China: Incarcerate the religious husband and sleep with his wife
We just signed phase one of a trade deal with China, but perhaps we should not have. China is the enemy of freedom and religion.
In China, religion is a competing ideology, which the government does not tolerate because it sees it as a threat to socialism. I shared in a recent column what China’s solution has been for the Falun Gong and “house Christians,” those worshiping in their own homes without required government permission and supervision. Strong documentation show these as being held in detention and killed on demand for body parts primarily for China’s elite and the Western world. The world has noticed that in Australia it may take up to seven years to get a kidney but in China it only takes two weeks. This has to be the most vile human rights practice on earth.
What they do to their Muslim population is as bad, and perhaps worse. Muslims in China are known as Uighurs (pronounced we-goors) and are also routinely incarcerated indefinitely (forever) for their faith, but there is a big difference. Their wives become fair game and a reward to communist single men.
For decades, China has limited family size to one child. Most couples preferred a male child because they are likely to get better financial support in their old age, thus aborting female fetuses is far more common than abandoning males. This has, over time, resulted in hundreds of thousands of males having no hope of a wife.
Enter the Chinese “Muslim problem.” If up to a million and a half Muslim husbands are incarcerated indefinitely, why not make their wives a reward for loyalty to communist males without hope of a wife since women are disproportionately fewer than men? They call their new program “Pair Up and Become Family.”
Imagine your husband being arrested by the government for his religious beliefs, incarcerated indefinitely in a faraway concentration camp subject to harsh torture and constant brainwashing in opposition to his religious beliefs. You are left alone or with one child to fend for yourself, presumably for life, and constantly monitored for forbidden expressions of religious thought or activity as well. That government forces you to accept potentially one of your husband’s captors to live with you against your will, sharing your own bed. Is there any governmental practice more vile or demonic?
This is what is happening to perhaps more than a million Uighur wives in China today. This prevents any intimate combinations with other Uighur men and effectively, over a single generation, destroys the Muslim religion in China.
The program requires Uighur wives to “invite” the government into their home to monitor them, to provide the government information about their lives and political views and comply with political indoctrination. According to Radio Free Asia, these spies spend one week of every two months working, eating, and otherwise living with the family, including bedding with the wife. They “talk to them about life, during which time they develop feeling for one another,” reported one Communist party officer to Radio Free Asia. These spies are called by the government “relatives.”
Of course, the socialist government first denied that any live-in program existed with the wives of incarcerated husbands, but after the evidence was too compelling to rebuff, it admitted it but denied any wrongdoing on these visits. Still, these women are not given any other option. To whom would she report her rape? “When asked whether any families have spoken out against male officials staying at their homes,” replacing the husband they incarcerated, an official said that on the contrary, “they are very keen, and offer them whatever they have.” No evidence suggests that these women can refuse these forced live-in relationships.
Reports from afflicted families “suggest that Uighurs who protest hosting ‘relatives’ as part of the Pair Up and Become Family program, or refuse to take part in study sessions or other activities with the officials in their homes, are subject to additional restrictions or could face detention in the camp system,” according to Radio Free Asia.
The Associated Press interviewed Uighurs living abroad who reported that their relatives in China were constantly “on edge in their own homes, knowing that any misstep – a misplaced Quran, a careless word” an item of religious clothing or symbol picked up by the government spies living with them “could lead to detention or worse,” according to The Independent’s Adam Withnall. Often the “relative” brings “alcohol and meat that includes pork, and expect family members to consume them, against the principles of ‘halal’ that govern what Muslims can eat and drink,” according to Radio Free Asia. They feel forced to partake so that something worse does not happen to them.
Providing organs on demand from religious groups and incarcerating the husband and encouraging their captors, the loyal socialist males, to sleep with their wives has to be the most demonic governing policies known to civilized society. We must lead the nations of the world in cutting off trade with this evil empire so long as they continue these practices. Again, China is the enemy of freedom and religion.
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