Should we call off the Cold War? Are we defending our interests by our understanding of the role China is playing and can play globally? Saudi Arabia and Iran’s China-brokered peace deal poses some interesting questions about our current stance towards China. The Biden administration’s reception of the deal indicates that the US is open to…
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Muslim-Majority Countries Need to Speak Up About the Uyghur Crisis
“I WASH MY HANDS OF THIS,” echoed the silence of the Muslim countries on avoiding the Uyghur crisis. Certain Muslim-majority countries have opted to for silence as mass atrocities against Muslim populations rises. Through the lens of the Uyghur crisis, this analysis aims to uncover the facade of “Muslim countries” existing in the twenty-first century. …
Will Biden Reverse Trump’s Decision Regarding the Uyghur Genocide?
Biden recently reported on his talk with President Xi Jinping and he stated something which has social media and the mainstream media rightfully in an uproar. Basically, he said that in his fist major conversation with Xi, he discussed the persecution of the Uyghur and based on Xi’s remarks, shared that he thinks the current…
What Are You Doing About the Genocide of Uyghur Muslims?
The Muslim world is bleeding. Bleeding with no one by their side. Bleeding with continuous stabs digging further down their back. Bleeding to bleach humanity red. Bleeding uncontrollably that the last drop will be the world’s turning point. You may be asking why I’m invoking this imagery; what’s happening? Let’s start with the holocaust of…
Watch: The Uyghur Crisis Explained In 140 Seconds
If you weren’t aware, the Uyghur Muslim community is facing a huge crisis in China. Many major media outlets are speaking about this worldwide, but it isn’t enough. We must all be educated about this, and do our part to raise awareness, as well as make sincere dua and lobby our lawmakers to take action…
Uighur Women Endure Sexual Violence, Torture in Chinese “Re-Education” Camps
Imagine returning home from a trip abroad only to be detained in your own country for having WhatsApp downloaded on your phone. You are placed under house arrest. You must submit to an examination by doctors at a local clinic. They discover you are 10 weeks pregnant with your fourth child. One month later, doctors…
China Continues to Label Islam a Mental Illness
Editor’s note: Months after scant reporting broke the news that millions of Chinese Muslims were being herded into concentration camps to strip them of their autonomy and Islamic identities through starvation and torture, the world remains predominantly mum on the issue. That doesn’t stand with Muslim Girl; we will continue to report on the issue…
What Can We Do About China’s Re-Education Camps?
“Re-Education Camps.” That’s a fancier, less-harsh sounding way of saying “Internment Camps”. These Internment Camps in China are specifically for Muslims to go through “de-extremization.” What does this mean? This means that China’s government believes that being Muslim means being extremist, and that they need to stop Muslims living in China from believing what they…
China’s Brutal Family Separation Policy Leaves Muslim Children as Orphans
Over the past few months, the world watched in horror as a brutal family separation policy adopted by the U.S government tore children away from the arms of their desperate parents. Recently, the Chinese government began to implement a similar strategy. In early August this year, news spread about China’s “re-education” camps for Uighurs, a…
Is China Actively Committing Genocide Against Chinese Muslims?
The Province of Xinjiang in China (an area half the size of India) is home to an estimated 22 million people belonging to various ethnic minorities. The largest of those ethnic minorities are the Uyghurs, which is a Turkic ethnic minority that is recognized generally as a Muslim minority, that makes up around eight million…
Week of 3/29/15: Country Music Kills Muslims
#MuslimGirlProbs is our weekly link roundup of headlines, stories, events, and situations that make us want to rip our hijabs off. Yet another set of crazy headlines. Enjoy. Week of 3/29/15: The chairman of a branch of the Idaho Republican Party “accidentally” sent out a mass email on Monday. Surprisingly it was offensively anti-Islamic. Unsurprisingly,…