The continuation of the "Three Powers" and the Sinicization of Islam policy created by the Chinese government

Ma Xingrui, secretary of the Party Committee of the Uyghur Autonomous Region, answered questions from reporters at a press conference held at the People's Congress and Political Council meeting in Beijing, China on March 7, and said that the Chineseization of Islam will continue for a long time.

According to the report of "Voice of America", Ma Xingrui said: "Everyone knows the need to Chineseize Islam in Xinjiang. This is an inevitable trend.

 The "Chineseization of Islam" was originally proposed by the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping, at the "National Religions Work Conference" held in April 2016. According to a report by "Xinhua Network" on April 23 of the same year, Xi Jinping said that "religions are Beyond guiding to adapt to a socialist society, he emphasized the need to "integrate religious beliefs with Chinese culture."

After this meeting, the fate of Islam, which is most incompatible with Chinese culture and the Marxist ideology of the Chinese Communist Party, was also challenged. As revealed in Chinese documents, Islam in the Uyghur region was considered a "spiritual disease" and Uyghurs were "patients infected with religious extremism." In order to "eradicate religious extremism", large-scale camps were established, and a large number of Uyghurs and Turks were imprisoned. In a recent report by Dr. Adrian Zenz, senior researcher at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, titled "The New Repression: Political Experiments and Changes in the Chinese Government's Reconstruction Campaign in Xinjiang," the Chinese government's so-called "decriminalization campaign" in the Uyghur region actually arrested and brainwashed millions of people. and is said to have become a crime of forced labor.

 At the "National Religious Work Conference" held in December 2021, Xi Jinping set "adherence to the Chineseization of religions" as a key goal. According to the report of "Xinhua Network" on December 4th of the same year, Xi Jinping stressed the need to deepen the Chineseization of religions in China, to train more personnel with Marxist religious views, and to gather believers around the party.

American political analyst Dr. Anders Kor Ma said in a written response to Xingrui's remarks: "These remarks show that the Chinese government's attempts to keep Islam and other religions under the grip of the Chinese Communist Party have not changed at all."

When Xi Jinping visited the Uighur region in August 2023, he asked government officials to "strengthen the Chineseization of Islam in Xinjiang and effectively curb illegal religious activities." A report by the Middle East newspaper on August 27, 2023 said that at a time when Western countries were accusing China of human rights abuses, Xi Jinping visited the Uyghur region and emphasized "maintaining stability by regularizing the fight against the Chineseization of Islam, terrorism and separatism." .

Turvanjan Alaveedin, a member of the East Turkistan Scholars Union, said that the Chineseization of Islam is nothing more than the complete transformation of the religion.

Ma Ju, a Tongan analyst in the United States, said that in the history of China, the Chineseization of Islam was tried and failed once at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. He said, "The fundamental purpose of the Chineseization of Islam is to destroy and Chineseize the Muslims in China. The fact that Ma Xingrui went to Beijing this time and openly declared that the Chineseization of Islam is an inevitable trend is to announce to the world that they will continue to carry out genocide and cultural genocide in the Uyghur land.

 Voice of America reported that Ma Xingrui also said that the Chineseization of Islam is the guarantee of "stabilizing Xinjiang" because the "Three Powers" are still active, but he will not give up on "opening up and developing Xinjiang". .

The Chinese government called its ongoing crackdown since 2017 "a campaign to eliminate religious extremism and crack down hard" and promoted that "there have been no terrorist incidents in Xinjiang for 5 years." In this process, the Chinese authorities, who did not mention the "Three Powers" much, are raising it again this time.

Mr. Ma Zhu commented on Ma Xingrui's words and said: "Ma Xingrui's re-mention of the so-called ``three powers'' is self-deprecating, and he somehow denies the results of the ``fight against terrorism'' in the past years. We can't wait for Communist China to speak correctly and logically. They find whatever excuses are easy for them, whatever is useful and convenient for them.

Anders Kor says that the Chinese government is looking for a reason to continue suppressing the Uyghurs here: "In recent years, there is no evidence that radical religious movements have occurred in Xinjiang. But the Chinese government is still using terrorism as an excuse to take full control of Islam and commit genocide against Uighurs and other Turkic Muslim peoples.

Turvanjan Alavi expressed his concern that Ma Shingrui's portrayal of the so-called "Three Powers" is dangerous: "Ma Shingrui's words mean that the Chinese government is aiming to assassinate the Uyghurs who did not enter the camps."