Category Archives: Russia

Mosque Raid Causes Outrage

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St. Petersburg times:

By Sergey Chernov

The St. Petersburg Times

Published: February 13, 2013 (Issue # 1746)

 

ALEXANDER BELENKY / SPT

Law enforcement officers arrested hundreds of migrant workers at Apraksin Dvor on Friday. Seven have been deported.

Human rights organizations in Russia, Tajikistan and Georgia on Tuesday protested mass arrests and reported harassment and beatings of mostly Central Asian and North Caucasus migrant workers during Friday’s raid on a marketplace in central St. Petersburg.

They are demanding a thorough investigation by Russian and Tajik authorities into the actions of law-enforcement officers who raided Apraksin Dvor, the marketplace in downtown St. Petersburg, during a service at a mosque on the market’s territory.

The Investigative Committee put the number of those detained at 271, but Fontanka.ru reported that “no less than 700” had been arrested, while human rights activists say that the number of arrests could be as high as 1,000.

Officially, the raid was part of a criminal investigation into “public incitement to terrorist activities or public justification of terrorism” and “inciting hatred or hostility as well as humiliation of human dignity” and was conducted jointly by several law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Security Service (FSB) and counter-extremism Center E. Smaller raids were held elsewhere in the city.

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Russian bust of muslims shows classic islamic literature available in mosques everywhere.

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Thank you Magic Matin and Dar-Link for finding and translating this video respectively.

I feel this is important as it shows the concern the Russian armed services have over common islamic materials they found in a jihadi camp.

Paraphrasing Maj. (ret) Stephen Coughlin:

Nawawi is a classic jurist (read jihadi) whose writings have great standing.  Nu Ha Mim Keller, the commentator/translator of Reliance of the Traveller, relies on him a lot in that book. Nawawi is a Shafi’ite.

For a better understanding of how these books influence the WWJ (World-Wide-Jihad) please watch this brief by Maj. (R) Stephen Coughlin

More here at Gates

Chechnya’s Kadyrov Calls for Crackdown on Sorcery

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ABC News:

By MAX SEDDON
MOSCOW February 11, 2013 (AP)

Sorcerers, psychics, and faith healers may be on the way out in Chechnya, where the leader of the mountainous, overwhelmingly Muslim region in Russia’s Caucasus has ordered a crackdown on the practices.

Kremlin-backed strongman Ramzan Kadyrov called on Chechens to steer clear of “charlatans” claiming to have magic powers, whom he accused of exploiting people’s sufferings for money.

Kadyrov said at a meeting with municipal leaders in Grozny, the capital, on Saturday that “turning to wizards and false healers won’t bring them any relief and is banned by Islam,” according to a statement from the Chechen government. He went on to threaten that anyone engaging in such practices would feel the force of the region’s feared security services.

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Hundreds of muslims busted in Russia. Imam caught in a bare faced lie

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H/T Magic Martin.

Thank you Golem Bar and Dar-Link for the translation on the video and the article.

Raiding the St. Petersburg Jamaat

Hundreds of Islamic extremists were arrested in Russia over the weekend. The news video below from Russian TV concerns the large raids took place in St. Petersburg.

An article on the same topic — which differs in some of the details, interestingly enough — was published last Saturday by Gazeta.ru. Once again, thanks to DarLink for the translation:

In St. Petersburg, the FSB and MVD Special Forces detained about 500 Muslims. The operation took place in the Apraksin Dvor mosque as well. Among the detained are Tajiks, Uzbeks, Azeris, immigrants from the North Caucasus, Egyptians, and Afghans. There is a first suspect in the “Petersburg Jamaat” case: according to the investigation, he uploaded videos of the terror attacks to the web.

On Friday evening law enforcement agencies began large-scale operation in St. Petersburg, in Apraksin Dvor Market. They searched the Tajik mosque, located on the territory of the clothing market, looking for banned literature. The quarter was surrounded, and near building number 15, where the mosque is located on the 3rd floor, hundreds of SpezNaz soldiers were waiting. The prayer had just began, but Muslims were not allowed to finish it.

During the prayer, at the threshold with a bang appeared people with guns, wearing masks and body armor.

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Russian opposition leader under house arrest

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For the second time in 100 years, Russia has massive problems with leftists.

H/T Magic Martin

OTD.Nz:

Sun, 10 Feb 2013

Russian opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov appears in court where he was put under house arrest charged with plotting mass disorder in protests against President Vladimir Putin. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Russian opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov appears in court where he was put under house arrest charged with plotting mass disorder in protests against President Vladimir Putin. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Prominent Russian opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov, charged with plotting mass disorder in protests last year, has been placed under house arrest by a Moscow court.The leftist was among several opposition figures charged with riots and violence against police during a protest against President Vladimir Putin last May on the eve of his inauguration for a third presidential term.

The Federal Investigative Committee, which answers only to Putin, had barred Udaltsov from travelling freely but said on Friday that he was not complying with that.

The court put Udaltsov under house arrest until April 6.

The shaven-headed Udaltsov has been repeatedly detained during opposition protests, in what his supporters say is a tactic intended to hamper his activism.

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Fleet of Russian warships reportedly en route to Syria to head off a Western attack

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H/T Magic Martin

Times of Israel:

Israel and the US said to be mulling a military campaign to secure chemical weapons held by Moscow’s civil war-ravaged ally

By January 6, 2013, 4:57 am
The Russian warship Varyag (photo credit: CC BY randychiu, Flickr)

The Russian warship Varyag (photo credit: CC BY randychiu, Flickr)

A flotilla of five Russian warships laden with hundreds of troops, which is headed toward Syria, is a show of force meant to deter Western armies from intervening in the war-torn nation, the London-based Sunday Times reported.

Previous reports cited Russian diplomats to the effect that the vessels were being put in place in order to evacuate thousands of Russians who still remain in Syria if the situation in the country called for it.

However, a Russian intelligence source was quoted on Sunday as saying that the presence of over 300 marines on the ships was meant as a deterrent to keep countries hostile to the Bashar Assad regime — a key ally of the Kremlin — from landing special forces in the country.

“Russia should be prepared for any developments, as it believes the situation in Syria might reach its peak before Easter,” a Russian diplomatic source was quoted as saying.

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Dagestan. The fruits of accommodating Islam

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Dagestan is a name I often bring up when discussing Islam’s influence on a nation. It always draws blank stares. But just because few have heard of it doesn’t mean it can’t or won’t happen here, wherever here is.

More Islam will always mean more of this so long as there are infidels or ‘false Muslims’ to weed out of the area. The more authority Muslims take for themselves, the more vicious this kind of activity will be.

H/T Don L

Russian police free child hostage, kill seven militants in Dagestan

 

Reuters:

 

MOSCOW | Sat Dec 29, 2012 1:31am EST

(Reuters) – Russian security forces killed seven militants and freed a 6-year-old girl taken hostage in the restive Dagestan region of Russia’s volatile North Caucasus on Saturday, a national anti-terrorism committee official told Interfax news agency.

The incident took place in an apartment building in the provincial capital of Makhachkala, according to the Interfax report. The militants broke through a wall, entered an apartment and took the girl hostage, according to the report.

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Russian Police Detain Six Members of Banned Islamic Organization

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Bloomberg.Com

Russian police detained six members of a banned Islamic group who were distributing extremist literature in mosques in Moscow and seized an arsenal of weapons including grenades and guns.

The group, the Party of Islamic Revival, was banned as a terrorist organization by the Supreme Court, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on its website today.

President Vladimir Putin vowed in August to combat Islamic extremists, who have been waging increasing attacks in Russia’s mainly Muslim southern regions. The violence spread also to Tatarstan, in central Russia, where militants wounded the top Muslim cleric and killed his deputy in July.

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Oct 26th in Tardingrad

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Moscow, 26 October 2012. Tens of thousands of worshipers gathered for the traditional morning prayer in the Moscow Cathedral Mosque on the occasion of Eid al-Adha. Streets of the capital, adjacent to mosques closed, and for festive prayer additionally divided into three areas – at the Luzhniki Stadium, South Butovo Park and the 60th anniversary of October Avenue Andropov.

People evacuated due to Muslim – police gunfighting in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan

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So, does more Islam make a better place?

H/T Martin with thanks

from RT:

Evacuation ordered in areas of Kazan, Russia, as special forces battle [Muslim] militants

Law enforcement agencies in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan are conducting a special operation to eliminate an unknown number of militants. At least two of the militants have already been killed, and an FSB operative died during the fight.

The operation, which began earlier in the day, turned deadly when militants opened fire on security officials. Two operatives were wounded, with one later succumbing to his injuries in a later hospital.

One of the militants eliminated during the fight was later discovered to be wearing a so-called suicide belt, which is an explosive device worn on the body. Bomb techs are working at the scene to diffuse it.

According to sources within the law enforcement agencies involved in the operation, the militants were planning to detonate explosives during the city’s celebrations of Kurban-Bairam, an important Muslim holiday. [Kurban-Bairan = Eid el Adha = this coming Friday ]

The building where the militants are hiding is located right next to a public school. Children who were attending classes there have been moved to rooms in the school’s basement, for their safety.

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Video of Russian anti terror ops

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Below, the machine translation of the Russian youtube page where this video lives:

In the order of RT staff were special operation conducted against militants in the North Caucasus in September-October 2012. The operation resulted in 49 criminals were killed, thirty people were arrested and another 20 surrendered themselves to the authorities. It was also seized hundreds of weapons and a large amount of explosives.

 

Russia kills 49 Islamist militants in North Caucasus

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Telegraph:

Russian security forces have killed 49 Islamist militants and captured 30 others in a series of coordinated raids in the strife-ridden North Caucasus region, the country’s top anti-terrorism agency claimed on Sunday.

Russian security forces have killed 49 Islamist militants and captured 30 others in a series of coordinated raids in the strife-ridden North Caucasus region, the country's top anti-terrorism agency claimed on Sunday.

Russian security forces have been fighting Muslim gunmen in the region more than a decade ago Photo: AP

By , Moscow

5:45PM BST 21 Oct 2012

At least nine leaders of the insurgency – which is being waged across the region in an attempt to set up an Islamic caliphate – were said to have been killed and a bomb-making factory was discovered.

The National Anti-terrorism Committee (NAK) did not say over what period the raids were carried out in a statement released to Russian news agencies.

“A series of coordinated measures allowed for the suppression of the activity of a number of odious leaders, members of bandit groups and accomplices and allowed for a significant disruption of the bandits’ supply system,” the statement said.

If the figures are true, they are a reminder of the ongoing vitality of the insurgency on Russia’s southern perimeter, which grew out of separatists’ battles for the independence of Chechnya in the 1990s and early 2000s.

NAK said that among other strikes it had “neutralised” four leaders of the insurgency in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkariya who were allegedly responsible for killing a judge, two Federal Security Service operatives and numerous policemen.

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…but Islam hates XXX the most, and the greatest enemy of Islam is XXX

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Islam does seem to accidentally offer one thing in both abundance and equal measure. That of loathing and enmity.

Each and every group can claim the dubious distinction that Islam hates it the most. Christians because they are polytheists, Jews because they are apes and pigs and would not accept Mohamed as their personal warlord and master, Buddhists and Hindus because they are atheists and therefore do not have the dubious allowance of being ‘people of the book’ atheists for being atheists and so on.

Now of course, we have Sheik Qaradhawi, one of the highest Islamic authorities in the world today telling us what the real 1 enemy of Islam is. At least from 14:00 GMT to 22:30