As spoken by the Lord, we
see things shaping up to where
A leading Al-Qaeda
militant on Wednesday called on Muslims worldwide to defend Uighurs in
In the video posted to jihadist websites, Abu Yahya al-Libi appeared to launch
a frontal assault against
"This massacre is not being carried out by criminal Crusaders or evil Jews
who have committed crimes against our nation," al-Libi stated.
"Today, a new massacre is being carried out by Buddhist nationalists and
communists against the Muslim population in eastern
Islamists call Xinjiang East Turkestan. Uighurs are
Muslims native to Xinjiang province, and have cultural ties to Turkic peoples
in
"There is no way to remove injustice and oppression without a true return
to their (Uighurs) religion and ... serious preparation for Jihad in the path
of God the Almighty and to carry weapons in the face of those (Chinese)
invaders," he said.
"It is a duty for Muslims today to stand by their wounded and oppressed
brothers in
Al-Libi claims terrible crimes are being perpetrated in Xinjiang "which
nobody can see," urging a media campaign to give these crimes the same
visibility as those "carried out by westerners against Muslims."
He also accused
"Tens of thousand of people have been silently killed to prevent a revolt.
The communist Chinese government has tried to eliminate all links between eastern
Another tactic
He described
"The Chinese have closed all the Islamic schools, forbidding the study of
the Muslim religion. They have arrested and killed all the Muslim
leaders," he said.
Xinjiang is also the province where
"Thousands of people have died from the radiation emitted by the many
nuclear missiles that have been launched and the experiments carried out in the
area," al-Libi concluded.
Uighurs make up 8 million people out of Xinjiang's
population of 20 million. It covers one-sixth of the country and is relatively
sparsely populated.
A total of 197 people were killed over several days of unrest in Xinjiang in
July and rioting in the capital