Muslims urged to boycott Chinese products over Uighur ‘abuses’
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia –
Muslim countries
should initiate a boycott of Chinese products, an influential Malaysian preacher has said, calling for an end to the detention of ethnic Uighurs,
at least a million of whom are reportedly held against their will in China’s Xinjiang province.
Mohd Asri bin Zainul Abidin, the top Islamic jurist in Malaysia‘s Perlis state, said political and religious leaders from the Muslim world should exert more economic and diplomatic pressure on Beijing for its treatment and alleged human rights abuse of the minority Muslim group living in its westernmost province.