Religious Persecution of Uyghur Muslims in China (with Rushan Abbas)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Religious freedom is a universal freedom, grounded in the rights of conscience. Though it is true that Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world, they are not the only ones experiencing intense persecution. Join Scott as he interviews Rushan Abbas, a Uyghur Muslim, who will tell you about the experience of her people in China today, where she estimates that close to 3 million Uyghur Muslims are held in the equivalent of concentration camps in China today. Though you will...

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0:00.0	Welcome to ThinkBibically, Conversations on Faith and Culture.
0:05.0	I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics.
0:09.0	We have a very special guest today, someone who does not usually come on our podcast, but a very
0:16.4	special and important guest. She is a Uyghur Muslim who hails from China. Her name is Rushan Abbas. She is the executive director of an
0:26.4	organization called the Campaign for Weavers. This is this is highlighting a situation that has a significant bearing on religious freedom around the world.
0:38.0	The Uyghur Muslims are a group of a substantial but minority group in mainland China and they are
0:47.1	currently the object of intense persecution by the Chinese government. There are roughly a Rushan will tell us there are roughly 2 to 3 million Uyghur Muslims imprisoned in what she will refer to as concentration camps today.
1:02.0	The reason we are posting this now is because on
1:06.4	December the 6th of 2021 the United States announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics,
1:17.0	which will start in February of 2022,
1:20.0	and have been joined by the United Kingdom, Australia, Scotland, and New Zealand
1:25.9	in this diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics, mainly revolving around the
1:31.7	Chinese government's human rights abuses and particularly the treatment of the Uyghur Muslims.
1:37.2	I think you'll find her account very compelling and is something that we all ought to be a part of as we campaign and hope and
1:46.2	pray for religious freedom around the world.
1:49.2	Since she is Muslim, there will be a few things that we may not entirely agree on theologically so we have some
1:56.1	theological differences so be aware of that as you listen to her very compelling story.
2:03.0	Thank you, Scott, for giving this opportunity to talk about this
2:08.0	active genocide against my people.
2:10.0	As you said, I am an oiger. I was born and raised in East Turkestan, which we call by this
2:21.5	historical and this symbolic symbolic name but it's being called Xinjiang by the Chinese
2:28.0	regime which means new territory or new border. And in what general part of the country is it?
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