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New Adjara head faces conservative backlash after approving Batumi mosque

24 July 2018 by OC Media

Muslims of Orta Mosque pray outside the mosque in Batumi (Mari Nikuradze/ OC Media)

A con­tro­ver­sy over the con­struc­tion of a second mosque in Batumi has resur­faced after the new head of Adjara, Tornike Rizhvadze, promised it would go ahead. Batumi’s Muslims have long com­plained that the city’s only current mosque is too small, but Rizhvadze faced criticism for his decision from a number of ultra-con­ser­v­a­tive groups including the March of Georgians. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: adjara, batumi, georgia, human rights, March of Georgians, minorities, mosque, muslims

Daghestani authorities investigate man for 5-year-old social media post

19 July 2018 by OC Media

Mosque-goers being detained in Makhachkala (golosislama.com)

A resident of Daghestan has accused the author­i­ties of pres­sur­ing him to confess to being an ‘extremist’ over a video he shared on social network VKontakte five years ago. The man, who asked not to be named, told OC Media he is being accused of inciting ethnic hatred over the post.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: dagestan, daghestan, islam, jihad, makhachkala, mosque, muslims, preventative supervision list, profuchyot

Hundreds rally in Ingushetia for return of directly elected head

5 June 2018 by OC Media

2 June protest in Magas (Batyr Bogatyry­ov /YouTube)

Hundreds rallied in front of the gov­ern­ment offices and par­lia­ment in Ingushetia’s capital Magas on Saturday, demanding the return of direct elections for the head of the republic. The Council of Teips (clans) of the Ingush People tried to obtain a permit to hold the demon­stra­tion, but after being denied, decided to go ahead anyway, Caucasian Knot reports. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: chechnya, elections, ingushetia, magas, mosque, muftiate, muslims, parliament, protest, rally, russia, yevkurov, yunus-bek yevkurov

Batumi Muslims reject ‘discriminatory’ deal for stalled mosque construction

23 April 2018 by OC Media

Muslims of Orta Mosque pray outside the mosque in Batumi (Mari Nikuradze/ OC Media)

An ini­tia­tive group of Georgian Muslims in Batumi has rejected an offer from Mayor Lasha Komakhidze for a building permit for a second mosque in the city. Komakhidze said in a meeting on 3 April that if land bought by the group for the mosque was trans­ferred to the state sponsored Admin­is­tra­tion of All Muslims of Georgia, and if they withdrew a court appeal over previous building permit rejec­tions, a permit would be issued.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: batumi, georgia, mosque, muslims

Video — The story of Mokhe told in the snow

29 March 2018 by Liberali

(Dato Parulava /Liberali)

After a dispute broke out between Chris­tians and Muslims over the ruins of an old building in Mokhe, a village in Adigeni Munic­i­pal­i­ty, the gov­ern­ment created a com­mis­sion to determine the building’s his­tor­i­cal belonging. After two years of work, the com­mis­sion decided not to grant ownership of the ruins to either side. Instead, it declared them a cultural heritage site, named ‘Disputed Building’. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Minorities Tagged With: georgia, mokhe, mosque, muslims, religious freedom, religious minorities, samtskhe-javakheti

Voice from Meskheti | ‘Whether in rain or thunderstorms, we pray outside’

25 January 2018 by Dato Parulava

Grisha Beridze (Dato Parulava /OC Media)

After a dispute broke out between Chris­tians and Muslims over the ruins of a building in the village of Mokhe, in southwest Georgia’s Adigeni Munic­i­pal­i­ty, the gov­ern­ment stepped in to resolve the situation by pledging to build a new mosque.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Voices Tagged With: adigeni, meskheti, mokhe, mosque, muslims, samtskhe-javakheti

Ex–Salafi preacher shot dead in Daghestan

8 January 2018 by OC Media

A 33-year-old ex–Salafi preacher was shot dead in Daghestan on 6 January. Say­gi­dakhmed Magomedov was killed near his house in the village of Mutsalaul, in Daghestan’s Khasavyurt District.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: daghestan, imam, khasavyurt, killing, mosque, murder, mutsalaul, salafi

Daghestani authorities refuse to reopen Salafi mosque

14 December 2017 by OC Media

The mosque in the Village of Shamkhal (kavkaz-uzel.eu)

A salafi mosque near the Dagh­es­tani capital Makhachkala has remained closed for over half a year, despite attempts by local wor­ship­pers to reopen it. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: daghestan, Kirovsky District, makhachkala, mosque

Mass arrests of Muslims continue in Daghestan

9 November 2017 by OC Media

Per­vo­mayskoye (Alarabiy 93 /Google Maps)

More than 30 men have been detained in Daghestan after Friday prayers. According to witnesses the men were ques­tioned, pho­tographed, and fin­ger­print­ed at a police station.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: daghestan, detention, khasavyurt, makhachkala, mosque, muslims, salafi

Georgia’s Mokhe Muslims ‘threatened by Christian leader’

22 September 2017 by OC Media

(Tamaz Beridze /OC Media)

Muslims from the village of Mokhe in southern Georgia’s Adigeni Munic­i­pal­i­ty claim they are facing threats from the local Christian authority. Archi­man­drite Nikoloz Getsadze of Zarzma Monastery warned Muslims to stay away from a disputed building claimed by both local Chris­tians and Muslims, at a spot which muslims used to pray every Friday, local Muslim Tamaz Beridze told OC Media. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: conflict, georgia, islam, minorities, mokhe, mosque, muslims, muslims of mokhe, religious minorities, samtskhe-javakheti

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