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| Bulgarian villages had celebrated September 11 attacks |
| 2009-03-17 |
| There had been celebrations of the September 11 terrorist attacks in some villages in the Bulgarian Rodopi mountain, MP Yane Yanev revealed late Monday, quoted by novinite.com. Yanev made this stunning revelation as he explained that at least 15 municipalities in the Rodopi mountain region are attempting to convert their citizens to radical Islam, through school teaching and other methods. Earlier Monday it was announced that Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security had arrested the Mayor town of Garmen, Ahmed Bashev and a teacher of religion Murad Bushnak, over the promotion of radical Islamism, after a warning from Yanev. It was expected that the two will be charged for crimes against national and racial equality as well as against religious teachings. Days earlier Yane Yanev had accused Ahmed Bashev of spreading radical Islam in Bulgaria via funds by an Arabian foundation. In the village of Ribnovo a school director had forced all the teachers and students to wear non-secular clothes. The Rodopi mountains are home to most of Bulgaria's Muslim minorities - including the Muslim Bulgarians, locally called Pomaks, that predominate in the western parts and a large concentration of Bulgarian Turks, particularly in the Eastern Rodopi. There had been longtime suspicions that ministers from Middle East countries had been spreading teachings of radical Islam in the region. Many of the locals find these teachings foreign and hostile, but the region's remote location may have let them root just out of the central administration's watch. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #3 nope, never heard of any saudis and radical islam . Isn't Mecca in saudi arabia? |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2009-03-17 15:53 |
| #2 <em>There had been longtime suspicions that ministers from Middle East countries had been spreading teachings of radical Islam in the region Surely not our Allies in the ME which we fund/protect!!!!! |
| Posted by: Paul2 2009-03-17 10:37 |
| #1 Days earlier Yane Yanev had accused Ahmed Bashev of spreading radical Islam in Bulgaria via funds by an Arabian foundation. Well fancy that... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-03-17 09:46 |