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Islamologist calls for banning the Council of Muftis and the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Russian Federation

2024-09-18

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Islamic scholar Roman Silantyev asked the Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin to initiate a ban on the Council of Muftis of Russia (CMR) and the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of the Russian Federation. This was reported on September 17 by the Telegram channel "Tsennosti.RF".

It is noted that in his address, Silantyev called these structures controlled by Mufti Ravil Gainutdin and the most criminalized religious organizations in the country.

According to him, the RMC and the DUM appear in scandals and crime reports more often than other Muslim organizations, although they control no more than 9% of registered and no more than 7% of actually operating Muslim communities in Russia.

Silantyev added that Gainutdin had repeatedly spoken out in support of Wahhabism and protested against the ban on this movement, and then lobbied for the activities of the leaders of the Turkish extremist movement Nurcular (an extremist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation).

...a movement with millions of followers around the globe, especially in Turkey, banned in Russia since 2008. It was founded by Turkish Sufi theologian-politician Said Nursi (d. 1960), with the goal of forming a Turkic caliphate comprising those regions of the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Russia's North Caucasus and Volga regions, so of course the Russian authorities object.

The Islamologist stated that Gainutdin's people are now trying to register communities in Dagestan in order to create an alternative muftiate on their basis and gather into it all opponents of the historically existing Dagestan muftiate.

“Considering the religious beliefs of these opponents – and they are predominantly Wahhabis – such an initiative could radically destabilize the already difficult situation in this republic,” Silantyev noted.

According to his calculations, at present 41 spiritual leaders of the RMC and the DUM have joined the ranks of extremists and terrorists, which is an absolute record among Muslim organizations.

"As a forensic expert, working including on requests from the Investigative Committee of Russia, I can note that the most common approach to recognizing organizations or movements as extremist is an analysis of the activities of their adherents. If adherents are regularly convicted of inciting hatred, justifying and financing terrorism, as well as for more serious crimes, then this is the main argument for banning the entire organization," Silantyev wrote.

According to him, the mass participation of ordinary members and spiritual leaders of the RMC and the DUM in crimes of an extremist and terrorist nature is sufficient grounds for recognizing these organizations as extremist.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 3, the Muftiate of Dagestan temporarily banned the wearing of niqabs in the region. The decision was made taking into account the conclusion issued by the fatwa department. According to the organization, the ban will remain in effect until the identified threats are eliminated and a new theological conclusion is issued.

The Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus concluded that in Russia, under current conditions, wearing the niqab, burqa and other head coverings that conceal the face is harmful to Muslims and also threatens discord in interreligious and interethnic relations.

At the same time, political scientist Ilya Ukhov noted on July 10 that the only ones who have not yet spoken openly and unequivocally about wearing niqabs are the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Tatarstan and the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of the Russian Federation, headed by Ravil Gainutdin.

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