>> To clarify, China doesn't "hate muslims" in the way some westerners do. > Yes, they do. I'd like to read more about this - what reason would they have to h

>> To clarify, China doesn't "hate muslims" in the way some westerners do. > Yes, they do. I'd like to read more about this - what reason would they have to hate Muslims? My understanding is that the CCP's current goal, however ill conceived, is to revert elements of Salafi/Wahhabi Islam imported from Saudi Arabia to Turkey, and subsequently to Xinjiang (by mostly ethnic Uyghurs) post-1985, back to the pre-1985 Sufi Islam. The primary goal is to contain the spread of jihadist doctrine [1] to prevent incidents such as the 2009 Urumqi riots [2] (where hundreds of ethnic Han and Sufi muslims were slaughtered in the streets) as well as other extremist-Islam inspired terrorist incidents [3][4]. By contrast, the Hui Muslims living in the region are extremely well integrated both economically and socially [5] and the Kazak, Dongxiang, Khalka, Sala, Tajik, Uzbeks, Bao’an and Tatar Muslims seem to be doing just fine. > Yes, an attitude of compulsory conformity to common tribal identity and the norms, rituals, and behaviors associated therewith is a particularly common thing in human societies, and it's exactly the main reason Muslims are targeted in the West, as well as in China. During the pre-1985 Sufi-majority period, ethnic Uyghurs were allowed to express their traditional culture just like any of the other dozens of ethnic minorities in China do in the present day (for example by wearing brightly coloured clothing, traditional dresses, performing traditional music and dance, eating traditional food). That was the mostly peaceful, secular version of Islam that has been tolerated by the CCP. My understanding is that constructs of the more extreme Wahhabi/Salafi Islam such as burkas, suppression of women's rights, (non-Islamic) education, music, consumption of alcohol, pork, etc., are the kinds of things the CCP is trying to eradicate owing to their belief that these practices lead to extremism which undermines their holy grail of societal stability. [1] https://www.iris-france.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Asia-focus-51.pdf https://www.iris-france.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Asia-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_rio... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China#Chronology_of_major_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China#Chronology_... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Mansour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Mansour [5] https://www.ft.com/content/08b19a76-f389-11e8-ae55-df4bf40f9d0d https://www.ft.com/content/08b19a76-f389-11e8-ae55-df4bf40f9...