FRIDE, 26 July 2011

By Sébastien Peyrouse — The international community tends to forget the salience of the Islam issue in Asia. It is important for Asia’s security agenda to analyse the Chinese experience of managing the Uyghur issue, where Islam tends to be used as an ideology of decolonisation and resistance. A look at the Uyghur issue enables us to grasp more precisely the mechanisms of transformation of Asia’s Muslim societies. This may help the international community avoid the errors of interpretation in its counter-terrorism strategies that it made in the Middle-East, and put it in a better position to shape security scenarios across Asia.

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