[Kolokotronis]

“Their KGB leader Putin laments the collapse of the Soviet Union. He wants revenge for the loss of the EVIL EMPIRE he faithfully served all his adult life.”

That may well be what motivates him. or perhaps he is motivated by a restoration of the Third Rome. Frankly, I have more confidence in the sincerity of Putin’s Orthodoxy than I do in that man Bush’s supposed Christianity. I’ve never seen Putin grovel in front of Mohammedans. Bush has raised that to an art form. Putin doesn’t disgrace Russia. The groveling Bush disgraces America almost every day.

Bottom line, as I said elsewhere, if I had to choose, which because Bush and his fellow travelers are finished politically is unlikely any time soon, I’d take the Third Rome of Holy Russia any day over centuries under the heel of the Mohammedan barbarians.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Putin tried to legitimize suicide-bombing terrorists HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement) by inviting their representatives to the Kremlin. Putin even sent muslim Chechen "former rebels" to Lebanon as "peacekeepers" to help Hizballah wage jihad on Israel. It was under Putin that Russia officially joined the Organization of Islamic States. Putin explicitly ruled out any "Holy Alliance" with Christendom against Islam and said Russia was Islam's best friend in the world.

Vladmir Putin is the world's biggest dhimmi and slave of Islam. He is the source and enabler of islamofascism the world over.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Putin notes religious tolerance, peace-loving character of Russian Muslims - "Neighborliness, religious tolerance, peacefulness, justice, and care for friends have always been inherent to faithful Muslims in Russia notwithstanding ethnic origin or faith. These qualities are always lasting values."

Russia's Council of Muftis optimistic over future of independent Kosovo - "Kosovo has the right to exist as independent state. Today the joint cohabitation of Albanians and Serbians is impossible because of a long-sanding conflict between them. A lot of sacrifices were made," Nafigullah Ashirov, a co-chairman of the Russian Council of Muftis, told Interfax on Sunday.

[E. Cartman]

Bottom line, as I said elsewhere, if I had to choose, which because Bush and his fellow travelers are finished politically is unlikely any time soon, I’d take the Third Rome of Holy Russia any day over centuries under the heel of the Mohammedan barbarians.

You are correct. Moreover, although we westerners often fail to live up to the standards posed to us by our Judaeo-Christian tradition, the Russkies included, at last we don't adhere to divine writ, The Qur'an, that intentionally reduces other human beings to second class status and misery.

I'm no apologists for the Russkies, but I fear the blood-stained hands of the ROP a whole lot more than I do the third Rome.