 Here we go again guys. A video surfaced online showing some alleged Ukrainian soldiers using the Koran to you know cut what looks like bread or butter. I really don't want to know. I see teas with the costume of secretive videos like the one I'm about to show you. The perpetrators were all faceless. The camera was kept on the action and a couple of voices in the background were like saying something that looked like mockery. Brothers and sisters, I was not quick to jump into the bad wagon of blaming the Ukrainian military. But apart from the men in the video who are wearing Ukrainian camouflage, we cannot rule out the presence of some Islamophobic dudes on the Ukrainian side. About 1.5 million Muslims live in pre-war Ukraine, the most of whom are Ukrainians themselves, Kramian Tatars and people from Muslim majority countries who came to Ukraine long ago and integrated. The smaller part is made up of refugees as students from the Islamic countries who do not stay for long. Probably they come for studies. While there is no widespread Islamophobia, a UN Human Rights and Religious Rights Assessment document observed Islamophobia on the part of right-wing, new nationalist groups. And this group formed a part of the larger Ukrainian fighting force in the Donbass and of course entire Ukraine. So there is a possibility here. Asalaamu alaikum brothers and sisters. Please like and share this video to support our desire to let others know about what we're doing. Don't forget to subscribe to help us grow together the new trending video of some alleged Ukrainian soldiers on the front line. The secret in the Koran is a rare sight to be completely honest but it leaves Muslims with a bad taste at the center of the time. For me there are two possible scenarios here. One the video is true and those perpetrating these are real soldiers presumably from an ultra-right-wing Ukrainian group. Their aim might be to mock the Chechens fighting on the side of Russia. There might be volunteers as well, people who are not really tolerant to Islam too. The video may possibly be a propaganda video by the Russians themselves. I mean ultimately to stoke religious tension between Ukrainians and the Muslim ummah. When you know Russians launched the so-called special military operation in Ukraine, many headlines both for and against Islam went live. That's some of them read like this, like Muslim cleric Juan Ubex against joining Russia-Ukrainian war. Another headline read like this, Ukraine crisis reveals Islamophobia, cultural racism, Edoan. One even asks why the some of the Arab public support Putin's war in Ukraine. The Washington Institute for the East Policy made a policy analysis that detected the Middle East responses to the Ukrainian crisis, making a case for polarization of opinion and how social media have shaped Asian response to the war. In all brothers and sisters, the Ukrainian-Russian crisis has been marked by significant amount of propaganda from both sides. It's important to be very careful with such propaganda because it often presents biased or incomplete information aimed at influencing public opinion in favor of one side or the other. In this case, it might be to influence the opinion of Muslims. The Quran is a secret text for us Muslims and the fascinate is considered a highly disrespectful act. It is a form of desecration that can cause deep emotional pain and offense to millions of people worldwide. Things like this also contribute to the radicalization of some individuals and fuel interfaith tension which is relatively harmful to the peaceful coexistence of different religious communities around the world. This is really bad but we pray Allah pays everybody in their own coins. Until next time guys, Asalaamu Alaikum.