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[Regnum] Prayer rooms for Muslims and martial arts clubs, which are created in residential buildings and are places of mass gathering of migrants, need to be checked by the internal affairs bodies for legality, as well as possible hotbeds of extremism. Lawyer and human rights activist Vladimir Novitsky spoke about this in a conversation with IA Regnum.
Recently, in some cities of Russia, mainly in Moscow and settlements in the Moscow region, prayer rooms for Muslims have begun to appear directly in residential buildings. Moreover, there are examples when houses of worship are registered as cultural centers. Such “prayer houses” attract large numbers of migrants and cause outrage among local residents. The authorities have already been asked to check the communities, since it cannot be ruled out that among the visitors to the so-called prayers there may also be representatives of extremist radical views. Local residents are also concerned about martial arts clubs, which they perceive as a hotbed of radical Islam.
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