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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Muslims Take Responsibility For Murder of Fr. Daniel Sysoyev


On December 26th a Russian agency informed the public that an Islamic extremist group has taken responsibility for the murder of Fr. Daniel Sysoyev, who was killed inside St. Thomas Church in Moscow on November 19th with a bullet to the head. However, this information has not been verified by other sources.

Fr. Daniel, it should be remembered, preached to Muslims and helped convert dozens of Muslims to Orthodoxy. For this he received death threats from Muslims daily, including those publicly displayed on his blog.

There is a reward out for one million rubles leading to the arrest of the murderer of Fr. Daniel.

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  1. promachosJanuary 6, 2010 at 2:59 PM

    >There is a reward out for one million rubles leading to the arrest of the murderer of Fr. Daniel.<
    The murderer? He was just hired to execute a fatwa issued by the imams against the courageous priest.Arresting the murderer, who surely has found by now safe haven in some Islamic territory and is revered by the local clergy and populace as a living shahid, would not help much. The Russian state is unwilling, powerless and positively paralyzed by the PC virus and fear of Islamic jihad at home and abroad to defend its non-Moslem citizens against Islam-driven crimes like murders and assaults.
    It was visible from the very beginning of this strange investigation. Sysoyev wrote on his blog that he had received 14 death threats from Moslems, many of them directly over his mobile phone! And yet the police and media span the yarn of mythical "sectarians" and "neo-pagans" as responsible for this horrifying murder of the priest during the service in the church. Many do-gooders kept white washing Islam. The Police appeased the public with boasting of having engaged the best police forces to clarify the murder. To no avail though!
    I just wonder whom the Moslems will kill next? I know beforehand that some mythical non-Moslem aliens will be blamed and not Islam and the Moslems who are as willing to intimidate, kill, burn and destroy as they are pampered and protected by the state-controlled media and the powers that be.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 29, 2010 at 4:04 PM

    hi,my name is elie,i am from lebanon,is there muslim population in Moscow?

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  3. John SanidopoulosJanuary 29, 2010 at 4:42 PM

    Yes there is.

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 29, 2010 at 4:58 PM

    i wish the world would know what muslims really are.
    Dont deal with them and dont work with them. All the world must know that they hate us.

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  5. ΝΕΚΡΟΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΝ ΚΟΣΜΟNovember 5, 2011 at 6:37 PM

    Orthodox icons of new-martyr Daniel Sysoyev: http://o-nekros.blogspot.com/2011/09/blog-post_5806.html.
    Thank you. With christian love.

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