【例文・単語帳】20-01-11_The number of Muslims in Japan is growing fast

英語

01-11に読んで、聞いて、シャドーイングした記事

記事の内容:

10年でイスラム教徒が2倍になった。23万人(日本人5万人含む)

埋葬出来る墓がない。周辺住民から水が飲めなるなる等の苦情が入り、墓を作れない。(科学的な根拠なし)

しかしながら、少しずつ理解が広まってきている。

所感:

知らない=怖い=出て行け

この考えの人が多すぎる。

知らない単語があった文(Google dictionary)

The ranks of worshippers have grown in recent years, as the government has sought to attract more foreign workers and students. 

Attempt to find (something).

The country boasts more than 110 mosques.

Talk with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one’s achievements, possessions, or abilities.

“If they got Japanese nationality, they should follow Japanese customs and cremate the bodies,” says Eto Kiyotaka, another councillor, who initiated a petition against the cemetery.

Will the bodies contaminate the local water supply?

Make (something) impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance.

So too did his forebears as far back as he can count, at least four generations.

An ancestor.

Locals fret about an influx of visitors and the prospect of an Islamic school opening next.

Be constantly or visibly worried or anxious.

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