Sigal Samuel

@SigalSamuel

Religion Editor at . Author of the novel THE MYSTICS OF MILE END (HarperCollins 2015). Views my own. 🐝

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  1. 9 hours ago

    I hope readers and media outlets will spread the word about what's happening in China to the 1 million Muslims in internment camps and to their kids. This is a huge, horrifying story that should be discussed a lot more. (10/10)

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  2. 9 hours ago

    China's family-separation-via-internment-camp system fits into a broader campaign to erase Uighur Muslims' identity. The Community Party also assigns them fictional "brothers" and "sisters," who temporarily move in and surveil them in their own homes. (9/10)

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  3. 9 hours ago

    Many are comparing what's happening in now to the Cultural Revolution. As told me, this is the 2nd time his dad is undergoing forcible assimilation. First during the Revolution, now in an internment camp. (8/10)

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  4. 9 hours ago

    Here's scholar explaining why China's new model of forcible assimilation stands to reengineer children's identity. (7/10)

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  5. 9 hours ago

    Sources told me China takes away Muslim Uighur kids even when their grandparents plead to be able to care for them while the parents are in internment camps. (6/10)

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  6. 9 hours ago

    In orphanages and state-run schools, Muslim children are cut off from their language, religion, and culture, and forcibly assimilated into the dominant Chinese culture. Remember the residential schools for indigenous North Americans? This should ring a bell. (5/10)

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  7. 9 hours ago

    A worker at one orphanage described "terrible" conditions, with kids aged six months to 12 years "locked up like farm animals in a shed." Imagine if a child you love were in those conditions. (4/10)

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  8. 9 hours ago

    China's mass internment system doesn't only impact those incarcerated in it. It also involves family separation, which impacts thousands of kids. When parents are sent to internment camps, their kids are often taken away to state-run orphanages. (3/10)

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  9. 9 hours ago

    Imagine you have a loving 7-year-old daughter. One day she calls you out of the blue & says "You're a bad person" & she doesn't want to hear from you anymore. This is what parents like are experiencing as cracks down on Muslims with family abroad. (2/10)

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  10. 9 hours ago

    What if you had no way of knowing whether your spouse & child are safe, because the government will punish them if they contact you? What if you had to ask strangers on social media if your kid is okay? This is real life for these Muslim exiles. (1/10)

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    11 hours ago

    Germans rallied in the tens of thousands Monday night to rally against far-right and neo-Nazi violence in Chemnitz. But the strong showing doesn't obscure a dark and growing trend in German politics. My latest:

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    20 hours ago

    What happens to children when their parents are taken to China's secretive internment camps? reports:

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    Cassini's last image before entering Saturn's atmosphere and burning up.

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    13 hours ago

    “'You are a bad person. The Chinese police are good people,' he recalled his seven-year-old saying—under psychological duress, he believes. He said he hasn’t been able to reach her since." This reporting, by , gave me chills.

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    12 hours ago

    .'s reporting on what's happening to one million Muslims in China is terrifying—and so worth your time

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    20 hours ago

    Huge story

    China's mass internment camp system is doubling as a mechanism of family separation. With 1 million Muslims in camps, what happens to their kids? My latest article for , with appreciation to
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    Sep 3

    One million Muslims are reportedly being held in Chinese internment camps. China says they're "hospitals" meant to cure an "ideological illness." reports:

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  18. Sep 4

    China's mass internment camp system is doubling as a mechanism of family separation. With 1 million Muslims in camps, what happens to their kids? My latest article for , with appreciation to

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  19. Sep 4

    Family separation is happening on a massive scale in China right now.

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    Sep 4

    When the state (in this case China) sees religion (in this case Islam) as a pathology. A must-read from :

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