Posted on 09/15/2013 8:01:41 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
A government-sponsored contest to select 10 symbols of Russia has ended in controversy after the country's biggest mosque was removed from the top spot.
The Ahmad Kadyrov mosque in Grozny, capital of Muslim-dominated Chechnya, unexpectedly topped the list of contenders for months. But just a day before voting closed in the second round, it dropped to number two.
Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's president (and son of Ahmad), reacted angrily, and accused Russia's two major mobile operators of rigging the text voting. In the days that followed, angry Chechens attacked the companies' offices in Grozny, forcing one of them to suspend local operations.
In the end, organisers reviewed the result, making the mosque joint winner alongside the Kolomna Kremlin, outside Moscow. They said voting had been skewed by hackers and "bots" voting multiple times. A scarcely credible 52 million votes had been registered on the final day of round two.
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Given the troubles that Russia has with political Islamists in southern Russia, its understandable why they would not want al Qaeda dominated jihadists to come to power in nearby Syria. Its ironic that Putin inherently understands the significance of the Boston marathon bombings better than Obama.
They did try to warn us.
>> angry Chechens attacked the companies’ offices in Grozny
Isn’t that the way the so-called “religion of peace” always ends up taking care of business.
Islam is a false religion born of SATAN himself. Piss be upon Mohammed and his spawn-of-satan followers.
And by the way, there is no god named Allah.
Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.) note: estimates are of practicing worshipers; Russia has large populations of non-practicing believers and non-believers, a legacy of over seven decades of Soviet rule
Muslim 47%, Russian Orthodox 44%, Protestant 2%, other 7%
Muslim 75%, Russian Orthodox 20%, other 5%
Sunni Muslim 85%, Shi'a Muslim 5%, other 10% (2003 est.)
Religions: Muslim 88% (mostly Sunnis), Eastern Orthodox 9%, other 3%
Eastern Orthodox 80%, other (including Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim) 20% (1997 est.)
Armenian Apostolic 94.7%, other Christian 4%, Yezidi (monotheist with elements of nature worship) 1.3%
At the same time, and unknown to the Israelis, the Soviet Union mounted a disinformation campaign pushing Egypt to join Syria against Israel. At that time, the Soviets were providing military and economic aid to both Syria and Egypt. On May 13, 1967 a Soviet parliamentary delegation visited Cairo and informed the Egyptian leaders that Israel had concentrated eleven to thirteen brigades along the Syrian border in preparation for an assault within a few days, with the intention of overthrowing the revolutionary Syrian Government. This was a complete fabrication designed by the Soviets to destabilize the Middle East. Similar false information may have been given to Egypt by the Soviets as early as May 2.
They’re acting like they just lost their EBT cards!
They’re acting like they just lost their EBT cards!
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