I did say in my defense that I’m fairly ignorant on the rise of Islam in China. This reader sets me straight:
Jonah,
Please don’t tell me you fell for the standard Communist propaganda on the Uighur people of “Xinjiang.”
Contrary to that pompous little e-mailer, the Uighurs are the most peaceful, liberal, and pro-American Muslims on earth. No one from the outside who has investigated the Communist claims of “jihadism” has ever found them. If Derb was “in town” he himself would have set that moron straight.
Sincerely (go ahead and use my name),
D.J. McGuire: President and Co-Founder, China e-Lobby
Author of Dragon in the Dark: How and Why Communist China Helps Our Enemies in the War on Terror (Now available at www.dragoninthedark.com, or via Amazon.com)