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| Kuwaiti organization's Moscow office to be closed |
| 2003-02-22 |
| The Russian Justice Ministry will close the Moscow office of Kuwait's Social Reform Society, which the Supreme Court has classified as a terrorist organization. "As soon as we receive the Supreme Court's ruling, the office of this international organization will be closed, and its property and funds will be confiscated and handed over to the state, as required by the anti-terrorism law," Deputy Justice Minister Yury Sidorenko said on Friday. Social Reform Society is another Muslim Brotherhood "funnel" group, non-violent in itself, but fostering a sense of being wronged as a Muslim, and behind the scenes matching the people who hit on that sense of being wronged with others who want to do something about it — like kill people in large numbers. Sidorenko recalled that a week ago, the Supreme Court found the Social Reform Society, along with 14 other Islamic groups, to be a terrorist organization. The Federal Security Service (FSB) submitted the list of these organizations to the prosecutor general and send a closure request to the Supreme Court. Sidorenko noted that of the groups on this list, only the Kuwaiti organization's office was officially registered with the Justice Ministry. That was because they're "clean" on the surface. FSB was supposed to be sitting around scratching their heads, trying to figure what interest a Kuwaiti Olde Tyme Religion bunch has in Moscow. Islamists think the rest of us are pretty stoopid. What's sad is how often they're right. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |