Comments on: Life and death at Kashgar market

By: rachel timmons

rachel timmons — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

looking forward to having similar adventures (sans the soccer–i prefer watching it to playing it!) when i make my way o Xinjiang late next month!

loved the noodle clip….laghman is GOOD

cheers, r

By: rhys jervis

rhys jervis — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

i think its SICK what those muslims done to that sheep, no heart at all.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I can only assume you’re a vegetarian then, Rhys…

By: sharon

sharon — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I think this is so sick what they did to that sheep.

you have to protest!!!!!

what a motherfuckers!!

i hate them!!!!

how loves amimals begin a protest gaddamit!!!!

stuppit motherfuckers!!!

stuppit moslims!!!!!!!

kill those motherfuckers!!

kill tyhem all!!!!!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Sigh. I’m tempted to remove your offensive comment, Sharon. Do you have no sense of your own hypocrisy? It beggars belief.

By: Timur

Timur — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hey Sharon, F**k You. You Dumb Bitch.

You better watch your words the next time.

Don’t you ever dear speak that way about my People again!. Twat.

Chris can you please remove sharon’s vulgar and ignorant comments please. I find it very offensive. cheers.

And chris..

I like to thank you my friend.

Those Uyghur kids there seem happy and enthused about the football game. And it’s good to see them that way, because most through out there daily life they have to suffer the Imperialism of the Chinese Communist Government!, on there own Land!. >:-(

So it’s good to see them happy.

Uyghur Turks Forever!!. East Turkestan Forever!!.

Regards.

PS.. Im Turkish BTW.

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Timur – I’ve been thinking long and hard about your request to remove Sharon’s comment… as you can see from my initial reaction to it, I too was deeply offended by what she wrote. However, I’ve decided to leave the comment as is, because I think that Sharon is merely demonstrating her own ignorance and prejudice, and I think that it reflects worse on her than it does on “your People” whoever and whatever they may be… I, for one, think that we are all one people, one species – homo sapiens.

I can appreciate that the comment is more offensive to you as a person of Turkish origin than it is to me, but I would ask you to show some forgiveness too – I think your veiled threats were probably written in anger and not meant to be taken too seriously. At least I hope so. Otherwise, you’d be playing the same losing game of tit-for-tat violence that solves nothing. What we need here is game of football and an impartial referee!

Anyway, I’m glad you enjoyed the story – it was indeed a pleasure and a privilege to meet and play football with those Uyghur kids. I hope that this story gives them a voice and shows that no matter what your cultural background, whatever your cultural taboos, that football can bring understanding and friendship across what can be a very great divide. And that, in the end, is the whole point of this website and the idea of The Ball.