[Cronos]

Uighuristan or East Turkestan or Xinjian province is a difficult one to consider.

The Uighurs are the descendents of:

• Early East Irani peoples like Sogdians, Bactrians
• Tocharians, another branch of the Indo-European peoples
• Turkic peoples who invaded around the 3rd century AD)

They were initially Turkic-shamanistic religion following, then became Manichaen, then Nestorian Christian (yes, you got that right, they were Christians owing allegiance to the CAtholicos of Ctestiphon (Baghdad) when, in the 8th century, that Church (the ancient church of the East or the Assyrian/Chaldean Church) had 33% of the world's Christians, spread from Iraq to Mongolia (Naiman tribe -- Genghis Khan's wife was Christian) to India (MarThomite Christians in Kerala).

They gradually converted to Islam in the 10th to 14th century, mostly peacefully and adopted sufiism

They were conquered by the Manchu after the Manchu/Jurchen conquered China in the 17th century forming the Qing dynasty.

They are not Han Chinese by looks, language, race, culture or history.

Even the Tibetans are closer related to the Han Chinese than the Uighurs.

this is a conquered nation and one where the locals are being pushed out by government promotion of Han Chinese.

But, they are Moslems, so I don't know who to support quite frankly in this case.

[tjd1454]

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[Wneighbor]

Thank you for the brief history. Always up for a new history lesson here.

[T-Bone Texan]

Thanks for the background.