Metin Mekhtiyev, Moscow Muslim Cleric, Stabbed To Death

MOSCOW -- Russian police say a cleric from a banned Islamic group has been stabbed to death in Moscow in what his colleagues called an apparent hate crime.

Moscow city police said Wednesday that the body of Metin Mekhtiyev was found late Tuesday with severe knife wounds near his apartment building in central Moscow.

The 33-year-old worked at the Islamic Culture Center, one of the oldest Islamic groups in Russia, which was banned by Russia's Supreme Court last year. The group claimed the ban was instigated by the Federal Security Service, Russia's man KGB successor agency.

The group's chairman Abdul-Wakhed Niyazov told the online Gazeta.ru that Mekhtiyev's killing was similar to hate crimes committed by radical ultranationalist groups.

Comments

[patani-muslim]

02:03 AM on 05/18/2012

This is terrible Muslims should be trying very hard to build bridges with the eastern orthodox christians whos headoffice is moscow today. from the saying in the last age muslims will make an alliance with rum. but the reality is quit different as the muslims seem to be trying to allie themselves with the zionists (nato) who are hell bent on the destruction of the muslims but the arab muslims in particular. I fear the full fillment of the numerous prophecies of the destruction of the Arabs will have to come which increasingly looks like at the hands of crusading Nato and in my opinion this must be the people from the civilisation of GOG before we wake up and allie ourselves with rum. As once they have subdued the Arab muslims in particular they then must also subdue the Russians. It also looks like the Russians are also starting to wake up and noticing themselves being encircled by Nato missiles on all sides!

[Vlad Roudenko]

08:10 PM on 06/18/2012

Muslims are building bridges with the Eastern Orthodox. It is quite visible. You just have to know what to look for. There are many videos on youtube on that matter, but most of them are in Russian. The alliance which you speak of has more or less materialized but it does not include many Arabs I'm afraid. So far it's only Syria and perhaps Lebanon to some extent. Iran seems to fall in with this prophesy as well. There is much hope. After all, you got to remember who wins at the end; certainly not NATO :))