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Communist China's Policy of Oppression in East Turkestan

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"A good action and a bad action are not the same.<br />

Repel the bad with someth<strong>in</strong>g better and, if there<br />

is enmity between you and someone else,<br />

he will be like a bosom friend."<br />

(Surah Fussilat: 34)<br />

justify savagery and slaughter. Opposites exist everywhere: Day and<br />

night, dark and light, hot and cold, good and bad. Yet these have been<br />

created to emphasize the beauty <strong>of</strong> the world and to allow moral virtues<br />

such as compassion, peace and forgiveness to emerge. The same th<strong>in</strong>g<br />

applies to the world <strong>of</strong> ideas. The fact that people th<strong>in</strong>k or believe differently<br />

is no reason for them to ruthlessly slaughter each other. Allah<br />

commands people to behave with k<strong>in</strong>dness, even to their enemies, and<br />

to speak good words to people. All contradictions can be resolved <strong>in</strong> an<br />

atmosphere <strong>of</strong> peace and toleration by people who possess the reason<br />

and good conscience that Qur'anic morality br<strong>in</strong>gs with it.<br />

Communism, however, ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>s the exact opposite. In fact, when<br />

conflict, which is one <strong>of</strong> the most important components <strong>of</strong> communism,<br />

jo<strong>in</strong>ed forces with Darw<strong>in</strong>ist thought, which regards human be<strong>in</strong>gs<br />

as a species <strong>of</strong> animal, the result was the deaths <strong>of</strong> millions <strong>of</strong><br />

people and the ru<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> many more lives. That is why the policies <strong>of</strong><br />

Mao and his followers were not changed by the suffer<strong>in</strong>gs they caused<br />

their people, whom they regarded as just a herd <strong>of</strong> animals.<br />

The Darw<strong>in</strong>ist world view which caused Mao to regard those who<br />

opposed communism as animals is emphasized <strong>in</strong> the book Ch<strong>in</strong>a and<br />

Charles Darw<strong>in</strong> by James Reeve Pusey, a historian from Harvard University:<br />

<strong>Communist</strong> Ch<strong>in</strong>a’s <strong>Policy</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>Oppression</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>East</strong> <strong>Turkestan</strong>

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