The Chinese state attacks Islam to erase Uyghur land claims.

Evidence

Islam serves as the spiritual lifeline connecting the Uyghur people to their land, their history, and one another, and the Chinese state has zeroed in on it. If it can destroy Islam, Beijing believes, it can destroy the Uyghurs. If it can destroy both, then it can erase the Uyghur claim to land that Beijing so desperately covets. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 564

Categorization

• XREF: Religion-as-territorial-claim logic connects to the reader’s worldbuilding/settler-colonial interests and to how belief systems anchor land tenure.