Why do Muslim states stay silent over China’s abuse
of the Uighurs?
“The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the
most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas
– uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes,” said Salman Rushdie when he was
in fear of his life in 1990. He was talking about conservative Islam. China is
now turning criticism of its disastrous record on incubating the Covid-19 virus
and its atrocities against its Muslim minorities into crimes, and the people
who should be shouting the loudest are bowing their heads in reverential
silence”.