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      1 month ago

      I cannot do the research out of my interests, that’s why I’m asking. And thanks for the proper reply for once. If there are indeed 25000 mosques and even though I only count Uyghurs as muslims (probably not and probably not all of them are muslims too), that would make approximately 1 mosque per 400 person, which is indeed pretty dense.

      However, assimilation is a sly snake. I met different Uyghur people who were able to ran away from Xinjiang and all of them were depressed. They told some disturbing stories. All I really can say is “Where there is no fire, there is no smoke”. Happy people wouldn’t do that.

      I suggest you to check this video if you can.

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        Thank you for acknowledging that the situation isnt black and white, also I aplogize for commenting with an overly hostile tone.

        Since it’s impossible to prove a negative (the burdon of prove lies with the accuser/west), there’s a context that you might be missing and be interested. Here’s a comprehensive contextualization from the Chinese perspective utilizing western sources:

        https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/xinjiang

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          No problem. To be fair, these situations are never black and white and I’m kinda sick of people who talk about them like they are. And thank you for your understanding as well. People here are prejudiced and sadly I act like one of them time to time since I rarely see people who isn’t and that makes the conversations here bland, one-sided, like talking to a wall.

          I’m not a journalist, nor a researcher. I’m pretty far from politics too but sadly nothing can be done without it. However, I cannot stand when people talk a lot with knowing little. It’s normal to not know things, it’s not normal to refuse to read / learn. Most of the time I cannot even get a proper reply here and that makes me sad. So, thanks again.

          Anyway, I started to read the article and I definitely agree with the part, countries should solve these problems on their own without the outside influence. Though it’s pretty much of a two-sided blade, and a very sharp one.

          I don’t trust Western media as well since most known ones are controlled by Jews. Fair enough it’s quite hard to find unbiased news on the internet, close to impossible perhaps. However they are still effective as insights.