DDHK News, Russia - Russians generally do not support publishing the French Charlie Hebdo cartoon that insults the Prophet Muhammad. Based on opinion polls, they generally think that insults against Islam cannot be tolerated.
Leonid Sedov, a sociologist who used to work at the independent Levada Center survey and research institute, explained that the majority of Russian society tends to respond harshly when religious teachings or ideological fundamental stereotypes are disturbed.
As reported by the site RBTH Indonesia, Based on the results of a survey by the All Russia Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM), 74 percent of respondents admitted to knowing about the shooting at the Charlie Hebdo magazine headquarters that killed 12 people on January 7.
Of these, 30 percent considered the main cause of the incident was the act of insulting French journalists against the religious values of Muslims.
Supporters of the Edinnaya Rossiya and KPRF parties gave the same assessment. As many as 25 percent of respondents stated that these acts of terrorism occurred as a result of policies from the French government which allowed the media to insult Islamic values.
In Chechnya, a republic in the North Caucasus region of Russia where the majority of the population is Muslim, hundreds of thousands of citizens staged a protest against Charlie Hebdo in the Chechen capital, Grozny, Monday (19/1). The local government estimates that about five hundred thousand people or a third of the population of Chechnya participated in the demonstration entitled "Love for the Prophet Muhammad".
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov wrote on his Instagram account, "We respect all religions. However, we will not allow anyone to insult the Prophet Muhammad. The one who tries to do that is our enemy! ”. Kadyrov also wrote that he made no distinction between Wahabis, extremists and "those who reproduce the Prophet's cartoons". (indonesia.rbth.com). *
