End the Horrific Illegal Colonial Occupation of these Oppressed Moslems!

All those fluttering leftist moonbats whining about Israel supposedly "occupying" Palestinians have never gotten around to commenting on one of the planet's worst cases of occupation, colonialism, and suppression. I refer of course to China's illegal occupation of Uighur, in Western China, not far from Kyrghyzstan, another area of which the Left has never heard.

Uighur is one of the predominantly Moslem colonies illegally annexed by China in 1949. Its 35 million people are ethnically Turkic and there is a movement for liberation for this "Eastern Turkistan." But when it comes to Uighur, suddenly the PC stormtroopers have no interest in national liberation, self-determination, nor ending occupation. We could not find a single word on Juan Cole's Web page about the Uighurs and their oppression.

Peter Jennings could not find the area on a globe, but the Uighurs are suddenly in the news:

Uighur's Release Is a Victory Over Tyranny

Regardless of Beijing's motives for her release, the liberation of prominent Uighur political prisoner Rebiya Kadeer is a victory for freedom over tyranny. Her release has proven that even authoritarian regimes are susceptible to international pressure, and also shows that victory belongs to those who patiently and relentlessly fight for human rights. Ms. Kadeer was released by the Chinese government last week on medical parole to the United States. Her sudden release was welcomed by the Bush Administration, and hailed by human-rights organizations and Uighur exile communities around the world. Although there was skepticism about Beijing's political motivation for her early release, everyone is happy that she is finally free after serving six years in prison for "leaking state secrets." Ms. Kadeer, 58, upon arriving and receiving a hero's welcome when she arrived in Washington last week, vowed to continue to fight for the freedom of the Uighur people under China's authoritarian rule. She said, "I will keep on fighting for my people until my last breath." She seemed more determined than ever to campaign for the human rights of the Uighur people.

Ms. Kadeer's release should not be seen as Beijing's change of policy toward the Uighur people, or as a sign of improvement in China's human-rights situation. Still, the release of Ms. Kadeer is the first moral victory of the Uighur people over China's hardline policies in East Turkestan since 1949. Even more important, it shows how President Bush's aggressive policy to promote democracy and defeat tyranny is paying off. Occupied Uighur is as much a part of Middle Eastern civilization as Syria and Iraq.

The events in Kyrgyzstan are also consequences of the Bush policies and they now "threaten" to spill over the border into Moslem China's colonies. The silence about the oppression of the Uighurs from the Caring Left shows that the Left only cares about ending "occupation" when this would mean the existential endangerment of Israel.

P.S. We recently had occasion to comment on "Rabbi" Arik Ascherman, a pro-Palestinian leftist extremist. This weekend he became the hero du jour of the Israel-bashing British daily The Guardian. Columnist Julie Burchill just took the Guardian to task for its Israel bashing when she resigned from it. Since the Guardian will celebrate anyone who is trying to make it easier for Palestinian terrorists to murder Jews, it ran a headline article entitled:

The rabbi who pricks Israel's conscience: Zionism is moral, not military, says activist convicted of blocking West Bank bulldozers
by Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
Friday March 25, 2005 The Guardian

We found the propinquity in the Guardian piece between the terms leftist "rabbi" and "prick" to be particularly fascinating.