Chechens build new mosque in Arab village
Muslims from Chechnya have helped fund the building of a new mosque in an Arab village in Israel. The mosque was named after Chechnya’s former leader Akhmad Kadyrov, who was assassinated in 2004, in the village of Abu Ghosh. Abu Ghosh residents say their forbears were Chechens who came five centuries ago to then Ottoman-ruled Palestine. “We were raised to accept and welcome everyone, no matter what their race or religion,”said Salim Jabr, the former Abu Ghosh mayor and chief fund-raiser for the $10 million mosque. The building has four minarets – a number typical of mosques in the Caucasus […]