France And Germany Present An Example By Taking Steps In Favour Of Afghan Muslims And Uygur Muslims While The Muslim Countries Look On
France Condemns
Chinese Persecution Of Muslims While Germany Welcome Afghan Muslims In Germany
Main
Points:
1. France
passes a resolution condemning Chinese genocide of Uyghur Muslims.
2. Earlier
Holland, Belgium and Italy passed resolutions against China.
3. Muslim
countries supported China in the United Nations.
4. Germany made
integration of Afghan nationals in German society easier
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By
New Age Islam Staff Writer
27 January
2022
Despite all
the big talks of the Muslim countries of following and implementing Sharia,
practically they do not show that kind of solidarity to the oppressed and
victimized Muslims the world over while the non-Muslim nations whom the
extremist Islamic preachers call the enemy of Muslims and Islam come forward to
save Muslims in distress and protest against persecution of Muslims in non-Muslim
countries.
Recently
France Parliament passed a resolution condemning the persecution of Turkic
ethnic Uyghur Muslims by the Chinese government terming it as genocide of
Muslims. The resolution demanded that the government should make protection of
Uyghur Muslims taking refuge in France.
Last year,
Belgium, Italy and Netherland had also passed resolutions condemning Chinese
persecution of Uyghur Muslims. More than a million Ethnic Muslims of Xinjiang
province have been detained in so called re-education camps where they are
forced to abandon their religious beliefs. The women there are raped and forced
to go sterilization operations. Many prominent literary and political Uyghur
personalities have been killed in these detention camps. Chinese government also
forces the Uyghurs to do unpaid labour in cotton plants in the region. Last
month the US had banned products produced by forced labor of Uygurs in the US.
Unfortunately,
Muslim countries have not condemned the Chinese policy in Xinjiang or passed
resolutions condemning the genocide of Muslims. Instead they have defended and
supported China on the issue.
Importantly,
two years ago, Chinese government had conducted a guided tour of ulema of
Nahdlatul Ulema and Indonesian Ulama Council and representatives of some
political parties of Indonesia. China had removed barbed fencing and other
incriminating evidences before the tour and had shown them only some sections
of re-education camps. After their return from the tour, the ulema of Indonesia
had sung praises of China. Not only that, many ulema criticized the US media
for unleasiing a propaganda against China. Indonesian government has maintained
its stance that the Uyghur issue is an internal problem of China.
Imran Khan,
the Prime Minister of Pakistan has also maintained the stance taken by the
ulema of Nahdlatul Ulema and Indonesian Ulama Council that Uyghurs are not
being persecuted in Chinese detention camps and that it was only a propaganda
of the US media against China.
Saudi Arabia also defended China’s right to fight terrorists in its country suggesting that all the Uyghurs were terrorists. Turkey has not only kept silence on the issue but Uyghur refugees in Turkey have been harassed and deported by the Turkey government. This is in contrast to the policy of the France government which assured the protection of Uyghur refugees in the country. Interestingly, the resolution in the French Parliament against Chinese persecution of Uyghurs by the opposition Socialists but was backed by President Emnmanuel Macron’s LaRem Party.
It may be recalled that last year, the whole of
Islamic world had stood up against Macron for his comment on the Islamic world
and he was branded an enemy of the Muslims and Islam. But on the issue of
Uyghur genocide, It was Macron who took the lead in condemning Chinese genocide
of Muslims and the Islamic nations are standing with China.
It should
also be noted that in 2019 western countries had sent letters to the UN Human
Rights Council criticising China’s polcy against the ethnic minorities of
Xinjiang province. In response China had also sent letter to the UN HR Council
with the list of countries that supported its Uyghur policy. Distressingly
there were many Islamic countries defending China. The list is as follows. The
names of Muslim countries are in bold:
Signing the
second letter, in defense of China’s policies, were: Algeria, Angola, Bahrain,
Belarus, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo,
Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Gabon, Kuwait, Laos,
Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia,
Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Togo,
Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.
Similarly,
Germany has also showed the Islamic countries by accepting the fleeing Afghan
citizens and giving them opportunity to integrate in the German society.
Germany has said that Afghanistan was among the countries from which citizens
are being accepted. The enrolment for integration courses for Afghan immigrants
have been made easier by the present government.
The Social
Democratic Party in its election promises had assured of making its migration
policy more lenient. The party has fulfilled its promise. The Foreign Minister
of Germany Nancy Fazer said, “We should
integrate the Afghan nationals into the German society soon because we know
that they will live here.”
It is an
example for the Islamic countries that Germany has accepted more than 5000
Afghan nations since Taliban came to power last August. Last year, a German
government agency had said that the Afghan nationals arriving in Germany after
recent crisis are more educated than those arriving in 2015 and therefore, they
will integrate into the German society more easily.
The steps
of France and Germany that have shown solidarity with the Muslims of two
countries where they are being oppressed are an example for the Islamic
countries. The western countries gave the displaced Muslims of Syria and Iraq
during the 2014-2015 Syrian civil war as millions of Muslims were granted
asylum in Germany, France and other western countries while Muslim countries
sealed their borders to prevent them from entering their countries. Some
countries deported them back to China to be persecuted and killed.
France also
granted asylum to Afghan nationals in the run-up to the ascent of Taliban and
during the height of the war. France also welcomed those Afghans to France who
worked for governmental and non-governmental organizations of France. This
caused a mad rush among the Afghan nationals to migrate to France.
All these developments indicate the grim realities within the Islamic countries which do not show such concern for humanitarian crisis as the Western countries show. The Ulema, as in the case of Indonesian ulema, also have a very poor understanding and knowledge of the international affairs and make statements due to their lack of knowledge that only harms the cause of the oppressed Muslims. They are totally unaware of the political developments of the world.
The
Taliban have not shown any interest in calling back the Afghan nationals who
have sought shelter in Germany, France, Turkey and other countries. It is blot
on their claims of being a truly Islamic organization as Muslims are fleeing
from their own country because of the fear of persecution under them and ready
to live in a country whom the Taliban consider the enemy of the Muslims. The
Muslims feel safer and have more personal and religious freedom in Western
countries than in Islamic countries. This provides food for thought who keep
ranting against the Western countries.
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