Terrible: march against cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad – BBC Russian

Terrible: march against cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad – BBC Russian

• January 19, 2015

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The march “against the cartoons” begins on the main square of Grozny them. Akhmad-Hajji Kadyrov

In Grozny on Monday held a mass protest against the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Chechen authorities are confident that the event will be attended by at least half a million people.

As the correspondent of BBC Russian Service in Grozny Urey Vendik, thousands of protesters gathered in the center of the Chechen capital.

“Gathered in the center of Grozny, the people will show the world that we will not allow to joke with Islam, not allow to offend the feelings of Muslims, “- said previously the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

On Last week, he called his personal enemies all those who “supports the right of magazine Charlie Hebdo to offend the religious feelings of 1.5 billion Muslims”.

The route of the rally runs from the area, “Minute” to the central mosque named after Akhmad Kadyrov ” Heart of Chechnya “, where the faithful will make prayer and collective prayer.

Earlier, Kadyrov called the ex-Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the enemy of all Muslims in the world, after he called on journalists to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed as a protest against the killing of journalists in Paris.

In Grozny City skyscraper appears “We love the Prophet Muhammad”

The rally “Islam against terrorism” has already passed on Saturday in Ingushetia. In it, according to official figures, was attended by about 20 thousand. Man.

The protests against the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad were also held in several countries in Africa, particularly in Mauritania, Algeria, Mali and Senegal. During the protests in Niger were set on fire, seven Christian churches.

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7 January in Paris was attacked by the Editor Charlie Hebdo. The attackers shot 12 people and then fled the scene. A few days later in the course of two special operations three invaders were killed.

This past Sunday more than three million people participated in marches Unity, held in Paris and other French cities in memory of the victims of attacks by Islamists.

Despite the tragic events, the surviving members of the editorial board prepared a new number, which sold millions of copies.

On the front page of the caricaturists again placed the image of the Prophet Muhammad.

Last week, Roskomnadzor issued a clarification to the Russian media, which asked them to refrain from publishing caricatures “depicting religious shrines affecting the feelings of believers”.

Not to mention the name of the French journal Roskomnadzor warns that “the publication in the Russian media like cartoons content in conflict with the ethical and moral standards.