Ramadan observance in Dagestan: Islamic jihadists shoot and gravely wound rabbi
The devout Muslims who bombed the Boston marathon lived in Dagestan briefly before coming to the United States. They beheaded three Jewish boys on the tenth anniversary of 911. Islamic Jew-hatred -- it's in the quran.
Apparently they shoot rabbis in cold blood in their streets. "The acting head of the republic Ramazan Abdulatipov condemned the attack on Isakov, blaming it on 'extremists and terrorists.'"
Rabbi Injured in Dagestan Shooting – Russian Prosecutors Ria.Ru July 25, 2013 (thanks to Ken)
MOSCOW, July 25 (RIA Novosti) – A rabbi was seriously wounded by an unidentified shooter in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Thursday, Russia’s top investigative body said, in an attack provincial and Jewish leaders blamed on “jihadists” and “terrorists.”Artur Isakov, 40, was wounded in the chest early Thursday while on the way to his house in the southern city of Derbent, Russia’s Investigative Committee said. He was hospitalized in a “grave condition,” it said in a website statement.Isakov’s religion is among the possible motives investigators are considering for the attack, the statement said.A medical worker at Derbent's central hospital told RIA Novosti that the rabbi is in an intensive-care unit and has been put on a ventilator to help him breathe.Neither the rabbi or his flock have been threatened recently, the Jewish.ru website said quoting unnamed community representatives. Identifying Isakov by another first name - Ovadia, it said that he oversaw construction of a large community center in Derbent, Russia’s southernmost city that hosts a small Jewish community that arrived from Iran in the early Middle Ages.
An Islamist insurgency, once confined largely to the republic of Chechnya, has spread across the North Caucasus in recent years. Attacks on security forces, police and civilians are reported regularly in the neighboring republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria.
The acting head of the republic Ramazan Abdulatipov condemned the attack on Isakov, blaming it on "extremists and terrorists."
Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar also accused radical Islamists of attacking Isakov and called on the Russian authorities to find and prosecute the perpetrators – and to “take all legal actions to destroy the jihadist underground,” according to the Moscow-based Jewish News Agency.
An Israeli plane with a medical team aboard will fly to Russia to help treat Isakov, Lazar told the agency.
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