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A Letter of Blood and Tears to Our Friends of Islamic Civilization Around the World   Dear Muslim brothers and sisters,   As-salamu alaykum. May God grant you peace.   We are Muslims and ordinary people living in China.   We hesitated for a long time before writing this letter, because what we have to say concerns brotherhood, and it concerns betrayal.   We once believed that anyone who raised the banner of Islam was our brother.   Until we saw:   Kurdish villages reduced to scorched earth under Turkish shelling;   mothers in the valleys of Dersim who, more than eighty years later, still cannot find the graves of their children who died under Turkish blades;   Syrian Muslim minors sent, by a Turkish contract, onto the battlefields of Libya and the Caucasus, bleeding for the map of a Turkic empire.   Until we saw clearly:   some people recite the noble name of God with their lips, while in their hearts they carry the dream of a Turkic empire.   God says: "O mankind! We created you from a male and a female, and made you into peoples and tribes so that you may know one another. Surely the noblest of you in the sight of God is the most God-conscious of you." (49:13)   In his Farewell Sermon, the Prophet (peace be upon him) warned us: an Arab is not nobler than a non-Arab, nor a non-Arab nobler than an Arab; between people, only God-consciousness sets one above another.   This is Islam: one Ummah, making no distinction between Turks, Arabs, Persians, Kurds, or us, the Muslims of China.   Pan-Turkism is the exact opposite.   It places "Turk" above "believer"; it places the borders of a nation above the commandments of God.   In the eyes of pan-Turkists, Islam is not a great guidance but a tool for territorial expansion; Muslims are not brothers but pawns. Those who accept assimilation count as their own; those who refuse are "the enemy within."   And so what it devours first has never been the unbelievers, but us Muslims ourselves.   1937 to 1938. Dersim, in eastern Turkey.   Planes dropped bombs from the sky; soldiers burned villages on the ground. According to survivors' testimony and historians' research, the Turks used poison gas to hunt down civilians; even those who hid in caves did not escape.   In 2011, official records that resurfaced only after seventy years showed that at least 13,806 people were killed. More than eleven thousand others were driven from their homeland.   Kurdish sources estimate that the true death toll was far higher.   What was the Kurds' "crime"?   In the 1920s, the era when the Ottoman Empire collapsed completely,   they were simply living on their ancestral land in Anatolia, speaking their own language, holding fast to their own faith, and refusing to be remade into "standard Turks."   Their only crime was that their homeland lay too close to Ankara.   More than eighty years have passed, and many families of Dersim still do not know where their loved ones are buried.   A mother does not even have a grave to weep at.   God says: "Whoever kills a soul unjustly, it is as if he had killed all of mankind; and whoever saves a life, it is as if he had saved all of mankind." (5:32) Yet in the valleys of Dersim, these words were utterly trampled underfoot.   The Kurds are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslims; they bow toward the same Kaaba as the Turks.   Yet in the conflict since 1984, tens of thousands of Kurds have died, more than three thousand villages have been emptied and burned, and hundreds of thousands have been displaced.   After 2015, towns in the southeast were plunged once again into long curfews and street fighting, and UN human rights bodies documented allegations of heavy civilian casualties and destroyed urban districts.   God says: "The believers are but brothers, so make peace between your brothers, and fear God, that you may receive mercy." (49:10)   God also says: "Hold fast, all together, to the rope of God, and do not be divided." (3:103)   But in the logic of pan-Turkic nationalism, a Kurd must first become a Turk before he is worthy of being treated as a brother.   Those who will not bow their heads are treated as obstacles to be cleared away.   This is not making peace between brothers. This is using an army to wipe out believers who refuse to be assimilated.   In 1865, Yaqub Beg, an officer from Kokand, took advantage of the chaos to invade southern Xinjiang and set up a regime in Kashgar.   He bled the people with heavy taxes while waging war against both the Dungan (Hui) rebels and the Qing army. His rule was so deeply hated that the Chinese Muslims, who had themselves been at war, actually joined hands with the Han Chinese army and together destroyed Yaqub Beg's pan-Turkist regime.   This is the historical reason why, to this day, the great majority of Chinese Muslims deeply detest East Turkestan.   In 1873, the Ottoman Empire formally invested Yaqub Beg as Emir, and the Ottoman flag flew over Kashgar for four years.   And when Zuo Zongtang marched west, the Hui general Ma Anliang, a Muslim, led his Muslim troops to stand against Yaqub Beg.   Muslims took up swords and guns against a ruler who bore the title "Father of the Faithful." It is a scene every Muslim today should ponder deeply:   when the ambitions of nation and power are placed above the brotherhood of faith, those who bleed first are, more often than not, the local Muslims.   In Xinjiang, what the East Turkestan separatist forces truly confront are the other Muslims who have lived there for generations: the Hui, the Tajiks, and also the many Uyghur brothers who refuse to be held hostage by separatism.   Most of them do not want to live in a country where "only Turks have the say."   Others still have somewhere to retreat to; they do not. This is the home of their ancestors, generation after generation.   What befell the Kurds of Turkey has already told them in advance how such a state would treat Muslims who are "not Turkic enough."   In Ürümqi in July 2009, the dead and wounded included Han Chinese, and also Hui and Kazakh Muslims.   But the deepest wound was not on our bodies.   After the Xinjiang riots, many Muslim communities in China fell into an unease they had never known before.   Even neighbors who believe in the same God began to be wary of one another, because none of us knew who among us might be incited and used by Turkish pan-Turkists.   Believers in God living in fear of one another because of others who call themselves believers: this in itself is the deepest wound to the Islamic faith.   After 2011, Ankara drew ever closer to the Muslim Brotherhood. It backed the Morsi government, and after its fall sheltered large numbers of its members.   In Syria, Turkey fostered and controlled armed forces in the north.   According to investigations by a UN panel of experts and numerous media outlets, some of these fighters, including minors, were later sent to Libya as mercenaries.   In 2020, during the Nagorno-Karabakh war, multiple reports said the Turks forcibly sent Syrian fighters, who had been made to undergo training, to the front lines.   The primary goal of these actions is geopolitical influence and the map of the "Turkic world", never the welfare of the Ummah.   When the fires of war turn back and regional turmoil deepens, those who bear the consequences are never them.   It is Arabia, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan...   The blood of young Muslims has become a color on someone else's map.   The map a country teaches its children is its vision of the future.   Turkish educational materials have repeatedly featured maps that draw Mosul and Kirkuk in Iraq, and even Cyprus and Armenia, within Turkey's borders. Officials called them "mistakes."   And this year, Turkey's new national curriculum has written both the "Blue Homeland" maritime claims and a map of the "Turkic world" into its textbooks.   In Europe and the Caucasus, the Grey Wolves, a terrorist organization made up of pan-Turkists of Turkish origin, have long been active and have been linked to numerous acts of violence against Kurds and Armenians. In 2020, France ordered the group dissolved.   More than a hundred years ago, the rulers of the late Ottoman Empire carried out mass killings of Armenians and Greeks during the First World War: 1.5 million Armenians and 900,000 Greeks died.   In September 1955, under the direct organization of the Turkish government, state-backed mobs in Istanbul smashed and looted thousands of Greek homes and shops and more than seventy churches in a single night, leaving thousands dead or wounded.   From 1974 to this day, northern Cyprus has remained under the control of the Turkish army. The island nation has been divided for more than half a century, and more than six thousand unarmed civilians were shot dead directly by Turkish troops.   This ideology that places the nation above all else has done to Muslims who would not bow what it did to Christians. The valleys of Dersim and the villages of the Kurds are the proof.   We do not hate the Turkish people.   Many Turkish Muslims also weep for Dersim, and also speak out for the suffering of their Kurdish neighbors.   What we oppose is an ideology that places the nation above God, an ambition that treats the Ummah as raw material for empire.   They say they want to unite all Muslims. But in the villages of the Kurds, "unity" means "submission."   They cry "Allahu Akbar." But God will not forgive the killing of believers because of a slogan. "Whoever kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell, to abide therein forever." (4:93)   If today we still treat as brothers those who hold the Turkic nation as their highest goal and Islam as a passing banner, then tomorrow, when their weapons and their narratives appear in our own neighborhoods and at the doors of our own mosques, to whom will we turn?   Brothers and sisters: faith is no one's banner, and the Ummah is no empire's raw material.   "Let there arise from among you a community inviting to good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong; it is they who will be successful." (3:104)   May we all be among those who enjoin good and forbid wrong: first seeing clearly who is using our faith to build their empire, and then choosing whether to stand with the Ummah or with the empire.   May God protect us, and protect the whole Ummah. Amin.

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