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More than 1,000 Muslims form ’peace ring’ around Oslo synagogue - Norway’s Muslims offer symbolic protection for the city’s Jewish community while condemning synagogue attack in neighboring Denmark last weekend.
By Balazs Koranyi Feb. 21, 2015 Haaretz
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REUTERS - More than 1,000 Muslims formed a human shield around Oslo’s synagogue on Saturday, offering symbolic protection for the city’s Jewish community and condemning an attack on a synagogue in neighboring Denmark last weekend.

Chanting “No to anti-Semitism, no to Islamophobia,” Norway’s Muslims formed what they called a ring of peace a week after Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein, a Danish-born son of Palestinian immigrants, killed two people at a synagogue and an event promoting free speech in Copenhagen last weekend.

“Humanity is one and we are here to demonstrate that,” Zeeshan Abdullah, one of the protest’s organizers told a crowd of Muslim immigrants and ethnic Norwegians who filled the small street around Oslo’s only functioning synagogue.

“There are many more peace mongers than warmongers,” Abdullah said as organizers and Jewish community leaders stood side by side. “There’s still hope for humanity, for peace and love, across religious differences and backgrounds.”

Norway’s Jewish community is one of Europe’s smallest, numbering around 1000, and the Muslim population, which has been growing steadily through immigration, is 150,000 to 200,000. Norway has a population of about 5.2 million.

The debate over immigration in the country came to the forefront in 2011 when Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people and accused the government and the then-ruling Labour party of facilitating Muslim immigration and adulterating pure Norwegian blood.

Support for immigration has been rising steadily since those attacks, however, and an opinion poll late last year found that 77 percent of people thought immigrants made an important contribution to Norwegian society.

Top cleric urges Azerbaijanis to vote for Aliyev in October election - AzerNews
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Le clergé appelle à voter Aliyev.

Azerbaijan’s highest Muslim cleric has urged citizens of the country to vote for incumbent Ilham Aliyev in next month’s presidential election.
Sheikh-ul Islam Haji Allahshukur Pashazada, who heads the Baku-based Board of Muslims of the Caucasus, said that the Caspian Sea nation’s Muslim population will support Aliyev in the election planned for October 9.
“Every believer in Azerbaijan is proud to have a president like Ilham Aliyev,” Pashazada said at a religious conference held in Baku on September 19. “Many mosques are being reconstructed in Baku and the regions of the republic. Azerbaijan’s largest mosque is under construction at the moment. All religious festivals are held at the highest possible level. There are no obstacles to the performance of religious rituals. This is reflective of the president’s attitude to religion and religious figures.”

Il faut dire, il en a bien besoin : les sondages ne lui donne que 89% …

Of the polled, 89.32 percent said they would vote for Aliyev, while 8 percent expressed support for Jamil Hasanli, the main opposition candidate representing the National Council of Democratic Forces, an opposition alliance.

Et en plus, sa dame, elle est drôlement gentille avec le bon peuple.

The top cleric also praised First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva for helping the needy.
“People appeal to the first lady and the Heydar Aliyev Foundation to help resolve their problems,” he said.