Muftiate calls attempt to remove imam in Buinaksk a provocation

Former employee of the Muslim Spiritual Directorate and former imam of Makhachkala Muhammadrasul Saaduyev announced the need to choose a new imam in the Juma Mosque of Buinaksk before the prayer, and the crowd supported him. The muftiate called the incident a provocation and an attempt to "ignite a second airport", and Muhammad Urminsky remains the imam.

As "Caucasian Knot" wrote, the head of the reconciliation department in the muftiate of Dagestan Magomed-Rasul (previously mentioned in the muftiate's Telegram channel as Muhammadrasul - note by "Caucasian Knot") Saaduyev was fired due to unauthorized and loud statements on the Palestinian issue, the muftiate announced on November 1, 2023. Blogger Rasul Asad reported that the head of the fatwa department at the Muftiate of Dagestan, Zainulla Atayev, was also fired for the same reason.

An attempt was made in Buinaksk to provoke the removal of the imam of the city and district, the Muftiate of Dagestan stated.

"The organizers had gathered their supporters and followers from different settlements in advance, hoping to exert pressure and provoke a split. All this happened an hour before the start of Friday prayers, when the main jamaat of the city had not yet arrived at the mosque. It was at this moment that an attempt was made to provoke. However, the jamaat did not succumb to the provocative actions. The information about the removal of the imam from office is not true - Imam Muhammad Urminsky continues to perform his duties," the report says. message.

Today, the Juma Mosque of Buinaksk expressed no confidence in the current imam, Muhammad Urminsky. The jamaat's claims, judging by the video, were voiced by the former imam of the Juma Mosque of Makhachkala, a resident of Buinaksk, Muhammadrasul Saaduyev. He justified the need to change the imam by Urminsky's attacks on Sheikh Abduljalil Afandi Karanaisky. Security forces were present in the mosque, the Telegram channel "Chernovik.2.0" reported on August 8.

As follows from the published videos, Saaduyev stated about the statements of Urminsky, who attributed "all sorts of nonsense, all sorts of fabrications and guesses to the venerable Abduljalil Afandi." "This is dissatisfaction after what you said about our sheikh. Therefore, these people who are here, who are related to this mosque, who are related to this jamaat and are members of this jamaat, raised this issue. Doesn't the jamaat have such a right?" he asks in the video. The imam nods affirmatively in response. "That is why today I propose to vote, to draw up a protocol to elect the imam of the mosque of the city of Buinaksk...." (his voice is drowned out by cheers, raised hands are visible in the video)/

Also at some point the situation escalated, people went to Imam Urminsky, one of them pushed him, follows from another video recording.

The DUM and the Ministry of Nationalities of Dagestan responded to what happened by releasing an "exposure to the provocation"/

"The man who spoke here, Muhammadrasul Saaduyev, who was the imam of the mosque for 20 years, he stands up today and says to the imam, the legal imam, who was chosen as imam according to both Sharia and the law: "People are complaining about you, so we decided to appoint this Salman as imam instead of you. "Dear sir, if people are complaining to you, did you really not have the dignity to come to the imam's office with these people and say that these people are complaining about you, and not to perform this performance here during Friday Juma," said the head of the protocol service and cultural events department Shamil Bagandaliyev.

He recalled that during the 20 years that Saaduyev was imam, they did not try to remove him, but rather saw him off with all the honors, and stated that Saaduyev is no different from any other parishioner of the mosque and has no authority to change the imam "either by law or by Sharia."

He called Saaduyev's actions vile. "We will stop this, we will not tolerate such people, we will not leave them. For them there is a court before Allah and on the day of the great judgment they will answer." At the same time, he mentioned the answer according to the law several times. "Do they want to set fire here, bring a second airport here?" he asked in a video recording published on the YouTube channel of the Muftiate of Dagestan.

Muhammad Magomedov, head of the Department of Religious Affairs of the Ministry of Nationalities of Dagestan, called on those gathered "not to succumb to provocations." "Do not do anything that goes beyond our legislation. "Today's actions, they are equated to the events at the airport, an unauthorized rally," he said, noting that law enforcement officers understand that we "will resolve this issue among ourselves."

Mass riots at the Makhachkala airport occurred on October 29, 2023, due to a report of the arrival of a plane with passengers from Israel. From October 26 to 29, 2023, mass anti-Semitic actions took place in three republics of the North Caucasus - Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia. "Caucasian Knot" prepared the reports "Anti-Semitic actions in the North Caucasus: how it was" and "A wave of anti-Semitic actions in the North Caucasus".