Ending the silence on China's Uighur repression

A year ago today, when Chinese police violently suppressed a peaceful protest by the Uighur minority in Urumqi, the capital of the western region of Xinjiang, the world essentially looked the other way. This is the message of "Can Anyone Hear Us?" a report that the Uyghur Human Rights Project recently issued on the unrest. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, the report details the firing on protesters that led to hundreds of deaths, as well as mass beatings, the arbitrary detention of thousands and a 10-month communications shutdown that cut off the region from the outside world. At a Washington conference last week where the report was released, an eyewitness testified that he saw police handing out steel batons to mobs of Han Chinese, confirming reports that security forces fomented anti-Uighur violence.  Read more...

It is with sadness and regret that we have been informed that one of the pioneers of Hajj and Umrah passed on. Br Waheed Kazi passed away on Saturday in Egypt. May Allah Ta'ala grant him forgiveness and Jannatul Firdaus and place sabr in the hearts of those he left behind. Ameen 

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