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by freeflight 2445 days ago
It's also hard to miss for most people outside the US because a whole lot of them are still very directly affected by the consequences of this whole "crusade on terror" [0] going on to this day.

In that context, there is quite some massive cynicism at play when the US celebrates itself for denying Chinese officials visa over the treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang, when the US also refused visa to ICC officials wanting to investigate the treatment of Muslims in "NATO occupied" Afghanistan [1].

Particularly in the context that the US was quite on-board with the "Uighur Jihadis!" narrative not too long ago [2].

[0] https://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0919/p12s2-woeu.html

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/15/mike-pompeo-...

[2] https://www.voanews.com/extremism-watch/analysts-uighur-jiha...