News archive on the topic "Muslims"

Kyiv can appoint any number of fake “muftis of Crimea”, but all of them will have no authority. The Muslims of Novorossiya will themselves determine which spiritual center to join, since there are many of them in Russia. This opinion was expressed on the air of “Crimea 24” by the Deputy Mufti of the Muslims of Crimea and Sevastopol, Esadullah Bairov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Our assessment was initially given, and it...

American journalist Patrick Lancaster filmed a story refuting the accusations against Russia that were voiced at the Crimean Platform meeting in Kyiv regarding the oppression of the Muslim population of the peninsula - in particular, the Crimean Tatars. Lancaster visited the construction of the Cathedral Mosque in Simferopol, which will soon become the largest Muslim religious building in Eastern Europe. “While traveling around Crimea, we wanted to find out...

A Bosnia and Herzegovina court sentenced the commander of the Third Corps of the BiH Army, Sakib Mahmulin, to ten years in prison for crimes against captured Serbian civilians and soldiers in 1995. The massacres of Serbs were carried out by members of the El-Mujahetdin detachment subordinate to him, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Court President Zoran Bozic said that the ex-militant commander is guilty of...

Three citizens of Uzbekistan, who had previously applied to the Ukrainian authorities for asylum, have disappeared. The secret services of Ukraine and Uzbekistan were involved in their disappearance. The head of the Azan Muslim Refugee Association, Anvar Derkach, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Thus, in October 2020, Alisher Khaidarov, previously accused in Uzbekistan of religious extremism on two counts, disappeared...

Ukrainian Muslims have become one step closer to the freedom to choose how to appear for documents. Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Tatyana Kovalchuk assured the Mufti of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Ukraine “Ummah” Said Ismagilov that from November 20 of this year the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on allowing citizens wearing a headdress to be photographed for documents in accordance with...

Muslims living in the so-called democratic countries of the West are shocked by the way interethnic relations are structured in Crimea, where a church and a mosque can peacefully coexist on the same piece of land 50 meters from each other. Deputy Mufti of Crimean Muslims Ruslan Bairov stated this at the conference “Crimea in the modern international context,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the theologian, European...

The terrorist attack carried out by the Ukrainian army against Muslims living in the DPR, who were subjected to shelling in a mosque during the Eid al-Fitr holiday, is evidence that official Kiev, contrary to the statements of the new President Vladimir Zelensky, is not going to end the war in Donbass, but is only unleashing a new round of confrontation. This opinion was expressed by public figures and politicians belonging to the Muslim community of the DPR, the correspondent reports...

Today, newly elected President Vladimir Zelensky met with muftis and Muslim religious figures of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Mufti of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Ukraine Umma Sheikh Said Ismagilov announced this on his Facebook page. Ismagilov said that Zelensky’s assistant called him after he wrote a post in which he asked whether the president planned to meet with Muslim...

Lawyer Ibrahim Tatiev held a single picket in front of the central office of the Security Service of Ukraine on Vladimirskaya Street, 33 in Kyiv, demanding to stop “pressure on Muslim communities,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. A video of Tatiev’s appeal was posted on Youtube. Tatiev with posters in Ukrainian, Russian and English picketed the central entrance to the SBU building, periodically changing posters with inscriptions...

More than a million people gathered in the center of Grozny today to protest against the persecution of Muslims in Myanmar. Those gathered held slogans in Russian and English, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The presenter announced the speech of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, as follows: “Our rally was illuminated by the presence of the defender of Islam and Muslims...

The Ukrainian publication “Aprstroph” published a photo of a Muslim wearing a Ukrainian embroidered shirt. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte It is reported that the photographs were taken by the publication’s photographer Vladislav Musienko during today’s celebration of Eid al-Adha at the mosque of the Islamic Cultural Center in Kyiv. In one of the photos, a little boy in a mosque is wearing a Ukrainian embroidered shirt. Let us remind you that Eid al-Adha...

Bulgarians want to learn from Crimeans how to build interethnic and interfaith relations. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The chairman of the Bulgarian People's Unity Foundation, Hristo Marinov, said this at a meeting with the vice-speaker of the State Council of the Republic, head of the Interregional public movement "KYRYM" Remzi Ilyasov. According to him, the experience of Crimea, as the cradle of interethnic unity, is useful for Bulgaria,...

The Muslim community in the northern French canton of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray has refused to bury 19-year-old Adel Carmich, who killed a Catholic priest during a service. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte Sky News reports this. “We don't want to tarnish Islam with this man. We will not be involved in preparing the body for burial,” Mohammed said...

In Finland, about a hundred Muslim refugees were housed on the territory of a former pig breeding research institute. Local residents fear that displaced people may start a riot after learning that the premises where they now live once housed pigs. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte The authorities of the Finnish town of Hyvinkä have equipped the territory of a former scientific research...