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2021.02.18 15:26 GMT+8

China's 'Muslim Question'

Updated 2021.02.18 18:28 GMT+8
Straight Talk

Editor's note: Reuben Lawrence is a Muslim activist based in Britain. Views expressed in the video are his own and not necessarily those of CGTN.

Remember 9/11? Remember the terrorists killing innocent people in the United States, Britain, France, Germany? Remember these countries then fighting these terrorist organizations, ISIL, al-Qaeda, the war on terror?

There's one country in particular at war with these same terrorist organizations. A country that has more Muslims than the entire population of the EU. A country where one province has more mosques than the entirety of the United States. That country is China.

Yes, China. The one you see them attacked in the news over coronavirus, Hong Kong, Tibet, Taiwan, Huawei. Lately, China has been defamed over the Muslim Uygurs.

You see, there's this group – the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM). For decades, the United States has designated it a terrorist organization because they've been found fighting everywhere from Afghanistan to Syria to Libya.

The ETIM is China's al-Qaeda and all means of deradicalization is being used to defeat them.

This ETIM, though still involved in terrorism, has now been removed by the U.S. from the designated terrorist organization list. And others, like Twitter, and even the British Foreign Office, have taken up the ETIM cause: War is peace and, peace is war.

Yes, the authors of the WMD hoax are at it again.

But why?

Weren't we all supposed to be fighting against al-Qaeda and ISIS? Is it to do with weakening China? Is it to stop its economic rise? Is spreading fake news about China, Huawei, and its Muslim and the rest the way to stop China's growing power? You decide. Muslim from Palestine to Kashmir to Iran will surely wonder about that. But China will solve its extremism problems. And China will not allow any foreign country to interfere in her domestic affairs any longer.

President Biden, take note.

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