China is obliterating mosques
Regional authorities continue to demolish various parts of the historic city, though they have kept one or two well-known structures — like the Id Kah mosque — intact.
The government justified the destruction of the Old City and the construction of the"new Old City" — which would be complete with new apartment complexes and shopping malls — as a means to prevent the old structures from crumbling and to allow for better sanitation,The demolition has also created wider streets, which has made the area easier to patrol.
"What they've done to Kashgar breaks my heart — back in the 90s it was a wonderful time-capsule of a city, with the market and crafts neighborhoods surrounding the great mosque intact, so that one could appreciate the entire living organism of a traditional Islamic market town where the sacred and the commercial are intertwined and mutually supporting," he told Business Insider.
"A concern frequently raised by Uighur observers is that Beijing wants to neutralize the Islamic monuments by Disney-fying them — polish them up, bring in the tourist buses, banish the Muslims," he added.
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