Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "China sentences Uyghur scholar to life in jail – BBC News" video.

  1. Really, Jimbo? Y’know, what I’ve always wondered about is why does Miss Universe always come from Earth? 🤔
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  2. Most “Westerners” are enlightened and stopped reading fairy tales written by men 1000s of years ago in their childhood. Thank Christ.
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  3. Why should anyone be surprised by this? China is a Communist state run by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and Communism - theoretically, ideologically and historically - opposed God and all forms of religion. From the time of Karl Marx to today, communism is based on the abolition of religion. What did Marx say? “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions.” Notwithstanding that the Chinese Constitution acknowledges freedom of religion and religious practice, when you have a specific region of the country that is almost majority Muslim (45% at the last census - the rest being Han Chinese), it’s no wonder Beijing is getting twitchy. This is a good example of if a country is going to have freedom of religion, it’s quite important that there is a broad and healthy mix. When one particular faith coagulates in one corner of the country, and this faith is anathema to the ruling regime, we can expect exactly what is happening; like the silencing of influential voices as with this lady. Add to this a strong Uyghur nationalist movement seeking independence and autonomy, and it only raises the stakes. It would be akin to having a Communist government in London and the whole of Scotland were Pakistani Muslim, say, and they were calling and agitating for a separate, autonomous Muslim state. Ethnicity and organised religion have so much to answer for.
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