West's double standards clear to see

Just imagine the outcry if after al-Qaida's attacks on the United States on Sept 11, 2001 a mainstream newspaper in the West had published an article by Osama bin Laden praising the attacks as part of a holy war.

Unfortunately on Tuesday, only four days after Uygur hijackers tried to hijack a plane, the Wall Street Journal published an article by the notorious separatist Rebiya Kadeer, the "chairwoman" of the so-called World Uygur Congress, in which she praised the riots on July 5, 2009, in which almost 200 people died and more than 800 were wounded.

On Friday, minutes after the Tianjin Airlines plane had taken off from Hotan in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region for the regional capital Urumqi, six Uygur passengers, one of whom was pretending to be disabled, attacked the crew and other passengers with metal sticks, attempting to hijack the plane. Fortunately, the crew and passengers, of both Han and Uygur ethnicity, managed to overpower the hijackers.