Why do Muslim states stay silent over China’s abuse of the Uighurs? | Nick Cohen

Nations that claim to be defenders of the faith offer no protest to the concentration campsWhen China imposed trade sanctions on Norway in 2010 for honouring the imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo with the Nobel peace prize, it spat out a word we weren’t used to hearing from propagandists for an atheist communist regime, but should get used to today. “It’s a blasphemy,” a party mouthpiece said.Once, blasphemy was damning the faithful’s gods and sacred books. Now, criti