I don't think many people are aware of the Uhygur position regarding Israel and the Palestinians described here. Perhaps if it were more well known, there might be a lot less support for the Uhygurs from the international left. You might think the Zionist right, both in Israel and the USA, would play up this angle more. The good and bad Islam argument here explains why US support for Uhygurs is so strong, and it sounds very right wing to me, like much of liberalism. Is it not the whole "model minority" thing, but on an international level?
The anti-Muslim attitudes,or 穆黑, proves that even in a communist country, rightist attitudes can exist, and the Chinese are not the homogenous people their communist supporters in the west want to think they are. > > China’s official discourse on Muslims is almost exclusively of the liberal > variety, drawing a dichotomy between what is acceptable and unacceptable, > between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Muslims. Chinese counterextremism experts sound > exactly like their Western counterparts: they warn against Islamophobia, > of the need to disassociate ‘extremism’ from any particular religion, and > to avoid subsuming anti-extremism measures within a discourse of > counterterrorism (Wang 2018) Quite the departure from what Mao wrote about liberalism. The critiques from ultra-leftists about China being "communist" in name only begins to make more sense, when you view China not only in economic terms, but in terms of its policy towards Islam. The similarity to the Hoover Institute is noteworthy. As is the history of Sufis in China. You can see why any leftist/communist/socialist in the west would see both sides of the Islam/Uhygur debate in Xinjiang as rightist and reactionary, and would find it confusing as to which side to align with. Things are not as clear cut as say, the Isrealis and Palestinians, and denialism is the easiest route to take. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7742): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/7742 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/81730562/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
