China deploys counterterrorism law to suppress Uyghur identity
Evidence
But the middle-aged Uyghur woman and the vast majority of the prisoners were no terrorists. That very word was “stripped of its meaning” and deployed by the state to suppress a people long cast as oppositional and subversive. The state deployed counterterrorism law to intensify its crackdown on the Uyghurs, doing so behind the curtains of the camps and the digital walls that surrounded Xinjiang, or what the Uyghurs call East Turkistan. Eventually, Jelilova confessed to the charge of terrorism. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 534
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: The ‘terrorist label stripped of meaning’ is a technique the reader can track across the national cases Beydoun surveys.
Related
- China emptied the word ‘terrorist’ of meaning and used it to suppress Uyghurs (similarity 0.90)
- Counterterrorism law serves as a pretext to suppress Uyghur identity. (similarity 0.88)
- China adopted the War on Terror as cover for pre-existing designs on the Uyghurs (similarity 0.87)
- China’s Xinjiang camps escalated from targeting religious leaders to erasing Uyghur identity (similarity 0.85)
- The American War on Terror legitimized China’s Uyghur crackdown (similarity 0.85)
- China’s camps force Uyghur detainees to abandon their language and identity (similarity 0.85)
- China’s internment camps aim to erase Uighur Islamic identity (similarity 0.84)
- Washington reluctantly designated China’s Uyghur separatists as a terrorist group at Beijing’s urging (similarity 0.83)
- China exploited the War on Terror as cover to crush the Uyghurs. (similarity 0.83)
- China adopted American War on Terror language to justify persecuting Uyghur Muslims (similarity 0.83)
- China’s suppression of Uyghurs constitutes an active genocide. (similarity 0.82)
- China adopted the War on Terror’s civilizational discourse to justify domestic repression (similarity 0.82)
- China adopted the War on Terror to justify crushing the Uyghurs (similarity 0.82)
- China’s Xinjiang camps target all 15 million Muslims, not just religious leaders. (similarity 0.82)
- China’s camps expanded from religious leaders to criminalizing all Uyghur identity (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- China bulldozes Uyghur mosques to erase the architecture of Islamic life
#expands(0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 595 - China adopted the War on Terror as cover for pre-existing designs on the Uyghurs
#expands(0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 600 - China’s Xinjiang camps escalated from targeting religious leaders to erasing Uyghur identity
#qualifies(0.65) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 555 - China’s suppression of Uyghurs constitutes an active genocide.
#expands(0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 5 - China’s economic power shields its Uyghur genocide from international sanction
#expands(0.55) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 562 - A quarter of Xinjiang’s Uyghur population has endured the largest camp network since WWII
#expands(0.50) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 621