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Sheikh-ul-Islam Haji Allahshukur Pashazadeh meets with the head of the Los Angeles Tolerance Center

22 July 2008 10:40 (UTC +04:00)

Chairman of the Caucasian Muslims Office said tolerance in Azerbaijan was at the highest level. â€œReligious tolerance is at the highest level in Azerbaijan, representatives of different religious confessions are free to live together and to pray. All religious meeting-houses have an opportunity for free functioning, synagogues, churches and temples are constructed in the country and representatives of various faiths are praying there. Azerbaijan can be a real example of tolerance in the worldâ€. Sheikh-ul-Islam Haji Allahshukur Pashazadeh said new synagogue would be constructed for the highland Jewish community and promised his support for its construction. Haji Allahshukur Pashazadeh said large Armenian community lived in Los Angeles, which actively worked against Azerbaijan. â€œArmenians living in Los Angeles may have misleading information about Azerbaijan. It needs to explain them truth. Therefore I am ready to meet with Armenian religious figures. I can meet them even at church to explain them realitiesâ€. Heads of various religious confessions gave examples of high-level religious tolerance in Azerbaijan. Rabbi Abraham Cooper thanked for sincere welcoming and said he was pleased to see free coexistence of different religious communities in the country. Then the sides presented gifts to each other.