Chechen parliamentarians propose ban on recognizing a number of religious works as extremist

The same goes for their translations.

Parliamentarians of Chechnya proposed to impose a ban on the recognition of sacred books as extremist. On Friday, January 27, the legislative assembly of the republic submitted a corresponding bill to the State Duma.

As it became known to “MK”, ​​the Chechen parliamentarians, the compilers, note that the Law “On Counteracting Extremist Activity” the Bible, Koran, Tanakh and Kanjur (the first part of the Tibetan Buddhist canon), their content, as well as quotations from them cannot be recognized as extremist materials. But at the same time, practice shows that other religious literary and written monuments, which act as canonical sources of the dogma of traditional world religions, often become the subject of legal proceedings. This, they emphasize, “leads to public outcry and mass indignation.”

For example, for Muslims, after the Koran, the main sources of doctrine for Muslims are the collections of hadiths and the works of four Islamic canonical schools (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i and Hanbali madhhabs). Therefore, deputies of the Chechen parliament propose to supplement the relevant article with an indication that the collections of hadiths, the works of the four schools of Islam, and, along with the Bible, other sacred Christian scriptures, also cannot be recognized as extremist.

In addition, they propose to supplement the relevant article of the law with an indication that not only the primary sources of sacred books, but also their translations into the languages ​​of the peoples of the Russian Federation cannot be recognized as extremist.