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April 23rd, 2013
09:47 AM ET
Muslims in North Caucasus concerned about ‘extremism'By Dan Merica, CNN Washington (CNN) – A majority of Muslims (57%) in Russia’s North Caucasus – including Chechnya, Dagestan and five other Russian jurisdictions – are either “very concerned” or “somewhat concerned” about religious extremist groups in their country, according to a Pew Research Center survey. That number is higher than Russia as a whole, where more than four-in-10 Muslims in the country express the same level of concern. This region of the world, particularly Chechnya and Dagestan, has been in the news recently because the suspects in last week’s Boston Marathon bombing – Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger brother who is still alive, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older brother who died in a shootout last week – had familial ties to the region. The two brothers were born in Kyrgyzstan, where 62% of Muslims told Pew they were very or somewhat concerned about extremism in the central Asian country. Monday night, Dzhokhar told investigators that his older brother, Tamerlan, was the mastermind behind the Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and injured more than 260 people. Tamerlan appears to have become increasingly religious in the years leading up to the bombing, and interviews with family in Russia indicate that the older brother was radicalized while in America. While there is so far no evidence that the brothers were associated to international jihadist groups, in August 2012, soon after returning from a long visit to Russia, Tamerlan created a YouTube channel with links to a number of videos including sermons or interviews with radical preachers. Though extremist groups from Chechnya have carried out terrorist acts since the early 2000s, most of those attacks have been focused on Russia. An example: the Beslan school hostage crises in September 2004, where more than 300 people were killed. Though experts say the Caucasus are quieter now, Thomas de Waal, an expert on the region, says there is a constant a low-level Islamist insurgency there. The Pew data released Tuesday is part of a larger report on the state of Islam conducted from October 2011 to February 2012, with research collected before the Boston bombings. The survey also found that Muslims in Russia’s North Caucasus – the dominant religion in the region – are more concerned about Islamic extremist groups than Christian groups. Thirty-six percent of Muslims said they were primarily worried about Islamic extremists, while only 2% indicated they were worried about Christian groups. Russia, as a whole, is primarily Christian, with 73% of its population identifying with the faith, according to Pew’s 2012 Global Religious Landscape report. About 10% of the country’s population is Muslim – most of which live in the Russian Caucasus. Likewise, in the brothers' birthplace of Kyrgyzstan, 32% of Muslims were concerned about Islamic extremist groups, while 5% were concerned with Christian extremism. According to Pew’s numbers on world religions, Muslims make up 88% of the country’s population, while 11% of Kyrgyz people are Christian. In light of the bombing, Muslim leaders in Boston and around the United States condemned the attacks. “I don't care who or what these criminals claim to be, but I can never recognize these criminals as part of my city or my faith community," said Yusufi Vali, executive director for the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, the largest mosque in the Boston area. Imam Talal Eid, the imam at the Boston Islamic Institute, told CNN that he would refuse to give Tamerlan last rites. "A person who is devoted does not kill innocent people," Eid said. - CNN’s Eric Marrapodi and Jake Tapper contributed to this report.
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I am a solitary man. A celestial god, created from and by and for the Gods am I.
Upon the admissions of others, we all are celestial creations wherein our inside; lives our body’s creators and makers and shapers of atomic creativities. Infinitesimally small are our enigmatic Gods; ever to live upon the insides of all things celestially made and bio’logic’ally grown.
The finite is not infinite and yet the infinite finiteness ebbs and flows onwards onto forever, upon the infinity of nothingness. We being people, are as gods living upon a celestial cosmos. Our atomically made and biologically framed cosmological bodies are as universes and we all are mere buildings wherein the Gods all live and take refuge. All of celestially formed Life is as cellular cosmologies, the miniaturized celestial chasms of living universalisms.
I'd like to know who actually reads lionly's sh!t...
@lionly
Still going with the useless pseudo-intellectual garbage I see. I wonder when you'll notice that no one takes you seriously in the least.
@Answer
I do. All it comes to is a bunch of worthless posturing to say essentially nothing.
Hello Mr. Lamb, you crazy old fuck. How are you today?
Spirit is not a matter but a program, a soft ware created by creator of all, truth absolute GOD, nothing can form without a spirit, nor a body can form, life is an opportunity for human to be gods of their life in truth absolute, but luck had it, hindu secular s, ignorant self centered have lost their way, and act by hindu secular ism, criminal self center ism, and follow their hindu soul filthy desire like a hindu hungry dog, and deny truth of spirit, th create hinduism mayhem among humanity in following of their hindu god lucifer, criminal secular of all. Not worth to be among human, but of their own kind, hindu animals, ignorant secular s by nature in a zoo.
Answer,
A lot maybe? A few quite possibly.
Hguest,
The 'serious' need not reply.
@lionly
Congratulations on another irrelevant and useless comment. You have maintained a very steady level of stupidity during your time here, and perhaps that should be commended.
"The ‘serious’ need not reply."
Good to know one's expectations; one will not be disappointed with the replies that way.
we do head down ass up five times a day, but still people think we're not normal, how ridiculous !
Ah,yes...but soon, very soon you will be able to get married in the good ol' USA.....
Bite that pillow just a bit harder, Ahab.......
The Truth About Muslims
Muslims were beaten as children and taught to hate
Muslims hit their heads constantly when praying causing brain damage
Muslims are mentally retarded
Muslims smell bad because they have not learned proper hygiene
Muslims are embarrassed by their tiny deformed penis
Muslims hate everyone because they are not allowed to go to school
Muslims hate everyone because no one will kiss their nasty slop covered mouths
It is all true, look it up
Muslims can’t look it up because they can’t read
Muslims hate everyone because they can’t read
Muslims hate everyone because dust is not food
Muslims hate women because their mother laughs at their deformed 1" penis
Muslims hate everone because it is easier than alegebra
Muslims hate women because women don't like their rotten teeth and stinky beards
Muslims everyone becuase Muslims are at the very bottom of the human heirarchy
Muslims are ignornant and can only reach to other by blowing things up
Muslims like bombs because it reminds them of their childhood
Muslims hate childhood because their parents made them test bombs in public
Muslims believe in fairy tales because they are so stupid they will believe anything you tell them
Muslims hate women because they Muslims are not allowed to be queens
Muslims hate women because women have a bigger penis and nicer mustache
Muslims hate themselves because they know the hidious appendage attached to their neck is really their head
hinduism absurdity of a hindu secular, ignorant self centered by faith, spewing his hinduism, ignorance out of hindu atheism, criminal self center ism to hind propagate hinduism, lies about Muslims and Islam. Way of hindus deniers of truth absolute in life to hide their hinduism, ignorance.
Muslims fear everyone in the world because we all know "magic"
Muslims believe in magic
Muslims are really, really, super stupid
Islamabot is fascinated with "hind" because the same smells eminate from his mouth that come out of his ass
Islamabot is the stupidest person to every spam the Belief Blog
Islamabot hates everyone because we can spell
Islamabot is too chicken to blow himself up which is too bad
Muslims smell bad because then can't master plumbing
Muslims can't master plumbing because they are very stupid
Muslims are very stupid from generations of in-breeding
Muslims can't alway reproduce because of their tine and misshapen 1" penis
Islam is sad because their brains of quite functioning due to dirty water
Islam has dirty water because they bathe in it
Muslims use their bath water to cook because the still life in the iron age
Muslims reward stupidity and punish intelligence
Muslims love soaking and eating their own filth
Hell for being female in land of hindu secular ism, criminal self center ism, by faith india, justified by hinduism criminality of of hindus, racist by faith. Millions denied right to life, for being a female.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M88ciuWGZo
first cousine, my future wife wannabe, filthy secular, woman, totaly Americanized, filth
http://youtu.be/pUmOnMJjmYY
Fish, and plankton. And sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here, ready. Fresh as harvest day. Fish and sea greens, plankton and protein from the sea. And then it stopped coming. And they came instead. So I store them here. I'm ready. And you're ready. It's my job. To freeze you. Protein, plankton...
Chomp Chomp...................sea greens good .............Box !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mneDhOtVEQw
According to a National Foundation for Credit Counseling survey, only 58% of those in “Generation Y” pay their monthly bills on time.
30% of people refuse to sit on a public toilet seat.
Only 80% of women wash their hands when they leave the restroom.
People photocopying their ass are the cause of 23% of all worldwide photocopier faults worldwide.
70% of dust in the home is from human skin.
100 people a year choke to death on ball-point pens
40% of women have hurled footwear at a man
One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five has a tattoo
Half of all people killed by bombs are those trying to make or set the bombs.
The bottom 40% of income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1% of the nation’s wealth.
In 1950, the ratio of the average executive’s paycheck to the average worker’s paycheck was about 30 to 1. Since the year 2000, that ratio has exploded to between 300 to 500 to one.
U.S. law enforcement authorities claim that there are now over 1 million members of criminal gangs inside the country. These 1 million gang members are responsible for up to 80% of the crimes committed in the United States each year.
More than 24% of all homes with mortgages in the United States were underwater as of the end of 2009.
Statistics Smamishtics...
To be able to take a detail analysis of a population in a democratic society is a beautiful thing.
Now where are the abilities to do this in the areas of the downtrodden Arab countries? That's right – they're so fvcked up that they can't.
DNA works better no ghod(s) needed or required................also catches crooks !
Ancient DNA Reveals Europe's Dynamic Genetic History
Apr. 23, 2013 — Ancient DNA recovered from a series of skeletons in central Germany up to 7,500 years old has been used to reconstruct the first detailed genetic history of modern Europe.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130423134037.htm
Oops dang thumb................ god(s)......................fairy in the sky !
If you don't understand the importance and significance of statistics you probably want to reconsider the quality of your education.
Muslims hate bitchin' music, righteous waves, killer bud and hot babes. Bogus dude.
t is a crime to be a female baby, murdered in mothers womb by hindu atheist . criminal self centred, believers of hinduism racism by faith.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OanKZp-Fdhw
Jefé, you are one sick fuck letting your wife be videotaped getting an abortion.
What, pray tell, is a hindu atheist?
S exy dance, way of life of muslim secular women, ignorant self centered
http://youtu.be/pUmOnMJjmYY
Muslims don’t surf and they cover up their babes. Gnarly man.
1) they should be concerned, as should everyone else; 2) only 57%? that's scary.
57% VERY concerned...
...when you go to concerned, the number is in the 80's...
Considering the ignorance and prejudices of so many Americans and their hateful, violent rhetoric, Muslims should be concerned.
I think it cuts both ways, retphxfire.
The finite is not infinite and yet the infinite finiteness ebbs and flows forever upon the infinity of nothingness. Our people are as gods living upon a celestial cosmos. Our atomically made and biologically framed cosmological bodies are as universes and we all are mere buildings wherein the Gods all live and take refuge. All of celestially formed Life is as cellular cosmologies, the miniaturized celestial chasms of living universalisms.
LL is the belief blog pseudo intellect just laugh at their posts and move on.
I don't even laugh.
I just move on.
I am a real internet detective. It's important. VERY important. CNN belief blog is VERY important business. So I have dedicated years to coming here to convert believers and keep a watchful eye on people I feel are not in line with my specific ideal lifestyle. It's very important that people only agree with ME.
Nice try.
Boring troll...
Islmabot figured out how to post video. This is almost as bad as when LionlyLamb figured it out.
No shit. We're doomed.
I thought we were finally rid of Lionly, but, alas, it appears he's back.
But, no videos. That's a plus.
The muslims you see cheering around the world when America is attacked don't seem worried
They won't be cheering in ten years when we turn the Middle East into a plate of glass.
Worldly people say who are you to judge me? They love their things more than truth. *Psalm 108:8 Judah is my lawgiver; *Jeremiah 11:20 But O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause. *John 7:25 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. *Psalm 85:11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Mankind would do well to locate a gene responsible for violence and eliminate it.
... and the following of all religions.
Extremism worries EVERYBODY!
How long ya been hooked on collectivism?
Just another day on the lol?? compound...
http://news.yahoo.com/2nd-child-pa-couple-dies-only-praying-111713837.html
I'd like to see a survey about what this country feels about atheists and their demonic religion.
Fool
I'd like to see a survey about how this country feels about widespread ignorance and overall lack of education.
Don't need me no stickin ejumacation ... Jeesis is gonna come swingin down from on hi and take me to live with them angil guys!!
And yoo do git nun!- so thar!
I'd like to take a survey about how stupid you are to attempt to impersonate Lycidas.
Atheists don't have a demonic religion because there are no gods that we believe in. As much as you christians (I assume you're one given the tone of your post) want to make "secular humanism" into a religion, it's not one. If you don't believe that some higher power is in charge, the only other choice is that we humans are in charge of our own destiny.
Man created "god" in his own image - probably during a thunderstorm. Then he right away commences charging the ignorant money for interceding with this invented creature and sending the even dumber off to kill in "his" name. How does it feel to be the victim of a long con, Lycidas?
@ly: lucifer means "The irony for those who believe that "Lucifer" refers to Satan is that the same ti.tle ('morning star' or 'light-bearer') is used to refer to Jesus, in 2 Peter 1:19, where the Greek text has exactly the same term: 'phos-phoros' 'light-bearer.' This is also the term used for Jesus in Revelation 22:16."
so if lucifer meant light bearer then why is he so feared by christians?
ANSWER: you were all taught to fear education, knowledge, enlightenment because the cure for control is knowledge. atheists aren't evil or any different from the religious, we are only more knowledge driven.
People misuse religion, fight over it, it causes problems and there is no proof for any of it but at the same time most people need "something" to deal with the hardships of life and worst..their mortality. I have no answers but my sympathies are with all of mankind, truly.
It is. But there are more and less adaptive systems just as there are more and less adaptive people. There's no guarantee that they will win out, but there's hope. There is also a high likelihood that with our rapidly changing world there are changes coming that we can't yet imagine, for good or for bad.
I would like to see such survey on Muslims in India and Pakistan. As long as Muslims keep religion over country they will keep radicalizing the next generation. Because they lack nationalism- no matter which country they live in- no one can trust them. They keep blaming others but need to really look within.