[alloysteel]

Islam and Russia have been co-existing peacefully?

Then who the hell are the Chechens? Or in some parallel Orwellian universe, have the Russians and Chechens always been at peace?

They NEVER had these kinds of problems under Stalin.

[Cronos]

you are correct, alloysteel, Russia has defined itself as being at war with Islam right from the battle of Kazan when Muscowy overthrew the Tatars

Since then Russia has continuously had the Ottoman turks, the Turkic Central Asians as their enemy

In the 1700s they fought 7 wars with the Turks and Iranis, pushing them back slowly

In fact Russia right from 1453 saw itself as the successor to the Byzantine Empire hence locked in a holy war with the Turks. They believed this right until World War I, when one of their aims was to conquer constantinople.

RaisingCain -- I'm sorry but political Islam is the invention of Mohammed

Islam has been political right since its inception. Islam has continuously been against the US and its allies, even before the USA came into being