Organization of Islamic Cooperation Offers ‘Firm Support’ to Chinese Genocide of Muslims

Human rights organizations reacted with outrage and disgust in the past week following a friendly visit to China by the secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Hissein Brahim Taha, in which he declared that his group would “continue to firmly support China” in its genocide of Muslims in occupied East Turkistan.

For decades, the Chinese Communist Party has oppressed the indigenous communities of East Turkistan, which it rebranded under the colonialist name “Xinjiang” as it attempted to contain the population. Since 2017, however, that oppression escalated dramatically into a full-scale genocide fueled by the imprisonment of as many as 3 million people in concentration camps, the mass sterilization of entire villages to destroy the local population, and the bulldozing of historic sites such