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Muslims urged to boycott Chinese products over Uighur treatment
At summit in Malaysia, influential preacher says leaders from Muslim world should exert more pressure on Beijing.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Muslim countries should initiate a boycott of Chinese products, an influential Malaysian preacher has said, calling for an end to the detention of ethnic Uighurs, at least a million of whom are reportedly held against their will in China's Xinjiang province.
Mohd Asri bin Zainul Abidin, the top Islamic jurist in Malaysia's Perlis state, said political and religious leaders from the Muslim world should exert more economic and diplomatic pressure on Beijing for its treatment of the minority Muslim group living in its westernmost province.
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"The decision should be taken at the highest level of Muslim countries and the ulama [religious scholars and guardians]" to address the Uighur issue, said Mohd Asri, who earlier told summit participants that the almost two billion Muslims should flex their economic muscles to influence policies worldwide.
"We should do something, because they [Uighurs] are our brothers and sisters," he added.
Most member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have been the target of criticism by Uighur rights advocates for their "silence" on the Uighur issue.
In July, more than 20 countries voted for the first time on a resolution before the United Nations Human Rights Council calling for an end to the mass detentions of Uighurs in Xinjiang.
But 14 OIC member states joined 23 other countries in siding with China, praising its "remarkable achievements in the field of human rights".
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