'What's a Uyghur?' Miami Mayor Francis Suarez asks a conservative host on his radio show when questioned about whether he would talk about Uyghurs in his presidential campaign.
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez appeared to draw a blank when asked on The Hugh Hewitt Show Tuesday about Uyghurs, a persecuted minority group in China.when questioned about whether he would talk about Uyghurs in his presidential campaign.Mayor Francis Suarez delivers remarks at the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority conference in Washington, D.C., on June 23, 2023."You gave me homework, Hugh. I’ll look at what a, what was it, what did you call it, a Weeble?" Suarez asked, laughing.
"The Uyghurs. You really need to know about the Uyghurs, mayor," Hewitt said."You’ve got to talk about it every day, okay?""I’m a good learner. I’m a fast learner," he said."Of course, I am well aware of the suffering of the Uyghurs in China," Suarez said in a statement."They are being enslaved because of their faith. China has a deplorable record on human rights and all people of faith suffer there.
During a foreign policy speech about China in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley responded to the Suarez remarks. "I mean, genocide — we promised never again to look away from genocide, and it’s happening right now in China," Haley replied."And no one is saying anything because they’re too scared of China."
Uyghurs are a predominantly Muslim minority in China's western region who have faced widespread persecution from the Chinese government in what the U.S. government hasMore than one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups have been arbitrarily arrested and detained by the government since 2017, according to the
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