r/europe Poland 2d ago

News Teenagers in Poland are organizing "hoe patrols". They harass and record teenage girls in malls while wearing "ho patrol" vests

https://wyborcza.biz/biznes/7,177150,32212885,patrole-pilnowaly-granic-dzieciaki-pilnuja-teraz-dziewczyn.html
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u/casastorta 1d ago

I see you’ve never heard of Bosnian Muslims. Before the 1990s wars in Yugoslavia they ate bacon in tons, mostly with some exceptions. They’ve got a kind of national/identity awakening during the war so they now mostly avoid pork.

But schnapps (rakija), oh boy, alcoholism is still very much huge part of their national identity, even more maybe than it was in Yugoslavia.

Islam, as every other major religion, is very flexible in bending the rules when expanding.

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u/betterlogicthanu Bosnia and Herzegovina 1d ago

This is just wrong. Bacon/pork was never that popular. In my set of villages, of 5,000-10000 people you would have maybe 1 Muslim family who ate pork.

Alcohol is more common yes. But even that is dying off, as well even with the non Muslim population. Alcohol in general is just becoming less popular.

But a weird thing Ive noticed is non religious people who see a Muslim/Christian committing some sin that their religion forbids, as like some sort of gotcha against religion. Thats not how it works. No religious person sees that as something that falsifies their religion, in fact fighting against sin is one of the reasons people turn to religion.

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u/desertedlamp4 1d ago

Only Tatars in Russia really ate/eat pork meat I think, and maybe Albanians from Albania? Have no idea about them