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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Turkey gives Chechnya three Mohammed hairs
2012-02-03
From his chinny-chin-chin?
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has given three hairs from Mohammed to the Chechen Republic. The hairs were brought from Istanbul to Grozny on Thursday.

Aihan Ergyuven, chairman of the Chechen committee Sivas, said at the Grozny airport, "The Chechen diaspora in Turkey asked Erdogan to give the holy hairs to Chechnya. We received a positive response within a month and the priceless gift has been delivered to Grozny today."

Despite the freezing weather, thousands of Chechens, including Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, met the hairs at the airports and in the city's streets. An Islamic ritual marking this event was held in the republic's central mosque.

A different hair from Mohammed was brought from Uzbekistan to Chechnya early last year. The hair is in a capsule located in a box. Historical documents claim that the hair, also taken to the Grozny central mosque, had been in Uzbekistan since the times of the Caliphate.
Posted by:ryuge

#8  Mohammedan holy relics? Is that why ...

To wit,

* WAFF > [Youtube]RUSSIANS IN LUCK: UMAROV ORDERS NO CIVILIAN ATTACKS | RUSSIAN ISLAMIST CHIEF ORDERS HALT TO CIVILIAN ATTACKS, in response to perceived popular disgust st Moscow's harsh or brutal methods agz the Hard Boyz, + anti-Putin mass protests.

"EMIR" UMAROV DOING A MULLAH OMAR + TALIBAN? = Hard Boyz will still selectively strike at Military, Legal, + Political targets as pertinent???

POLITICAL-LEGAL-ELECTORAL JIHAD COMES TO THE CAUCASUS?

versus

* RIAN > PROKHOROV WARNS OF RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR, as possible "worst-case scenario" vee on-going, anti-Putin mass protests [March 2012 Elex].

HMMM, HMMM, ANTI-PUTIN PROTESTS = RUSSIAN EQUIVALENT OF US ANTI-OSAMA ABBOTTABAD RAID WHICH PO'ED PAKISTAN???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-02-03 22:17  

#7  Despite the freezing weather, thousands of Chechens, including Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, met the hairs at the airport and in the city's streets.

Yeah, these people aren't fucked in the head...

Posted by: tu3031   2012-02-03 21:34  

#6  I would suspect Mo's DNA would lack some chromosomes from modern human DNA
Posted by: Frank G   2012-02-03 20:45  

#5  Any DNA to be gotten from the hair? If so, here is a buisness idea...PCR up the DNA and transfect pigs with some of the genes. Pig meat will become sacred. One could then open up some restaurants throughout the Middle East and sell Mo-ham and cheese sandwiches.
Posted by: Chemist   2012-02-03 19:58  

#4  I can find a Mo-hair jacket on E-Bay. Wonder what that's worth to them
Posted by: Frank G   2012-02-03 14:46  

#3  Somebody else has the skull of St. John the Baptist when he was only 12, as disclosed in The Name of the Rose.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2012-02-03 12:34  

#2  I sincerely hope the Turks substituted dog hairs, Maybe from the tail, near the anus.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2012-02-03 11:37  

#1  The Turks also claim to have King David's sword and John the Baptist's head among the other sacred relics in the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.

I've been waiting for the salafis to bomb this place since they (the Salafis) believe the display of sacred relics leads to the worship of sacred relics which in turn is the worst form of polytheism. But so far, the Salafis have found other things to bomb.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2012-02-03 09:47  

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