However, the internment of Uyghur Muslims is only the tip of the ominous state architecture of ethnic cleansing. China's designs to crush Uyghur self-determination have mutated into a crusade to decimate an entire people. Chinese Islamophobia, in short, is a state-sponsored campaign that seeks to uproot the Islam indigenous to East Turkistan, and in its place, seed Han customs and the Communist mandate of total control.

QUESTION: The passage uses politically loaded terms like 'East Turkistan' and 'ethnic cleansing' — worth verifying against multiple sources and framing carefully as contested terminology.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 610