Ilyas Ilyasov becomes twelfth religious leader killed in Northern Caucasus since 2012

According to the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot", the murder of Ilyas Ilyasov, Imam and theologian, committed in Makhachkala, became the twelfth case of violent death of Islamic religious leaders in Northern Caucasus during 2012 and 2013.

Let us remind you that Imam Ilyas Ilyasov was killed in the evening of August 3 in Makhachkala, during the shelling of the car, and the driver was wounded and hospitalized. The basic version about the cause of the Imam's murder is his religious activity.

According to the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot", it is the second murder of a religious leader in Northern Caucasus in 2013. In the evening of March 3, in the village of Gubden of the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, Magomed Biyarslanov, a madrasa teacher, was shot dead in his house.

Since the beginning of this year, one attack has been recorded, in which an Islamic religious leader was wounded.

In 2012, according to the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot", in Northern Caucasus 10 religious leaders were killed. Dagestan became the leader among all regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District on the number of murders of religious leaders, committed in 2012. In2012, inDagestan, five imams, madrasa teacher, Sufi sheikh and famous Islamic theologian were killed. One religious leader was killed in the StavropolTerritory, and one in North Ossetia.