Uyghur Muslims’ spiritual fidelity to Islam increases their risk of detention.

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