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Ozil condemns Muslim silence over Uighurs
Arsenal’s Mesut Ozil, a German World Cup winning footballer has expressed his dismay over the treatment of the Uighurs. Ozil condemns Muslim leaders for their failure to speak up and stand up for them.
In a tweet he posted on social media he said “Qur’ans are being burnt… Mosques are being shut down … Muslim schools are being banned … Religious scholars are being killed one by one … Brothers are forcefully being sent to camps,”
“Yet, the Muslims are silent. Their voice is not heard,” he wrote on a background of a blue field with a white crescent moon, the flag of what
Uighur separatists call East Turkestan.
China has faced growing international condemnation for setting up a vast network of camps in Xinjiang aimed at
homogenising the Uighur population to reflect China’s majority Han culture.
Rights groups and experts say more than one million Uighurs and people of other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities have been rounded up in the camps in the tightly-controlled region.
After initially denying the camps, China describes them as vocational schools aimed at dampening the allure of extremism and violence.
Turkey, which takes its name from Turkic people who migrated from central Asia, is home to a growing Uighur community and has regularly raised concerns about the situation in Xinjiang.
In his tweet, Ozil condemns Muslim leaders and said Western states and media had kept the Uighurs issue on their agenda and added: “what will be remembered years later would not be the torture by the tyrants but the silence of their Muslim brothers.”
Mezut Ozil is a global icon in the world of football, having played for Werder Bremen, Real Madrid, Arsenal and Shalke FC as well as winning the Fifa world cup with Germany in 2014.
The 31-year-old footballer, sparked controversy last year when he was photographed with
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, raising questions about his loyalty to Germany on the eve of their 2018 World Cup campaign.
Ozil later quit the national squad, accusing German football officials of racism. Erdogan was Ozil’s best man when the footballer was married in Istanbul this year.
Last month, Congress passed — and President Donald Trump signed — legislation supporting anti-government protests in Hong Kong. China said Monday that it will suspend US military ship and aircraft visits to the semi-autonomous city and sanction several American pro-democracy and human rights groups in response to the move.
Source: https://wtxnews.com/2019/12/14/ozil-condemns-muslim-silence-over-uighurs/
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Hong Kong stands with Ozil & the Uighurs as violence erupts
Hong Kong riot police pepper-sprayed protesters to disperse crowds in the heart of the city’s financial district on Sunday after a largely peaceful rally in support of China’s ethnic Uighurs turned chaotic.
A mixed crowd of young and elderly people, dressed in black and wearing masks to shield their identities, held up signs reading “Free Uyghur, Free Hong Kong” and “Fake ‘autonomy’ in China results in genocide.”
Hong Kong police marched across a public square overlooking Hong Kong’s harbour to face off with protesters who hurled glass bottles and rocks at them.
They resisted the urge to respond until protesters took down the Chinese national flag from a pole. This prompted an immediate scurry from the Riot police and one officer began pointed his gun towards the protesters. No reports of gunshot were made.
But that prompted more police officers to join the search for the flag and then found themselves outnumbered and surrounded by protesters.
Police officers panicked and hit the protesters with batons and pepper spray and raised a black flag warning of tear gas.
The police’s heavy-handed clampdown on demonstrations and frequent use of tear gas have incensed many protesters.
Earlier in the afternoon more than 1,000 people had rallied calmly, waving Uighur flags and posters, as they took part in the latest demonstration in over six months of unrest.
“I think basic freedom and independence should exist for all people, not just for Hong Kong,” said a 41-year-old woman surnamed Wong who attended the protest with her husband.
The protest comes after Mesut Ozil, the Arsenal footballer, shared a social media post about the plight and persecution of the Uighurs in China. Ozil criticised the country’s policies toward the Muslim ethnic minority in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Ozil, a German Muslim of Turkish origin, tweeted that Uighurs were “warriors who resist persecution” and criticized both China’s strong hand in Xinjiang and the silence of Muslims leaders in response.
Protests in Hong Kong are now in their seventh month, albeit in a relative year-end lull. Many residents are angry at what they see as Chinese meddling in the freedoms promised to the former British colony when it returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
China denies interfering and says it is committed to the “one country, two systems” formula put in place at that time and has blamed foreign forces for fomenting unrest.
On Saturday,
Hong Kong riot police swept into several shopping malls, chasing off and arresting demonstrators pressing their demands in the peak shopping weekend before Christmas.
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https://wtxnews.com/2019/12/22/hong-kong-stands-with-ozil-the-uighurs-as-violence-erupts/
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