A fire roared through a synagogue in a Moscow suburb early Tuesday, burning down much of the wooden structure in an incident that Jewish leaders blamed on anti-Semitism. Posted on 05/10/2005 9:15:19 PM PDT by M. Espinola
Malakhovka, Russia:
A fire roared through a synagogue in a Moscow suburb early Tuesday, burning down much of the wooden structure in an incident that Jewish leaders blamed on anti-Semitism.
The synagogue in the town of Malakhovka, 12 miles southeast of Moscow caught fire at about 6 a.m., and the flames quickly engulfed the entire one-story building. Firefighters were unable to prevent damage to the building's interior and roof.
Investigators said there was no evidence of arson, but Jewish leaders such as Borukh Gorin, a spokesman for the Federation of Russia's Jewish Organizations, insisted that the synagogue had been set on fire.
"The fire was caused by arson (committed) out of religious hatred," Gorin told the Ekho Moskvy radio station. Concerns about anti-Semitism in Russia have risen in recent years.
Investigators at the scene, however, said the fire was likely an accident.
"So far we haven't found any obvious indication that it was arson," Kalin Batrov, a local police official, told The Associated Press.
Many rights groups accuse Russian leaders of being silent in the face of religious intolerance and xenophobia, expressed in the occasional desecration of Jewish cemeteries and synagogues and more frequent skinhead attacks against dark-skinned foreigners.
Grigory Amromin, whose family had attended the synagogue since the 1940s, wandered around the gutted building in despair.
"I can barely resist tears. Here you were in peace," he said. "This is such a huge part of life that has been cut off."
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Synagogue looted outside Moscow (Malakhovka) on May 8th, 2005
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Pamyat scum. Paskudniaks.
In America Holocaust survivors should never be forced to relive this horror all over again from the likes of hate enveloped punks.
Note the Nazi symbolism==
It is not nazi symbolism. Nazi swastika is oriented to opposite side.
This swastika is ancient emblem of sun copied from Indian culture.
Pamyat is nationalistic but not nazi movement. Ther are big difference.
Pamyat is not Nazi only because Pamyat's original leader Dmitri Vasilyev taught that Nazism was actually a Jewish plot.
Pamyat's leaders are therefore insane idiots and Pamyat is an explicitly and openly anti-Semitic organization. If Pamyat truly represents Russian nationalism, the Russians shouldn't be allowed to have a nation.
Sell crazy somehwere else, RusIvan. We're not buying.
Pamyat's leaders are therefore insane idiots and Pamyat is an explicitly and openly anti-Semitic organization. ===
Anti-semitic they are. This is stupid of cause. But as I remember tbefore they were not nazi. They didn't tell that russian are above any else.
I agree that there are maybe one or two extremists who may burn sinagogue. I'm sorry if they did it.
So, They probably decided to "get even" and make their slimely presence known!!
I think the neo-nazis are just as bad in Russia as they are in Germany and other countries in Europe. Time to clamp down on ALL those jerks... EVERYWHERE!!
Look... that is a swastika... which ever way it is directed. If somebody uses that symbol, they are a FASCIST.... national socialism was a NATIONALISTIC ORGANIZATION.
Buddhists and American Indians used it long before
the NSDAP ...
For those folks it was just a little drawing that they could use to decorate a pot or a blanket.... like the famous Greek Key design used in Greece. Quite harmless indeed.
Their web page is clearly stinking of naziism. They support the NDP in Germany. A bit odd for a Russia that lost 27 million people to the nazis.
I generally think of these idiots as pinheads. When they get overly frisky, lead therapy may be called for.
It has since been utterly corrupted.
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