Update: The Christian Science Monitor has a comprehensive piece on and links to analyses of the video by various news organs, while the New York Times now has an article on the video, including some brief description of its content.
Big hat tip to commenter Uyghur for bringing to our attention yet another video issued by the Turkestan Islamic Party in the Uyghur language titled “Dunya Musulmanlirigha Omumiy Muraji’et”, or “A Universal Call to the Muslims of the World.” It seems that in the pre-Olympics excitment among the peoples and the news agencies of the world, this one has slipped under the radar and has not received as much attention as the last video. As such, we have no convenient intelligence agency with summary translations, and so, unless an organization steps forward in the next few days with a translation, we’re going to have to take a close, long look at it ourselves and post some notes on the content in a later post. For now, here is the video from Youtube:
Stay tuned for updates.
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