Jamal attended on February 26 an online conference, titled "The Strategy of Islam in Caucasus." He said there that today’s official mullahs of Russia descended from the Stalin era. Compared with their Christian counterparts, the Russian mullahs were more suppressed and more frightened, said Jamal, and added that they did not dare to use their lawfully granted rights, let alone display a Muslim position. On February 28, Jamal was interviewed by Eko, an Azerbaijani newspaper. The main theme of his interview is that it is not easy to be a Muslim in Russia.��

The majority of Muslim religious authorities in Russia do nothing to defend Muslims. These people who are representative of the Muslims are utterly passive observers of a disparaging court ban on the publication of Islamic books. They do nothing to stop the recent closing down of Turkish high schools across Russia. These weak religious authorities are not religious authorities; they are just turbaned civil servants.�

The lives of ordinary Muslims in Russia are very difficult because they may become subjected to mass humiliations. The Muslims in Russia are treated as second-class people; they are denied access to traditional literature; the police subject them to pressure such that the police inspect the mosques, both small and big. A lot of Muslims are nowadays detained for fabricated offenses. For my part, I know more examples of such detentions. The Muslims are having huge trouble in autonomous republics of the Russian Federation in general, in republics of North Caucasus, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan in particular. The Muslims have to fight for their rights and struggle to keep existing the places where they pray and worship God. To sum up, the Muslims in Russia are generally suppressed, humiliated and displeased with their status.�

No, there aren’t such mistreatments in central regions of Russia, because beard does not connote something related to Islam. There are many bearded non-Muslims in Russia. It would have been necessary to dismiss from job Christians who frequently grow a beard if there were such mistreatments. It is a different case, though, in republics of North Caucasus. In other words, it is a different case in places where Muslims make up a majority: there is a continuous police hunt; the faithful Muslims are called by the humiliating word "solicitors." Both the police and the OMON forces are continuously carrying out the "new party" operations to detain more people.Such criminal acts are seen by the Ministry of Interior happen in Kabardino-Balkaria, Abkhazia and Ingushetia. For example, recently, hundreds of young people have disappeared and most of them were murdered in broad daylight in front of hundreds of eyewitnesses. It is also seen that there is a conscious provocation behind all this. Certain powers in the Russian administration that want to solve some problems through manipulation are responsible for causing destabilization in Russia.