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so, and for the last 50 years in particular has suffered great oppression
from the despotic regime of the communist Chinese administration. As
a result of Chinese propaganda, East Turkestan is known to the world
as "Xinjiang," or "Sinkiang" meaning "new borders" in Chinese, and
most people are very unaware of the human drama going on there. Yet
East Turkestan, the majority of whose population are Muslims of
Uighur origin, is the scene of violence and oppression by the commu-
nist Chinese administration, the like of which is found in no other re-
gion of China. Torture, executions, labor camps and religious
oppression have long been features of daily life in East Turkestan.
Muslims are arrested, kept for months (or even years) in Chinese
prisons, which are notorious for torture, solely because they want to
live by their religion. Many of those who fight for freedom and democ-
racy for Turkestan are executed. Moreover, China's assimilationist poli-
cies have prevented the majority Muslim population of East Turkestan
from speaking their own language, living by their own culture, from
going on the hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca), performing their daily ritual
prayers and fasting, and even forbidden them to determine their family
size. The help Muslims of East Turkestan expect of people of good con-
science all over the world is very easy: The solution to bring an end to
this communist oppression lies in the waging of an intellectual struggle
and in the unification of the Turkish-Islamic world. Division and frag-
mentation is a contravention of the moral values of the Qur’an. Mus-
lims must ally themselves together in the awareness that they are
brothers and be united by abiding by Qur’anic moral values and the
Sunnah of our Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace). The
Turkish-Islamic region is one of the richest in the world in terms of un-
derground resources and surface wealth. The Turkish-Islamic world is
a significant force with a young and wide population. These riches and
the region coming together under a just, loving, compassionate, democ-
ratic and honest authority will of course mean that the Turkish-Islamic
world acquires great power. This force to be attained with the establish-
ment of the Turkish-Islamic world will mean the salvation not just of

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