Brainwashing Chinese style

comment by CurrentlyInChina (U11181)
posted 8 minutes ago

Kash - I am allowed to practice my faith. I'm just not allowed to mingle in a gathering amongst the locals. It's the same for my Christian friends who are also foreigners. I'll let you guess why.
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Yeah i'm just talking from a personal level. Just dont see the appeal myself living in a country where you can't mingle with other Muslims. How did you end up there?

Oh, in a mosque it would be fine. You can also say hello to the cameras there. And some are there aren't even Muslim but they'll be there acting like one just to keep an eye on things.

I am here due to my wife being from here and get her into the UK isn't simple. If it were, I'd have been back by now.

comment by Kung Fu Cantona 🙏🏼 🇵🇸 (U18082)
posted 29 minutes ago
comment by Dave NotSo (U11711)
posted 13 minutes ago
KFC, like I said in my post I'm not condoning the govt. It's disturbing.

There has been a real history of both crime and terror by the Uyghurs. It's been building up to something like this for years.
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I didn’t see your post to be honest mate, I was typing mine when you’ed already posted. Just checked back now.

If there has been crime and terror then it should obviously be stamped about. Can you post a link? Not asking for proof, I’m just genuinely interested in the history of the issue.

If the stories are true and we have the potential internment of one million Uighurs, then crime and terror aren’t the issue in my opinion.
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You care to amend your incorrect statement, and do not suggest for one minute I am all right with something like that or would agree with it.

LQ wrong person 👀😅

comment by Kung Fu Cantona 🙏🏼 🇵🇸 (U18082)
posted 11 seconds ago
LQ wrong person 👀😅
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sorry 👍

comment by CurrentlyInChina (U11181)
posted 4 minutes ago
Oh, in a mosque it would be fine. You can also say hello to the cameras there. And some are there aren't even Muslim but they'll be there acting like one just to keep an eye on things.

I am here due to my wife being from here and get her into the UK isn't simple. If it were, I'd have been back by now.
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Inshallah you’ll be out of there sooner rather than later. 👍🏼

comment by CurrentlyInChina (U11181)
posted 5 minutes ago
Oh, in a mosque it would be fine. You can also say hello to the cameras there. And some are there aren't even Muslim but they'll be there acting like one just to keep an eye on things.

I am here due to my wife being from here and get her into the UK isn't simple. If it were, I'd have been back by now.
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you in the far west of china...on the old silk road ?

comment by CurrentlyInChina (U11181)
posted 39 minutes ago
Kash - I am allowed to practice my faith. I'm just not allowed to mingle in a gathering amongst the locals. It's the same for my Christian friends who are also foreigners. I'll let you guess why.

LQ - laws a floated here. The only law not to break is don't go against the government or make it loose face, and secondly the rich. Crimes happen here but they are generally not widely reported or stats put up. As a foreigner you're safe from most of it other than scammers at tourist places.

Peks - while you praise the Chinese government and are quick to point the flaws or western nations, thanks Chinese are anything but innocent. People go missing not just due to standing out but also due to corruption.

The different ethnic groups are a minority compared to the Han and have had most of their own culture wiped out. One of the tension that has happened in that area with the Uighers are that the Hans who, by given encouragement by the government and financial aid to move there are given preference and have more rights than the Uighers, despite it being an "autonomous region".
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Crime happens, its safer in certain parts but you're kind of in a bubble as a foreigner. But I've been here long enough to have been threatened to be stabbed. If you see a man walking around with a newspaper under his arm, best get out as he'll most likely have a knife.

I really can't believe there are people on this board that are thinking this "re-education" camp is a good thing. But then again it isn't their "group" being targeted. When it is their group they're up in arms about their rights. It's no different to forcing a religion onto someone. I bet if that were happening in say Muslim country with the Christians or other minorities there being "re-educated" into Muslims, people like LQ and Peks might not have the same view about this.
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I do not or would ever support such a thing you shouldn’t say things like that about a person.

LQ, if I have misread your words, I apologise. I have to reread as I have written and read in a rush.

comment by CurrentlyInChina (U11181)
posted 1 minute ago
LQ, if I have misread your words, I apologise. I have to reread as I have written and read in a rush.
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No worries.

Anyone who thinks a re education camp is in anyway normal or acceptable is a fruitcake and a dangerous one.