China weaponizes state atheism alongside anti-terror rhetoric against Uyghur Islam.

Evidence

In China, there is no room for God, and particularly not for an Allah who inspires independence from a state that rejects Him and demands absolute reverence. The Communist regime in Beijing enshrines atheism and has weaponized it along with the War on Terror to bludgeon Uyghur Muslim life. Allah is the enemy of the Han Communist regime, and wholly rooting him out of Uyghur life forms the marrow of its genocidal campaign. But for Uyghurs, Allah is the final safe haven, and Islam the last and transient liberation theology against an unholy foe. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 573

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: The counterpoint — Islam as liberation theology — echoes the reader’s Stated willingness to see Islam as last refuge against state power.

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