Week-ending 24 January 2020
Dzambulat Umarov, Chechen minister of national policy, foreign relations, press, and information: ‘You can express yourself as you like, but reading the Koran in a certain setting, situation, and with certain conversations really is therapeutic in traditional Islamic medicine.’
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Chechen Minister Says Reading Of Koran Therapeutic For Lesbian
A minister in Russia’s Chechnya region has said it would be “remedial” for an openly gay woman to read the Koran, following beatings she accused her parents of orchestrating over her homosexuality. “You can express yourself as you like, but reading the Koran in a certain setting, situation, and with certain conversations really is therapeutic in traditional Islamic medicine,” Dzambulat Umarov, Chechen minister of national policy, foreign relations, press, and information, told the 360 channel on January 22. RFE/RL, 22 January 2020
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