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Muslim Leaders Call For Ban On Krishna Food Programs
More articles on this topic: Hare KrishnaMOSCOW. March 30 (Interfax) – The spiritual leaders of the Northern Caucasus have expressed their displeasure over the participation of Krishnas in charity programs in places where Muslims live in compact communities.
“The coordination center of the Muslims of the Northern Caucasus is expressing its outrage with the actions of the Society for Krishna Consciousness, which conducted active proselytism in Chechnya in the mid 1990s taking advantage of the difficult situation for the Muslims living there,” reads a statement issued by the center which was obtained by Interfax on Tuesday.
Maxim Osipov, press secretary for the Society for Krishna Consciousness, recently admitted that “Muslims in Grozny have been given food devoted to the pagan deity Krishna as humanitarian aid.”
“The Krishnas knew that the sharia law does not allow Muslims to eat food intended as offering to other idols,” the statement reads.
The spiritual leaders of the Northern Caucasus said that “the activities of the destructive sect Society for Krishna Consciousness is a serious challenge to the religious world.”
“We are calling on the law enforcement agencies to investigate this incident and to prevent the Krishnas from participating in charity programs in places where Muslims live in the future,” the document reads.
In the meantime, Nafigulla Ashirov, the chief mufti of the Asian part of Russia, disagreed. “In the Northern Caucasus, there are so many needy and hungry people right now that it doesn’t matter to them what food they eat. If the Krishnas were giving people living in the Caucasian republics free food, they were doing a good thing,” he said.
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