It is estimated that there are up to 10,000 Muslim adherents in Korea, excluding resident migrant workers and that Islam is the fastest growing religion in South Korea.[1] Also included are returning Korean workers already converted to Islam from the Middle East countries such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE.[citation needed]

In South Korea, the Muslim population has been steadily increasing since the introduction of the faith shortly after the Korean War. The Muslim (both Korean and foreign born) community is centered around Seoul, where the first large 20th-century mosque was built in 1976 using the funds of the Malaysian Islamic Mission and other Islamic countries.

There was a slow but evident growth of Middle Eastern (i.e Iranian, Iraqi, Kuwaiti and Qatari), with Pakistani and Malaysian immigration to South Korea, the majority are Muslims, during the 1990's and 2000's, usually arrived as guest workers to the country.[citation needed]

It is believed that there is no significant presence of Islam in North Korea, where autonomous religious activity in general is almost non-existent. Despite the fact Korean Muslims are a small community, they are a part of the multi-religious fabric of Korean society, including Buddhists, Taoists, Shintoists, Christians and Jews.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Korea

Islam and Christianity are always stated to be the "fastest growing religion" in x country.

Korea will turn into another 3rd world very quickly with this religion.

Well, it's time to destroy the only mosque that is in Korea from these cancerigenous insolent infestation.

Dont use stereotypes, especially American ones.

Don't worry, we are not using American ones.

what?! This is the first I've heard of this!! O.o Why would any Korean want to convert to Islam! The religion obviously has not done much for the middle east.

frankly korean dont care about islam.
and,korean female dislikes cover header.

They have some good middle eastern restaurants down by the mosque in Itaewon. I didn't see any proselytizing of Koreans going on.

It is pretty funny that the mosque is just a 1-minute walk from a bunch of brothels and strip clubs.

I don't see Christianity and Buddhism majority population altering in Korea any time soon.

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I couldn't agree with you more! Every word of it.

people should learn more of a religion before commenting on them...

Islam has me confused. I can't figure out if I'm an ape or a pig.

Actually the very fundamentalism of Islam is GOOD, but only bad is is the ppl who abusing Islam and name of allah.

Like the Mormons, the Muslims are trying to promote their religion through free language lessons. I know an American Muslim who teaches English at the mosque in Daegu and one of my former high school students who wants to study Arabic gets free lessons at the mosque in Itaewon. She seems to find the Muslim community very warm and welcoming.

The mosques are also used as employment centres by immigrants, and thus play a very essential role for immigrants from Islamic countries, even if they're only nominally Islamic.

Muslims cannot eat Pork. ( that would be very hard in Korea ).

i doubt that will happen.... no korean women will want to be islamic... come on... cover your face????? (hey maybe girls want to be islamic so that they can protect their skin from sunlight and remain white) and stop eating pork!? no way...

annyung hasyuo,
el sallam alikom,
thats the islamic greating. it means peace 4 all,
im muslim egyption girl , i read ur replies,watever they r i respect them all , but i found lots of wrong ideas about islam, i can correct them 4 u all. PLEASE i ask all of u just to respect religions and ask u not to be prejdice. i also ask u dont get ideas abot islam from muslims behavements, becouse some peoble r called muslims but they dont follow any islamic rules.

i forgot to interduce my self becouse im new in korean chat , im rahma , my name means the mercy ,im acollege student .im here 4 anyone wants to know about my religion ,

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Hail to islam. It's a wonderful religion.

Close this thread, this one is well known troll.

any one wanna correct his ideas just ask me ,,,

Islam is not a peaceful religion. definitely, too fanatic.

i can correct tht just if u ready to change ur mind ...
when u say tht islam is not peaceful religion tht means u have agreat knowledge about the religion so u made ajudgement,,so i wonder ,, how u got ur knowledge about islam?? ...from muslims behavements???...is tht asource to make ajudgement???...

in vergeniaa university there was akorean man who killed about32 person...he was aterorrist .. is tht mean tht all koreans r terrorists??? ,,its the same case if we talk about islam,,, some people r called muslims but they donot follow any rules in islam,, they just act as they r muslims,,and they do actions in the name of islam

in islam book "quran" God orderd us not to kill anyone without a reason ,, in wars he orderd us not to kill any kid ,woman or any old person ...
islam told us to give the mercy also to the animals,, there was amuslim lady who teased a cat ,mohmed the prophet told us tht she would go to the hell becouse of tht cat...

i ask u to type where u find the fanatic in tht religion,, so i can make it clear 4 u,,

I think what he meant is that there are too many muslims fundamentalist using the name of god to do things that benefit themselves and lot people actually believe that.
Also there are general perception that muslims are easy being provoked, and we have seems lot news lately regarding the english teacher in Sudan.

wat about the english teacher in sudan???
i have no idea about tht ....would u tell me?

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/englis...6037074416.html

thanks 4 being care 4 tht
i think that case is just apolitic case... and i guess tht British want to put its steps in sudan so British plays atrick to reach its goal,,,,

i donot know ur religion but if someone in other religion insult the jesus ,,do u think christians would keep silent ???,,, i hope good understandig from u ,,becouse i love the jesus and my god love him too ,, in islam we recpect him becouse we belive tht he is a prophet ,, and theres SOURAH in quoran called MARIM his mother,,,

if u has a son,, and when he was in his school someone insult his father "mean u" and said "ur father is an animal" there ur son would have the right to be angry,,,

But you dont see hundred and thousand people protest about that single, small incident and threat to kill that woman.

As for christian, if that happen to us, most time we just laugh about and mind our own business, and nowaday religion hardly play any important role in our society. and certainly you are not going to see protest (time = money).


I believe you have been provoked by the article and i think you should clam down.

donot look at muslims behavement or comments,, but i think it will be better if we talked with her and try to change her ideas ,,and then declare about her new ideas,, i really donot know wat the punishment she should get..

i didnt get provoked at all,, it becomes a normal article,,becouse we got many such like tht,, i know tht money becomes the god now but recpecting religions doesnt cost alot,,
i forgot to say tht im agirl

You seem like a nice person. So I will give you a word of advice. The muslim doctrine of "al taqiyyah," i.e., dissimulation, prevents meaningful dialogue between muslims and infidels. Please do not respond to this post because I will not engage.

ok i will not respond haha

post your pic rahmaiaa

^To get with her you'll have to convert.

get wat exactly prejudice man???

I don't understand Muslims. They have the right to kill you if you are a non beliver.

Isn't it strange? What if the Christians say that they have the right to kill Muslims because they are non belivers. Wonder how would the Muslims feel.

u have wrong information,,,let me correct it plz,,
God said in quran tht evrybody is free to belive in wat he want,,, then he will return to god after he die and then he face his god,,,if u read the quran u will find tht ,,
as i said be4 in islam God ordred us not to kill anyone without agreat sin like asin of killing,,,he also told us not to kill any women,kid or old person in wars,,,

muslims' behavements may not follow any rules ,,
im afraid tht christians always fight muslims and be prejudice against them,, although christians know tht islam recpect the jesus and marim ,,they sure tht muslims do,,, becouse jesus in islam is aprophet ,,

if islam was not apeacful ,,there would not be tht great wave of koreans who belive in islam,,

Check it out:

http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/7595/is...etheworlzx0.jpg

"Prejudice Man." I like that. At least you're not calling me an ape or a pig. Do you have a copyright on the term or can anyone use it without obtaining a license? Since our dialogue isn't meaningful we might as well chat. Welcome to AF. Let me start. Why is there a sword at the bottom of the Saudi national flag, underneath the quote from the Quran? Do you have any Coptic friends?

Islam is a plague.

And muslims breed like rats.

I hope Koreans wake up and deal with the infestation before it gets out of hand.

Take it from an Iranian. Destroy it before it destroys Korea!

Is it not in the Karan that Muslims are free to kill nonbelievers and it is not a crime to kill the nonbelivers?

Please check the Karan out yourself.

wtf is the karan Koran or Qur'an is somethin else

first ,, why u cheat ur self in the name of islam??? ,,i dont need an evdience to decline tht islam insult anyone ,, u who need an evdience to prove tht,,,if i think u apig why i keep chatting with u??? why i insist on correcting ur ideas ??,,,

second,, may i dont hav all my right but not becouse of my religion rules,,but becouse of the government,, government want evreyone keep silent and blind on the other hand islam orders muslims to let evryone do wat he want to do ,,evrybody will gain his result ,,,plz donot mix between policy and religion,,,

third,, Saudi is acountry after it is a sympole of religion,,, why u think about the sword as amark to kill??!!!.. thers another ideas dealing with the sword,, may it is amark of such abrave country,, if the sward was an islamic mark , all islamic counties' flags must have a sward too,,u mix between policy and religion again,, its just a mark dear ,, and also Saudi didnt fight with anyone for aloooooong time ,,
in Quran god orderd us to fight who fight us and stop if the enemy stop,,
i want to post something to u ,, but i donot know how i can??? help me plz ,, let me make it clear to u,,

fourth,,
Coptic is about 30% in egypt,, the high rich class in Egypt r Coptic people,, they are churches 4 them ,, they r given all their rights like any other muslim ,,my neighbors r Coptic and we r friendly ,,,
any way thanks man

is tht 4 replying???

if it is like tht,, why koreans covert to it???
although koreans who convert were also think like u ,, tht islam isnot peaceful,,but they finally reach the true,, koreans also donot care about religion much becouse they just belive in money although tht they convert ,,
u check the Quran
thanks

Via con dios.

I think religion is the main reason why those Muslims countries are so behind the western, easten countries, in term of education, innovation, military, economy etc...

Here's a list of Muslim countries with higher HDI than China:

Malaysia, Bahrain, Brunei, Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates.

I don't think it's the religion that causes problems and chaos in many Muslim countries. It's rather the sociopolitical environment as well as geography. Anyways, there are quite a few Muslims in Korea too, and they're not causing any problems.

China has 1.3 billion people, it hardly make any sense to compare those countries with China. Try compare them with Provinces you will get different pic.