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Saturday, 4 July 2020

Why do Muslim states stay silent over China’s abuse of the Uighurs? | Nick Cohen

Nations that claim to be defenders of the faith offer no protest to the concentration camps

When China imposed trade sanctions on Norway in 2010 for honouring the imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo with the Nobel peace prize, it spat out a word we weren’t used to hearing from propagandists for an atheist communist regime, but should get used to today. “It’s a blasphemy,” a party mouthpiece said.

Once, blasphemy was damning the faithful’s gods and sacred books. Now, criticism of the world’s largest dictatorship has become sacrilegious. You shouldn’t be surprised. As some of us tried to say in the 1990s and 2000s, the gap between the sacred and the profane was never as wide as religious sentimentalists and liberal multiculturalists believed.

Countries that could not tolerate Rushdie's magical realist novel can live with the mass sterilisation of Muslim women

Related: China sterilising ethnic minority women in Xinjiang, report says

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