I'm with you there, I don't know how to express concern on here without being accused of mindlessly absorbing propaganda. I'll parse these words carefully because I don't want to sound ignorant.
When it first started happening it was long before the Hong Kong situation and anti-Chinese rhetoric in the West wasn't that high, no one was pointing it out in the mainstream media, so to my immediate circle it just felt like it was being completely ignored. We had to come to the conclusion, due to the lack of information or anyone talking about it, that the genocide was finally happening or something. As paranoid Muslims we've been telling each other that it's coming soon, it's going to happen, things are ramping up, for years, and we didn't really differentiate the countries that would be doing it, it all seemed like a singe concerted effort by a global conglomerate. The complexity of it being China never crossed our minds, it just seemed obvious they'd do it first because they could get away with it relatively easier and that would start the domino for other countries to follow along.
Of course, the situation is obviously not a genocide, I know that now. What is happening is not totally clear, but it can't be as bad as Western intelligence is putting it. But from our perspective, this still is so fucking sus. Putting Muslims in camps en masse will always be concerning to me, I'll always be skeptical, even if the reasoning seems sound, because we've been trained to fear it. We've been trained to not trust the modernist, secular-humanist response to Islamic political will (which is certainly what China is doing, nor do I fault them for it), because it never seems to get it right, it always messes something up because there's things they don't understand, things they miss in their inability to conceptualize Islam and there's long-term damage in the process, even if they mean well. The problem is that Muslims should be approached Islamically, utilizing Islamic theology to build communist relations (which can surely be done, it's primed for it), but that's not going to happen anytime soon. And so as we're waiting and have no idea what's happening, and no idea whose sources to trust, we're left to use previous examples of contact with Islam to guess at the direction things are going, and those are rarely good.
I'm with you there, I don't know how to express concern on here without being accused of mindlessly absorbing propaganda. I'll parse these words carefully because I don't want to sound ignorant.
When it first started happening it was long before the Hong Kong situation and anti-Chinese rhetoric in the West wasn't that high, no one was pointing it out in the mainstream media, so to my immediate circle it just felt like it was being completely ignored. We had to come to the conclusion, due to the lack of information or anyone talking about it, that the genocide was finally happening or something. As paranoid Muslims we've been telling each other that it's coming soon, it's going to happen, things are ramping up, for years, and we didn't really differentiate the countries that would be doing it, it all seemed like a singe concerted effort by a global conglomerate. The complexity of it being China never crossed our minds, it just seemed obvious they'd do it first because they could get away with it relatively easier and that would start the domino for other countries to follow along.
Of course, the situation is obviously not a genocide, I know that now. What is happening is not totally clear, but it can't be as bad as Western intelligence is putting it. But from our perspective, this still is so fucking sus. Putting Muslims in camps en masse will always be concerning to me, I'll always be skeptical, even if the reasoning seems sound, because we've been trained to fear it. We've been trained to not trust the modernist, secular-humanist response to Islamic political will (which is certainly what China is doing, nor do I fault them for it), because it never seems to get it right, it always messes something up because there's things they don't understand, things they miss in their inability to conceptualize Islam and there's long-term damage in the process, even if they mean well. The problem is that Muslims should be approached Islamically, utilizing Islamic theology to build communist relations (which can surely be done, it's primed for it), but that's not going to happen anytime soon. And so as we're waiting and have no idea what's happening, and no idea whose sources to trust, we're left to use previous examples of contact with Islam to guess at the direction things are going, and those are rarely good.