The Muslim, State and Mind (Social Science for Social Justice) by Tarek Younis

Author:Tarek Younis [Younis, Tarek]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2022-12-13T18:30:00+00:00

Pre-Crime and THE Health Metaphor: The Case of China

To make sense of how psychology features as ‘obvious’ in security, we need to distinguish between both liberal and illiberal forms of racism discussed in the first chapter. The marriage of Islamophobia, security and contemporary psychology practices takes both illiberal and liberal forms. While it is more significant to consider the liberal form found in the Global North, the illiberal serves to demonstrate the logic of Islamophobia to its extreme—though I hope readers will appreciate the liberal spin China puts on these camps. I will first turn to China and its treatment of Uyghurs, before returning to the Global North.

In 2017, Radio Free Asia (2018) obtained a remarkable recording of the Chinese Communist Party’s justification for the existence of its re-education camps, developed for the Muslim Uighur population. The speech in question entitled, ‘What Kind of Place is the Educational Transformation Center,’ addresses the concerns and purpose of the re-education camps for the Muslim Uighur population of East Turkistan. It is estimated that over 1 million Uyghurs are taken to these ‘re-education camps’, while China also is cleansing the region of its Islamic practices and symbols. Inevitably, the War on Terror serves as the state’s justification for the near-total control of these Muslims. The speech is noteworthy for two reasons which, as we will see, overlap with the key features of the West’s security narrative: illness and rehabilitation. The following are two extracts of the speech which speak to each theme:

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