Afaik they're doing pretty good. A part of the china genocide uighurs xinjiang eleven billion dead was helping jurists and clerics in Xinjiang untangle the Salafi/Wahhabi innovation from actual Islam. I believe there were also programs to educate Uighur people about Uighur history and culture, and the history of Xinjiang, to try to inoculate people against Salafist ideology being promulgated from Saudi. Knowledge is power, and knowing as much as possible about Islam and their own culture was apparently a powerful way to shut out Saudi-back Salafi ideology. It's hard to overstate how much Salafism/Wahhabism is an incredible deviation from most prior Islamic schools of thought. It's a really perverse distortion of the religion. Unfortunately with unlimited oil money and the full backing of the US Saudi has been able to shape Islamic education around the world. You want a school, you just call them up and they'll build a school and send you textbooks and teachers that'll start pumping kids full of Salafism.
for what it's worth, Salafism is a sincere religious belief, and most conceptions of human rights hold freedom of religion as inviolable. In China's case, it's the political content of salafism rather than religious intolerance that caused the crackdown. Salafism spread to communities of Hui muslims in the early 20th century, and because this historic community is unrelated to modern political messages, they've been largely exempt from suppression, and China is content to let them practice just an austere form of Islam.
Salafism isn't just a sincere religious belief. It's a political project that is heavily financed by the gulf monarchies all across the world. Particularly vulnerable countries like Pakistan have their school systems injected with gulf money to spread Salafism. Countries like Turkey, which retained a state religious authority, could only slow it's advance. Nowadays, the Salafi lie of being the true Islam as practiced by the ancients is genuinely believed in the background of islamic culture, while the actual religious tradition as it was practiced for more than a thousand years is regarded as 'mystic' and 'sufi'. It's a real problem that is nearly impossible to disentangle. We can only hope that prosperity, rising literacy, and straight up peace would help. But to draw an analogy, the rise of a liberal, urbanized culture in the United States only served to spook the evangelicals and make them go global in their hateful, exploitative, preaching.
most conceptions of human rights hold freedom of religion as inviolable.
Who cares?
Wahhabism is a hyper-reactionary militant political movement every bit as inimical to leftist projects, and human wellbeing in general, as fascism. Sucks for the Hui but their coreligionists are assholes and need to be suppressed. Same with the Christian Fascists in America, same with the fascist Hindutva movement in India, same with the Mormons, same with the Scientologists, same with a dozen other ideological groups that can't play nice with others. I don't care if it's a religion or a secular ideology or a book club. I'm still holding out hope that the Muslims will rise up against Saudi and crush Wahhabism but it seems increasingly unlikely as time goes on.
Afaik they're doing pretty good. A part of the china genocide uighurs xinjiang eleven billion dead was helping jurists and clerics in Xinjiang untangle the Salafi/Wahhabi innovation from actual Islam. I believe there were also programs to educate Uighur people about Uighur history and culture, and the history of Xinjiang, to try to inoculate people against Salafist ideology being promulgated from Saudi. Knowledge is power, and knowing as much as possible about Islam and their own culture was apparently a powerful way to shut out Saudi-back Salafi ideology. It's hard to overstate how much Salafism/Wahhabism is an incredible deviation from most prior Islamic schools of thought. It's a really perverse distortion of the religion. Unfortunately with unlimited oil money and the full backing of the US Saudi has been able to shape Islamic education around the world. You want a school, you just call them up and they'll build a school and send you textbooks and teachers that'll start pumping kids full of Salafism.
Yes the saudi/turkey sponsored mosques in belgium/bosnia/germany all the time, which is one of the reasons that so many isis fighter came from there.
for what it's worth, Salafism is a sincere religious belief, and most conceptions of human rights hold freedom of religion as inviolable. In China's case, it's the political content of salafism rather than religious intolerance that caused the crackdown. Salafism spread to communities of Hui muslims in the early 20th century, and because this historic community is unrelated to modern political messages, they've been largely exempt from suppression, and China is content to let them practice just an austere form of Islam.
Salafism isn't just a sincere religious belief. It's a political project that is heavily financed by the gulf monarchies all across the world. Particularly vulnerable countries like Pakistan have their school systems injected with gulf money to spread Salafism. Countries like Turkey, which retained a state religious authority, could only slow it's advance. Nowadays, the Salafi lie of being the true Islam as practiced by the ancients is genuinely believed in the background of islamic culture, while the actual religious tradition as it was practiced for more than a thousand years is regarded as 'mystic' and 'sufi'. It's a real problem that is nearly impossible to disentangle. We can only hope that prosperity, rising literacy, and straight up peace would help. But to draw an analogy, the rise of a liberal, urbanized culture in the United States only served to spook the evangelicals and make them go global in their hateful, exploitative, preaching.
And that's a problem.
Who cares?
Wahhabism is a hyper-reactionary militant political movement every bit as inimical to leftist projects, and human wellbeing in general, as fascism. Sucks for the Hui but their coreligionists are assholes and need to be suppressed. Same with the Christian Fascists in America, same with the fascist Hindutva movement in India, same with the Mormons, same with the Scientologists, same with a dozen other ideological groups that can't play nice with others. I don't care if it's a religion or a secular ideology or a book club. I'm still holding out hope that the Muslims will rise up against Saudi and crush Wahhabism but it seems increasingly unlikely as time goes on.