Posted on 05/27/2018 9:13:20 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
BEIJING Kayrat Samarkand says his only crime was being a Muslim who had visited neighboring Kazakhstan. On that basis alone, he was detained by police, aggressively interrogated for three days, then dispatched in November to a reeducation camp in Chinas western province of Xinjiang for three months.
There, he faced seemingly endless brainwashing and humiliation, he said in an interview, and was forced to study communist propaganda for hours every day and chant slogans giving thanks and wishing long life to President Xi Jinping.
Those who disobeyed the rules, refused to be on duty, engaged in fights or were late for studies were placed in handcuffs and ankle cuffs for up to 12 hours, he said. Further disobedience would result in waterboarding or long periods strapped in agony in a metal contraption known as a tiger chair, Samarkand said, a punishment he said he suffered.
Between several hundred thousand and more than 1 million Muslims have been detained in Chinas mass reeducation camps in the restive province of Xinjiang, Adrian Zenz of the European School of Culture and Theology in Korntal, Germany, said in a report released Tuesday. Zenz is a leading authority on the current crackdown in Xinjiang.
In a region of 21 million people, including 11 million Muslims, the number of those he reports to be detained would be a significant proportion of the population, especially of young adult men.
Chinas pacification drive in Xinjiang is, more than likely, the countrys most intense campaign of coercive social re-engineering since the end of the Cultural Revolution, Zenz wrote, referring to the chaos unleashed by Mao Zedong in the 1960s.
The states proclaimed war on terror in the region is increasingly turning into a war on religion, ethnic languages and other expressions of ethnic identity, he wrote.
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Sounds like the public schools in the US.
"Xi Jinping, mmm mmm mmm."
Our teachers coerce kids to take part in strikes and protest marches, and teach them to chant protest slogans. But they won't enforce standing and pledging allegiance to the US flag. It's all about allegiance to LGBT causes and liberal dogma. At least the Chinese are telling their people to respect their president.
>>Im generally not in favor of re-education camps, but how do we extinguish the madness of Islam before it extinguishes civilization?
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Non-stop Gospel preaching, teaching, praise with song and prayer, and demonstrating Christ’s Love to them? (While under strictly-enforced detention, that is)
As Ann Coulter says, “Convert them to Christianity”. This seems a better option than having them recite the Communist slogans reported in the article.
Just a thought....
>>>>was forced to study communist propaganda for hours every day and chant slogans giving thanks and wishing long life to President Xi Jinping.
>>Sounds like the public schools in the US.
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It is. I recall elementary and middle school students actually singing songs and performing special dances to Obama back in 2008.
Ditto that.
>>If China took him up on the offer, they would know better than to try to “pacify” the area. A government which, without hesitation, killed millions of their own people in the process of maintaining power, would not hesitate to “solve” Afghanistan thru genocide and repopulation with their own people. Maybe spare some of the prettier women to alleviate the Chinese bride shortage.
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Hmm, very interesting idea....a win-win!
[However, there are hundreds of millions of muslims who would set the world afire, themselves included, all for the sake of Mad Mo and thie Krazy Koran.]
No question that that they’re fairly immoderate in their views. But at the same time, apart from a minuscule minority, their instincts for self-preservation are more highly-developed than those of the average non-Muslim.
That's right there is funny I don't care who you are. 😀😀😀
I keep expecting to see more of those last actions with the Chinese presence in Africa.
The Chinese Communists are learning that the human brain has the capacity for complex mystical thinking. Throughout the ages such thinking has comforted and inspired humans in almost all endeavors and inquiries. When coercive brutes try to force agnosticism on their people it ultimately fails. The Chinese communists are losing. Ultimately the Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Confucians and others will triumph.
Re-education or death. Why complain, they are still alive.
*shrug* Did it work, or is he still muslim?
Muslims do not belong here period. We need to have reeducation camps for those who refuse to leave.
Radiation therapy?
Former inmates of Chinas Muslim reeducation camps tell of brainwashing, tortureThat's just an awful way to be treated. Muslims would never do anything like that
Let us know when the Chinese start lopping off heads and other body parts.
China is not bound by western political correct nonsense. They know damned well what Islam brings and they know their esteem province is full of them.. they unlike the west, will not allow the rot to fester and grow in their nation to a point that it threatens them.
How ironic that they are complaining about torture, when I hear about what they do to their prisoners.
Always the victim, aren’t they?
If the satanic Muslims can be helped become decent non- murdering even civilized human beings, more power to the Chinese! Maybe theyve found the way ?
In a region of 21 million people, including 11 million Muslims.....
Over half are Muslim? Something off with this report. Also I wonder how many Christians are sent to camps vs Muslim. My guess would be many more Christians suffer.
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