Chitchat Guess??? Community in Japan demands land for burials!

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In Japan, a Muslim community’s ‘straightforward request’ to bury its dead stirs hostility​

Misleading reports and social media attacks have sought to block plans for a Muslim cemetery in the town of Hiji in southern Japan​

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Julian Ryall
Published: 5:00pm, 2 Feb 2025

A wave of social media hostility is thwarting a simple request from a Muslim community in Japan: the right to bury their dead according to their faith.
In September 2020, the Beppu Muslim Association believed it was close to securing approval from the town of Hiji, on the southern island of Kyushu, to establish a cemetery where Muslims could be laid to rest, at variance with the Japanese tradition of cremation.

Today, association head Muhammad Tahir Abbas Khan laments that this goal remains elusive – and that misleading reports in traditional media and on social platforms have helped block what he describes as a “straightforward request” in a nation that otherwise allows other faiths to bury their dead.

He has also taken legal action against a prominent YouTuber whose attacks have become both personal and painful.
“I cannot believe I am having to take this step,” said Khan, who has lived in Japan since 2001, became a Japanese national more than a decade ago and is a professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Beppu, Oita prefecture.

Muhammad Tahir Abbas Khan, head of the Beppu Muslim Association in Japan, hopes to secure approval in the town of Hiji to establish a cemetery where Muslims could be laid to rest. Photo: Muhammad Tahir Abbas Khan


According to Khan, the YouTuber claimed that he was attempting to turn Japan into a Muslim-majority nation and that his efforts to secure a graveyard were merely the first step in this campaign.

 

[Devil Within]

These people are like cancer. Once you let them in, they will slowly spread and kill you from within. Best to get rid of them while you can. They all should convert to shinto if they like japan so much, else they can fuck off to their Islamic countries elsewhere.

 

[syed putra]

Burying the dead uses less energy and emit less carbon.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

The Nip Emperor was also cremated....so what makes these mudslimes soo special?

 

[Charlie99]

These people are like cancer. Once you let them in, they will slowly spread and kill you from within. Best to get rid of them while you can. They all should convert to shinto if they like japan so much, else they can fuck off to their Islamic countries elsewhere.

I agree.
The Western countries should not have allowed Muslim immigrants and refugees.

 

[syed putra]

The Nip Emperor was also cremated....so what makes these mudslimes soo special?

Cremation waste energy and produces carbon gas.

 

[syed putra]

I agree.
The Western countries should not have allowed Muslim immigrants and refugees.

The Western civilization started in the Middle East.