Duma deputy says the Russian court that outlawed an Islamic text was working for Japan, ISIS, the US, and others
Duma deputy Shamsail Saraliev has formally asked Russia's Attorney General and Federal Investigative Committee to open cases against a court decision that outlawed a book titled "Prayers to God, Their Purpose and Place in Islam." Saraliev suspects the court of working with Russia's foreign enemies.
On September 7, it was revealed that a judge in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk ruled earlier this summer that the book constitutes a work of illegal extremism. When Chechen ruler Ramzan Kadyrov learned about the court decision, he publicly denounced the judge and the prosecutor (both women), calling them "devils and traitors." He also threatened to "bring them both to justice personally."
Saraliev is asking police "to investigate the whole chain of people who prepared such a verdict," whom he suspects of collaborating with foreign agents belonging to Japan, the United States, Western Europe, and even ISIS (which is banned in Russia as an extremist organization).
“I have every reason to believe that such a court decision was actually a rapid-acting mine [sic]. I think the actions of this court can be regarded as an act of terrorist sabotage,” Saraliev announced.
- In a Vkontakte blog post on September 11, Kadyrov called on Russian lawmakers to draft legislation that would ban judges from issuing rulings of any kind that concern the Koran and other holy texts.