China is using western counter-terror strategies targeting Muslims as justification for its Uighur concentration camps.
In response to the rising international criticism regarding the detainment of more than a million Uighur Muslims in so-called "re-education camps", China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi defended the country's actions, stating, "the efforts are completely in line with the direction the international community has taken to combat terrorism … if we can take care of prevention, then it will be impossible for terrorism to spread and take root."
Other Chinese officials defended their country's actions, claiming that Islam is an "ideological illness," positioning the concentration camps as "hospitals" needed to "cure" people from this sickness. China's ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai stated that the country is trying to turn the Uighurs into "normal people," and a pro-government newspaper tweeted: "The West should be consistent over its own value system. How can it be fine to kill terrorists with missiles, but a humanitarian crisis when Xinjiang attempts to turn them into normal people?" Such statements describe the faith of over 1.7 billion people as an illness from which they need to be cured.
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