“While it is legal to open a restaurant, there was no need to put that billboard with the pig right next to the sign for the mosque. A lot of migrant workers pray at this mosque and this kind of behavior creates the impression that Taiwanese do not respect other religions.”
That’s ridiculous. Islamic law forbids Muslims to eat pork. It does not forbid them to pray in mosques that are next to pork restaurants and are advertising their wares.
Mosque goers “said that pigs are seen as unclean in their religion and the smell of pork is nauseating to them.”
That, too, is ridiculous. Millions of non-Muslims eat pork and never experience any nausea over it. If true, this nausea is psychosomatic. If false, it’s just an attempt to intimidate and manipulate the restaurant and Taiwanese officials.
The demand that this billboard be removed is a gesture of pure supremacism, an assertion of Islamic hegemony. Islamic law forbids the subjugated dhimmis to make public display of their religion, and also openly to display wine or pork. So the mosque goers are asserting Sharia stipulations over the non-Muslims. The restaurant, in changing the billboard, is accepting the principle of Islamic supremacism.
“Pork restaurant to change billboard for mosque goers,” by Hsu Cho-hsun and Jonathan Chin, Taipei Times, January 10, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A pork knuckle restaurant in Taoyuan on Tuesday said that it would change its billboard showing its wares and a cartoon pig out of respect for its neighbor, the historic Longgang Mosque (龍岡).
The restaurant, which opened at Jhongjhen Market last month, sparked an outcry from mosque goers, who said that pigs are seen as unclean in their religion and the smell of pork is nauseating to them.
Taoyuan City Councilor Shu Tsui-ling (舒翠玲) said that her office had received multiple complaints about the sign since the restaurant opened.
After visiting the restaurant, she determined that the owner was unaware the sign could cause offense and secured their promise to remove it, Shu said.
The mosque’s prayer hall was established in 1964 by former fighters from Burmese and Cambodian guerrilla groups that were backed by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), who later settled in Taoyuan.
As the Taipei Grand Mosque was too far away, the community raised funds and built a prayer hall, which was expanded in 1989.
When asked to comment, one worshiper at the mosque said it is common knowledge that Muslims do not eat pork.
“While it is legal to open a restaurant, there was no need to put that billboard with the pig right next to the sign for the mosque,” they said.
“A lot of migrant workers pray at this mosque and this kind of behavior creates the impression that Taiwanese do not respect other religions,” they added….
Yechiel Shlipshon says
All people have a right to their beliefs, not to impose them on others. It would have been good public relations to have thought ahead, and not create an issue on religious beliefs, but also, Taiwan is not a Muslin nation, so some mess-ups are possible, not a show of disrespect.
abad says
Moslems make lousy guests in any non-Moslem nation they live in. Maybe Taiwan should deport their Moslem population to Pakistan.
Kepha says
This is news from one of my old stomping grounds.
Before the influx of people from Mainland China following WWII and the Chinese Civil War, the population of Taoyuan County was divided roughly evenly between Hoklo Chinese in the area around Taoyuan city and Hakka Chinese around Zhongli, Yangmei, and Longtan. Religiously, these people tend to adhere to traditional Chinese religion; although there is a noticeable Christian minority as well. There were also Tayal aboriginals in the Fuxing District. The Muslim element is mostly of “Waishengren” (Out-provincial, or Mainlander) origin; Han Chinese in language and culture, not Turkic, and usually connected in some way or another to the Republic of China military. While the article mentions people from northern Burma (and Thailand, not Cambodia), these came in the 1950’s and 1960’s, and were allowed to resettle in Taiwan due to their Chinese origins (from Yunnan, which borders Myanmar), and many of these were from the clandestine Nationalist Chinese force operating in the Golden Triangle region.
Back when I was in Taiwan and teaching at Chung Yuan Christian University, people knew there was a mosque in Zhongli City, but unless you were Muslim yourself, lived near it, or had Muslim friends (the community was well-integrated), you would scarcely know it was there–and the older men who attended there were often looked on as respected old veterans. Further, due to the absence of the typical idolatry in their shops, I suspect that some of those old guys who introduced beef noodle soup to the area and made Zhongli’s brand famous might have been Muslim.
Former president Ma Ying-jeou was, for a while, rumored to be a Muslim after he paid a visit to a mosque. This also rumor had some traction due to the fact that Ma is a common surname among Chinese Muslims (it indicates an ancestor named Muhammad); although it is also widespread among non-Muslims as well, and predates Islam’s presence in China. In fact, Ma is a nominal Roman Catholic.
While I’m at it, Taiwan has a Uyghur presence, but it’s miniscule; and more oriented towards Pan-Blue (Guomindang and such parties) than to East Turkistan separatism. Wu’er Kaixi himself ended up in Taiwan, but it is also rumored that he has become a Christian.
In more recent years, Islam in Taiwan has been augmented by numbers of guest workers from Indonesia and Malaysia. These, however, cannot stay beyond ten years. Their level of Islamic observance ranges from tudong-wearing to clearly nominal. An Indonesian woman helped care for my parents-in-law during their last years; and there was no real problem about it.
BTW, if you are ever in Taiwan, you should try their pig trotters. As a piece of southern China that broke off and floated a short distance out to sea, they belong to the culture that wrote the book on all things pork.
Emmie says
Thank you, Kepha, for that excellent explanation.
No Fear says
Great info Kepha. Curiously I have a stamp catalogue printed by the Taiwanese Govt and officially presented to member of the RSPL Peter Jaffe. It is one of my favourite stamp books, detailing the history of Imperial China, Nationalist China and Taiwan.
Infidel Numero Un says
How can one respect an evil, medieval, heathen cult which advocates that its followers kill those who do not believe what they believe?
Lisa says
Right! You are true! What kind of religion converts non-believers by beheading them!? No religion, that’s who. The word religion is to gain acceptance in countries that are non-Muslim that have freedom of religion!? Then of course Taiwan doesn’t want to offend, just like us, so they get rid of a picture of a pig. To be clear: they are in Taiwan , not the other way around. I’m offended they want to kill me!? Now we have, and have had every kind of warning and video and 9-11, and we’re not supposed to be Islamaphobic!? Another way they take our dread to offend anyone to further infiltrate USA. The moment we stop caring about who gets offended about what we think, is the moment thier game is over. I’m offended there’s so many Mosques. I’m offended we now have three Muslims in government. One reported beating on his live in girlfriend and one a Jew hater. Know how we know? Cause she’s Muslim!? I don’t care who says I’m Islamaphobic. I do have a bias against them. Our cultures will not blend. They are taking over our country without firing a shot. We have countless terrorist activities and dead people across the world to prove it. Once our population increases to 10% Muslim the *+% /* hits the fan. And I bet one if our ex-presidents will be rolling out the welcome wagon baking cookies. It makes me want to vomit that we’re just giving our country away with no fight.
James Pierce says
I think the real problem these Muslims have should be with the person pointing the gun at their heads as they leave this mosque, forcing them to eat in this restaurant.
Oh, there isn’t anybody doing that, you say? Then they need to stop whining and realize that they aren’t going to tell anybody else what to do.
Kepha says
I doubt that will happen in Taiwan.
Clearsighted says
Changing the sign is only the first step. Next, it will be the restaurant that is changed or moved.
mortimer says
agree with CS… it is only stage one of Dhimmitude.
Sons of Liberty says
I agree that is the first step for the Muslims . The restaurant should do what the pig farmer in Texas did when he was asked to move …..start having pig races every Friday night ! His family had been raising pigs for generations on THEIR LAND !
gravenimage says
True, Clearsighted–they will not stop here.
CogitoErgoSum says
Some might say that building a mosque on the Temple Mount or turning the Hagia Sophia into a mosque showed a lack of respect for other religions. Some might even say the Quran itself shows a lack of respect for other religions. I certainly do. Islam is swill for pigs.
Rev G says
Those who would say that we would call informed persons.
I say that by all means Taiwan should remove it, the it being the mosk, of course.
Kepha says
Taiwan will not remove the mosque as long as the Pan-Blues have any chance at political power (and they dominate Taoyuan County). The mosque was founded by honored veterans of Chiang’s army; not by Indonesian gust workers.
Paul says
Do they do take-aways ?
There is no fun in Islam. I said that. Not anyone else.
Laugh at them, it hurts cos its the truth.
Paul
WPM says
They do “take- aways “in Islam all over the world they take away you right to free speech, they take away your right to free expression, free public display of your religion, they take away your right to drink beer wine and eat pork, they bankrupt your country with welfare ,lawfare, Sharia creep , Sharia courts, the take away your life if you do not comply. They are the masters of “take-away”!
eduardo odraude says
And since when does Islam respect other religions? Devout Muslims who pray five times a day say a prayer against Jews and Christians about 20 times a day. The prayer in question refers to “those who have earned Allah’s wrath” — history’s top Muslim exegetes say that refers to the Jews. The prayer also refers to “those who have gone astray” — which history’s top Muslim exegetes say refers to Christians. Twenty or Twenty-five times a day devout Muslims pray those words!
Not to mention that the Qur’an says not only that Muslims are the best of peoples, but that non-Muslims are the “worst of creatures.” Think about that. Worse than cockroaches or Sarsours?
Give me a break. Why should non-Muslims change to suit supremacist Muslims? Why can’t different views co-exist, or else let Muslims change to suit non-Muslims!
eduardo odraude says
“Devout Muslims who pray five times a day say a prayer against Jews and Christians about 20 times a day.”
In other words, at each of the five main prayer times, they say those prayers against Jews and Christians four or five times, for a total of twenty or twenty five times a day..
Battle says
The restaurant has a property right to its property and its sign. The restaurant has a free speech right to its sign. Islam is the intolerant sons of bees. Islam is organized crime.
Butch says
Too late my friend. The owner already agreed to change the sign.
James Pierce says
The only change they should make to that sign is the finger that the pig is holding up
eduardo odraude says
And remember, the tolerant verses in the Qur’an arose when Muhammad was weak and had relatively few followers. When he later in Medina became strong, all that went out the window and he became the warlord ruler of an expansionist totalitarian theocratic state without freedom of religion or freedom of speech.
epistemology says
To the best of my knowledge Taiwan is not a Muslim country, so Taiwanese can est pork and advertise it whenever they want to. It’s none of the business of these mosque goers what other people eat and what they advertise. As Robert put i, it’s pure Islamic supremacy. As a matter of fact the muzzies obviously don’t respect the local culture. Removing this billboard is an act of dhimmitude. The Taiwanese should tell the muzzies, if you don’t like our culture you can leave, nobody will shed a tear.
Jews don’t eat pork either and a lot of other things but Jewish dietary laws are too complicated for muzzies that’s why they only forbid pork. It would never ever come to our mind to tell other people what they’re supposed to eat and what they can advertise. The Halacha is only for Jews, we would never impose it on others.
Sharia in Taiwan where this perverse law doesn’t belong that’s sad.
mgoldberg says
No orthodox or observant jew would find it objectionable. The reason is that the dietary laws aren’t mandatory for anyone but an observant jew, and others can find their own flavors and preferences as their beliefs mandate or don’t. That of course is one of the obvous differences. For muslims to be in a chinese nation that has cooked pork for thousands of years and for the muslims to demand that they are ‘nauseated’ by the pigs is the height of gall. Now if muslims would claim to be nauseated by ‘Jihadists’ I’d be pleased. That won’t happen. They will never claim any connection.
They’ll claim the jews did it, the pig did it, the dog ate the homework, and ……. how dare you not realize that they’re offended and they might rage.
epistemology says
Couldn’t agree more
Rob says
Acid test. Now erect a Christian church adjacent to the mosque which is adjacent to the pork restaurant. See if the tolerance shows through. Please don’t mention the tolerance of minorities for the practices of the host nation. I guarantee Taiwan has been eating pork for longer than that mosque has been in existence.
Kepha says
There could well be Christian church within easy walking distance of a mosque in Taoyuan County, as well as Buddhist and Daoist temples, or clan halls where sacrifices to a lineage’s ancestry would be made. Taiwan has more places of worship per square mile than any other Asian country outside Thailand. I think one reason the sign may be a sensitive issue is because there’s a superstition among Chinese non-Muslims who live near the Muslim minority that the pig is a sacred ancestor to the Muslims, or a beloved son of the Islamic god. The reasoning is that why else would anyone refrain from eating an animal that turns its back on Heaven?
mortimer says
Kowtow to Islam, Taiwanese. Kowtow … NOW !!!! Or just say no.
ntesdorf says
Muslims should suck it up like the rest of humanity. Either that or better still go back to Muslimostan.
Indiana Tom says
They really need an establishment like Porky,s such as was in the movie by the same name.
simpleton1 says
Taiwan should change some of its immigrant policies while it can easily do so.
At this stage the face of islam will change, when they find they have a lot of power against the tolerant in Taiwan.
Crusades Were Right says
“respect”
Anyone wonder what kind of “respect” is shown to those of us who eat pork when somebody claims it is “unclean”? Are we also perceived as “unclean”?
Seems to me some people are “hogging” all the “respect” these days.
gravenimage says
Taiwan: Muslims enraged at billboard for pork restaurant next to mosque, demand its removal
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Muslims are like this everywhere in the world. They make up less than 1% of the population in Taiwan, but still want everyone else to bow to Shari’ah.
A_M_Swallow says
Good idea. Remove the mosque.
infidel says
So these vile pests are in Taiwan too… I thought Taiwan was free from this infestation.
Melissa Sederoff says
About ten years ago, I started wondering if any place on the planet was free of Muslims. I did a bunch of research using the CIA World Fact Book (It is fascinating if you have never looked at it) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Anyway, I could not find ANY COUNTRY that was free of a significant number of Muslims. I finally looked at Greenland (so cold trees don’t grow there). I thought no Muslim would want to live there. At that time there was ONE Muslim living in Greenland. He stated he deliberately settled there because there was no Islamic presence there, and he felt it was his DUTY to bring Islam to Greenland. I don’t know if the number is still that low. I am guessing there is probably more than one Muslim in Greenland by now.
bluedubs says
These muzzies better respect taiwanese/chinese cuisine that pork is highly featured in.
They better RESPECT the Chinese who love pork as food.
Melissa Sederoff says
Jews don’t eat pork either, but has anyone ever heard of any Jewish organization demanding people do away with pig meat? Does anyone think that if the next door neighbor to the restaurant had been Jews, they would have demanded the sign be removed? OF COURSE NOT! Jews are reasonable people who try to assimilate and always make a place better by their presence.
Paddy OConnor says
Hopefully this points out the need for Robert Spencer”History of Jihad…….”in Mandarin.
ninetyninepct says
Better yet, move the mosque. It is nauseating to humans.
No Fear says
NO POK!
FYI says
Maybe…open a nightclub for muslims on the other side.
No pork,no alcohol,no music..
Walid’s Whak bar