Tag: Uyghur Autonomous Region

By Syed Ali Mujtaba A delegation consisting of more than 30 Islamic figures and scholars from 14 countries began their visit from Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the far northwest of China. Xinjiang is a predominately Muslim province of China from where often news of persecution of Muslims is reported in the western media. The Western media narrative is, “China’s Xinjiang policy has included intrusive surveillance, religious restrictions, the destruction of mosques, arbitrary arrests, and the detention of an estimated 1.8 million mostly Muslim Uyghurs and other...