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This is likely because the Uyghurs were discriminated against and monitored/abused similar to how US combat operations in the Middle East produced instability and collateral damage, making it easy to recruit people to the cause.

I highly doubt that one day this minority just decided to start attacking people randomly. It would take a crazy person to do something like this in China where the Communist government is known for making people disappear without trials or explanations, so it bears thinking about what would drive these people to be so desperate.

Do I support the attacks? Of course not, but I understand why they occur.

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It all makes sense but how does it happen that people born and raised in western countries (Belgium, UK, France, US) became terrorists? People don't need to be desperate to become loyal to some movement/faith(i.e. terrorism). They believe all kind of fairy tales without being desperate.

This is because they read these stories of desperation and identify with the oppressed. Don't get me wrong, the Taliban is also twisted in many ways and evil at the core - but they're on message and know how to exploit oppression to entice others to join. The only way they're able to do this though, is for the oppression to occur in the first place.

> I highly doubt that one day this minority just decided to start attacking people randomly

you must know that that happened quite a few times in last ten years, like 2009, a lot of innocent people died.

I'm sure, and that's an abomination. Violence is never the right means, but an entire minority does not become violent on their own until they feel they are desperate enough to perform these attacks in some futile effort to preserve things (culture) that means something to them or revenge for abusive actions taken against them.

If China was peacefully coexisting with them and allowing them to perform their religion freely, it makes no sense that they would feel the need to attack random civilians.

Would you say the same thing about those from Muslim countries who have engaged in terrorist activities against the US? Many of them travelled half of the globe over to carry out the attack and many were willing to sacrifice their own lives.

that's always what Western talked about the terrorism attacks in China. If the same thing happened in China, it's not terrorist, but fighting for freedom, while, if it happened in any west countries, it called extremist terrorism. If you don't care innocent Chinese people, why they would care your opinion? Who give your right to ignore the death of hundreds civilian's to maintain a fake peaceful appearance.

Said attacks were spontaneous reactions to racist treatments that pushed the people over the edge. The gov response was in turn over the top and further exacerbated the situation. People were fighting... _for their lives__.

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