The Dagestan Mukhtyat, an Islamic organization in Russia’s Dagestan region, issued an order on Wednesday temporarily banning women from wearing full face coverings, at the request of Russian authorities.
The ban comes after terrorists attacked churches and synagogues in Dagestan last month. Niqab They cover their faces to disguise themselves and escape after a crime.
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Muftiate Said The ban will remain in place “until the identified threats are eliminated and new theological conclusions are reached.”
Governor of the Republic of Dagestan Sergey Melikov Mentioned Russia’s president provided further details about the niqab shortly after the attack, saying he personally opposed allowing the full-face covering until the security situation stabilized. Some Russian strongmen have called for a nationwide ban on the niqab for security reasons.
Mulla Ahmed Abdullayev, a senior Muslim cleric in Dagestan, was suggested Men who do not want their wives to appear in public without a full face covering should keep them at home for the duration of the national security emergency.
Dagestan is a mountainous republic on Russia’s Caspian Sea coast. Its population is ethnically diverse but approximately 95 percent Muslim. The region also has small but long-standing Christian and Jewish communities.
In this photo taken from a video published by the Telegram channel of the head of Russia’s Dagestan republic on Monday, June 24, 2024, a damaged Star of David is seen on the wall of the Kele Numaz synagogue in Derbent after a counterterrorism operation in Russia’s Dagestan republic. Several civilians, including several police officers and an Orthodox priest, were killed by armed militants in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan, the country’s governor, Sergey Melikov, said in a video statement. (Telegram channel of the head of Russia’s Dagestan republic, via The Associated Press)
In Dagestan A long history Dagestan, located next to Chechnya, has seen frequent violent unrest. In the 2010s, the Islamic State recruited many Dagestani militants to fight in Syria and Iraq. As recently as October, a Muslim mob rioted at Makhachkala airport in Dagestan and attacked an Israeli plane. Ironically, not a single Israeli was among the more than 20 people injured in the riots.
On Sunday, June 23, a group of terrorists Attacked Churches, synagogues, police stations in two cities of Dagestan Murder At least 22 people were killed, including police officers, civilians and a Russian Orthodox archpriest.
Since then, little information has been released by Russian police. Condemned The massacre was perpetrated by a foreign-controlled Islamic “sleeper cell,” and an ISIS-affiliated channel on the Telegram chat platform claimed the Islamic State “instigated” the massacre, but stopped short of calling the killers Islamic State operatives.
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Melikov repetition He said Monday he believed the attack was orchestrated by an “international terrorist organization.”
“No matter how much they try to convince me that what happened in Dagestan was internal, I will never believe it,” he insisted.
Melikov did not explicitly say which “direct enemies of ours” were behind the attack, but stressed that he blamed the US and its allies, regardless of who actually gave the order.
“There is no need for instructors from Western or other countries to be on the territory of Dagestan, because today the leaders of these special forces and terrorist organizations use the Internet and social networks and can quite possibly influence the training and ideological state of people who may commit such crimes,” he argued.
Russian officials have been more forthright in accusing Ukraine of orchestrating the attack.
