The old imam timid voice, famous tower put Tsarnaev into a bed crease frowning, he sighed and looked away. About half an hour left until the next call to the Friday prayer, and he sat on the third floor of the office, his mosque in the southern Russian city of Makhachkala. Finally, he indulged in the question: "Without us, no one knows he had seen him."
This is a mantra, the Imam Hassan Khadzhi Gasanaliev reporters had to be repeated several times this week, since it appears that the Boston Marathon Tsarnaev suspected bombers participated service mosque Kotrova Street. Pursue Islamic fundamentalism Mosque version more than others in the region of Dagestan, it has been known as a place of worship in Russia suspected terrorists. On Thursday the father of Tsarnaev Anzor admitted that his son had six months during the visit, his service to Dagestan last year. "He and I go," old Tsarnaev in Makhachkala held a press conference on Thursday. "We go where there is space there is always space Kotrova, it is small." He added: "But he has no friends. You do not make friends fast here."
The investigation found no link between any Tsarnaev and any Islamic groups, they did not explain the motive of which he was accused. But his acquaintance and his family said he was a few years ago in the bombing become the followers of Islamic fundamentalism. Boston attack other suspects, the younger brother of Tsarnaev Dzhokhar, told investigators from his hospital bed this week, he and his brother out of the U.S. war in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report in the Washington Post, citing U.S. officials familiar with the investigation.
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The official told the Post, Tsarnaev brothers "self-radicalization", which means that their views have been shaped what they see on the Internet, and also know that the actions of the United States in the Muslim world. But the judgment of the United States, Gasanaliev time, the tower put suspected political will at least have stepped up in the mosque in Kotrova Street, adhere.
"The United States will soon collapse, it will disappear," Gasanaliev, seek truth from facts to sit down over time in an exclusive interview. Years of the Arab Caliphate rule? For centuries, the Arab Caliphate to rule the world. This is a wonderful ruler. Now, the United States is a great power. But tomorrow will fall apart, some more hurricanes, some more something else. "pause for a moment, he switched to a different tone:" But today, we must look at each other's eyes tell the truth, I hope each other, mutual respect, love one another, there should not be any violence. "
Violence in Boston last week that he would not be confused, because it is indiscriminate white, but because it has caused an uproar, a pack of reporters as he and his mosque Dagestan. From somewhere someone is killed or fabricated things, because this so much noise, "he said confused. "How many United States in Vietnam, in all its wars everywhere. Now it throughout the Arab world upside down. They kill hundreds, thousands, tens of millions of people, nobody cares, but there people do something, blow something, someone was killed, and because of this, they [reporters] sent so many people here and they are surprised by this. "
He insisted that his mosque, the Islamic bastion of conservative Salafi in Dagestan, what not to do turn radical of Tsarnaev or explosion with Boston. "There is no political," he said. "Our preaching is clean." In fact, this week, he gave complete political focus pious need to be avoided in the Friday prayers sermon, all Muslims to stay in the straight path of Allah contained. "Do not be afraid, do not despair, but has promised you in the joy of heaven," he declared to the congregation of men, their number is full of mosques and spilled into the yard. Even if they are used in the reconstruction of the mosque steel and bricks, they lay down their prayer rugs, in a sermon, the vast majority of between 20 and 30 years old.
Few of them are open to the public speech after reporters, but those who also said they appreciated not from the political and social issues of "The Book of Songs in Kotrova Street mosque." He told straight, "of admirers called Magomedgadzhi said Imam , refused to disclose his name. "He can criticize people in power, if they deserve it. You do not really hear anywhere else. "
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The Salafi movement opposition to the state is well-known Russia in this region. The movement as an alternative to more mainstream Sufi mosque, which is recognized by the state and support. "They have not a single of kopecks, to help our mosque, Gasanaliev said:" The Government Sophie and their friends. "They accuse us of Wahhabists," he said, referring to the ultra-conservative brand of Sunni Islam is synonymous in Russia with terrorism.
Although he tried to get rid of our reputation, and cooperate with the authorities of Gasanaliev Deputy Mufti of the Republic of Dagestan, with local authorities to grant him some clout - his mosque by the security services, the role viewed with a magnifying glass. Two well-informed front-side bus (FSB), the Russian version of the FBI to the local branch, telling time and the Salafi movement is enough to make the list in the observation of counter-terrorism in Russia on Monday. It was his time in Dagestan, where he as a potential extremists marked FSB Tsarnaev case, sources said.
In some ways, the consideration is not surprising. Catholics in the mosque in Kotrova Street often shootout with Russian anti-terrorist forces were killed, and the Salafi Bookstore across the street, the literature has been blacklisted countries. Hidden between the Qur'an and video copy of the lecture topics such as courtship and divorce, as well as large tracts of Hizb-UT Tahrir, pan-Islamic political parties to operate freely in the West as an extremist organization, but was banned in Russia and other former Soviet Central Asian republics.
Asked the his Mosque Gasanaliev smile waved his hand touch the national concern. They are from flies Elephant, "he said. He must bear in his mosque all comers, regardless of their views or denomination open. "We have no political," he said. "Our law is Islam you come here to pray, you leave anyone can come here no one will ask you who you are, which is part of Islamic law." His followers to do from there what is not his responsibility.
 



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