Talk:Uyghurs

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Three Uyghur girls at a Sunday market in the oasis city Khotan (Hotan / Hetian), in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.

• Those who preserved the language and written culture of Central Asia were the Uyghurs.
  • Ferdinand de Saussure

• I was impressed with the extensive civilization I have found in the Uyghur Kingdom. The beauty of the temples, monasteries, wall paintings, statues, towers, gardens, housings and the palaces built throughout the kingdom cannot be described. The Uyghurs skilfully make things of silver and gold, vases and pitchers. Some say that God has infused this talent into these people only.
  • Chinese ambassador in the Karakhoja Uyghur Kingdom in 981-984

This WQ articles should consist of notable QUOTABLE quotes about Uyghurs, not POV-pushing on current events

I removed these off-policy items from the article and have collected them here so that others can decide if they should be restored. HouseOfChange (talk) 21:54, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

• Pakistan remains of the firm view that the perspective and consent of the concerned States should be given utmost importance when dealing with the affairs which fall exclusively within their sovereign jurisdiction.
  • Pakistan Ambassador A. Khan, speaking at UNHRC resolution over China's Uyghur persecution. in [1] [2]

• Islam has been one of the main targets in the Chinese government’s campaign against the Uyghurs, and Islamophobia is being tacitly encouraged by Communist party authorities. Students, peaceful academics and even ordinary people for the simple reason for being Muslims are being jailed, with a massive high-tech surveillance state that monitors and judges every movement, subjecting the widely marginalised Uyghur people to a brutal siege. Internment camps have been set up with up to a million prisoners being indoctrinated and ‘re-educated’, leading to empty neighbourhoods, with major mosques in the major cities of Kashgar and Urumqi standing deserted. Prisoners in the camps are also being compelled to renounce God and embrace the Chinese Communist Party doctrines and prayers, religious education, and the fasting in the month of Ramadan being increasingly restricted or banned. Those who disobey are reportedly subject to torture such as solitary confinement, deprivation of food, water and sleep, and even waterboarding. The reason that so many are being held is because most are arrested for no discernible reason, other than to curb religious practice and erase Uyghur culture.
  • Lukman Harees, Why The Muslim World Is Silent Over China's Repression of Uyghurs, World Uyghur Congress, 2 January 2019

• I did not find any instance of forced labor or cultural and religious repression. The imams we met at the mosques and the students and teachers at the Xinjiang Islamic Institute told us that they enjoy freedom in practicing Islam and that the Chinese government extends support for maintenance of mosques all over Xinjiang. I learned that there are over 30,000 mosques all over Xinjiang that form part of the religious life of the people there. Similarly, I did not see any sign of cultural repression. The Uyghur culture as demonstrated by their language, music and dance is very much part of the life of the people of Xinjiang. We saw that in official establishments, airports, subway stations, police stations or hotels the Uyghur language is being widely used. Even the copies of the Koran that we saw in the mosques and the Islamic center were translated into the Uyghur language. The most visible sign of protection of Uyghur culture by the government is the government-run bilingual kindergarten schools where children learn Putonghua as well as Uyghur language and culture from a very young age. ... My country is also plagued by terrorism. I hope my country can adopt some of these measures, such as setting up a vocational education and training center and carrying out poverty alleviation work, to help de-extremization. But they don't have so much money to do this.
  • Mumtaz Zahra Baloch. Deputy Head of Mission Pakistan Embassy in China, Senior Pakistani diplomat. 24th January 2019 [3] [4]

• Because of our extreme proximity and relationship with China, we actually accept the Chinese version... It is hypocritical. There are much worse human rights violations taking place in other parts of the world… But Western media hardly comment on this.
  • Imran Khan, P.M. of Pakistan, commenting on the Uyghurs. Jul 2021 Imran ‘Taliban’ Khan in denial mode over Uyghur Muslim genocide, accepts China’s version and praises CCP

• What… our conversations have been with the Chinese, this is not the case, according to them... Whatever issues we have with the Chinese, we speak behind closed doors. China has been one of the greatest friends to us in our most difficult times.
  • Imran Khan, P.M. of Pakistan, commenting on the Uyghurs. Jun 2021 interview with Jonathan Swan in June Imran ‘Taliban’ Khan in denial mode over Uyghur Muslim genocide, accepts China’s version and praises CCP

• If we have concerns we talk about them behind closed doors.
  • Imran Khan, P.M. of Pakistan, commenting on the Uyghurs. June 12, 2021 interview to Canada’s CBC News on June 12. Imran ‘Taliban’ Khan in denial mode over Uyghur Muslim genocide, accepts China’s version and praises CCP

• All persecuted groups, Uyghur or not, in the People’s Republic of China or elsewhere, should imitate [the Campaign for Uyghurs (CfU)], and invest in their own future.
  • Marco Respinti, "The Campaign for Uyghurs Workshop in Vienna: Is Pro-Uyghur Advocacy at Its Turning Point?", Bitter Winter (September 16, 2023)

• [Radio Free Asia] is proud to introduce "Uyghur Tales of Survival," an insightful documentary series that casts a spotlight on the profound experiences and invaluable contributions of Uyghurs living abroad. This compelling series elucidates how individuals within the Uyghur diaspora have harnessed the adversities of persecution as a wellspring of determination to enrich their communities and perpetuate the vibrant Uyghur cultural heritage.
  • "‘Uyghur Tales of Survival’: An RFA documentary series" by Radio Free Asia (September 27, 2023)

HouseOfChange (talk) 21:54, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

The removed quotes would better fit on a page about Persecution of Uyghurs in China (the title of the wikipedia article). On wikiquote, quotes on a general topic tend to include quotes about specific issues that could be moved to more specific articles. Some of the quotes are opinions of major leaders and politicians that seem interesting and worth quoting. Most opinions of politicians can be characterized as pov pushing, but excluding it would mean there is nothing much left to quote from most politicians. --ᘙ (talk) 11:30, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

We don't exclude pov-pushing per se, just POV-pushing that isn't "quotable." But just as Wikipedia is modeled on an encyclopedia and Wiktionary on a dictionary, Wikiquote is modeled on quote collections such as Bartlett's Familiar Quotations or Hoyt's Quotations. Those volumes collected short pithy quotations, artfully framed so that other people would want to use them to express their own ideas in a compact way. In a politician's own article, where people come to see samples of somebody's quotes, quotes showing his/her POV are probably useful. In a theme article, there should be QUOTABLE quotes closely tied to the theme. HouseOfChange (talk) 02:03, 7 March 2024 (UTC)