Mike Pompeo Denounces China's 'awful abuses' of detained Muslim Uygurs

[Also while Islamic radicalism is a problem in Central Asia, especially in the post-soviet spaces like Uzbekistan and Tajikistan — many Central Asians I’ve met personally are MINO. (Muslim in Name Only.)]

That’s the result of repression in those countries, such that radical imams are imprisoned or killed outright. The problem is that when they head abroad, where Islam isn’t repressed, many reconnect with the religion, and not in a good way. I’m sure the people you know personally are wonderful. But in aggregate, they’re a significant risk.

Xi Jinping has Chinese emperor syndrome - he is jealous of any organized group and influential individual that might challenge him for the limelight. But his actions re Muslims in China are legit. Even in places like Malaysia and Indonesia, where Islam was traditionally syncretic - i.e. mixed in with traditional animist and Hindu beliefs, imams literate in Arabic have turned huge percentages of women into scarf-wearing zealots and men into beard-cultivating fanatics. The latter is a little ironic, given the trouble many Austronesians (i.e. basically dark Orientals from Burma through the Philippines) have, with respect to growing significant facial hair.

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