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  • One thing many Europeans tend to forget is that Islam is pretty much a European cultural tradition too. Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albania are European countries. If Cyprus were reunited it would also count as one of the countries with a significant Muslim population. And there are traditional non-immigrant Muslim minorities in other places, like Greece, Bulgaria and North Macedonia. And of course, Muslim immigrants have lived long enough in European countries like France and Germany to start having legitimate claim at being part of the cultural fabric of those countries too.


  • EU/Canadian dual citizen here: full membership doesn’t make sense. Deeper integration to the point of having a customs union would probably be quite reasonable. I’m not sure about free movement of people however because the two parties have different attitudes to immigration. Canada cherishes immigration and cultural diversity, and considers it to be a defining national characteristic. Multiculturalism is quite literally baked in our constitution. European attitudes on the other hand, let’s just say, I don’t miss them. Beyond that, I don’t think Canada needs the Euro (and the stability pact straightjacket) any more than it needs the USD.






  • You’re right to point out my inconsistency when it comes to the two. Apologies.

    So let me retract that and go back to this line: whoever Zenz is, the UN special rapporteur deemed him a credible enough source to include his work in a UN HRC report. The report has not been retracted. I’m not an expert on the sources, but I can in good faith assume that the UN HRC is a reasonable arbiter of reputability. This is the same standard as I use for other conflicts and controversial world events. I therefore accord this UN special rapporteur the same benefit of the doubt as his colleague, Francesca Albanese.

    And just like I mistrust attacks on Albanese’s reputability when it comes to Palestine, I mistrust attacks on Obokata when it comes to Xinjiang.

    And I’m going to leave it at that.



  • Mintpressnews are pro-Assad. I mean the same Assad who butchered Syrians, Lebanese and Palestinians and who operated CIA dark sites after 9/11. That guy. What’s mind boggling is that you call that …anti-imperialism. That’s not anti-imperialism, it’s crude campism.

    I have nothing to say about Zenz’s politics, that’s why I don’t. His politics are irrelevant with respect to the truth of what he alleges.

    But to centre Zenz in this discourse is disingenuous. There are about 84,000 entries in the Xinjiang Victims Database. Those are the people to centre.




  • Are you joking? You must be joking, right?

    Diplomats from 30 Muslim countries visited China’s Xinjiang region

    A delegation of envoys and senior diplomats is not a fact finding mission. It is wining and dining and saying nice things. Give me a break.

    US State Department accusation of China ‘genocide’ relied on data abuse and baseless claims by far-right ideologue

    I’m supposed to discount the UN Special Rapporteur because I’m supposed to believe the ramblings of the website of a RT contributor? Do you have any Breitbart sources too?

    The Xinjiang Genocide Allegations Are Unjustified

    Opinion pieces are what we call “debunking” now?

    Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act Builds on Work of NED Grantees

    The US funding something via a quasi-independent organization (that Trump is defunding) is proof of the US funding something. It is not proof that the allegations are wrong, that’s just a version of the ad-hominem fallacy. During the Cold War, in Greece any remotely credible link to the USSR was used to crack down on trade unions, political organizations etc. Same thing happened during the Grande Noirceur in Quebec with the “padlock law”. Sumud in Canada has recently been banned as a terrorist front for having “links” with Palestinian resistance. The pattern here is common: instead of addressing what is being said, there is an attack on “the links” of the one saying the thing. It’s a cowardly, lazy and fallacious arguing tactic that I reject on its face.

    [Xinjiang Vocational Education and Training Centers] prolewiki Xinjiang_Vocational_Education_and_Training_Centers

    “Prolewiki”? Give me a break. What’s next, the conservapedia or the uncyclopedia?

    Some Youtube video

    Awesome bro.

    [US-Funded Uyghur Activists Train as Soldiers of Empire] Consortium News

    Some people of ethnic group X did something (according to random internet sources). Ergo… nothing bad can possibly be happening to ethnic group X?

    A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China

    Reddit drama disproves Uighur genocide. We’re being super serious here.

    Also notably, it’s the WUC (a far right org that again your reporter cited) that supports Israel.

    “My reporter” makes it sound like some journalist. We are talking about the UN Special Rapporteur of the UN HRC. What the WUC is is besides the point. It might be Elon Musk’s cat for all I care. What they say is what is important. And I am willing to assume that the UN Special Rapporteur did his fucking job and did more than just say “hey some randos are saying XYZ”. Same level of trust as I accord to Francesca Albanese.

    Some links removed because the instance wouldn’t let me post them. Must be a CIA plot or some shit.