Moscow, January 24, 2011
Russian Muslim cleric urges harsher punishment for terrorists
"We don't get tired of repeating our demands for tighter punishment for those who encroach on the life of innocent people, making one more attempt to sow enmity in our multi-ethnic and multireligious Russian society," Mufti Muhammedgali Huzin told Interfax-Religion.
He said ethnic groups populating Russia have good-neighborly mutual relations, and that this "is a source of anger for the pack of abominable jackals, who are trying to bite our powerful and healthy society at the heel."
"But carrion is all they can cope with. Yes, they are probably squeaking with pleasure now, being drunk with the smell of blood and thinking of themselves as heroes, but do real heroes bark like so many wretched curs," Huzin said.
He expressed hope that "the dirty and stinking holes where those wretches take refuge will be destroyed at last and we won't have to mourn the innocent victims of their cowardly attacks."
Huzin offered condolences to the families of those killed on behalf of Russia's Muslim community. "We share the sorrow of their losses and the hardship of their future concerns, and we pray that the Almighty send them patience and hope," he said.