China’s camps hold at least ten times more people than US Japanese internment

Evidence

These concentration camps, which hold at least ten times the number of Japanese Americans the US government locked away during World War II, are where Uyghur Muslims are attempted to be remade into atheist Chinese subjects. … These are horrific sites where fear and physical violence, psychological trauma, and emotional abuse are all available tools, wielded to push Uyghur inmates to renounce Islam, a faith that the state has treated as a mental illness, and to reject the distinctly Uyghur customs that are deeply intertwined with their faith. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 559

These concentration camps, which hold at least ten times the number of Japanese Americans the US government locked away during World War II, are where Uyghur Muslims are attempted to be remade into atheist Chinese subjects. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 559

Categorization

• XREF: The scale comparison to US Japanese internment ties directly into the book’s broader thesis of globalized Islamophobic state practice, and echoes the internment chapter framing. — connects to: Human Rights Watch documented murder, rape, and torture in Chinese camps — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 162
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 559