Sinophobia trumps Islamophobia.
At least it does for certain sections of the British far Left who have defended China’s long running, brutal repression of the autonomy and self-determination of ethnic minorities such as the Turkic Uighurs, which has recently flared up.
Bear in mind that this is the same section of the far Left which professes to “defend the rights” of the “oppressed” muslim community of Britain by the formation of the communalist, Islamist-dominated RESPECT party.
And representative of that Left is Andy Newman of SocialistUnity, who makes it clear that recent repression of the Uighurs is nothing more than a Western “Sinophobic reading of the situation” :
The Sinophobic reading of the situation there seems to be that the Chinese government are Han chauvinists, suppressing national minorities, persecuting the Islamic religion, and seeking to swamp Xinjiang with Han settlers. But this analysis simply doesn’t accord with the facts.
This is all about the Uighurs stressing their “fictitious pseudo-history”:
We need to be very cautious of Uyghur nationalist organisations mythologizing a fictitious pseudo-history of themselves as an oppressed nation.
And most astonishing of all, on why China is absolutely correct to stamp out any expression of Uighur ethnic identity:
The division of China is simply non-negotiable for the government in Beijing, and they are correct in seeing the unity of the republic as an important precondition for their economic and political independence, which is itself necessary for developing and improving the living standards of their 1.3 billion population.
It is unbelievable that this is coming from the same section of the left which peddles the religious-identity ticket in a false show of solidarity with British muslims.
David T of Harry’s Place sees trouble ahead and a crisis looming for the league of Far left and Islamist gentlemen.
Sinophobia?
Were the reporting of this conflict “Sinophobic”, it would play upon racist stereotypes of Chinese people. It would be claimed that the Uighurs were being killed with ‘characteristic Oriental cruelty’, that the Chinese state was behaving in a ‘wily’ and ‘inscrutable’ manner. Or the Chinese would be taunted with their own darkest moments of national grief. For example, commentators would be claiming that the Han Chinese are “reenacting the Rape of Nanking, only this time as perpetrators”. There would be cartoons and cartoons at the Royal Court in which the Han Chinese would be depicted as slitty eyed demons slaughtering saintly and defenceless Uighurs.
None of this is happening. The reporting is factual and as temperate as possible. There is no a general vilification of Chinese people, or even of the People’s Republic of China. Simply a criticism of its general authoritarianism, lack of democracy, and disdain for human rights: for all of its citizens and in particular for those at its peripheries.
It will only be a matter before Islamists claim Xinjiang as the next Ummah hotspot of muslim repression. But what Islamists, such as Anas al Tikriti, Ismael Patel or Abdurrahman Jafar of the Kafa campaign, an StWC confederation of Islamists and far Left nutters, have to say about their alliance with the supporters of the authoritarian repression of Chinese muslims should be very interesting.
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I’m looking forward to reading the new blog ‘Sinophobia-Watch’ which, no doubt, members of RESPECT party will be setting up.
Muslims should distance themselves from Andy Newman and his disgraceful comments. They should instead do what people who really care about Muslims like Faisal have done, and team up with David T and the HP crowd, supporters of Israeli apartheid , the massacre of Gaza and the illegal war in Iraq !
If you’re going to group together “David T and the HP crowd” to direct your anti-Western and post-colonialist Islamist hatred towards when it comes to Iraq and Palestine, why are you only willing to single out Andy Newman and not the entire far Left circus, including George Galloway et al, who are behind the RESPECT party, when it comes to the Uighurs?
“If you’re going to group together “David T and the HP crowd” to direct your anti-Western and post-colonialist Islamist hatred towards when it comes to Iraq and Palestine”
Hilarious . There we have it straight from the horses’ mouth- opposing the war in Iraq or defending the Palestinians makes you “anti-Western” ! Is this spittoon or “jihad watch” !?
“why are you only willing to single out Andy Newman and not the entire far Left circus, including George Galloway et al, who are behind the RESPECT party, when it comes to the Uighurs?”
1) Because David T supported the Iraq and Palestine wars
2) Because George Galloway , Salma Yaqoob etc havent spoken in support of the Chinese governemnet action
3) Because I am not a member of RESPECT nor allied to it whereas you do link yourself explicitly to HP
But never mind keep indulging in the ad hominens in lieu of an argument
Not that this is going to bother you, ‘me’, but Spittoon links itself rather more explicitly to me than it does to David T – what with me being a writer here and him having, at most, a couple of guest posts here – and I was always against the war in Iraq. This blog represents some of the range of views of the many people from different perspectives who all oppose Islamism etc (see the about page).
Hilarious . There we have it straight from the horses’ mouth- opposing the war in Iraq or defending the Palestinians makes you “anti-Western” ! Is this spittoon or “jihad watch” !?
Ah, a nice wily little trick. But I think you deserve some context. You post comments as “munir” and “blah” on PickledPolitics. You’re “anti-Western” because there are comments by you in which you defend Islamists such as Hizbut Tahrir and Azad Ali’s pro-jihadi articles. Sorry, nice try.
Salma Yaqoob hasn’t spoken in support of the PRC’s repression of the Uighurs and her co-supporters stance on PRC’s actions, which is why when she gets round to it, it’s going to get interesting.
George Galloway, on the other hand, is on record for supporting nominally socialist (Iraq, Russia, PRC etc) and theocratic (Iran) authoritarian regimes which have brutally supressed, tortured, displaced thousands if not millions of muslims. And yet, Islamists such Anas al Tikriti, Ismael Patel or Abdurrahman Jafar and others in RESPECT are willing to grovel at his feet and shower his path with rose petals.
Why does knee-jerk anti-Westernism provoke such shoddy double standards with Islamists like yourself?
But never mind keep indulging in the ad hominens in lieu of an argument
The only ad-hominem I’ve seen being indulged here is by you in accusing me of being a racist. But we won’t mention your record of anti-semitic and anti-Bengali outbursts on PP, okay?
Dear Sir,
You may be interested in my Wiki-Skit on Salma Yaqoob, leader of Respect and champion of Unite Against Fascism:
http://islamthefarleftandmisc.blogspot.com/
Yours,
Paul Murphy.
Birmingham.
What sort of subterranean jibberish was that, Paul? No-one reading it can tell what’s spoof and what’s fact. A straightforard summary of her career and statements would ironically have been more damning – and more useful. Get back to your looney-bin that man!
Sez the sock puppeteer here known as “me” (above):
But George Galloway has headlined at a “Hands off China” gig, attended by representatives of the PRC embassy in London, and run by the loony tunes of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist).
Here’s Galloway presenting his “real deal on China” on Press TV (surprise, surprise) as given to the world by the CPGB (M-L)’s very own “Hands off China” site:
http://handsoffchina.org/2009/09/george-galloways-real-deal-on-china-featuring-keith-bennett/