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From Nairobi to Xinjiang by Steve Payne
Nov 14, '09: the President of
the Islamic States of America arrived in Beijing on the USS Osama Bin Laden for
diplomatic talks with the Han Chinese. Representations on behalf of fellow
Muslims (pictured left) in Western China featured highly on the agenda for
Barack X, specifically the secessionist demands of the Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region, and the liberty of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement
freedom fighters incarcerated at the notorious Yuanjiang prison.
From Nairobi to Xinjiang
Originally founded by the Mongols, the Uyghur Empire was destroyed in 840 by the Kyrgyz invasion. Repeat attempts had been made to establish autonomy, most recently in 1944 when Uyghur enjoyed five years of independence whilst Chinese Nationalists and Communists were locked in a Civil War. And now the discovery of mineral and petroleum wealth threatened the very future of the Uyghur, who would soon be outnumbered by the arrival of millions of Han Chinese immigrants. By 2007 the Uygur population stood at 9.6 million, but the Han population had swelled to 8.2 million from a base of only 220,000 in 1947. "From this country, many merchants go forth about the world" ~ Marco Polo ![]() "My father beat me. He beat my mother. We simply cannot do that" ~ Mark Obama NdesandjoHe told the media that it was long journey for him before he could say that he "proud to be an Obama". Introducing his book by saying that "My father beat me. He beat my mother. We simply cannot do that," Obama Junior raised inevitable question marks over the moral superiority of the American diplomatic mission. The question was resolved two weeks later when the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement launched a terrorist attack on the nuclear testing ground at Lop Nur, in Xinjiang.
Steve Payne Editor of Today in Alternate History, a Daily Updating Blog of Important Events In History That Never Occurred Today. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Imagine what would be, if history had occurred a bit differently. Who says it didn't, somewhere? These fictional news items explore that possibility. Possibilities such as America becoming a Marxist superpower, aliens influencing human history in the 18th century and Teddy Roosevelt winning his 3rd term as president abound in this interesting fictional blog.
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