There is no reason to doubt those who said they were forced to attend. After all, in Islam, virtue is enforced by the threat of dire punishments: stoning, amputation, etc. So why shouldn’t a display of moral outrage be the result of coercion as well?
“Chechen authorities report about many-thousand-strong rally against Koran burning down,” Caucasian Knot, May 25, 2023:
According to official sources, about 60,000 people came to Grozny to attend a rally against burning down of the Koran by Zhuravel, a Volgograd citizen. They have confessed that they represent educational and budgetary institutions of the republic according to the attendance orders sent by authorities.
As reported, on May 23, many thousands believers, who gathered in the “Heart of Chechnya” Grozny mosque, condemned the burning of the Koran by Nikita Zhuravel from Volgograd. During the interrogation, he stated that he had done it at the direction of Ukrainian special services. It was decided to transfer the criminal case against Zhuravel to investigators in Chechnya, which caused lawyers’ bewilderment. On May 23, a video appeared on the Internet in which the Volgograd citizen apologized to Muslims.
According to the “Kavkaz.Realii”* project, authorities gathered students and employees of budgetary organizations for the actions. Magomed Daudov, the Chairman of the Chechen Parliament, spoke at the rally and said that actions that offend believers’ feelings are financed by special services of Ukraine and the West.
Several people said that they were forced to come to the rally – these were a student of an oil university and an employee of one of the ministries.
According to “Chechnya Today” outlet, Salakh Mezhiev, the Mufti of Chechnya, also spoke at the rally, treating the burning down of the Koran as a provocation aimed at kindling enmity among Russian nations and religious denominations….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Russians should be defiant & actively start buring qurans, from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. Will the Kremlin, which needs personnel for the Ukraine war, divert anybody towards this just to appease Ramzan Kadyrov? In fact, use this war to start grabbing back some of the freedoms they’ve lost under Putin
gravenimage says
I sadly doubt this will happen, Infidel–Russia has allowed Zhuravel to be arrested in Chechnya, and Putin is regularly appeasing Muslims. Then, Russia has condemned Sweden for allowing a Qur’an to be burned there:
The Russian Foreign Ministry has blasted the burning of the Quran in Stockholm “as another provocative act of Islamophobia.”
“These blasphemous actions predictably provoked a harsh reaction in the Islamic world, including the Russian Muslim community,” spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a news conference on Friday.
She noted the difference in attitudes to what happened and said in the “world that defends traditional values” the burning was assessed “as absolutely inadequate,” while the Western world “applauds this and says that this is not just normal, but good.”
https://www.trtworld.com/europe/russia-calls-burning-of-quran-in-stockholm-provocative-anti-islam-act-64945
FYI says
“allah knoweth,ye know not”
koran 2:216
allah can you tell us where babies come from?
koran 86:6-7
No allah:not from the..backbone /ribs!That’s ridiculous.
allah knoweth not human reproductive biology and not Astronomy either.
gravenimage says
Yet Pythagoras knew that sperm came from the testicles.
DHZ says
One of Allah’s top 100 sayings: “Believe or else”
gravenimage says
Chechnya: 60,000 Muslims attend rally against Qur’an-burning, but some say they were forced to come
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This does not surprise.
Phil Copson says
How many Iranians would attend rallies to shout “Death to America” “Death to Israel” etc, if they weren’t forced to? And how many would much prefer to shout “Death to the Ayatollahs” ?
Michael Copeland says
“The occasion was one of those organized rent-a-mob Islamic protests where the demonstrators obey instructions from the mosque to go out and cause a loud and aggressive disturbance, a “Day of Rage”. Once instructed, it becomes the “right” thing to do. As a result they would be beaten up if they did not do it. “Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong,” in the Manual of Islamic Law, specifies that to enforce the “right” the Muslim is entitled to employ “threatening and intimidation” (q5.7). The next step is “directly hit or kick the person” (q5.8), after which comes “the armed assistance of others” (q5.9).”
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/11/and-take-their-wives-as-war-booty/