Based on what, precisely? In other words, arresting black people in black.....

Please reread Glenn's post and my response to your post. You should see that what you have written in the post quoted above does not respond in a sensible way to what I wrote.

Taken from: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-177.html

The "Green Peril":

Creating the Islamic Fundamentalist Threat

by Leon T. Hadar, August 27, 1992

Leon T. Hadar, a former bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post, is an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute.

Now that the Cold War is becoming a memory, America's foreign policy establishment has begun searching for new enemies. Possible new villains include "instability" in Europe --ranging from German resurgence to new Russian imperialism-- the "vanishing" ozone layer, nuclear proliferation, and narcoterrorism. Topping the list of potential new global bogeymen, however, are the Yellow Peril, the alleged threat to American economic security emanating from East Asia, and the so-called Green Peril (green is the color of Islam). That peril is symbolized by the Middle Eastern Moslem fundamentalist--the "Fundie," to use a term coined by The Economist(1)--a Khomeini-like creature, armed with a radical ideology, equipped with nuclear weapons, and intent on launching a violent jihad against Western civilization.

George Will even suggested that the 1,000-year battle between Christendom and Islam might be breaking out once more when he asked, "Could it be that 20 years from now we will be saying, not that they're at the gates of Vienna again, but that, in fact, the birth of Mohammed is at least as important as the birth of Christ, that Islamic vitality could be one of the big stories of the next generations?".....

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If you read the article in its entirety you will be amazed in light of current events. Anyway, you are now hitting on something some of us have known for a long, long time. Enjoy the reality.

And please excuse the somewhat inflammatory title of my post. I did it cuz we are already 8 pages into comments and I thought it was important to catch those skimming eyes so as to not be glossed over.

Quite the opposite, the many U.S. citizens and occasional lone politicians who tout any protest as the beginings of revolution in their enemies camps often have a very limited view of the facts on the ground.

Which is largely why such protest movements receive praise and little else from the powers of the United States.

Even if we armed Uighurs in support of their revolution, this would not likely result in their ultimate freedom, nor freedom for the Chinese people as a whole.

In general the powers of the state see openess and trade with such regimes as the most effective method of regime change, even though such change as you say can take centuries to complete.

The idea that the Uighurs are less supported by the U.S. because of thier religion overlooks the very real on the ground realities of their position in china, the viability of their movement, and the U.S.'s general relationship with China.

The U.S. government would like to see the Uighurs not oppressed, just as the U.S. government would like to see the Tibetans and the Catholics in China not oppressed. In truth the U.s. goverenment would like to see the Chinese people as a whole not oppressed. But to see such change take place, does not require loud rhetoric or forceful action, but a slow and steady erroding of the walls that seperate people from information and prosperity. The U.S. does not have the ability to change to China by force, but we have learned since Tienamen, that China is open to change, if they think it is there idea from the start.

When one person very mildly suggested the posting was racist, others accused the objector of not having a sense of humor.

Right they were. That shit was hilarious. I've married into a Muslim family whom I'm visiting as I write this (Pakistanis migrated to the UK), and they thought that was very funny.

Ya know, we might feel something more about the Han Chinese who were hurt or killed in Urumqi, but the Han Chinese government in Beijing won't let our reporters in there to interview any of them, and they won't let anyone from Urumqi post pictures of what happened on the internet.

And there is that little matter of the Han Chinese treatment of the Uighurs, dating back a few years, no?

@Naqib's Daughter who wrote: And don't forget the oil!

The analogy holds true in one other respect: the Uighurs have oil. Wherever a minority in a Muslim country has grievances and oil- even if that minority is Muslim itself, as are the Darfurians or Kurds in Iraq- its grievances are exploited and it is urged to secede, the plan being, presumably, to install a pro-Western government that will make the oil available.

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Exactly. I have no doubt that the Uighurs are being supported by NED at the very least. Pretty transparent reason for doing so since no one gave a seconde thought about them during the Cultural Revolution under Mao. Those of you who think that China does not allow religious freedom may not have seen Jimmy Carter's interview on Charlie Rose wherein he states that China will soon be the world's largest Christian nation.

China is a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-religious society that has so far not treated its minorities as brutally as the European settler colonies have treated the indigenous peoples of Canada, U.S., Australia, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Hondouras, Brazil, etc. in its 30-year effort to develop and modernize.

Now you're talking!

Drugs, murder, violent oppression of women, corruption of civil society: hallmarks of the hated Taliban, or the lionized Mafia? Are they responsible for more, or fewer, deaths of Americans right here in the "homeland" than the dreaded al Qaeda and the Taliban put together?

It's the mythology! Calling ourselves "modern" and "secular" etc. doesn't make us proof against the power of myth: to shape the cosmos in which we are enacting this "human, all too human" theater of life.

Our myths -- even for us modern, secular Westerners -- deliver us into our Promised or our Waste Land, exactly as we load them with our intentions: like passengers into life boats, or kittens into burlap sacks.

Either way, we get taken for a ride. As sovereign citizens, we need to be able to direct our own passage. But we don't. We aren't educated and socialized to be self-sovereign citizens of a democratic republic.

Instead, we're taught to idolize and obey a ruler-maker-tyrant-creator, a political master of the universe; to shut up and do as we're told; to demonstrate our loyalty by our fervor when presented with patriotic symbols. We're trained, like pigeons in Skinner boxes, to go kill or die at the whim of an imperious president "for god, king, and country," just like the good old days.

The point of it all is to make us that much easier to myth-jack to hell and back (ask a vet about multiple tours of duty; ask any underemployed person what it's like, slowly to descend into unremitting poverty), and stick with the bill both ways, by propagandists posing as public leaders and journalists etc.