ISLAMIC
CULTURAL
CENTER OPPOSES OPENING MOONSHINE MUSEUM IN KAZAN
Interfax-Religiia,
9
February 2018
Representatives
of
the "Iman" Center of Islamic Culture in Kazan sent to the
authorities of Tatarstan and Kazan a request to investigate the
legality of the
proposed opening of a museum of moonshine production in Kazan.
"We
sent
our appeals to the president of Tatarstan, the State Council of
the republic,
and the city government of Kazan," the chairman of the Iman
Center, Nail
Garipov, told Interfax.
He
explained
that in the appeal they ask for an investigation of the plans
for such a museum
to determine its compliance with legislation on the advertising
of alcohol.
Representatives
of
the Iman Center learned from news media about the plan for
opening a museum
of moonshine [in Russian: "samogon"] production in the capital
of
Tatarstan and they were upset that there will appear in the
center of the city
a place where the drinking of alcoholic beverages will be
popularized.
N.
Garipov thinks
that a moonshine museum "is not the most critically needed
museum."
The
appeal from
the public leaders says that the original function of any museum
is
enlightenment; but in the case of a moonshine museum, where it
is planned to
organize alcohol tasting, this function will obviously be
violated.
"If
this is
the case, then they may begin conducting excursions for
schoolchildren to this
museum. If this were a museum where they described the harm that
alcohol causes
people and the dangerous consequences for the population of
moonshine
production, then one might welcome the appearance of such a
cultural
institution, but in this case it is planned to create a "feeling
of
pride" in visitors by stories about the history of the
production of moonshine,"
the Iman Center's appeal says.
Meanwhile,
in
the Kazan city hall they said that they have not participated in
the creation
of this museum and that apparently a private individual is
organizing it.
Interfax
has
still not managed to get comments from the organizer of the
museum, although
the website of the intended institution calls the museum of
moonshine an
anti-alcohol museum with tasting.
The attendance rules say, specifically, that persons in a state of alcohol, drug, or toxic inebriation will not be admitted into the museum. Also persons will not be admitted with a firearm, pellet gun, or bayonet, or models (souvenir patterns) of such weapons. (tr. by PDS, posted 11 February 2018)
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