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at the city's only mosque. Since the mosque can accommodate up to 700 people (while the city has 30,000 Muslims) the remaining worshipers were forced to perform their worship in the temple courtyard. The rally started one day after the protesters got permission from the municipality to organize a
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asked all the believers from the loudspeaker not to give in to provocations and to trust the police. During the clashes, the nationalists used wooden flagpoles, metal pipes, eggs, and stones to attack the worshippers, and the last used plastic tubing. Five
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protest and announced the theme "protest against the loudspeakers of the mosque". According to reports, the initial idea was to protest next to the park, close to the mosque. But later, due to the request of
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