{"id":484,"date":"2024-05-18T21:08:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T15:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2024-08-15T04:17:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T22:17:34","slug":"putins-kiss-on-the-holy-quran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Putin&#8217;s kiss on the Holy Quran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Desk \/\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a surprise visit to Chechnya to see the preparations of the Chechen army and volunteers for the war against Ukraine. Muslim-dominated Chechnya is a part of Russia. Putin stepped into the country after 13 years without prior announcement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, the Russian president kissed a copy of the Holy Quran, the holy book of Muslims, at a mosque in Grozny, the capital of the Chechen Republic. At that time, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov was also with him.<\/p>\n<p>This copy of the Quran is originally gold plated. After seeing it, the Russian president kissed it. Then Ramzan Kadyrov and Salah Mezhiev took pictures hugging the Quran.<\/p>\n<p>Mufti Salah Mezhiyev is the supreme religious leader of Muslim-majority Chechnya and the chairperson of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims in the Chechen Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to the troops at the Russian Special Forces University premises. &#8220;As long as we have people like you, we are definitely, definitely invincible,&#8221; Putin said there.<\/p>\n<p>He also said, &#8220;Here, it is never the same thing to operate a gun in a safe environment and to endanger one&#8217;s health and life in the battlefield.&#8221; But there is an urge in your heart to protect the motherland. And have the courage to make decisions accordingly. Source: Meher News Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Desk \/\/ &nbsp; Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a surprise visit to Chechnya to see the preparations of the Chechen army and volunteers for the war against Ukraine. Muslim-dominated Chechnya is a part of Russia. Putin stepped into the country after 13 years without prior announcement on Tuesday. During the visit, the Russian president kissed a copy of the Holy Quran, the holy book of Muslims, at a mosque in Grozny, the capital of the Chechen Republic. At that time, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov was also with him. This<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailymorningsun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}