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- Bloodwine, on 07/07/2009, -4/+28Man, Chinese take ***** seriously. Spiked steel bars, meat cleavers.
As for the Muslims, they aren't too bright if they are attacking Han Chinese. - shutaro, on 07/07/2009, -3/+16Those kicks were fast as lightening.
- calypsoschnitzl, on 07/07/2009, -1/+13The Uighur are a minority in the city of Urumqi, but they are the majority in Xinjiang. The Han are basically colonizing that region. History is not over in that part of the world, and the struggle between the two cultures won't be over for a while.
- Tanktunker, on 07/07/2009, -2/+14In fact it was a little bit frightening.
- 3tcp, on 07/07/2009, -3/+15If you had read the article you'd know that this is about ethnicity and culture. Religion has little to do with it except that China's government does not exactly allow the free exercise of it.
- scurf, on 07/07/2009, -6/+16Armed Uighurs = peaceful protestors
Armed Han Chinese = Angry mobs
Free media FTW! - e73v3n, on 07/07/2009, -2/+12But they fought with expert timing
- TheInformer, on 07/07/2009, -1/+10Attacking Han Solo would be even more dangerous!
- inactive, on 07/07/2009, -5/+14In other news the waiting time for organ transplants is at an all time low.
- ZeeZee2k, on 07/07/2009, -0/+9You thought what?
- gantz9x, on 07/07/2009, -13/+20The uighurs even killed women and children bystanders , religion of peace my ass.
- Bloodwine, on 07/07/2009, -2/+9I imagine it going down something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGLinT-Pdyo&fea ... - inactive, on 07/07/2009, -4/+11Wow do you have any idea what you are talking about? Uyghurs have been suffering for a long time, they even made a documentary about them. These people are treated like the blacks were in the 50's or maybe a bit less harsh. They live in places that are quite abandoned by the government. It is almost like the Israel-Palestine story where the Palestinians always get the blame and Israel does not. Its sad that people like you who doesn't know anything about anything act like you have got a phd in politics.
- tianfan, on 07/07/2009, -7/+14Hey guys, I just came back from XinJiang yesterday. I feel lucky I didn't got killed, those minority people are crazy. Today I am reading news from mainstream media here in Canada, I found the CBC news is very biased. It feels like except the minority, all the other people got killed (han or western) is reasonable. CBC, please tell the fact, unbiased story, and more related pictures. Actually, it is very easy to find some unbias vedio on youtube. here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axP7u_Txk10
- Galaeron, on 07/07/2009, -13/+20Everybody was Kung Fu fighting?
- lemur, on 07/07/2009, -3/+9It's always mind boggling how the bigots come out of the woodwork just because a story takes place that is related to people who have been traditionally Muslim. What does that have to do with anything? I have no freaking idea, but I guess any group of people associated with Islam is automatically evil. This is about as bad as how antisemitism used to be, except antisemitism has fallen out of fashion these days (not everywhere, but at least in places like Digg).
- chuckDontSurf, on 07/07/2009, -1/+7Just wait until Lo Pan shows up in the middle of the fight.
- Danial, on 07/07/2009, -5/+11Kinda like how "peaceful" Tibetan Buddhists torched businesses and murdered Han Chinese in Lhasa last year? Moron.
- 3tcp, on 07/07/2009, -5/+10If there's a fight between some han's and some muslim turkmen it's pretty obvious which side will be blamed and targeted by the imminent government beat/crackdown
- DrDragun, on 07/07/2009, -1/+6I detest religeon as well but I don't think a government should "crush" its minority people who have a misguided religeous agenda. How about "deny their ***** crazy ideas from becoming law"?
- Tanktunker, on 07/07/2009, -0/+5Except with meat cleavers.
The kind you cleave meat with. - masamunecyrus, on 07/07/2009, -1/+6Honestly, the whole situation reeks of Iranian-esque censorship. China has nothing to gain by censoring everything, and if they had a -real- democratically elected government, people probably wouldn't have resorted to rioting. There are obviously huge ethnic tensions in the western area of China, and honestly, the attitude of a typical Chinese nationalist that the minorities should be "thankful" for China "bringing them prosperity and technology" shows just how far the government brainwashing goes. Just as Americans are learning that hard way that not everyone wants to be American, Chinese need to learn that not everyone wants to be Chinese.
China has a lot of great potential, but it will forever be held back until it can at least tone down its ridiculously corrupt and paranoid government. Hopefully the current notion of young Chinese people -- that a violent uprising will not work, and that it's best to slowly become involved in the government and change it over time -- will be successful.
In regards to the censorship, does this not sound like Iran? Regardless of which ethnicity is killing the other, few people from the West will trust Chinese media when this is the kind of situation that is occurring:
China: At least 140 killed during riots
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530149,00.html
Security forces have clamped down on the city of Urumqi and set up checkpoints to catch any fleeing rioters, state media reported.
There was little immediate explanation for how so many people died. The government blamed Uighur exiles for stoking the unrest. Exile groups said the violence started only after police began violently cracking down on a peaceful protest.
Accounts differed over what happened, but the violence seemed to have started when the crowd of protesters refused to disperse.
The official Xinhua News Agency reported hundreds of people were arrested. Mobile phone service provided by at least one company was cut Monday to stop people from organizing further action in Xinjiang.
A government statement quoted by Xinhua said the violence was "a pre-empted, organized violent crime. It is instigated and directed from abroad and carried out by outlaws in the country." - tjex, on 07/07/2009, -1/+5What are you smoking these days? Because I want some!
Nice comment history you've got going. - SteelChicken, on 07/07/2009, -1/+5Youre a moron.
- neko6, on 07/07/2009, -0/+4I don't see these Chinese Muslims blowing up buses and buildings in Beijing, so the case is 'slightly' different...
- ZenMojo, on 07/07/2009, -1/+5China clearly is in the right on this. I mean, it's not like only uighurs were killed in that factory strife. Or that the uighurs were peacefully protesting until Chinese authorities arrived.
Nope. Nothing like that could possibly be true. - tjex, on 07/07/2009, -7/+11Right, just like all your previous comments on Digg (which are ALL related to China) aren't biased either.
There is a REASON why a minority pushes back, it's because they are getting cornered. - lemur, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3I like turtles
- tjex, on 07/07/2009, -2/+5Whatever crack addict, I'm not even an American.
- zeefawks, on 07/07/2009, -5/+8"Whenever the rioters saw someone on the street, they would ask 'Are you a Uighur?' If they kept silent or couldn't answer in the Uighur language, they would get beaten or killed"
This would be like Native Americans, who were angered by whites stealing their land and their jobs, running around asking whites if they were natives in the Navajo language, and then beating and killing those who couldn't answer.
Then the Chinese media would report on the history of hundreds of years of Native American suppression and how their "peaceful protests" were crushed by state authority.
F*** religious extremism. F*** the biased media. - dodger6, on 07/07/2009, -5/+8Lets see how the "Religion of peace" fares against the Peoples Republic.
I'm betting Islam doesn't make the Chinese government bend over like they have the middle east and a good deal of Europe. - staystilljason, on 07/07/2009, -0/+3Peace
- flashingcurser, on 07/07/2009, -1/+4http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4435135.st ...
- CJ117, on 07/07/2009, -4/+7I don't see why this isn't front page stuff... 156 people? That's a huge number killed in a riot.. Even the largest riots in the US only involved <80 people killed.
We deserve the ***** that's coming to us for not caring enough to try putting a stop to this violence. Imagine that's YOUR family out there on the streets...
Meh, but who cares. The Chinese are overpopulating our world anyway couldn't we stand to lose a few million? These riots aren't big enough! Right? - taibo, on 07/07/2009, -1/+3If you're in Vancouver, they're probably from Hong Kong, just FYI. For some reason Hong Kong-ers love Vancouver.
- ZenMojo, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2I'd finish it, but...
http://www.creepygif.com/image.php?i=10 - calypsoschnitzl, on 07/07/2009, -1/+3Your point is?
- 3tcp, on 07/07/2009, -8/+10"I just came back from XinJiang yesterday"
What a load of *****. If you can't reasonably argue a given position then don't come to places like this. Your lies about a testimonial will get you nowhere. - 3tcp, on 07/07/2009, -1/+3"We" don't. The ccp apologists who only log into digg to comment on articles that are critical of china just try to make it seem that way
- dododohead, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2same~
- Danial, on 07/08/2009, -1/+3Dumbass, do you realize that there are plenty of Muslims living in China that have absolutely no problems with their neighbors?
Take a trip to Ningxia sometime. Lots of Hui Muslims there, and they live at peace with their non-Muslim Chinese neighbors.
I'm sick and tired of you opportunistic pigs desperate to make this into another clash of civilizations, when it is really not the case. - flashingcurser, on 07/07/2009, -1/+3http://www.pop.org/00000000355/the-plight-of-the-u ...
- calypsoschnitzl, on 07/07/2009, -5/+7This has nothing to do with Islam. It's the excuse the Chinese authorities are using. The Uighur are driven by nationalism not religious fundamentalism. However if the Chinese authorities keep oppressing and denying the Uighur the autonomy they crave, then yes they might turn to religious fundamentalism down the road as a common rallying cry, but not as of yet.
- tjex, on 07/07/2009, -2/+4@compucomp2 You're starting to sound like a broken record, stop repeating yourself
- NCSD, on 07/07/2009, -2/+4It won't matter, china will crush them. Same as if it had happened in america or any other country....Won't matter
- Xeth, on 07/07/2009, -1/+3I think most Chinese people would disagree. Having been through no less than 4 different forms of government in the last 100 years, each with a completely different ideology, and TONs of bloodshed over politics and ideology, most people are frankly cynical of any form of ideology, be it supporting "freedom" or not, and would settle for more practical things like stability and economic progress.
- MrCheerios, on 07/07/2009, -4/+6Must have been a hell of a riot to kill 156 people. I didn't even know the Uighurs existed until now. Can they even openly practice Islam in China? The government didn't have any problem banning and cracking down on Falun Gong. Nine million is an awfully large religious minority for one territory. Then again, it's China we're talking about here.
- 3tcp, on 07/07/2009, -1/+2There is heavy handed regulation of religion in China that leads to widespread arrests and imprisonment for religious activities. Another example of the prc's religious intrusions is that the bishop that and other positions in the catholic church are appointed by an arm of the chinese government. Everywhere else in the world the church is allowed to decide such things for themselves.
China doesn't treat muslims as well as they treat catholics. - ZenMojo, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1So wait. In a country that bans the free exercise of religion, people are still ***** ***** up?
Guess we should all start ***** each other, eating Mcdonald's, and spreading universal healthcare before race, ethnicity, and greed finish us off. - 3tcp, on 07/07/2009, -2/+3A sick mind? I'm sorry that you feel that way. I guess it's still a revolutionary concept in China to place freedom & justice as moral values that are superior to fear-induced silent obedience and intellectual dishonesty.
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