While these videos appear to offer personal testimonials of freedom and modernity, the scripts behind them reveal a carefully orchestrated propaganda effort by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The narrative presented attempts to frame the abandonment of the hijab as a voluntary choice resulting from political “enlightenment,” all while masking the reality of coercion and religious persecution Uyghur women face in Chinese-controlled East Turkistan.
The "Pair Up and Become Family" Program: A Tool for Forced Assimilation
The government campaign referenced—the “Pair Up and Become Family” program—began in 2016 amid the intensifying crackdown on Uyghurs in occupied East Turkistan. This policy mandates that millions of Han Chinese Communist Party members and government officials embed themselves into Uyghur households. Presented publicly as an initiative to foster ethnic unity and cultural integration, the program in reality functions as continuous surveillance, political indoctrination, and cultural erasure.
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The Mask of Uyghur Women's Choice
In recent weeks, a conspicuous trend has emerged on Douyin, China’s version of TikTok. Numerous videos feature young Uyghur women reading off of the same script. They are said again and again, word for word. They are discussing why Uyghur women no long…
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