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Мечеть не вредно

КЛЕНЫ И МЕЧЕТЬ. 26 сентября на месте будущего строительства активисты «Моего двора» и представители инициативной группы жителей высадили клены и установили табличку «Здесь будет парк». «Мы против строительства как такового, — отмечает Михаил Бутримов, лидер «Моего двора», — независимо от того, культовое сооружение будет или нет». По его словам, мероприятие было скомпрометировано тем, что после его окончания националистические организации обещали провести митинг. Впрочем, он не состоялся.

Moscow’s mosque controversy

The issue has been hotly debated in the blogosphere. Mikhail, a blogger who asked that his last name not be used, told The Moscow News that his opposition to the building of a new mosque is a response to the March 29 terror blasts on the Moscow metro. “We were reminded that extremism is real,” he said. “We have people in Tekstilshchiki who are frightened, and the authorities need to listen.”

Proposed Moscow Mosque Stirs Protests

A dispute has escalated over plans to build a mosque in Moscow's southeastern outskirts, with local residents vowing to send an appeal with about 2,000 signatures to President Dmitry Medvedev and nationalist groups promising to support them.

Muslim leaders defend the need for the worship site, saying the capital's four mosques are overflowing with people.

Residents of the Tekstilshchiki district in southeastern Moscow will send Medvedev a complaint signed by more than 1,800 people opposing construction of the mosque, mainly on the grounds that it might cause massive traffic jams in the area on Islamic holidays, activist Mikhail Butrimov told The Moscow Times on Friday. Butrimov leads the movement Moi Dvor, or My Yard, which supports residents in their fight against the mosque.