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is not to allow East Turkestan to develop, but to make it dependent on Bei-
jing.

RED CHINA'S FEAR OF ISLAM
In the preceding section we saw how East Turkestan is of great strate-
gic and economic importance for China. Yet the frequent arrests of devout
Muslims in East
Radikal, 24.4.01 Turkestan, not allowing
them to live in accor-
dance with their reli-
gion, and the pressure
put on their religious
leaders, make it clear
that there is more to
their policy of oppres-
sion. First and foremost,
it means that Red China
is greatly concerned by
the presence of Islam in
East Turkestan.
Although the roots
of the Chinese attacks
on Islam and Muslims
go far back in history,
these policies were
As their sources of wealth such as oil, gold and changed into a system-
uranium are plundered by Beijing, the Uighurs
atic policy of oppres-
are also imprisoned in their own land. Unemploy-
ment and low levels of education are rife. Eighty sion, and even genocide,
percent of the population live below the poverty with the establishment
line. Tiny Uighur babies can at least look to the
future with hope if their families have fled of the communist
abroad, to such places as Turkey. regime. When Mao

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar