II. Statement of dividing Turkistan: Concerns and proposals

The Cold War period has come to an end and the global economic has taken off with scientific revolutions. A new era has begun for humanity. There is now fierce competition over resources; but to reach domination you need to obtain capital. Since China has made strategic choices in accordance with competition that is based on an income produced in the region, she also needs to come up with an integral situation for Eastern Turkistan. What one needs to ask is this: Which strategies will China employ when dividing Eastern Turkistan up demographically and culturally? How has China acted in the region after 9/ 11?

1) The war against religion between Chinese government control and international control

Since the 1300s the Chinese have known that the people of Turkistan are Muslim.10 They also know that the people of Turkistan have carried the flag of Islam to China, and that Islam is something that they are devoutly committed to. They keep their Islam and at a time when they made great advances, during an age when Islam was leading in the sciences, arts, architecture, morality, human values and understanding, the Mongols who were exploiting the region also started to believe to Islam. Muslims became known by the word Chantu, which means “turbaned men” in Chinese.11 The Chinese are also aware that historically and culturally Turkistan has contributed to Islam, renewed it, and produced scholars in hadith, Islamic jurisprudence and languages, people who had a clear influence in spreading and preserving Islam.12 Another thing that the Chinese are aware of is that Islam was the only historical factor that withstood foreign attacks in the region. Islam is a phenomenon that cannot be eliminated from the mind of the Muslims, both those inside and outside Eastern Turkistan. As history shows and and as Hamevi said: the people of Turkistan people are “hardy, courageous, resilient, brave, strong” people. These characteristics are enough to make the one who possesses them a mighty adversary. Even if such an adversary could be defeated due to their being taken unaware, this is not one who will surrender13. As the Chinese have discovered through experience, today they fear this character; this will continue in the future. Perhaps this fact can explain to us some of the secrets of the violence that is being wielded both demographically and ethnically by China on the people living in the region.

A) Government control

In the past, operations of ethnic cleansing happened in China behind an impenetrable curtain. In the era of Mao Tse-tung (1949 - 1976), Islam was banned and war was declared against it. The war was conducted under the slogan “Renounce the teachings of the Qur’an!” No one outside the country heard about these events or the moans of the victims during this period. This event continued to go on