The arrest of a Pakistani national with alleged ties to the Taliban has local Muslims “shocked” and “angered,” according to the KT:
Muslims in Korea have expressed shock and anger after a prominent member of their community was detained by police. The man, who has trained young Muslims here, allegedly has links to the Taliban.
The Pakistani national was arrested last Thursday at his home in Daegu on charges of using a forged passport to enter the country and being linked to the terrorist group. However, he has denied any connection to the Islamic militant group. He is currently being detained for questioning.
The suspect, whose name has been withheld for legal reasons, was an acting Imam of the Daegu Islamic Center, and affiliated with the Korea Muslim Federation. The federation declined to give an opinion at this stage, saying only, “we do not trust the media now. Whenever we get the police investigation revealed, then it will be possible to talk about it.”
A Bangladeshi Muslim who requested anonymity told the KT that Korea needs to pay greater attention to fingerprints and IDs:
A Bangladeshi Muslim, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject, felt that “the government should be more alert. The government should be stronger about fingerprints and identity.”
The man, also a business owner in the Islamic area of the Seoul district of Itaewon, said that he knew of people who had been deported before, and then simply returned here with a new passport.
“They come back with a new passport,” he said, “They are very dangerous for Korea.”
Members of the Muslim and Pakistani community say he often confessed about serving the Taliban and collecting information about US troops in Korea.
Read ROK Drop for more.
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Shocked and angered, eh?
Good thing for us this is the usual reaction. Good thing, too, that Islamists such as this imam are only a tiny minority. Otherwise, this sort of thing might be happening more often, and we’d be hearing about it all the time.
But, of course, it’s rare, very rare.
Jeffery Hodges
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Hey, as long as they don’t over turn cars, burn tires and riot in the streets (like in France) I’m happy.
I don’t what they’re angry about, the article isn’t clear. Is it that he was arrested for allegedly using fake passports and possibly being involved with terrorist groups so they’re angry at him? Or is it they’re angry at the media for reporting it and police for arresting him and making Islamic extremists look bad?
The cynic in me would be to say that amongst some it would be the latter, the optimist it would be the former. I think ‘extremely concerned with the mosque that they don’t vet their Imams properly, and concern themselves in regard to background checks for dangerous religious extremism’ would be the more appropriate response, rather than ‘anger’. There are enough angry muslims around the world, we certainly don’t need any more.
Personally I don’t think there should be ‘religious’ visas anyway, religion seems to spread trouble wherever it gets its filthy claws in.
Most muslim types are fine, I know a fair few, some of them are however very very dangerous indeed. The Islamic lot are very much to blame over this, they are not very good at being critical of the dangerous extremists in their midst. It reminds me of the Catholic lot ignoring the huge problem with their pervert priests. Both groups seem to refuse responsibility for the dangerous ones.
Keith….as i suspected, you’re definitely Gordon in disguise, thanks God i have have only 2 more years before getting out of the EU.
Anyway that’s another piece of evidence that Korea’s days of innocence are indeed numbered…unfortunately
But Keith in Korea, so it looks you’ll be getting out and joining Keith
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