Why on Earth should anyone in the mass-invaded, much-spied-upon West care about who is living where in China?
Uninvited, more than one million Han Chinese people have reportedly moved into the homes of Uighur Muslim families to report on whether they display Islamic or unpatriotic beliefs. Sent to homes in Xinjiang province by the Chinese government, American anthropologist Darren Byler said they were tasked with watching for signs that their hosts’ attachment to Islam might be “extreme”.
The informants, who describe themselves as “relatives” of the families they are staying with, are said to have received specific instructions on how to get them to let their guard down. As devout Muslims would refuse cigarettes and alcohol, this is seen as one way of finding out whether they were extreme.
“Had a Uighur host just greeted a neighbour in Arabic with the words ‘Assalamu Alaykum’? That would need to go in the notebook,” said Dr Byler, in research published by Asia Society’s Centre on US-China Relations. “Was that a copy of the Quran in the home? Was anyone praying on Friday or fasting during Ramadan? Was a little sister’s dress too long or a little brother’s beard irregular?”
It’s bad when Chinese people invade Xinjiang province and spy on people there. It’s good when Chinese people invade the USA and Canada, and Facebook Apple Google Instagram Twitter spies on people there.
It’s amusing how the newspapers run these stories about how awful things are elsewhere while simultaneously advocating policies that will lead to those awful things. They welcome 85 million people invading the USA, then decry Chinese plans to settle 100 million colonists in Africa. Why so much hate for the New Uighurs and the New Africans?