China’s camps expanded from religious leaders to criminalizing all Uyghur identity

Evidence

According to Darren Byler, a leading expert on China’s total surveillance state, the network of concentration camps “targeted the entire Muslim population of 15 million people in Xinjiang. It precipitated a criminalization of Islamic practice and a number of Uyghur and Kazakh cultural traditions. Initially only religious leaders were sent to camps, but by 2017 the War on Terror became a program of preventing Uyghurs from being Muslim and, to a certain extent, from being Uyghur or Kazakh.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 555

Categorization

• QUESTION: Track Byler’s total surveillance state scholarship as a source for the promised Xinjiang chapter detail.