I hate that if it weren't for your inclusion of the smuglord emoji and humorous spelling of CCP this could 100%, no exaggeration, pass as a real lib comment. I've seen that exact counterargument deployed on more than one occasion.
Not true! In order to keep plausible deniability, they make sure every visit is completely scripted front to back in order to hide the industrial scale cultural genocide. The mosques are all decorative and worshipers are highly trained actors
My sister-in-law just went there and would frequently send me gorgeous picture of it. There’s a famous highway you can drive down and experience all four seasons through it.
Important to note that they were re-integrating religous extremists, not just "rural Uighurs". Westerners believe that re-edcuating radicals doesn't work (because they don't view Muslims as humans), so they call it "genocide" because it furthers their aims of destroying the new China.
And AFAIK Wahhabism is considered heretical (as much as such can exist outside of Catholicism) by the majority of Muslim sects. It's entirely constructed from non-canonical sources.
Said it before, and I'll keep saying it ad nauseum everytime its brought up:
Even if we accept for the sake of argument there's a genocide in Xinjiang of the Uyghurs, I am an American living in America and therefore I (and any serious person in similar conditions) am more pressingly concerned with the currently ongoing genocide my own government is funding and assisting in.
Anyone out there still moralizing and grandstanding about the uyghurs in the year 2024 is only interested in how they can be used as a political prop.
And in bad country that's currently aiding in the genocide of Muslims they condemn their enemy country for genociding made up Muslims without a hint of irony.
They have had independent investigators from over 100 countries. I don't know if things have changed, but last time neither the US nor any EU member had accepted an invitation, despite being given one several times
I call on China to immediately open Tibet to all American human rights observers that are over 50, largely sedentary, and live around 300' or less above sea level. Make sure they are provided with finest penthouse accommodations in Lhasa apartments where the elevator works at least 50% of the time.