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September 1, 2006
Russia: Muslim Leader Exploits Beslan To Attack Orthodox Christianity
Today, is the second anniversary of the siege that began in a school in North Ossetia on the edges of the Caucasus in a town that thitherto, few had even heard of. Now, the name Beslan is synonymous with Muslim terrorism at its most chilling and heartless. Three days after the siege began, it ended with horror. 1,000 parents, teachers and small children alike had been rounded up in the School number One's gymnasium. More than 30 Muslim terrorists, Chechen gunmen and vicious Muslimas in black burkas made their hapless captives aware that various bombs were in the room, one suspended from the ceiling.
The exact details of how the siege ended are unclear, but the bombs were set off, and a gunfight with security forces broke out, and people around the world watched as small children, stripped to their underwear because of the sweltering heat, some bleeding, fled traumatised from the school. Though left with indelible psychological scars, they were the lucky ones.
By the time the flames and gunfire died down, the true scale of the carnage was revealed. Among more than 300 dead, 186 children had perished (picture, above left). 31 Chechen terrorists had died, and only one, Nur-Pashi Kulayev (pictured right) remained to face trial.
On May 26, Kulayev was sentenced to life imprisonment. The true author of the atrocity, Chechen warlord and Islamic fundamentalist Shamil Basayev, never received punishment for masterminding this crime. He boasted of its success, and was only silenced when, in July this year, on his way to commit more terrorist carnage, he was blown up, and his head ripped from his torso.
The events of Beslan still chill, but as the nation prepares to hold memorial services for those who died, including the 186 children, an unseemly inter-faith sectarian row has erupted. And the malevolent instigator of this unseemly dispute is a Muslim, seeking to exploit the situation to promote his own religion above others.
The Muslim in question, according to Interfax-Religion is the Ossetian "mufti", Murat Tavkazakhov, who is head of the North Ossetian Muslim Board.
He told Moskovskiye novosti, a weekly newspaper, that he did not want a Russian Orthodox bishop to be taking part in the commemorations which began today. Bishop Feofan of Stavropol and Vladikavavkaz was due to hold a requiem service at the Beslan memorial cemetery this afternoon.
Tavkazakhov said: "A half of the victims of the terrorist act were Muslims and they were buried according to our customs. This fact should be taken into account." A half of those who were killed were NOT Muslims, and common decency should take this fact into account. But when it comes to issues of Muslims asserting their own perceived superiority over over faiths, common decency never comes into the picture.
Bishop Feofan did hold his service amongst the graves of the dead, and told Interfax-Religion: "Today we have prayed here in Beslan and will pray at the cemetery where the victims of the tragedy are buried. Tomorrow we will conduct the liturgy here.' He said that "today, on the day of grief and sorrow, not only Russia but the whole world is with the Ossetian people."
"Life continues. Today we can say that. I could not imagine before that the mothers who have lost their children here would ever smile. Now we see smiles, though rarely. This is a return to life."
"I do not know the people who could experience such a tragedy without lapsing into vandalism. The Ossetian people have showed utter restraint, generosity, and I would say, courage and civic responsibility."
UPDATE: A measure of the dishonesty of Murat Tavkazakhov is a statement made by WR's Jean de Valette, who has spent 14 days on two trips with children at Beslan. His statement is the following: During two separate trips to Beslan, Western Resistance found no evidence of any children being Muslim. And at best, according to North Ossetian statistics, about 5% of the population is Muslim. There is no way that half of the children could have been Muslim.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at September 1, 2006 6:51 PM
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