Rally held in Nardaran, Azerbaijan - UPDATED

12.03.08

10:21

Haji Ali Huseynov said the Muslim world should punish those, who insulted the Prophet using all means.

According to him, international Zionism started such tendencies in the western countries to stain Islam. Haji Hikmat Valiyev said those, who insulted the Prophet also received support from Azerbaijan. He called on Azerbaijani Muslims to fight against the enemies of Islam and not to be indifferent towards insult of Prophet. Commenting on the development in Palestine, the village resident accused Arab world of betrayal.

He said Israel surrounded by Arab countries had become murderer of Muslims for 60 years.
Chairman of Azerbaijan Islamic Party Movsum Samadov said purposeful actions were taken against Islam values.

“Majority of the bloody events happens in Muslim countries. It is carried out in line with the plans of the US and Zionism,” he said,

He also said national-moral values were insulted in Azerbaijan. Slogans against the US, Israel, Denmark, Great Britain and other western states were chanted in the rally. The protesters burnt the flags of the US, Israel, Denmark and Great Britain and effigy of the U.S. President George Bush.

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11.03.08

17:36

A rally on publication of Prophet Muhamed's caricature in Danish publications and the recent events in Palestine was held in Nardaran settlement.

The due information was provided by rally organizer Haji Alikram Aliyev, Novosti-Azerbaijan reports.

About 800 people gathered at Imam Hossein's square in Nardaran. The rally participants took slogans against the United States, Israel and a number of other western countries.

The participants called on the Moslem world not to be indifferent to Prophet's insulting and the genocide of Palestinians.

The action lasted for about an hour without any incidents.

It should be reminded that the residents of the said settlement held an action under the same slogans on February 22,burning flags of the United States, Israel, Denmark and a number of other countries as wellas George Bush's man of straw.