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I wish news outlets would stop describing it as the imprisonment (oppression, etc) of Muslims.

What's happening there is because the Uyghurs are an ethnic minority.

Are you sure about that? It's not as if they don't persecute ethnically Han Chinese practitioners of other religions. Why would Islam get a free pass?

That's the point ... others are discriminated against (Muslims, Christians, etc) but what's happening in Xinjiang is specifically targeting an ethnic minority who has separatist inclinations.

Millions of Chinese Muslims are not being put in "reeducation" camps.

Nor are presumably millions of ethnic Uyghurs scattered all over the country. Maybe they're just not a threat when they're thinly spread or maybe those who are detained have said naughty things online or some other signal of having higher separatist risk.

Do you have any source or reasoning for the claim that the persecution of Uyghurs is ethnic?

Well there are millions of ethnic Chinese Muslims who aren't put in concentration camps (there is apparently discrimination).

The Uyghurs are an ethnic minority like the Tibetans with a large population in a distant part of the country and have been seen as a threat for a long time.

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