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Moscow imam reminds that Muslims may pray in Orthodox Churches
Interfax ^ | 9/15/10

Posted on 09/15/2010 6:28:41 AM PDT by marshmallow

*** A well-known imam voices his concern that animals are given much more attention than neighbours in Moscow

Moscow, September 15, Interfax - The lack of mosques in Moscow may drive Muslims to visit Orthodox churches, imam-hatyb of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque Ildar Ayautdinov expresses his concern.

"Moscow is the only place in the world where over one million Muslims are served in only four mosques. We lack premises for praying. Muslims are allowed to conduct their religious ceremonies in Orthodox churches, but we would rather avoid this extreme measure," he said in an interview to the Moscow issue of Metro daily.

He referred to the concerns voiced by the opponents of constructing a mosque in the Tekstilschiki District of Moscow that such mosque would threaten dog owners and said that "nothing threatens dogs, this is just ridiculous."

At the same time, he noted that if any dog's spittle marked clothes of a Muslim, he was not allowed to pray in such clothes, but should go and wash it.

"Another thing is important: more attention is given to animals than to the problems of human neighbours. There is a need to construct mosques, otherwise something bad will supersede spiritual development," Alyautdinov noted. Print this page


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Moscow is the only place in the world where over one million Muslims are served in only four mosques.

Christians in Saudi Arabia feel your pain. There are zero churches and a religion police to hunt down those who practice publicly.

Cry me a river.

1 posted on 09/15/2010 6:28:43 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Muslims, who are known worldwide more for their violence than their generosity, would rather fight to build an uneeded mosque in Ney York, than a ‘needed’ one for their fellow believers in Moscow.


2 posted on 09/15/2010 6:33:16 AM PDT by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: marshmallow

It would be unwise in the extreme for Christians in Moscow to allow Muslims in to pray in their churches. The result of that would be a newly-minted mosque and a lot of unhappy Christians out in the cold.


3 posted on 09/15/2010 6:39:04 AM PDT by Ronin (If it were not so gruesomely malevolent, Islam would just be silly.)
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To: marshmallow

Never trust anyone who hates dogs.


4 posted on 09/15/2010 6:40:18 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Ronin

How could they even think of praying in a Christian church? The Cross implicitly calls their prophet a liar.


5 posted on 09/15/2010 6:41:46 AM PDT by DManA
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To: marshmallow

If Moscow really has one million Muslims in it (highly unlikely), then it’s down the creek already.


6 posted on 09/15/2010 6:43:30 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (The success of Darwinism was accompanied by a decline in scientific integrity. - Dr. Wm R. Thompson)
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To: marshmallow

I guess synagogues are not on the list................


7 posted on 09/15/2010 6:52:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. But he does have him in his MY FAVES.............)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Something about the city-moslem connection makes it imperative to evacuate to the countryside. Cities are easy targets compared to the vast reaches of the hinterlands.


8 posted on 09/15/2010 7:00:26 AM PDT by x_plus_one
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To: eccentric

They know Putin will just send in the stormtroopers, or they would have already started their protest crap..


9 posted on 09/15/2010 7:44:05 AM PDT by aeonspromise
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Louis Farrakhan verified this figure himself.


10 posted on 09/15/2010 7:44:19 AM PDT by pas
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To: eccentric

Since Iran is taking over the muslim world lets just make all the stans into one country called Hellholeisstan, sign at the gate, where sharia, and the pervert prophet is king..tell them if they start their crap we nuke em..That way the palestinians will have a home too..


11 posted on 09/15/2010 7:46:55 AM PDT by aeonspromise
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four mosques

Fine ... I can think of ways to rectify that problem. Four mosques is four too many.

12 posted on 09/15/2010 7:49:27 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: DManA

But they paint Christ as a prophet who did not finish the job, thats why Mohammad came to complete the teaching, they say Christianity has Christ message wrong..thus you hear them say they love Jesus, just not the saviour Christ, they love the impototent prophet whose message was all screwed up..


13 posted on 09/15/2010 7:49:35 AM PDT by aeonspromise
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To: aeonspromise

I’ve had Muslims tell me that we aren’t that much different - they revere Jesus too.

I tell them there is a huge difference between revering and worshiping. An eternal difference.


14 posted on 09/15/2010 7:53:28 AM PDT by DManA
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To: pas
Louis Farrakhan verified this figure himself.

Well shoot, it has to be right then! He probably counted them from orbit, while he was in the mothership.

15 posted on 09/15/2010 8:07:56 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (The success of Darwinism was accompanied by a decline in scientific integrity. - Dr. Wm R. Thompson)
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To: DManA

Amen,
Mohammad wanted to borrow pieces of others religions to construct his own and unite a previously un unitable people for his own aspirations, that explains his satanic verses where he would have to retract things he said and exclude them because”satan deceived him”, actually he was trying out things and when he saw that didn’t work he would retract them, Mohammad is a liar and a thief, this is how Christ described all who would seek to enter not through the gate..


16 posted on 09/15/2010 8:17:55 AM PDT by aeonspromise
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To: aeonspromise

That’s for sure. Say what you want about the Russians and the Chinese, I have said a few nasty things myself on more than one occasion, but as bad as those two nations are, they are in very little danger of succumbing to the kind of games Muslims play everywhere else in the world.


17 posted on 09/15/2010 8:29:45 AM PDT by Ronin (If it were not so gruesomely malevolent, Islam would just be silly.)
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To: marshmallow
"There is a need to construct mosques, otherwise something bad will supersede spiritual development," Alyautdinov noted threatened.

Fixed it.

18 posted on 09/15/2010 8:50:34 AM PDT by Moltke (panem et circenses)
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To: marshmallow

Islam is nothing but a government. Hell, they even have to ask permission about where they can pray.


19 posted on 09/15/2010 10:58:45 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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How could they even think of praying in a Christian church? The Cross implicitly calls their prophet a liar.

Orthodox churches also have lots of icons all over the place.

20 posted on 09/15/2010 1:22:19 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Germans in 1932 thought they were voting for change too.)
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