Russian police detain 300 Muslims says newsMOSCOW – In a new crackdown on Russian Muslims, Moscow police have detained more than 300 worshippers after rounding them up during prayer at a Muslim prayer room in the Russian capital. "The situation in the North Caucasus should be kept under particular control," President Vladimir Putin told a meeting of security force officers, Reuters reported on Friday, June The forces, led by Federal Security Service (FSB), also confiscated Islamic literature to check its content.
Friday's raid is the third targeting Muslim places of worship in Moscow or St Petersburg this year. It comes as Russia prepares for next year’s Winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
The Russian Federation is home to some 23 million Muslims in the north of the Caucasus and southern republics of Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan. Islam is Russia's second-largest religion representing roughly 15 percent of its 145 million predominantly Orthodox population.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVXz3F2ms80well that is the news today.. I hope Mr. Putin doesn't arrest
his wife