The Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), an Uyghur Islamic group that has a Central Asia-based central leadership as well as a Syria branch, has issued a new statement addressed to the people of East Turkestan (the Xinjiang region in western China where the Uyghurs live). The statement denounces some Uyghur oppositionists who have recently accused the TIP of being linked to al-Qa'ida and serving the interest of the Chinese government. The TIP instead portrays itself as equivalent to the 'armed forces' of the Uyghur people, striving for the liberation of East Turkestan through the only viable means: namely, armed force.
The United States' delisting of TIP as a terrorist organisation is portrayed as part of God's cosmic law of "mutual repulsion among the people." This is a reference to Qur'an 2:251, and the idea is that God has conflicting groups of people fight each other in order to keep them in check. Officially, what the United States delisted in 2020 was the "East Turkestan Islamic Movement" (ETIM), but in practice the name of ETIM has been associated with TIP. The delisting was to the considerable irritation of China, so what TIP appears to be saying is that the delisting is part of the Americans and Chinese keeping each other in check, as part of deliverance for the Uyghur people.
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