Nearly one million Muslims rallied in Grozny, Chechnya against the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. There are only 1.3 million people in all of Chechnya.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re more upset with the magazine than they are with the killer Kouachi brothers.<\/p>\n
Voice of America reported:<\/p>\n
Hundreds of thousands of people in the Russian Muslim region of Chechnya gathered in the regional capital Grozny on Monday to protest against caricatures of Islam\u2019s Prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n
Chechnya\u2019s Interior Ministry said more than a million people attended the demonstration. Earlier Monday, the Russian Interior Ministry had estimated the number of attendees at more than 800,000.<\/p>\n
The republic\u2019s population is around 1.3 million.<\/p>\n
Before the rally, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov urged people to attend to protest against what he called \u201cthe vulgarity, immorality, lack of culture, and the shamelessness of those who drew the caricatures of the Prophet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, gunman attacked the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing 12 people. The killings were said to be retaliation for the publication\u2019s depictions of Muhammad.<\/p>\n
Some of the Chechen protesters Monday carried signs reading \u201cHands off the Prophet Muhammad,\u201d Addressing the crowd, Kadyrov declared \u201cIf needed, we are ready to die to stop anyone who thinks that you can irresponsibly defile the name of the Prophet.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Source: Gateway Pundit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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