  urlLink San Francisco Chronicle "Abdul Qadeer is not a terrorist, and he's thousands of miles away from where various wars on terror are being waged. But the 20-year-old Beijing resident is feeling the heat anyway. " This is from the linked well written and researched article on the situation of Muslims but particularly Uygurs in post "9/11" China. I have only one criticism however for in the article the author infers that the use of the word "terrorist" to describe Uygur "separatist/nationalists" only came into the Chinese lexicon after "9/11".
This is not the case to be fair the Han began using the word as a metaphor for "separatist" ( name given by Chinese to those Uygurs seeking an independent Uygur state) frequently after the Uygur "riots" in Yining (Gulja) in 1997 as a consequence of which it is claimed many hundreds of Uygurs were executed and imprisoned, and some consequent retaliation attacks. But the frequency of it's usage increased significantly post "9/11" It is co-incidental also that we see reference to demolitions of Uygur property as being a Han policy tool of ethnic suppression as I spoke of in the previous post "Muslims are feeling alienated," said Khader Ja, 25, as he kneaded a giant mound of dough at the Heavenly Lake bakery on what used to be known as "Uighur Street.
" Buildings along the street, inhabited by ethnic Uighurs from Xinjiang Province, were demolished after a 1997 bombing in Beijing by Muslim Uighur separatists that killed two people and injured 30. " Linked Article Read Rating : A Must P.S. Some incredible coincidence or planning? The Madrid atrocity occurred 911 days after the events of "9/11" 
