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State and Public Security Ministry, assumed this responsibility. Ever
since the day it was set up the PLA has operated as the armed wing of
the Communist Party, and is today the largest army in the world, with
6 million members.

THE IDEOLOGY OF SAVAGERY
IN COMMUNIST CHINA
In the following chapters of this book, we shall be considering ex-
amples of the repression and torture inflicted on the Muslims of East
Turkestan. We shall also be looking at the Chinese administration's op-
pression of its own people. We will show that ruthlessness is a normal
policy tool, and cruelty is regarded as nothing out of the ordinary. In so-
cieties where the existence of Allah is denied, where people believe that
they have no other responsibility than to themselves, and where there is
no belief in the hereafter, selfishness, ruthlessness and cruelty take the
place of love, compassion, forgiveness, and sympathy.
The surest way of putting an end to the cruelty and torture is for
people of good conscience to explain religious morality as part of their
duty of enjoining good and forbidding evil, and invite others to learn
about the teachings of Allah. In one verse of the Qur'an, Allah has also
revealed that "Let there be a community among you who call to the
good, and enjoin the right, and forbid the wrong. They are the ones
who have success." (Surah Al ‘Imran: 104). In carrying out that impor-
tant duty, one important stage of the war of ideas is the total exposure
of all aspects of anti-religious ideologies and the destruction of their
very foundations in order that proper morality may come to replace
them. In the case of East Turkestan and China, that ideology is commu-
nism.
According to communist ideology, matter is all that exists and all
events, historical, economic and sociological included, are nothing but
reflections of different forms of matter. This view holds that everything

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