
By Cassandra/Islam Monitor
Fair Go for Uighurs?
Update:Â Tens of Thousands Stage New Protests in Xinjiang
We love diversity, but not if it’s a smokescreen for Islamic  Jihad.
Where better to display diversity than the Melbourne International Film Festival, where an array of films caters for all tastes.
THE unofficial leader of the Uighurs, Rebiya Kadeer, used her visit to Australia to urge the Federal Government to take a stand over China’s violent repression in her homeland…and to try to persuade Australia to take the remaining Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay.
Kadeer was here for the launch at the Melbourne International Film Festival of a documentary about her life and her people’s struggle.
The Uighurs say the Chinese Government is committing “cultural genocide” by banning the teaching of Uighur in schools, discriminating against Uighurs in jobs, closing mosques and demolishing ancient Uighur cities such as Kashgar, on the Silk Road.
Mrs Kadeer put the death toll in the July 5 demonstrations in Xinjian at more than 1000…the Chinese security forces fired on 10,000 Uighur demonstrators. Five thousand were arrested in the following days, she said.
As for the 13 Uighurs in Guantanamo Bay, who were declassified as enemy combatants in 2005, and whom the US has asked Australia to take, Kadeer says “Australia has nothing to fear.” Read it all>>
Kadeer presents the Uighur Muslim as ‘innocent’.
If this is the case, why did all the victims (ethnic Han Chinese) Â have their throats slashed?
China TV: 476 People Stabbed With Hypodermic Needles
BEIJING — Hundreds of Chinese protested deteriorating public safety Thursday after a series of mysterious syringe attacks further unnerved residents in the western Chinese city of Urumqi where ethnic rioting in July killed nearly 200 people.
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