Russia Muslims never seek subversive purposes: Chechen leader
The Chechen leader says the Russian Muslims would never seek to destabilize the country.
“We declare to the whole world that the Muslims will by no means allow using themselves for rocking the situation in the country,” said Ramzan Kadyrov in the capital city of the Chechen Republic, Grozny, on Monday.
“We have always been reliable defenders of Russia! And we are able today to offer rebuff to the enemies of our Motherland!” he added.
Kadyrov made the remarks during a massive rally in Grozny to protest against French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo’s sacrilegious depictions of the Prophet of Islam.
He also said that Islam is a religion of peace which teaches people of differing beliefs to live side by side in harmony and consent, adding that those behind the recent terrorist attacks in the French capital, Paris, are probably trying “to stir up anti-Islamic sentiments or … distract attention from some other looming global problem.”
Five million copies of the new edition of Charlie Hebdo hit the newsstands on Wednesday, depicting a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on the cover amid warnings that the move is provocative.
The French magazine has repeatedly provoked Muslim anger by publishing cartoons of the Prophet.
On January 7, the magazine’s offices in Paris came under an attack, during which 12 people were killed. The attack was largely believed to have been launched over the weekly’s previous cartoons of the Prophet.
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