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DECEMBER 2012


Ongoing Violence In Daghestan Deters Would-Be Emigres From Leaving Syria

posted by eagle on December, 2012 as DAGESTAN


Ongoing Violence In Daghestan Deters Would-Be Emigres From Leaving Syria





Residents flee their homes after shelling by government forces at Houla, near Homs, in early December.

In addition to Armenian, Circassian, Chechen, and Ossetian minorities, Syria is also home to an estimated 7,000-9,000 people whose ancestors settled there after leaving Daghestan following the Caucasus wars of the mid-19th century. Members of that Daghestani community, most of whom live in Homs or the village of Derfoul, have sought for the past two years to avoid taking sides in the ongoing fighting between opposition forces and government troops loyal to President Bashar Assad. But since government forces bombarded Derfoul in a bid to destroy a nearby military base seized by the opposition, some 200 Syrian Daghestanis have drafted an appeal to the Russian authorities for help in leaving Syria, acquiring the recognized status of refugees, and settling in Daghestan.

The independent Russian-language weekly "Chernovik" convened ...

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Head of World Union of Muslim Scholars Visits Dagestan

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Head of World Union of Muslim Scholars Visits Dagestan


Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 223
December 6, 2012 05:57 PM Age: 16 min




Ali-Vyacheslav Polosin (Source: islamrf.net)

Having failed to defeat the armed resistance, the Dagestani authorities decided to look for help by finding favorable interpretations of Sharia law among foreign scholars. The republican authorities certainly received official consent from Moscow for their quest abroad (http://russian.irib.ir/radioislam/2010-08-31-12-33-40/2010-09-09-08-01-11/item/156021-%D0%B2). Their efforts resulted in the condemnation of Salafism by some foreign Islamic scholars, which was a fairly significant achievement for the local political elite (http://chechnya.gov.ru/page.php?r=126&id=11197). 

The authorities never stopped looking for the right person to declare a fatwa on jihad in the North Caucasus. Ali-Vyacheslav Polosin, a former Christian Orthodox priest who converted to Islam, energetically worked toward this goal and became the new face of Islam in Russia. On his initiative, it was decided to invite Sheikh Karadagi, the secretary general of the World Union ...


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