Racist Koreans put a deceased Pig’s Head outside of a Mosque

    TRIGGER WARNING: DISTURBING

    DAEGU -- A pig’s head sits atop a small chair at a residential dead end. Another is placed on top of a bucket, a few steps away. On a wall hangs a banner that reads: “We strongly oppose the construction of an Islamic mosque.”

    This tiny corner of Daehyeong-dong in the southern conservative city of Daegu is the site of one of the most acrimonious cultural conflicts in South Korea today.

    A group of Muslims bought one of the properties here and have set out to build a mosque.

    Now neighbors, with no legal means to stop them, are resorting to extreme measures to drive them out. Hence the pig heads.


    “Korean neighbors also cooked pork in the alley several times apparently to annoy Muslim students,” said the 26-year-old Pakistani who studies computer science at Kyungpook National University. “Some played loud music during our prayer time and switched it off once we finished.”

    The Islamic holy book Quran forbids the consumption of pork and pig products. As pigs are seen as unclean, placing a pig’s head or cooking pork near a mosque could be considered akin to an act of vandalism of a sacred space to Muslims.


    Source: https://m.koreaherald.com/amp/view.php?ud=20221111000214

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    This is absolutely sick :emotionalpepe:and sadly normalised in an extremely anti immigration country like Korea.

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    True but they don't have to put up with it. If you visit a country that doesn't want you there WHY ARE YOU STAYING?

    Is it true that they are not wanted there?

    Presumably they are there to either study (and therefore disproportionately fund your educational system) or work (and therefore make up for your country's terrible birth rate). Therefore either your government or your businesses do, in fact, want them there. The will of a country is determined primarily by the prime movers in its economy.

    A future inevitability is that some will settle and have children, and when you suggest that those children should leave if they feel unwanted, you will have to contend with the fact that they will have nowhere else to go.


    And I've left aside a third possibility:

    That Korea is a signatory to the United Nations refugee convention, which places onto it a legally binding obligation to offer asylum to anyone who seeks it and has a valid case for it. In this case, again, they would have nowhere else to go.

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    The same would happen if I went to say Iran and tried to open a Presbyterian church for Koreans.

    Leaving aside that Presbyterian churches have existed in Iran for over a hundred years, that Iran has hundreds of thousands of Christians and that there is a seat reserved in Parliament for a Christian specifically... You could be right, but ask yourself if Iran is the country you want to be compared to.


    Perhaps there should be less, "you know, they should go away if they feel unwelcome" and more, "maybe people should stop being dicks for no good reason"?

    Just a thought.

    The issue apparently is the mosque if you look into the neighborhood apparently both sides were cool and shared everything but the mosque for the neighbors were too much. Many of the complaints regarding it were noise pollution and parking concerns. Unfortunately when this wasn't received people resorted to hatred. Is it right? No. But that's humanity for you. Keep in mind this type of shit happens in every country including melting pots like America. Korea is not unique in this area it's just more apparent in homogeneous societies

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    Keep in mind this type of shit happens in every country including melting pots like America. Korea is not unique in this area it's just more apparent in homogeneous societies

    True.


    I say what I say, though, because South Korea will become increasingly heterogenous. That's just an inevitability given the role it seeks to play in the world (IE, a major international economy). And people will have to deal with that, and it will be helpful - for everyone - to deal with it kindly.

    The alternative is a slow and steady descent into inequality and political chaos. Which is what many western nations - including mine - find themselves in.

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    True.


    I say what I say, though, because South Korea will become increasingly heterogenous. That's just an inevitability given the role it seeks to play in the world (IE, a major international economy). And people will have to deal with that, and it will be helpful - for everyone - to deal with it kindly.

    The alternative is a slow and steady descent into inequality and political chaos. Which is what many western nations - including mine - find themselves in.

    This is what we would like to avoid but we are not sure what causes the descent. Is it purely poor economic plans? Is it multiculturalism? Ot something entirely different or a combination of them all? Then you add on the fact that this is a homogeneous society that has for the most part maintained pure identity stability of the state and its culture for hundreds if not thousands of years. All of that makes people think of being more conservative more cautious and unfortunately see things outside of the nation as a potential threat until it can be proven otherwise and that's a long grueling process

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    Just another normal day this unfortunately happens in every country its just being covered because it happened in the Land of BTS and newsflash gasp!! It's just like any other country with all its associated baggage 🤣

    there are bad apples in every fandom, group, country

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    Same energy as this one:


    Sweden right-wingers plan LGBT march through Stockholm's Muslim-majority neighbourhoods | The Independent | The Independent


    I mean RIGHT-WINGERS bro, literal nazis. Never seen a pro gay right wingers before. They hate muslims so much that they'd rather choose to be more lgbt accepting:pepe-clown-walk:

    the funny but sad thing about this is, the woke mob won't dare say anything about that because it's LGBT doing it.

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    Just another normal day this unfortunately happens in every country its just being covered because it happened in the Land of BTS and newsflash gasp!! It's just like any other country with all its associated baggage 🤣

    Why do you have to bring BTS name into this? Shut the fuck up already! Its not being covered because it happened "in BTS land" its covered for the same reason why its covered in other countries: because racism. In Spain when this happened it was also covered except from some independent media.

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    Why do you have to bring BTS name into this? Shut the fuck up already! Its not being covered because it happened "in BTS land" its covered for the same reason why its covered in other countries: because racism. In Spain when this happened it was also covered except from some independent media.

    Lol it was the simplest example as most people only Korea for BTS or dramas. Either way it's not that deep get glad not mad.


    Either way this country is as shit as any other country. Moving on

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