***Irate S. Koreans Attack Islam Interests Overnight in Inchon, Korea (Photos of Aftermath)***

OhMyNews (website in Korean) ^ | 25 June 2004 | OhMyNews (website in Korean)

[AmericanInTokyo]

Blood is boiling to the point of scorching explosion in some quarters of South Korea toward terrorist [and by extension], Islam, as news settles in that a South Korean man had been beheaded this week by Islamic fundamental terrorists in Iraq.

Police cordons are being thrown up around Islamic mosques in S. Korea. The main mosque in Seoul has been flooded with death threats and bomb threats.

Last night (US time), a building housing Islamic interests in Inchon, South Korea (about a hour from Seoul) was hit by vandalism. People are really pissed at these murders and decapitations. Koreans, (the "Irish of East Asia" when it comes to anger and tempers) seem to have energized. The sentiment is by no means unanimous, though.

FYI , there is no hate crime legislation in South Korea.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Inchon photos:

[Tijeras_Slim]

Ain't that a shame.

[swarthyguy]

Pretty tame. No molotovs, bricks, or beatings.

American muslims don't realize what a tolerant country they live in.

Any other country after 911 the mosques would have been burning.

[prophetic]

I aint crying for those islamofacists not one bit!

[darkwing104]

Why is it written in English?

[Owl_Eagle]

Why is it written in English?

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[txhurl]

Glad that revenge is still OK in some places.

[The_Victor]

Why are the S Koreans beating up on the Muslim community? I thought, listening to the protesters, that it was all Bush's fault.

[Physicist]

Grafitti is to an "attack on interests" as sleep deprivation is to torture.

[stuartcr]

That's what I was wondering too.

[LanPB01]

Maybe it's written in English to celebrate diversity.

[campfollower]

Hate to see innocent Muslims targeted, but it was just a matter of time.

[SouthernFreebird]

Shame we haven't become as outraged as they are. Our people get murdered everyday by Islamic followers and people here bend over and kiss the a$$ of the muslim.

[Owl_Eagle]

Why is it written in English?

 

I'd of beat you to it if I didn't take the time to remove the duck from my post.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[ksen]

Why is it written in English?

Don't you mean Engrish?

[monkeywrench]

Why'd they write in english?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Do you think Koreans can write Arabic or Urdu?

[Red Badger]

Universal language. I doubt if most Koreans speak or write Arabic.........

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This is horrible and awful. It's only okay when Muslims act like this.

[darkwing104]

I'd of beat you to it if I didn't take the time to remove the duck from my post.

GMTA.. :-)

[mattdono]

Our people get murdered everyday by Islamic followers and people here bend over and kiss the a$$ of the musl

Correction: Our people get murdered everyday by Islamic followers and people LIBERALS here bend over and kiss the a$$ of the muslim

[AmericanInTokyo]

Some of them have had plenty of practice writing the same English words (probably) on the outside of the Eighth US Army garrison in Yongsan and other places around the ROK against the US. (sarcasm...but probably true).

[ksen]

Hate to see innocent Muslims targeted, but it was just a matter of time.

I think you've just coined a new oxymoron.

[txhurl]

Survey says: re-post this in Korean to make everybody happy.

[smith288]

Muslims in America should feel very lucky they aren't as targeted as they are in S. Korea.

Its just a matter of time when someone on our soil gets beheaded...THEN the uncomfortables begin for them.

[Owl_Eagle]

Do you think Koreans can write Arabic or Urdu?

Figured they'd write it in Korean. 

 

Universal language.

That makes me damn proud at the footprint our culture has left on the planet!

 

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[coydog]

Looks like they still have some backbone left...

[TonyRo76]

People are really pissed at these murders and decapitations.

LOL! Pretty wild seeing this in an actual news report. Their bluntness is refreshing :o)

[OldFriend]

Good for them. Righteous anger!!!!

[wideawake]

Koreans assume that those who can't read Korean can read English.

In Korea, that's a pretty safe bet.

[RandallFlagg]

Of course, I'll give this about 15 more seconds until President Bush gets blamed for it.

[eleni121]

You cannot be innocent and Muslim at the same time.

[AmericanInTokyo]

in Korean, it would not mean as much perhaps to the 'grafitti -ees', so they did it in English for impact...my supposition

[TheSpottedOwl]

Boooohoooo. No hate crime legislation in S. Korea? I'm sure the UN will fix that quickly.

I've seen worse graffiti in my time. At least it was in English so everyone can enjoy it ;-)

[eastforker]

Most do not realize that most Koreans speak English quite well and for the most part very well educated. Give a Korean a hundred dollars today and he will turn it into 2 hundred in a few days. Let them pick up the brass from our firing ranges and you can buy it back in the form of a brass pan next week. Very resourceful Koreans are.

[NeoCaveman]

Koreans, (the "Irish of East Asia" when it comes to anger and tempers)

I had never heard this one before.

[cspackler]

I think they're referring to the graffiti...

[Wolfstar]

This morning (in L.A.) I saw a video on CNN of this poor guy taken about three weeks ago. In it, he was calmly telling someone off camera how he (the victim) was opposed to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and how bad the U.S. and Bush are, etc. CNN's reporting indicated that people in S. Korea are demanding to know if the government knew the victim had been kidnapped as much as three weeks prior to his murder, but did nothing about it. Any news in Tokyo about this aspect of the story?

BTW, I don't know if the guy was just trying to tell his captors what they wanted to hear, or if he really was yet another misguided anti-war Leftist trying to be friendly with the jihadists. Either way, no one deserves to be wantonly slaughtered.

[Mo1]

Why is it written in English?

Very good question

[eleni121]

Apparently some Koreans don't get it!

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200405/200405280041.html

[AmericanInTokyo]

at the price of professional paint removers in S. Korea? (unless you want to try to remove it all yourself?)...well, I'd call that an "attack".

[Wolfstar]

Pretty tame. No molotovs, bricks, or beatings.

No beheadings, either.

[TonyRo76]

Why is it written in English?

The simplest explanation is the tagline I used to use whenever posting on FR—brought back especially for this occasion...

[GVnana]

Good for them. At least we can vent our anger through warfare.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Call it an "insurance policy". Those S. Korean soldiers don't want to get beheaded in Iraq, and if captured, they can quickly produce a copy of the Koran with some passages underlined to show their sprouting studiousness...to their captors. Maybe that's good for a reprieve or too, and they'll chop some other Coalition personnel's head off, instead.

[Wolfstar]

English replaced French as the international language long ago. The Koreans likely don't speak or write Farsi, and the Muslims may know only enough Korean to get by in business. But the reach and use of English in even remote corners of the globe is amazing.

[Imal]

GDQA

(Great Ducks Quack Alike)

[glorgau]

Grafitti in English. I wonder why it isn't in Korean.

[Paulus Invictus]

Since the Korean War (oops, Police Action, according to Truman) many Koreans have learned English and done so very well. They still like Americans for having kept their side of the border free from the commies. Some of my clients are Koreans and they all speak good English.

[AmericanInTokyo]

We've had all kinds of threads in detail on that issue today on FR, mercy.