Russia: Islamist Insurgents Set Three Churches Ablaze in Jihadist-Infested North Caucasus
From Weasel Zippers:
(Reuters)- Three churches were set ablaze on Monday in Russia’s mainly Muslim North Caucasus region where Moscow is trying to tame a spreading Islamist insurgency. Two Russian Orthodox churches and one Baptist Church were set alight in the predominantly Muslim province of Karachayevo-Cherkessia, Russian news.
An unknown group of people set fire to the Russian Orthodox church in the village of Ordzhonikidze, it is practically completely burnt,” Interfax reported, citing Kazim Baybanov, a spokesman for the local ministry of interior affairs.
Vandalism of churches is rare in Russia’s mainly Muslim North Caucasus, where Christian communities live amongst Muslims.
A decade after Moscow drove separatists out of power in Chechnya in the second of two wars, the North Caucasus is plagued by near-daily violence.
Youths angry about poverty and fuelled by the global ideology of jihad (holy war) are fighting for an independent state separate from predominantly Christian Russia, where they want to establish Sharia, Islamic law.
2 comments:
This and the church massacre in Iraq will really get the UN boiling today. Expect to see...
absolutely NOTHING! Just don't even hint at offending a mosque, though, or you will receive international condemnation.
"Three churches were set ablaze"
Totally understandable. You see, the second cousin of someone who once attended a service at one of the churches actually farted within 2.63 kilometers of a Quran back in 1976. Things have been tense ever since.
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