CIS Muslim leaders condemn extremism, call for unity

Interfax
June 17, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1813/cis-muslim-leaders-condemn-extremism-call-for

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The Muslim leaders of countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States have condemned extremism and called for inter-confessional peace.

"We, the spiritual leaders of the CIS space, have always said and we are saying our emphatic 'No' to forces that encroach on the territorial integrity, security and stability of states, and sow the poisonous seeds of separatism," head of the of the Muslim Board of the North Caucasus Allahshukyur Pasha-zade told a conference in Moscow.

"Religious expansion attempts are doomed," he said.

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