Russian Muslims Rally Against Terror
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By Damir Ahmad, IOL Correspondent
MOSCOW, September 8 (IslamOnline.net) – Up to 40,000 Russian Muslims took part Tuesday, September 7, in a nationwide rally in protest at the hostage-taking school tragedy in the southern city of Beslan that claimed the lives of hundreds of people, mostly children.
In Moscow, the anguished protesters stood still for a moment of silence on the Red Square in memory of the victims of Beslan and the two Russian airliners that crashed south of Moscow on August 25, killing 90 people aboard.
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The Council of Muftis has already condemned the tragedy as “a terrorist act that Islam totally refuses and forbids”.
The religious council for North Caucasian Muslims said the hostage taking is “a heinous terrorist crime” that inflicted pain and suffering on families of the hostages.
Read the whole article at:
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2004-09/08/article05.shtml
By Damir Ahmad, IOL Correspondent
MOSCOW, September 8 (IslamOnline.net) – Up to 40,000 Russian Muslims took part Tuesday, September 7, in a nationwide rally in protest at the hostage-taking school tragedy in the southern city of Beslan that claimed the lives of hundreds of people, mostly children.
In Moscow, the anguished protesters stood still for a moment of silence on the Red Square in memory of the victims of Beslan and the two Russian airliners that crashed south of Moscow on August 25, killing 90 people aboard.
[...]
The Council of Muftis has already condemned the tragedy as “a terrorist act that Islam totally refuses and forbids”.
The religious council for North Caucasian Muslims said the hostage taking is “a heinous terrorist crime” that inflicted pain and suffering on families of the hostages.
Read the whole article at:
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2004-09/08/article05.shtml
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