Central Muslim board condemns Al Fatah head for keeping weapons and drugs

Interfax
June 15, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1810/central-muslim-board-condemns-al-fatah-head-for

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The Central Spiritual Muslim Board of Russia has "sharply and categorically denounced" the actions of Jamaliddin Makhmutov, head of the St. Petersburg-based Al Fatah organization, who is suspected of keeping drugs, ammunition and extremist literature in a prayer room at a local market.

"This deplorable fact that banned substances and materials were kept in a religious building blatantly contradicts all norms of the Islamic faith and represents the most serious crime against our society," the board's presidium said in a statement on Monday obtained by Interfax-Religion.

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