Report: Azerbaijan bans Koran, Islamic symbols in government offices

[SWORD OF SUNNA]

Following violent clashes between police and Islamic activists in Baku in mid-February, the government has ordered all state employees to remove Islamic symbols from their offices, a source in Azerbaijan's Ministry of Internal Affairs tells EurasiaNet.
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b966e7324.html

 

[ShyHijabi]

We have symbols? Since when?

 

[arzafar]

islami symbols here probably means islamic clothing

 

[Aapa]

Assalaam walaikum,

Religious items such as the Koran and ayahs – the 6,236 Koran verses regarded by Muslims as divine revelations – increasingly have shared space in government offices with the Azerbaijani flag and portraits of President Ilham Aliyev and his father, the late president Heydar Aliyev.