Link: https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/12\/4\/holduighurs-forced-to-eat-pork-as-hog-farming-in-xinjiang-expands <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In China’s westernmost region of Xinjiang, much of the Uighur population have been forced into, what China calls, re-education camps, to attempt to reverse their muslim ideals and ways and re-educate them. As a part of these concentration camps, muslims are forced to eat pork, which goes against their religion, or face punishment and humiliation. Inside the camps, Uighur businesswoman Zumret Dawut who was picked up and taken in 2018, had stated that because all they were mainly given to eat was pork, they had to go against their religion in order to survive. Many felt a sense of shame inside them. The Xinjiang government has also begun a new initiative called “free-food” where they feed young muslim children pork dishes without their knowledge. Their goal is that by feeding them pork in their youth, they will acquire a taste for food that goes against their beliefs. In the Xinjiang region, there has also been more of an effort to add and expand pig farming. Many Uighur’s have stated that by Xinjiang promoting and expanding pig farms and trying to become the “pig-raising hub” is a remark to their way of life. The Chinese government have denied many statements from Uighur victims who have come out of the camps saying they are false. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Uighur’s have many ties back to the Middle east which have caused China to build these camps. Because Uighur’s are from Turkish decent, they have ties to central Asia and share many cultural and religious traits. In Xinjiang, they are an ethnic minority group whom the Chinese have been attempting to push away or. re-educate. Because they are of a religion that ties back to the Middle East, China has had a tight tope on them for some time. Some people, like Uighur businesswoman Zumret Dawut, were questioned about their ties to the middle east and how many children they had. Zumret’s husband was from Pakistan so she was interrogated for two months about her husband and if she has read the Quran. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because China and some Middle Eastern countries are international actors and\/or play a big role in trade and policies, they know that people are watching. Some people from the Middle East like from countries like Kazakhstan have been taken into these camps even though they do not live in Xinjiang. China could in a part be taking advantage of all the problems that have arisen in the Middle East to try to secretly take Uighur’s into these concentration camps. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Link: https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/12\/4\/holduighurs-forced-to-eat-pork-as-hog-farming-in-xinjiang-expands In China’s westernmost region of Xinjiang, much of the Uighur population have been forced into, what China calls, re-education camps, to attempt to reverse their muslim ideals and ways and re-educate them. As a part of these concentration camps, muslims are forced to eat pork, which goes against their religion, or face punishment and humiliation. Inside the camps,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4244,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions\/4244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}