still sinking. Now if you look at MENA though the same elected western governments are responsible for millions deaths of Muslims directly and indirectly going back decades, and it STILL continues today through:
- Direct military involvement
- Actions from proxy fascist states and non-state actors (Sunni Islamists, death cults like MEK etc.)
- Propped up dictators from the past and current
- Violations of national sovereignty and illegal presence causing instability.
- Destruction of countries which sets them back decades in development (Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, whatever's left of Palestine, etc.) and puts them in enormous amount of poverty and corruption, now and in the past.
- One of the biggest contributors to supporting radicalization of Sunni Islam on a global level which has made the religious fabric of the societies in MENA to become cancerous and claim many lives (but the only lives that matter is when there's a terror attack in Europe)
- Sanctioning countries not under Western hegemony. In plain words: starving people to death because they didn't submit to Western dominance. A tool which only a psychopath would support (and since so many shrug it off in the West you can tell how many that are brainwashed)
The list goes on; it's so fucking long I could be writing about it a whole week. The US/West isn't pressuring China about Uighurs because they care about Muslims. They couldn't give two shits about their favorite targets to kill abroad, and certainly not when they:
- Are great buddies with the white colonial settler Israeli state who are busy with a Palestinians genocide
- Keep giving a hand to their Al-Qaida proxies who kill any religious minority or secular Sunni Muslim on sight in Syria
- Their proxy state starving Yemenis to death in what is considered as the worst famine in the past 100 years (with full logistical support from them)
- The silence on the Rohingya genocide, look how long Aung San Suu Kyi was the darling figure of the West
People can shout all day they don't support any of it but they've been saying the same the past 70 years while doing the same thing again and again. They don't "support it" and it's "not their fault" and yet somehow the same kind of people are elected and they all conveniently "stumble" (to borrow terminology from the war-mongering "free" western media) into the next MENA country not under Western submission, but it's "not their fault" but still the Muslim in their own countries who pay the price. It's easy to say you don't support any of it and throw some "Free Uighurs, fuck China!" posts here and there but harder to admit that the war, exploitation, and chaos your elected government brings to the region helps you enjoy the privilege of having a good life by keeping the Western status quo which is only about keeping the global north wealthy and the global south fucked as in colonial times.
People want to fairly criticize China for bad things they do by all means go ahead, but bringing up the Uighur topic in the context of caring about Muslims is the most dishonest bullshit I've read here and one of the clearest example of the white man's "divide and conquer" strategy. The West makes China's treatment of Muslims look like top quality service in a five star hotel.
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