{"id":3309,"date":"2014-01-13T07:01:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T07:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2014-01-13T07:01:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T07:01:28","slug":"russia-investigates-qur-an-burning-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/01\/13\/3309\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Investigates Qur&#8217;an Burning Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/russia-Investigates-Quran-Burning-Video.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Russian police has launched an investigation into a YouTube video showing Russian men burning the Qur\u2019an and humiliating an injured young man on the subway, UPI news agency reported on Saturday, January 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The video, uploaded Jan. 5, shows five men with their faces obscured burning a Russian-translated version of the Muslim holy book with lighters.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The video then cuts to a man who appears of central Asian origin with a bruised and swollen face who is made to repeat the phrase &#8220;I renounce Allah&#8221; several times, the Moscow News reported Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Though no faces were visible, the video claims that the men are fans of prominent Moscow football club CSKA, known, like many other Russian teams, for its contingent of ultra-rightwing supporters.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The video was uploaded under the name Oleg Makarov. Social media accounts under the same name show a far-right Moscow native and soccer fan who rails against Islam.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A Moscow Police spokesman announced that a criminal investigation team was set up on Thursday to find the people responsible for the video.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yet, he did not say which charges the perpetrators face.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The video comes with subtitles linking the Quran burning to the string of suicide bombings in the southern city of Volgograd.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Volgograd city, serving as a gateway to the southern wedge of Russian territory bounded by the Black and Caspian Seas and the Caucasus mountains, came under attack last December after two bombings ripped through the city\u2019s main rail station and a bus.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Volgograd was also the scene of an attack in October, when a woman from Dagestan killed seven people in a suicide bus blast.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Condemning the attacks, the Council of Muftis of Russia and the charity foundation Zakyat have announced that Muslims will donate their blood and money to the victims of the terrorist attacks in Volgograd.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Islam is Russia&#8217;s second-largest religion representing roughly 15 percent of its 145 million predominantly Orthodox population.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Russian Federation is home to some 23 million Muslims in the north of the Caucasus and southern republics of Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Muslims consider the Koran the literal word of God and treat each book with deep reverence.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Desecration is considered one of the worst forms of blasphemy and there could be further trouble on Friday when the weekly prayers are held.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>OnIslam<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian police has launched an investigation into a YouTube video showing Russian men burning the Qur\u2019an and humiliating an injured young man on the subway, UPI news agency reported on Saturday, January 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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