{"id":2758,"date":"2009-07-10T11:48:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T09:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2009-07-10T11:48:41","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T09:48:41","slug":"wenn-die-uiguren-bloss-palastinenser-waren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2009\/07\/10\/wenn-die-uiguren-bloss-palastinenser-waren_2758","title":{"rendered":"Wenn die Uiguren bloss Pal\u00e4stinenser w\u00e4ren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; und die Chinesen Israelis, dann w\u00fcrde sich die muslimische Welt vielleicht auch f\u00fcr sie interessieren, meint <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monaeltahawy.com\/\">Mona Eltahawy<\/a> in einem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/mona-eltahawy\/if-only-the-uighurs-were_b_228125.html?view=print\">Kommentar f\u00fcr die HuffPost<\/a>. Doch was m\u00fcsste passieren, damit die westliche \u00d6ffentlichkeit sich f\u00fcr sie einsetzen w\u00fcrde? Wenn die Uiguren Buddisten w\u00fcrden, h\u00e4tten sie deutlich bessere Chancen auf ein Benefiz-Konzert mit Bono, Bj\u00f6rk und Sting. Tja, Pech gehabt, falsche Minderheit mit dem falschen Unterdr\u00fccker!<\/p>\n<p><em>If they were Buddhists, Bjork, Sting, Bono and all those other one-named saviors of the world&#8217;s poor and oppressed would have held &#8222;Free Xinjiang&#8220; concerts already. But the West continues to largely ignore the Uighurs. Maybe they&#8217;re not as cuddly as the Tibetans or their leader the Dalai Lama. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Perhaps the U.S. State Department would issue stronger words in their defense if only the Uighurs weren&#8217;t the wrong kind of minority in a country that produces half the goods we use and which currently lends the wobbly global economy enough money to keep it just this side of total collapse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Uighurs aren&#8217;t Buddhists but are instead Muslims and us Muslims don&#8217;t get much love these days. You&#8217;d think the U.S. at least would be paying a bit more attention to Uighurs after locking up four of their brethren at the prison camp at Guantanamo without charge for seven years. They were released earlier this year to Bermuda.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/files\/2009\/07\/eltahawymona45.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2759\" title=\"Global Agenda\" src=\"http:\/\/altesblog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/eltahawymona45-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/files\/2009\/07\/eltahawymona45-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/files\/2009\/07\/eltahawymona45.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>If the West seems deaf to Uighur complaints, then where are their fellow Muslims? Surely this is a chance for Muslims across the world to march in protest at the stranglehold the godless Communist Chinese keep over the Uighurs?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Think again.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas put it bluntly on the micro-blogging site, Twitter &#8212; where thousands follow him &#8212; when he asked why no one was paying attention to the Uighur &#8222;intifada,&#8220; the Arabic word for uprising that is usually associated with Palestinians fighting back against Israeli occupation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s precisely the problem &#8212; the Uighurs are no Palestinians and the Chinese are not Israel. Many Muslims &#8212; Arab Muslims especially &#8212; pay attention only when the U.S. and Israel are behaving badly. Palestine followed by Iraq always take precedence leaving little room for other Muslim grievances.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Look at Darfur, where the suffering goes ignored because those who are creating the misery are neither Americans nor Israelis but instead fellow Arab Muslim Sudanese. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>China is coincidentally one of Sudan&#8217;s biggest trade partners and sells Khartoum plenty of weapons which Darfuris complain are used against them. So it&#8217;s unlikely Sudanese President Omar Bashir, who declared himself the guardian of Islam in 2007 by putting on trial a British teacher for insulting Muslims when she named a class teddy bear &#8222;Mohammed&#8220;, will condemn Chinese oppression of Uighurs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Perhaps Israel can save the day and invade Xinjiang.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; und die Chinesen Israelis, dann w\u00fcrde sich die muslimische Welt vielleicht auch f\u00fcr sie interessieren, meint Mona Eltahawy in einem Kommentar f\u00fcr die HuffPost. Doch was m\u00fcsste passieren, damit die westliche \u00d6ffentlichkeit sich f\u00fcr sie einsetzen w\u00fcrde? Wenn die Uiguren Buddisten w\u00fcrden, h\u00e4tten sie deutlich bessere Chancen auf ein Benefiz-Konzert mit Bono, Bj\u00f6rk und [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-die-freunde-und-die-feinde-des-islams"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wenn die Uiguren bloss Pal\u00e4stinenser w\u00e4ren - J\u00f6rg Lau<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2009\/07\/10\/wenn-die-uiguren-bloss-palastinenser-waren_2758\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wenn die Uiguren bloss Pal\u00e4stinenser w\u00e4ren - J\u00f6rg Lau\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8230; und die Chinesen Israelis, dann w\u00fcrde sich die muslimische Welt vielleicht auch f\u00fcr sie interessieren, meint Mona Eltahawy in einem Kommentar f\u00fcr die HuffPost. 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