When it comes to helping the predominately Muslim Uighurs of China, the world has been inexcusably silent — including both the West and Muslim-majority countries.

About a year ago, the Organization for Islamic Cooperation collectively acknowledged the “disturbing reports” coming out of Xinjiang, the region of northwest China also referred to as East Turkestan by the Uighur community. However, since then, it is as if their leadership has abandoned their principles. They recanted their criticism afterward in a report in March, writing that the OIC “commends the efforts of the People’s Republic of China in providing care to its Muslim citizens; and looks forward to further cooperation between the OIC and the People’s Republic of China.” With this abrupt change of course, from principled criticism to outright doublespeak, one would be hard-pressed to come up with a more striking example of moral cowardice.