Editing Turkistan Islamic Party (section)

==Background==
Since the [[September 11 attacks]], the group has been designated as a terrorist organization by China, the European Union, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and formerly the United States. Its Syrian branch Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria is active in the Syrian Civil War. They are allied with [[Al-Qaeda]] and the [[Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan]], and possibly with the [[Taliban]]. 

The NEFA Foundation, an American terrorist analyst foundation, translated and released a jihad article from ETIM, whose membership it said consisted primarily of "Uyghur Muslims from Western China." The East Turkestan Islamic Movement's primary goal is the independence of East Turkestan. ETIM continues this theme of contrasting "Muslims" and "Chinese", in a six-minute video in 2008, where "Commander Seyfullah" warns Muslims not to bring their children to the 2008 Summer Olympics, and also saying "do not stay on the same bus, on the same train, on the same plane, in the same buildings, or any place the Chinese are".

Terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna has said that ETIM is closely associated with the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), and that there are "many sympathizers and supporters" of ETIM in the WUC. China has accused the WUC of orchestrating the 2009 ethnic violence in Urumqi; similarly, Gunaratna said that one of ETIM's aims is to "fuel hatred" and violence between the Han and the Uyghur ethnic groups, adding that it represented a threat to China and the Central Asia region as a whole.
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