Chinese Islamophobia is a state campaign to uproot indigenous Islam and implant Han control
Evidence
However, the internment of Uyghur Muslims is only the tip of the ominous state architecture of ethnic cleansing. China’s designs to crush Uyghur self-determination have mutated into a crusade to decimate an entire people. Chinese Islamophobia, in short, is a state-sponsored campaign that seeks to uproot the Islam indigenous to East Turkistan, and in its place, seed Han customs and the Communist mandate of total control. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 610
Categorization
- corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 610
- XREF: connects to: Islamophobia is produced by state action, not only cultural bias; China’s internment camps aim to erase Uighur Islamic identity — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 163; The global Islamophobic crusade spans China India France and Myanmar (+13 more)
Broader Connections
- Islamophobia has material and political causes beyond ignorance or xenophobia
#corroborates(0.70) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 706 - Islamophobia is transmitted through state-polity dialogue via law and rhetoric
#corroborates(0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 83 - Islamophobia is driven by state violence rather than mere ignorance
#corroborates(0.60) - Islamophobia is political rather than religious and must be fought politically
#corroborates(0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 576 - State policies authorizing suspicion are the cornerstone of dialectical Islamophobia
#corroborates(0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 136 - Islamophobia stems from nationalism’s ambiguities rather than fear of Islam
#corroborates(0.55) - The US government manufactured Islamophobia as a disciplinary technique against black political activism
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