In a world exhausted by wars, the word “peace” appears enticing enough to be placed atop the largest and most ambiguous projects. And when wounded and battered Gaza is invoked as the banner for a new international board of peace, one is led to believe that the world has finally decided to listen to the pain.

The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project ranks among the largest strategic initiatives in Central Asia, aiming to link Kashgar in western China, with Kyrgyzstan, and then Uzbekistan as far as Andijan, establishing a vital international corridor for trade and transit between China, Central Asia, and Europe.

 The issue of unifying the Muslim community and changing its reality is not a point of contention among Muslims. The vast majority of Muslims—elites and thinkers, the general public and scholars—agree on the necessity of revival and seek ways to gather the energies of Muslims and unify their forces.

Amidst the genocides happening in Gaza and Sudan, the murdering and abusing of our brothers and sisters in Uyghur camps and the mutilation of women, children and the elderly, one thing has remained the same: Muslims around the world have raised those flags and demanded that those countries be liberated, or they have ignored the cries of the martyred because their pain does not reach them.