From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/30/2007 3:05 AM
Abkhazian Muslims are worried
Sukhum/Agency Caucasus – The Religious Directorate of Abkhazia voiced its concerns over the governmental attitude towards Muslims that changed considerably after the killing of an imam.
Timur Dziba, Head of the Abkhazian Religious Directorate, told reporters in Sukhum about his talks with officials after an imam and his friend were gunned down in Gudauta on August 17, 2007.
“We, head officials of the Religious Directorate, asked several times senior Abkhazian security officials, along with both the Security Council and the parliament, to make their evaluation of works of the Religious Directorate. The Minister of Interior then stated that there were no complaints about us, because we were not pursuing something that would require legal investigation. We were not working to disseminate Islam in a ...
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