Russia: Islamic Clerics Planning to Open Madrassa in Building Lenin Used to Carry out Communist Revolution.....

Lenin's Tomb on "rolling over" alert......

Vienna, January 12 – Muslim leaders in Russia's northern capital are drawing up plans to open an Islamic studies program at the Smolny Institute from where Lenin in 1917 directed the Russian revolution, the kind of symbolic shift that is already sparking debates about the possible "Islamization of Russia" in the coming decades.

And such discussions are likely to become all the more heated because Dzhamaliddin Makhmutov, the president of the St. Petersburg Islamic Religious Organization which is behind these plans, says they are necessary to support what he called "the whole republic" of the 700,000 Muslims in that city.

Exactly when such a faculty might open remains unclear, the newspaper "Moy region" reports, but there is already a precedent for it: during the last three months, there have been a series of ten-day courses in Arabic and Islamic studies there. And Makhmutov told the paper that he hopes to open a regular Islamic studies faculty there in the fall.

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[Elric66]

Only fitting for the new islamic revolution

[Harry Schell]

Yah, one bloody dictatorship for another.

Change I never believed in...anyway.

[Muslim]

To ensure the safety of humanity.