About 600 imams have been removed from the Uyghur community in a campaign of extra-legal incarceration that has already seen millions of Uyghur Muslims held in concentration camps.
While Islam is a main pillar of Uyghur culture and imams are considered as community leaders, local authorities in the Chinese government want to dominate their culture with communist ideologies.
Islam has become the main target because of these ideologies.
Speaking to Radio Islam on Monday, Uyghur Abduweli Ayup says Masaajid are sanctuaries where Uyghur Muslims can practice their culture and language because imams resonate with the community.
He says 900 000 Uyghur children are also being held in concentration camps without any access to learn their culture in their own language and are easily influenced to forget their roots and follow a different way.
“Mosques are the last place in which the Uyghur people feel that they can protect themselves. Imams are the last line which is holding the community together.”
Weli interviewed a Swedish scholar who says the people are not afraid of living they are afraid of dying.
“Unfortunately every village has a cremation building in which Muslims upon dying are being cremated and they live in fear of what would happen to their bodies being cremated because as Muslims we don’t cremate.”
Weli says from 2016 almost 16000 Masaajid have been destroyed adding that the Chinese believe that Islam in china should bare communist character aspects.
Yazdaan Khan
To listen to the interview with Abduweli Ayup
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