Sufi mobs raided several Islamic shops in Makhachkala on March 8, 2009. Some "Islamic" sects, namely Sufis, were celebrating so called Mawlid (alleged birthday of Prophet Muhammad, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) on that day.
Around 50 young men burst into an Islamic shop on Malygin street, near a mosque in the center of Makhachkala. "It was an intimidating action. 50 men crowded into a small room of 16 square meters, another 100 men were standing in the street. They shouted that I was spreading Wahhabi literature, that I was a Wahhabi, that they would shave off my beard", Magomedkhan Gaziyev, owner of the shop, told.
The angry men began to sweep from the shelves everything they could find, in the street they ripped with their knives "Tafsir" by `Abdur-Rahman al-Sa`di, burned copies of interpretations of the ...