Xinjiang: the silence of the Muslims

Xinjiang’s Muslims have been abandoned by the ‘umma,' the world community of Muslims. They are on their own, and they are suffering.

Detainees listening to speeches in a re-education camp in Lop County, Xinjiang, April 2017. Up to one million Chinese citizens have been sent to concentration camps in Xinjiang for the non-crime of being Muslim, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

March 18, 2019

LONDON, U.K.—Muslim governments were not silent when Burma murdered thousands of Rohingya, its Muslim minority, and expelled 700,000 of them across the border into Bangladesh. They were unanimous in their anger when the Trump administration moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusal...

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