Thursday, September 30, 2021

Pew Study Finds Global Hostilities Decline but Religious Restrictions Remain High

This is the finding reported in the latest Pew Research Center report on religious freedom.  See the main web page here and the complete report pdf here.

2 comments:

  1. I read it in the middle of the article: "In China's Xinjiang province, various sources have reported the detention of nearly a million Uyghur Muslims and members of other religious and ethnic minorities, and the separation of children from their families to curb religious influence on their families. (see Chapter 3 for details).” If you are interested, you can take a look at the description in “Chapter 3”. The author infers from various sources that there are 1 million members of Uyghur Muslims, Kazakhs, and other Muslim groups in Xinjiang, China. , Uyghur Christians are controlled by the Chinese government and suffer inhumane abuses. But the source of information identified in the article, among other news sites, is only a study by the U.S. State Department.
    I briefly read the 115-page report. The first paragraph begins to use non-objective language to describe the inhumane behavior of the Chinese government to ban the spread of cults within China in accordance with the law. But the report did not fairly point out that these banned cults used China's "Ponzi scheme" pyramid scheme to defraud believers, raise funds, and even encourage believers to set themselves on fire. The video link of the believer's self-immolation is as follows: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/782922716445373578/. In my opinion, it is not objective and unreasonable to criticize or fabricate the actions of the Chinese government only with words. Similar examples can also be found in this report and will not be repeated here.
    As for the religious issue in China's Xinjiang, there is currently no direct video evidence online that genocide and inhumane abuses have occurred in Xinjiang. The only video evidence circulating online is that someone filmed a building or a group of buildings that appeared to be heavily guarded in Xinjiang province. However, barbed wire, high walls and guards stand outside all military bases, detention centers and other military locations. Therefore, these military bases cannot be defined as "concentration camps" based on inflammatory rhetoric alone.
    You and I both know that there are profound political disputes between China and the United States. As early as the Nixon era, both China and the Soviet Union were in the communist camp, which was incompatible with the capitalist camp. Although there was a short honeymoon period between China and the United States, it gradually faded due to the beginning of the Cold War. The rise of China has since prompted President Obama to resume his return to the Asia-Pacific, aimed at containing China. Although the struggle between the two countries seems normal to me, we as scholars should maintain a rigorous and objective attitude, especially when confronted with information that is inaccurately sourced or strongly inflammatory.

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