“When we heard this news, I was at a conference with representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and publicly, like all my colleagues, muftis and imams, I condemned the action of this citizen,” he told TASS.
According to him, this is a violation of our traditional values, good neighborliness, as well as a violation of the principles of Islam.
“We still do not know what prompted him to take this step, but we condemn this phenomenon, because in our multinational religious society, where friendship and good neighborliness reign, this is even more unacceptable,” the mufti said. He admitted that today “some forces” may be trying to exacerbate interreligious and interethnic conflicts and ruin dialogue between representatives of traditional religions. But he expressed confidence that it is not necessary to succumb to such provocations and once again condemned what happened.
Recall that the Zyuzinsky Court in Moscow arrested a 20-year-old citizen of Tajikistan who demonstratively blew out candles and attacked a parishioner in the Theodore Ushakov church in the southwest of the capital.
