A recent congress of a predominantly Muslim group in Russia was tainted by ant-Semitism and xenophobia. Gadzhi Makhachev, a member of the Russian Parliament, called for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to be hanged and for all homosexuals in Russia to be put in prison, according to the Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union.
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