A Russian translation of the Koran is now officially banned by the KGB. According to Russian media, on September 18, an "October district court" in the Russian-occupied Emirate city of Tsemez ("Novorossiysk") banned reading "The semantic translation of the Holy Koran into Russian" (translated from Arabic by E.R. Guliyev. 1st edition. King Fahd Complex for Printing of the Holy Koran, Medina, Munawwara, Saudi Arabia, 2002).
According to the KGB court, the Koran is "extremist literature" under the Russian Criminal Code article # 282. "The Koran calls for hostile and violent acts of one group of people against another on the basis of religion, in this case, Muslims against non-Muslims", the KGB court ruled. According to Russian federal laws, it is now forbidden to read the Koran translation all over Russia, and keeping it at home is a criminal offense.
It is interesting to note that this unprecedented act of war on Islam remained virtually unnoticed by the media. Russian as well as western media outlets ignored the ruling of the KGB court. So-called muftis and various Muslim organizations in Russia are also silent.
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SubhanAllaah, that is shocking news.
format_quote Originally Posted by al-qannash
So-called muftis and various Muslim organizations in Russia are also silent.
I think this is an unfair comment. We should not be so quick to criticise Muslim leaders and organisations like this, especially when we might not be aware of exactly what effort they are making.
Moscow - Russia's top Islamic cleric has protested a provincial court order to declare a translation of the Qur'an as extremist and to destroy it.
Ravil Gainutdin, the head of the Council of Muftis of Russia, said in an open letter to President Vladimir Putin released on Monday that the ruling was "illiterate" and "provocative".
The Qur'an is available in Russian translation, but the court last week ruled that the translation by Elmir Kuliyev published in Saudi Arabia in 2002 violated federal law banning extremist materials.
Gainutdin said that the "Russian Muslims were appalled by the neglect of law shown by the court" in the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk and demanded that the verdict be revoked.
He said the court's order to destroy the Muslim holy book was particularly outrageous.
Russia's senior Islamic clerics warned the country's leaders Friday that unrest could erupt in Muslim communities in Russia and beyond if a court decision ordering the destruction of an interpretive translation of Quran was not overturned.
Tuesday's ruling by a court in Novorossiisk, a city in southern Russia, ordered the widely read text to be outlawed under a Russian anti-extremism law that rights activists say has been abused by local officials out of prejudice or to persecute groups frowned upon by the dominant Russian Orthodox Church.
Rights campaigners said the decision, which would apply nationwide unless it is overturned on appeal, came dangerously close to banning the Quran itself.
Russia's Council of Muftis sounded the alarm in an open letter on Friday to President Vladimir Putin, who has frequently called for unity among the leading faiths and warned that ethnic tension could tear Russia apart.
"Russian Muslims are very strongly indignant over such an outrageous decision," Rushan Abbyasov, the deputy head of the council, which has close ties with the Kremlin said.
If the ruling is acted on, the cleric warned: "There will be unrest … not only in Russia but all over the world. We are talking about the destruction of the Quran."
Re: Putin's KGB ban translation of Holy Koran in Russia
Who averted [people] from the way of Allah and sought to make it [seem] deviant while they, concerning the Hereafter, were disbelievers.
Those were not causing failure [to Allah ] on earth, nor did they have besides Allah any protectors. For them the punishment will be multiplied. They were not able to hear, nor did they see.
Those are the ones who will have lost themselves, and lost from them is what they used to invent.
Assuredly, it is they in the Hereafter who will be the greatest losers.
hud:Aya 19,20,21,22
Indeed, they who have believed and done righteous deeds and humbled themselves to their Lord - those are the companions of Paradise; they will abide eternally therein.
The example of the two parties is like the blind and deaf, and the seeing and hearing. Are they equal in comparison? Then, will you not remember?
hud:23,24
Re: Putin's KGB ban translation of Holy Koran in Russia
format_quote Originally Posted by al-qannash
According to the KGB court, the Koran is "extremist literature" under the Russian Criminal Code article # 282. "The Koran calls for hostile and violent acts of one group of people against another on the basis of religion, in this case, Muslims against non-Muslims", the KGB court ruled. According to Russian federal laws, it is now forbidden to read the Koran translation all over Russia, and keeping it at home is a criminal offense.
And who is more unjust than he who invents a lie about Allah ? Those will be presented before their Lord, and the witnesses will say, "These are the ones who lied against their Lord." Unquestionably, the curse of Allah is upon the wrongdoers.hud:18
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format_quote Originally Posted by ardianto
Yes, banned by a district court, although it's possible become national ban.
Some more about this from Reuters:
'Since Russia's anti-extremism law was passed in 2002, with the purpose of curbing potential militant threats, over 2,000 publications have been placed on a blacklist posted on the Justice Ministry's website. The inclusion of some texts, such as the Russian edition of the diaries of Nazi Germany's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf", has won praise from human rights campaigners.
But critics say too many innocuous works have been added, threatening the rights of minority groups. Analysts say the abuse stems from vague wording in the law and procedures that empowering local official in a flawed justice system. Once a court anywhere in Russia judges a text extremist, it is automatically added to the nationwide blacklist.'
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