Mesut Ozil, who is a Muslim, posted messages on Saturday criticising China's policy towards is Muslim Uyghur minority.
China's state broadcaster CCTV on Sunday removed Arsenal's Premier League game against Manchester City from its broadcast schedule following Mesut Ozil's messages that criticised the country's policy towards its Muslim Uyghur minority.newspaper said on its Twitter account on Sunday that CCTV took the decision after midfielder Ozil's comments on Saturday had"disappointed fans and football governing authorities".
" Qurans are burned, mosques were closed down, Islamic theological schools, madrasas were banned, religious scholars were killed one by one. Despite all this, Muslims stay quiet," Ozil, who is a Muslim, said in his posts.that they had no official statement on the issue after CCTV's decision to show a taped game between Tottenham Hotspur and Wolverhampton Wanderers instead of the originally planned fixture.
Replies to Arsenal's Weibo post were angry, with one showing a shredded Ozil soccer jersey next to a pair of scissors and others demanding he should be expelled from the club. Weibo frequently censors discussion of sensitive topics, particularly amid a push by Beijing to clean up its internet.
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