Azhar & Chinese Muslims |
The US also slammed China for holding up the ban on Azhar while "abusing" Chinese (Uighur) Muslims. "The world cannot afford China`s shameful hypocrisy toward Muslims. On one hand, China abuses more than a million Muslims at home, but on the other it protects violent Islamic terrorist groups from sanctions at the UN," US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo tweeted recently.India had in 2016 tried to play the Uighur card against China in retaliation to Beijing putting a technical hold on Azhar`s listing by the 1267 committee of the UN. Trying a new tactic to put pressure on China, India had issued an e-visa to Uighur democracy activist Dolkun Isa (China called him a `terrorist in red notice of the Interpol and Chinese police`) to allow him to attend a conference organised by Chinese democracy supporters in Dharamshala ( Dalai Lama`s place ) . However, under pressure from China, India had later revoked the visa. While human rights groups have accused China of forcing Uighurs, the biggest ethnic group in the country`s Xinjiang region, into internment camps to strip them of their religious identity, not many countries have spoken against it.
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