War on terror or Islamophobia?

Book review of The War on the Uyghurs: China's Campaign Against Xinjiang's Muslims

The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Campaign Against Xinjiang’s Muslims

Author: Sean R Roberts

Publisher: Manchester University Press, UK

Pages: 328

Price: £20

An important omission in this otherwise scholarly and forensic study of China’s repression of Uighur Muslims is any reference to the Muslim world’s striking indifference to the plight of their Chinese co-religionists, over a million of whom are incarcerated in high-security anti-internment camps as part of Beijing’s counter-terror measures.

Except Turkey, no other major Muslim country has spoken out. The Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC), whose mandate is to “safeguard the rights, dignity, and religious and cultural identity” of Muslim minorities, has remained