Activist. Uighur human rights activist. Good morning, everybody. Please take your seats. Were going to start our program. L welcome to the hasnt visited. I am nina shea, i directed the center for religious freedom here at hudson, and i went to wish everyone a happy holidays. And im also, what to draw your attention to the crisis in china against the uighur Muslim Population there. It is one of the worst human rights and religious persecution situationsth of our day. In fact, of our age. It is both a crisis of religious persecution and of Human Rights Violations of epic proportions. In we will be hearing more about that through the session today. All people should be concerned for china as a rising power, aims to make this a model not only for other groups within its borders but is exporting this model. It is of deep concern to me as someone who monitors religious freedom around the world, and i knowio it is to you hear here s room in the audience. And it is my deep privilege to introdu
Next, look at human rights guss against muslim groups in northwest china. This Panel Includes a journalist who reported on the Chinese Governments establishment of reEducation Centers, targeting muslim my importants and a human rights activist. Welcome to the Hudson Institute, im nina shea, and i want to wish everyone happy holidays holidays and im also want to draw your attention to the crisis in china against the us uyghur population the. One of the worst relation rights and percent accuse situations of our day and age. It is a crisis of religious persecution and Human Rights Violations of epic proportions. And will be hearing more pout that through the session today. All people should be concerned for china as a rising power, aimed to make this a model, not only for other groups within its borders but is exporting this model. It is of deep concern to me as someone who monitors freedom around the world, and i know it is to you here in this room in the audience, and it is my deep priv
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You must be having a lot of boring times, because you are so charged up this morning. [laughter] but thank you. Let me go to you. I am the only one who wants to take lots of questions from the folks, and nows your chance to say whatever you want. I have done a lot of town hall meetings, and they have all been pretty good. So lets not blow this one. [laughter] you have spoken several times about the lord and religious things. Personally, how religious are you . Do you attend weekly . Gov. Kasich first of all, i try not to wear this stuff on my sleeve. But i do believe, that there is a creator. You know what, somebody asked me, what are you talk about god more, you could get more votes . And i said, using god to get a vote . I want to have a view of a golf course when i get up there, and i dont want to cheap in god. The most important thing about faith to me is, the foundation. Terrible things come. They are inevitable in life. Michael novak, the great catholic theologian said, and i thi
Isis got its start as al quaeda in iraq in 04. It changed it morphed into something called Islamic State of iraq in 06. So heres eight years between the start of ic and isis in 14. And all that time, this group has been raping, torturing, and murdering particularly targeting christians as a main civilian target. And one of the biggest ways they did attack christians is by taking hostages for ran some. And this is really a silent, onebyone genocide. Thousands, i think thousands of christians, i think, have been taken for ran some. And many of them have been tortured and killed. Bishops and priests have been killed trying to redeem their congregation. Wives killed bringing ran some money for their husbands. This has been going on all this time. One of my Close Friends from iraq, hes been featured in the knights of columbus ads on tv, he himself was taken hostage and tortured and beaten. Shot in the leg. They came at him with hammers, broke his teeth, nose, and back. Finally he was releas