Human Rights Watch and Human Rights in China in a joint report, Devastating Blows: Religious Repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang, issued in April 2005 accuses China for using the events of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent US led "war on terror" as a cover to crush Uighur Muslims. Peaceful Uighur activists are being arrested, tortured and at times executed, while harsher punishments are given for so-called separatist activity, which Chinese officials term "terrorism".
For over six decades, the Palestinians have been denied the right to statehood and right to go home. According to the latest UNRWA estimates, 2.5 million Palestinians are rotting in the overcrowded refugee camps, whereas over 500,000 Israeli settlers have taken illegal resident on occupied Palestinian land. A Palestinian blowing himself up at an Israeli military check post is terrorism, but the Israeli military's firing of white phosphorus shells over densely populated Palestinian is called retaliation. The West calls Hamas, in whose arsenal are little more than firecrackers, a terroist organization and censure it for capturing an Israeli soldier, while completely ignoring Israel's tanks smashing their way into Palestinian towns and snatching Palestinians from their homes. There are thousands of Palestinians held by Israelis without trial, including women and children.
Whether it's Palestine or Xinjaing or Russian occupied Muslim republics in Central Asia or Indian occupied Kashmir or Mindanao where Muslims are reduced into minority, not unlike Palestinians, in what was once their homeland or Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Guantanamo prisons, one finds Muslims being systematically denied the life of dignity and being prevented from living honorably and autonomously. The occupying and oppressive regimes in various parts of the Muslim world have inflicted overwhelming sense of deprivation and humiliation which inevitably created a collective rage among Muslims and gave way to "the globalization of militancy."
How the militant struggle of the oppressed people who are militarily occupied and systematically dispossessed of their homeland and robbed of their resources can be termed as terrorism?
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