[lesser_satan]

Aren’t the Uyghur folk Muzzies? This should be epic. I doubt they’ll go as peacefully as the Buddhists of Tibet. I’m not sure who to root for, though.

[NormsRevenge]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/uighur/

Muslim executed for trying to “split” China ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1782270/posts
02/09/2007 3:43:02 PM PST · by jonassen · 66 replies · 1,569+ views
Reuters ^ | Fri 9 Feb 2007 | Benjamin Kang Lim
BEIJING, Feb 9 (Reuters) - China has executed a Uighur activist in a far-northwestern city for attempting to “split the motherland” and possessing explosives, drawing condemnation from a human rights group which said the evidence was insufficient. Ismail Semed, who was deported to China from Pakistan in 2003, had told the court a confession had been coerced, but he was executed nevertheless on Thursday in Urumqi, capital of the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang, Radio Free Asia on Friday quoted his widow, Buhejer, as saying. “When the body was transferred to us at the cemetery I saw only one bullet...

[PzLdr]

The Uighers go back a long way. The Mongols adopted Uigher script for their own language when the they conquered the Uighers under Chinnghis Quan. They may also have provided him with his first civil service [ before the Chin in North China.

I forget if they were Muslim when the Mongols rode over them. They may have been,in toto or, in part. The Keraits, who Chinnghis, then Temujin, also conquered at about the same time, were Nestorian Christians.Whatever they were, the Mongols would have let them worship in their own way.

[mamelukesabre]

The tibetans have been autonomous more frequently in the past that the Uyghurs have. And the Uyghurs have been treated worse for longer. So apparently the drive to be free is stronger in the buddists than the muslims.