“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….