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Church Set On Fire In Russia's Muslim Caucasus

posted by eagle on January, 2011 as INGUSHETIA

Church set on fire in Russia's Muslim Caucasus


Church set on fire in Russia's Muslim Caucasus
By Amie Ferris-Rotman, Reuters

Last Updated: January 3, 2011

Toronto Sun
MOSCOW -- Unidentified attackers set a church ablaze with a grenade in
Russia's mainly Muslim North Caucasus late on Sunday, media reported, in
the latest act of violence in a region where Moscow is struggling to
contain an Islamist insurgency.

No one was hurt in the attack on the Russian Orthodox Church, state-run
RIA news agency reported, which took place at 9.30 p.m. in the town of
Ordzhonikidze, in the impoverished Ingushetia region which borders
Chechnya.

"A rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the church. The shell hit the
church's roof," a police source told RIA.

A decade after Moscow drove separatists from power in the second of two
wars in Chechnya, the North Caucasus is plagued by violence, where
youths angry about poverty and fired up by the ideology of jihad (holy
war) stage near-daily attacks.

Though rare, vandalism of churches belonging to the small Christian
communities in the North Caucasus has increased over the past year.

Tension between Christians and Muslims -- who make up a fifth of
Russia's population -- flared in Moscow last month in a string of ethnic
clashes.

Moscow police detained hundreds including young nationalists after some
7,000 soccer fans and nationalists chanting racist slogans demonstrated
near Red Square and attacked passers-by who appeared to be non-Slavic.

Separately on Monday, gunmen shot dead Magomedsaid Temeyev, a
practitioner of traditional medicine in the North Caucasus region of
Dagestan, Interfax news agency reported.

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