Top Muslim cleric shot dead in Russian province of Tatarstan

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Top Muslim cleric shot dead in Russian province of Tatarstan

MOSCOW — A top Muslim cleric in Russia’s Tatarstan province was shot dead Thursday and another was wounded by a car bomb, attacks that the province’s leader and local religious authorities said were probably related to the priests’ criticism of radical Islamists.

Both clerics were known as critics of radical Islamist groups that advocate a strict and puritan version of Islam known as Salafism.

It is always the moderates who suffer first....to the point where they have no voice anymore...