Practicing Islam in Xinjiang increases the risk of being interned and separated from family.
Evidence
Yet the paradox of prayer symbolizes the imminent perils of being Muslim in Xinjiang today. The more Uyghur Muslims are unwilling to relinquish their spiritual identity and disavow Islam, the likelier they are to be taken away and kept far from everybody they love and everything they know. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 575
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Category: Causal Relationships
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- Uyghur Muslims’ spiritual fidelity to Islam increases their risk of detention. (similarity 0.93)
- Religious fidelity itself increases a Uyghur Muslim’s risk of internment (similarity 0.87)
- A quarter of Xinjiang’s Uyghur population has endured the camps (similarity 0.82)
- Returned Xinjiang internees serve as terrorizing warnings to their communities (similarity 0.82)
- Prayer alone can trigger imprisonment for Uyghur Muslims (similarity 0.82)
- China has interned up to two million Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang camps (similarity 0.81)
- A quarter of Xinjiang’s Uyghurs have been interned in concentration camps (similarity 0.81)
- China targets Uyghur Islam to erase their land claims for Belt and Road. (similarity 0.81)
- Routine religious practice can trigger detention for Xinjiang’s 11 million Uyghurs (similarity 0.81)
- The Chinese state attacks Islam to erase Uyghur land claims. (similarity 0.81)
- China bulldozes Uyghur mosques to erase the architecture of Islamic life (similarity 0.80)
- China’s Xinjiang camps escalated from targeting religious leaders to erasing Uyghur identity (similarity 0.80)
- Uyghurs were offered exile from homeland or internment in camps (similarity 0.80)
- Associating a Muslim population with terrorism required no evidence of ties (similarity 0.80)
- China surveils mosques, imams, and overseas family contacts in Xinjiang (similarity 0.80)