A member of the Human Rights Council from Dagestan is again concerned about public prayers.

Marina Akhmedova, a member of the Presidential Human Rights Council from Dagestan, a former journalist who once wrote sympathetic reports from Ukraine, now one of the most rabid propagandists of the war, and editor-in-chief of the publication Regnum, has once again expressed outrage over the performance of "public prayer" – this time by a Muslim from Central Asia.

"A migrant from Uzbekistan will be deported from Russia for public prayer on a lawn in St. Petersburg. The court also fined him 30,000 rubles. A patrol noticed him near a house on Savushkina Street," she reported on her Telegram channel.

"The man said he was unaware of the ban on public prayer. That's a very interesting formulation." "After all, even in Uzbekistan they don't allow public prayer, considering it petty hooliganism," Akhmedova reproachfully reminds us.

"He not only didn't know our laws," the Human Rights Council member angrily denounces this man, "but he imagined Russia as a country of unlimited opportunity, where you can do things you can't do at home."

Akhmedova believes that's what "most people who come here think. And this notion must disappear from foreigners' perceptions of Russia," she emphasizes. Such a warning borders on a threat: anyone who mistakes Russia for a free country will face hardship.

"But never mind that old man," she finally magnanimously forgives him for his "petty hooliganism," apparently remembering the "hooligan's" advanced age. "But what about citizens who do the same? You can't deport them," the state human rights activist laments resignedly, referring to the Muslims of Russia with whom she has the misfortune of sharing the same space. Here's the problem: you can't deport them, along with their migrant grandfather, to Central Asia, as Comrade Stalin did in the 1940s.

Marina Akhmedova has previously denounced Muslims performing religious rituals in public places, with such fervor, as if they were morally unacceptable or even criminal. She claims such actions "disturb society." This remarkable human rights activist advocates for harsh penalties for such manifestations of religious faith.

Furthermore, she opposes the creation of prayer rooms, although one would think she should be in favor of this measure. After all, prayer rooms certainly can't "disturb society." However, their presence, in Akhmedova's opinion, "will accelerate and intensify the process of Islamization."

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