ABSTRACT
This chapter critically examines how securitization campaigns by the CCP turn Muslim minorities into potential threats, thereby drawing into question their sense of cultural security. Applying the framework of Copenhagen School securitization theory, it examines whether there are ethnicity-based differences in the securitization of Hui and Uyghur Muslim minority groups and why such differences exist. The advent of Xi Jinping’s tenure at the helm of the CCP coincides with a shift in government policy towards both Muslim minority groups which scrutinizes most visible manifestations of Islamic religious practice and places loyalty to the party at the center of state-sanctioned religion. These developments have resulted in a partial convergence in the cultural insecurity experienced by both Hui and Uyghurs.
