Faith alone sufficed to brand Uyghurs as terrorists without evidence

Evidence

Virtually overnight, Bush’s visit to Beijing and the War on Terror landscape converted a native population in northwest China into a satellite faction of terrorists. The lack of evidence connecting Uyghur Muslims to terror networks did not matter, nor did their justifiable grievances against Beijing. Only their faith and fight for independence mattered, and Islam was enough to mark the whole population as terrorists. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 606

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

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