China Accused of Expanding Mosques Crackdown Beyond Xinjiang
TimeNOV 13 2023
The Spin
Pro-China narrative
China's critics are manipulating the news to paint a false picture of human rights violations out of what are merely mosque renovations. Chinese-style mosques have always been the tradition in the country and are deeply supported by Muslim communities. This is nothing new, however, as foreign media consistently concocts misinformation about what's really happening in China.
Anti-China narrative
China is today the world's only country officially demolishing mosques and interning millions of Muslims in concentration camps. The communist regime's repressive policies in the western provinces are the most extreme embodiment of state-sanctioned Islamophobia, and this expansion of the crackdown on mosques must be viewed in this context.