Author: imam-abdul-malik-mujahid

I was interviewing finalists for a job in Chicago when one of the best candidates unexpectedly withdrew his application. He was a Chinese Muslim. When he realized that I am a Muslim he shared with me that he is a Chinese Muslim. His father had advised him not to take the job since there might be some repercussions from the Chinese government for him to work with a Muslim organization in the USA. He told me his family could not fast in Ramadan. He also told me that his home was raided in the middle of the night by the...

Six Uighur sisters were each robbed of their husbands when Chinese authorities placed the men in concentration camps. They also forcefully took their children to Communist-run orphanages and placed Chinese men in each of the sisters’ homes. This story was narrated to me by one of their female Uighur relatives. I was stunned by disbelief when the woman told me this story, but I made sure that she did not read that on my face. I know the Uighur struggle well. I’ve visited Eastern Turkestan, which China renamed “Xinjiang” after its occupation, a name which means “a new colony.”...