DUSHANBE, January 19, 2015, Asia-Plus – The Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan (IRP) leader Muhiddin Kabiri has reportedly left for Grozny to participate in a large-scale march organized in the Chechnya capital against publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
Mahmoudjon Fayzrahmon, a spokesman for the IRP, says the Chechnya authorities have invited IRP leader to participate in the event.
“A large-scale march is expected to take place in Grozny against extremism and on protection of the Prophet Muhammad,” Fayzrahmon noted.
We will recall that some Russian media sources report that Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has announced that a large-scale march against the satirization of the Prophet Muhammad will be held in Grozny on Monday.
“I am deeply grateful to the fraternal Ingushetian people who participated in this protest, who took to the streets in connection with the publication of the caricatures [of prophet Muhammad],” Kadyrov wrote on his Instagram page on Sunday, adding that he expected nearly 1 million people would participate in Monday”s march.
Last week, Kadyrov reportedly rebuked the editor-in-chief of liberal-leaning Ekho Moskvy radio station, Alexei Venediktov, for polling listeners about whether international media outlets were justified in publishing comics depicting the prophet Muhammad in connection with the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
Kadyrov has been vocal on the issue since the Paris attack occurred, having also referred to former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky as a “personal enemy” and an “enemy to all the Muslims of the world” for urging media outlets to publish caricatures of the prophet Muhammad in solidarity with the tragedy-stricken publication.
“I consider people who support Charlie Hebdo”s and other publications” ”rights” to offend the religious feelings of half a billion Muslims to be my personal enemies,” Kadyrov wrote via Instagram on Saturday.
Meanwhile, protests against the weekly”s publication of controversial caricatures have spread across Muslim communities around the world, including in Yemen, Algeria, Pakistan and Niger.
