Posted on 10/15/2009 2:06:54 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
KAZAN, Russia — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday visited Kazan, the capital of Russia's predominantly Muslim Tatarstan region, lauding it as an example of multi-ethnic tolerance and peace. ....
Over half of the region's population are Tatars, a Muslim Turkic people who live alongside a large ethnic Russian Orthodox Christian population and other minorities.
Clinton, donning a yellow headscarf and taking off her shoes in line with Islamic custom, visited the gigantic Kul Sharif mosque in the Kazan Kremlin alongside the regional leader Mintimer Shaimiyev.
"You are well known as someone who has fostered religious tolerance. It's a wonderful example of what can be done if people work together," she told the local president in the mosque.
"I am happy to be here in a place that models interfaith tolerance. So important in the world today," she added.
Shaimiyev, who has ruled Tatarstan since the collapse of Communism in 1991, for his part declared that "there are no interfaith problems here. We have plenty of mixed marriages."
"A much better way to live," agreed Clinton. ....
In the 15th century, Kazan was the capital of the Kazan Khanate, a Tatar state that was a major Muslim power in the region, before it was sacked by Ivan the Terrible in 1552 and brought under Moscow's control.
The city proudly celebrated its millennium anniversary in 2005 when the Kul Sharif mosque, named after a Tatar leader who died defending the city from Ivan the Terrible, was inaugurated in the Kazan Kremlim.
Muslims make up over 20 million of Russia's 140 million-strong population. ....
"What is particularly attractive about Kazan is that you have a mosque and an Orthodox church side by side," Clinton told Echo of Moscow radio Wednesday morning ahead of her visit.
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So what do the Taters call their children ?
Tater tots ?
“I am happy to be here in a place that models interfaith tolerance. So important in the world today,” she added.
Shaimiyev, who has ruled Tatarstan since the collapse of Communism in 1991, for his part declared that “there are no interfaith problems here. We have plenty of mixed marriages.”
“A much better way to live,” agreed Clinton.
More conditioning of the masses.
So why didn’t Clinton lambast the Russians on their treatment of the Jews? Does she not know that there are Jewish children wandering the streets with no food? Does she not know that there are Americans working through Christian organizations going into Russia rescuing those children and putting them in orphanges in Poland and smuggling in food and goods to the Jews who aren’t allowed to work in Russia?
Doesn’t Clinton know that the Muslims are in fact planning and plotting to destroy Israel and US as we speak?
SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP HILLARY! You’re just an enabler of the arabic/muslim communist in our White House!
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