China bribes them to remain silent. What’s happening, in part, is that “the countries of the Islamic world today have made their economies dependent on China…. Therefore, for them it is not important that Muslim Uyghurs are subjected to genocide by the Chinese Communist regime.”
This is the thesis elaborated by Abdulhakim Idris in Bitter Winter (“Uyghur Genocide: Why Most Muslim Countries Remain Silent,” March 28, 2022).
A 2022 meeting of the Organization of Islamic Countries, held in Pakistan, served as a “most striking example” of the tendency. Only one official from a non-Muslim country also attended: a Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi (shown above, on the right), the guy who told the world to ignore “gossip” about the internment camps in Xinjiang where Uyghurs and other Muslims have been imprisoned, brainwashed, tortured, raped, and murdered.
It is remarkable that Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, who hosted the meeting, praised the Chinese regime, which is conducting genocide on Uyghur Muslims.
After the meeting of the organization, a joint statement was issued pointing out the persecution of Muslims in every possible geographical location from Afghanistan to Kashmir, from Yemen to Syria, from Palestine to Myanmar. Except [by] Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, the Uyghurs who are subjected to genocide by the Chinese Communist Party in East Turkestan were ignored. What is the main reason why the Uyghur genocide, which has been defined as such by many countries and international human rights organizations, is not acknowledged by Muslim countries?
Among the benefits that China provides through its Belt and Road Initiative, hatched in 2013, is its support for the military efforts of beneficiary governments and their desire to more effecitvely monitor their subjects.
The attempt to build facilities that produce unmanned aerial vehicles in Saudi Arabia, which is involved in military intervention in Yemen, is an important example [of investments in the military field]…. [Then there are the] surveillance systems based on advanced technologies that have been tried on the Uyghurs in East Turkestan and have made their lives a dungeon…. When the details of the agreements regarding the BRI have been published, provisions are included for the establishment of these systems in countries such as Pakistan and Iran.
In most of the Muslim countries attending the OIC meeting, “oppressive policies dominate”; human rights are not valued. Willingness to turn a blind eye to China’s horrific treatment of Muslims is consistent with this contempt for individual rights. That the OIC countries and China are alike in this respect also works in favor of the former in the United Nations, where they can rely on China’s growing influence and veto power.
