US AND ISRAELI FLAGS BURNED ON ASHURA DAY IN AZERBAIJAN
Azeri Press Agency
Jan 7 2009
Azerbaijan
Baku. Ramil Mammadli-APA. The Day of Ashura is held in Nardaran
Village of Baku on Tuesday, on the 10th day of Muharram.
APA correspondent reports from Nardaran that Akhund of Nardaran Village
Haji Mukhtar Rza addressed the people gathered in the mosque. He spoke
about Armenian aggression against Azerbaijan and thousands of our
citizens, who became martyrs as a result of this aggression and said
that liberation of Karabakh and Iravan would pass through Quds. "The
time will come when millions of Muslim people will go against the
tyrants and will establish that system, which Quran states and will
liberate all Muslim lands from the occupation of tyrants".
Other people addressing the ceremony called on the world Muslims
to unite.
At 12.00, on the peak of Ashura, the people began to beat themselves
with chain. Then they burned US and Israeli flags and the process
was accompanied by the exclamation of "Allahu Akbar". Israeli flag
was trampled in the mosque's yard. It was stated in Ashura meeting
that on the meeting for support of Palestinians will take place in
Imam Hussein Square in Nardaran on January 9.
The Ashura Day is continued.
Azeri Press Agency
Jan 7 2009
Azerbaijan
Baku. Ramil Mammadli-APA. The Day of Ashura is held in Nardaran
Village of Baku on Tuesday, on the 10th day of Muharram.
APA correspondent reports from Nardaran that Akhund of Nardaran Village
Haji Mukhtar Rza addressed the people gathered in the mosque. He spoke
about Armenian aggression against Azerbaijan and thousands of our
citizens, who became martyrs as a result of this aggression and said
that liberation of Karabakh and Iravan would pass through Quds. "The
time will come when millions of Muslim people will go against the
tyrants and will establish that system, which Quran states and will
liberate all Muslim lands from the occupation of tyrants".
Other people addressing the ceremony called on the world Muslims
to unite.
At 12.00, on the peak of Ashura, the people began to beat themselves
with chain. Then they burned US and Israeli flags and the process
was accompanied by the exclamation of "Allahu Akbar". Israeli flag
was trampled in the mosque's yard. It was stated in Ashura meeting
that on the meeting for support of Palestinians will take place in
Imam Hussein Square in Nardaran on January 9.
The Ashura Day is continued.