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Slaughter of Beslan children done as murderers shouted “God is Great”, says theologian
asianews.it ^ | 17 September, 2004 | AsiaNews

Posted on 09/20/2004 10:06:03 PM PDT by Destro

17 September, 2004

RUSSIA

Slaughter of Beslan children done as murderers shouted “God is Great”, says theologian

According to deacon Kuraev, Islam must not let itself be used by terrorists.

Moscow (AsiaNews) – Beslan was a “religious” crime, a “ritual murder” carried out by people shouting Allah Akbar (God is great), this according to Orthodox theologian Andrei Kuraev, professor at the Moscow Orthodox Theological Academy.

In “How to perceive Islam after Beslan?”, an article published on September 15 in the Moscow daily Izvestia, deacon Kuraev writes: “What happened in Beslan is not just a crime. It was a religious crime. It was ritual murder, the murder of children with prayers in the background. The terrorists killed in the name of their faith. They killed people shouting Allah Akbar and sacrificed innocent children on the altar of their religious ideas.”

Kuraev goes further: “They were not just gangsters who killed. They were people of one faith who killed Christians in the name of their creed.” One episode, he believes, makes this point clear. Sacha, a 13-year-old boy, was among the children taken hostage in the school. He wore a cross around his neck. When one of the terrorist saw it, the man turned his gun towards the boy and shouted: “Pray!” Sacha reacted by shouting “Christ is risen!” and escaped through a window.

In his message of condolences to President Putin, Patriarch Aleksij II said that “terrorism showed its satanic face” in Beslan. For Kuraev terrorism is “satanic”, not Islam as a whole. For this reason, he considers the Beslan terrorists satanic. “When I speak of Satanism in relation to the terrorists,” the theologian writes, “I am not defining Islam as a satanic religion. The Beslan terrorists killed many Muslims as well because they saw them as evil Muslims”.

Deacon Kuraev is certain that the fate of the world in the 21st century is in the hands of Muslim theologians. Someone like Mullah Omar (an Afghan spiritual leader linked to Osama bin Laden) supported the 9/11 attacks in New York. By contrast, other Muslim religious leaders strongly disapproved of them. Similarly, he adds, “whilst Saudi Wahabi ulema (legal scholars) have recommended sending women as shahida (martyrs) to Russia, Russian Muslim leaders have repeatedly stated that terrorism in the name of Islam violates Islam’s own principles.”

Kuraev suggests the Russian government create the appropriate conditions for the national media to serve as a forum for those who can offer a peaceful interpretation of Islam and curtail the sermonising by firebrand Muslim radicals.

“Even if the Islamic world refuses to admit it, it is responsible for Muslim terrorism,” Kuraev claims. “Its major fault lies in the fact that it allows itself to be used.” However, the Russian theologian believes the West, too, has to bear some of the responsibility. Deacon Kuraev is in fact convinced that there is anti-Muslim and anti-Christian terrorist plan concocted in the West that seeks to set up a “new global order”. For this reason, he berates those who are “are trying to confuse us and pit us one against the other.” For him, Russia has already become the bulwark “that protects Europe against an aggressive Islamic world”.

In the nineties, Russia opted for a hedonistic culture in lieu of the Christian faith. For deacon Kuraev, the war on terrorism can drive her back into the fold of religion. (AF)


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: allahakbar; beslan; chechnya; globaljihad; islam; russia
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1 posted on 09/20/2004 10:06:04 PM PDT by Destro
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To: MarMema

bump


2 posted on 09/20/2004 10:06:18 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: F15Eagle; dennisw; FITZ; Yehuda; RussianConservative
We're going to find out, sooner or later,

If Abdul will pray, to a glowing crater.

3 posted on 09/20/2004 10:09:14 PM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: Destro
However, the Russian theologian believes the West, too, has to bear some of the responsibility. Deacon Kuraev is in fact convinced that there is anti-Muslim and anti-Christian terrorist plan concocted in the West that seeks to set up a “new global order”.

Could he be talking about Soros?

4 posted on 09/20/2004 10:10:39 PM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP (Make all taxes truly voluntary)
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To: Libertarianize the GOP

Yes, and others.


5 posted on 09/20/2004 10:11:19 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: Destro

These savages filmed themselves raping teenage girls during this siege. Is this in the Koran?


6 posted on 09/20/2004 10:12:29 PM PDT by spyone
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To: Destro
"Deacon Kuraev is in fact convinced that there is anti-Muslim and anti-Christian terrorist plan concocted in the West that seeks to set up a “new global order”."

I'm wondering precisely how the West has benefitted from Islamic terrorism? This inflamatory rhetoric from the perpetually paranoid Russians reminds me of the old saying: "Never trust a Russian".

7 posted on 09/20/2004 10:16:56 PM PDT by TheCrusader ("the frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" Pope Urban II (c 1097 a.d.))
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To: Indie

Muslim cults must be eradicated from this planet.


8 posted on 09/20/2004 10:19:39 PM PDT by MarMema (next year in constantinople!)
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To: spyone

The murderers are saying the same thing on the tape as Eugene Armstrong's head is sawed off and as he continues to scream until the last couple of cuts........These people(?) are beyond barbaric........America needs to wake up and realize that they'd like to do that to every one of us. I truly hope that President Bush goes medieval on these wasteoids on the day after the election.


9 posted on 09/20/2004 10:20:17 PM PDT by ALASKA (For every victim of terrorism, we should take out ten family members of the responsible terrorist.)
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To: TheCrusader; struwwelpeter
perpetually paranoid Russians

Boy that is one truth for many of them, you can be sure.

10 posted on 09/20/2004 10:20:42 PM PDT by MarMema (next year in constantinople!)
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To: TheCrusader
I'm wondering precisely how the West has benefited from Islamic terrorism? It freed Afghanistan from the Soviets and they were used in Bosnia and Kosovo against the Serbs, no? At least that is how it looks like from a Russian and or Slav perspective. Unpleasant history is easily forgotten.
11 posted on 09/20/2004 10:22:21 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: ALASKA

They truly are evil incarnate. May God bless the soul of that poor man!! And May his family find peace.


12 posted on 09/20/2004 10:23:23 PM PDT by MarMema (next year in constantinople!)
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To: ALASKA
Allahu Akbar! = Heil Hitler!

Mein Koran = Mein Kampf

13 posted on 09/20/2004 10:23:55 PM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: Destro; FormerLib; ezfindit; kosta50; Honorary Serb; katnip; Kolokotronis; RusIvan; ...
Sacha, a 13-year-old boy, was among the children taken hostage in the school. He wore a cross around his neck. When one of the terrorist saw it, the man turned his gun towards the boy and shouted: “Pray!” Sacha reacted by shouting “Christ is risen!” and escaped through a window.

And I thought I was done crying for these children.

INDEED HE IS RISEN, SACHA!

14 posted on 09/20/2004 10:27:59 PM PDT by MarMema (next year in constantinople!)
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To: MarMema
Khristos voskres, voistinu voskres!
15 posted on 09/20/2004 10:35:20 PM PDT by struwwelpeter
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To: jb6; DTA; vooch; joan; ma bell

ping to read about Sacha, a most incredible child who won hugely in the face of terror. With no food or water for 50+ hours, and with a man holding a gun on him demanding he pray, he has the courage to tell the man "Christ is Risen!" before he leaps through a window.


16 posted on 09/20/2004 10:51:42 PM PDT by MarMema (next year in constantinople!)
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To: MarMema

I heard on Nightline of all places that the terrorists had beheaded some of the children and also got off their lids. these muslims are barbarians.


17 posted on 09/20/2004 11:09:26 PM PDT by Merry
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To: Merry
I heard on Nightline of all places that the terrorists had beheaded some of the children

I had not heard that. It makes sense that the media here would not want us to know about it, I suppose.

18 posted on 09/20/2004 11:11:17 PM PDT by MarMema (next year in constantinople!)
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

What do you think? About the above post? The video, perhaps.


19 posted on 09/20/2004 11:15:09 PM PDT by MarMema (next year in constantinople!)
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To: Mount Athos; Southside_Chicago_Republican; mikhailovich

late ping...


20 posted on 09/20/2004 11:21:04 PM PDT by MarMema (next year in constantinople!)
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