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Europe's fastest growing Muslim population is in Russia
This weekend collected hundreds of thousands of Muslims in and around Moscow's mosques. They feel suspicion.
Kamilla Amundsen Willix
Updated: 22.jul. 2015 24:17
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- When I pray at work, I met with reprimands. When my colleagues emerge hangover or taking long smoke breaks, everything is ok.
This says 29 years old Murad Abdullaev to Al Jazeera. He describes how the fastest growing Muslim population in Europe, meeting in the Orthodox Russian culture.
Strictly guarded by police
This weekend total of 60,000 Muslim Muscovites themselves in the square outside the city's largest mosque Sobornaya. Closer 180,000 was collected in the five other mosques in the Russian capital.
Muslims rolled out prayer rugs, and said their holy prayers to celebrate the end of Ramadan with this year's celebration, Eid al-Fitr. Yet they were strictly guarded by Russian police armed with batons. Among the passersby and onlookers were many skeptical glance.
According to political analyst Alexei Malashenko is now home to at least 1.5 million Muslims in Moscow. By comparison, among all the EU '28 member countries about 19 million Muslims in 2010. Paris and London has the largest Muslim population of the Union's member countries.
Feel suspicion
- Again, some streets full of people who pray, and again streets blocked and there are tensions with the police, writes the popular blogger Ilya Varlamov.
- For several years this has been the image of Moscow twice a year. And yet all surprised every time, blogs he continued.
Several of Muslims in Moscow feel suspicion by the police and other residents.
During Eid al-Firt had all Muslims through a metal detector and undergo an identity check before they were allowed to enter the restricted area.
A study from 2013 conducted by the state-owned VTsIOM showed that one in seven ethnic Russians do not want to have Muslims in their neighborhoods. Meanwhile, reported 45 percent of Russians that they support the nationalist slogan "Russia for ethnic Russians."
More and more converts to Islam
While Muslims in Russia say they feel harassed in the Russian culture, there are also several Orthodox Russians who convert to Islam.
- I get a lot of compliments on how I dress and how beautiful it looks. I've never been faced with bad attitudes, says Anastasiya Korchagina.
She wears a headscarf and a conservative dress after she converted to Islam five years ago, and changed his first name to Aisha.
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This weekend total of 60,000 Muslim Muscovites themselves in the square outside the city's largest mosque Sobornaya. Closer 180,000 was collected in the five other mosques in the Russian capital.
PHOTO: Reuters / Scanpix
Europe's fastest growing Muslim population is in Russia
This weekend collected hundreds of thousands of Muslims in and around Moscow's mosques. They feel suspicion.
Kamilla Amundsen Willix
Updated: 22.jul. 2015 24:17
Share
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- When I pray at work, I met with reprimands. When my colleagues emerge hangover or taking long smoke breaks, everything is ok.
This says 29 years old Murad Abdullaev to Al Jazeera. He describes how the fastest growing Muslim population in Europe, meeting in the Orthodox Russian culture.
Strictly guarded by police
This weekend total of 60,000 Muslim Muscovites themselves in the square outside the city's largest mosque Sobornaya. Closer 180,000 was collected in the five other mosques in the Russian capital.
Muslims rolled out prayer rugs, and said their holy prayers to celebrate the end of Ramadan with this year's celebration, Eid al-Fitr. Yet they were strictly guarded by Russian police armed with batons. Among the passersby and onlookers were many skeptical glance.
According to political analyst Alexei Malashenko is now home to at least 1.5 million Muslims in Moscow. By comparison, among all the EU '28 member countries about 19 million Muslims in 2010. Paris and London has the largest Muslim population of the Union's member countries.
Feel suspicion
- Again, some streets full of people who pray, and again streets blocked and there are tensions with the police, writes the popular blogger Ilya Varlamov.
- For several years this has been the image of Moscow twice a year. And yet all surprised every time, blogs he continued.
Several of Muslims in Moscow feel suspicion by the police and other residents.
During Eid al-Firt had all Muslims through a metal detector and undergo an identity check before they were allowed to enter the restricted area.
A study from 2013 conducted by the state-owned VTsIOM showed that one in seven ethnic Russians do not want to have Muslims in their neighborhoods. Meanwhile, reported 45 percent of Russians that they support the nationalist slogan "Russia for ethnic Russians."
More and more converts to Islam
While Muslims in Russia say they feel harassed in the Russian culture, there are also several Orthodox Russians who convert to Islam.
- I get a lot of compliments on how I dress and how beautiful it looks. I've never been faced with bad attitudes, says Anastasiya Korchagina.
She wears a headscarf and a conservative dress after she converted to Islam five years ago, and changed his first name to Aisha.
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