Although the distinctions between present-day Xinjiang and Nazi Germany are dramatic, particularly with regard to mass deaths and mass punishment, the parallels cannot be ignored. Over 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, moved from concentration camps into gas chambers. To date, there is little evidence of mass deaths in China, but torture and ethnic cleansing and its concomitant project of "cultural genocide" have been widely documented. Those two words I had uttered throughout the talk—"concentration camps"—had struck a chord with at least one audience member.

QUESTION: The author flags the danger and limits of the concentration camp analogy herself, conceding there is little evidence of mass deaths in China. Worth holding this tension when comparing scales of atrocity.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 547