Posted on 01/26/2018 12:31:48 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
President Vladimir Putin has promised government backing for Islamic religious education in Russia, in a bid to stave extremism and cater to Russia’s large Muslim community.
Up to 20 million Muslims make up Russia’s second-largest religious minority. Thousands of young radicalized Russians have travelled to Iraq and Syria to join jihadist fighters in recent years, making the country the largest source of foreign fighters in the war-torn region.
At a meeting with Islamic religious figures on Wednesday, Russia’s president pledged “undoubted support” for a "revival of Islamic education in Russia," the state-run TASS news agency reported.
“Traditional Islam is an integral part of the Russian cultural code, and the Muslim Ummah [community], without any doubt, is a very important component of the multinational Russian people,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...
I don’t mind Russians killing muzzies.....
Indeed. The Islamic conquest of the Christian west is well underway. All too well underway. And with a few exceptions the western nations are being sold out to the Muslim conquest. It’s very sad. Tragic
Enjoy!!!!
That makes no sense. Russia is our natural ally against Islam. Islam intends to destroy everything that is not Islam. I’ll take the Russians any day over bloodthirsty Muslims.
I’ve said it before, Chechnya is way down there in Southern Russia, maybe Ossetia is too. Maybe they should just let them go since their such troubled spots. Really, Russia is like the size of 3 United States but those two areas don’t seem too big. I’m sure the ROC is there, so I do realize it is not a simple matter. I’ve been corrected about this before too, people say, then you have an Islamic Republic on your footsteps. That may well be so.
I’ve read things like “Russia’s military will soon be majority Russian”; but really, if some of these areas have majority Muslim populations and that is where a good portion of Russia’s 20,000,000 Muslims are, one could conceivably let it go.
By the way, I think it’s a longstanding tradition over there, to embrace the diversity of religion including the Jewish faith too. They’ve got their strongman, Kadyrov in Chechnya, maybe they figure they can to an extent control things with their own favored rulers in power.
You miss the point. It is better to have madrasses within the network of public schools with substantial control over their curriculum.
Currently these schools are run by the invited Saudi clerics as they please.
Moslems comprise between 10% (Pew) and 15% (RT) of Russia’s population, which is a higher % than any country in Europe (even France). The Russians are screwed bigly on this front, longterm. But Putin doesn’t give a rip about longterm. He just wants to hold onto power for as long as he possible can with as little trouble from the ever-increasing Muzzie pop. as possible.
Thanks GoldenState_Rose.
He's gone completely out of his mind...!
Thanks for posting that. I got about 25 minutes in and had to do other stuff. I’ll watch the rest later. Very informative.
Really?
Uncle Joe dealt with presumed hostile populations in exactly that way. He migrated them to less threatening locations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Soviet_Union
E.g., I happen to know a real estate agent who is a naturalized American from Russia. She speaks Russian, but looks completely (and beautifully) Korean. Because she is. Stalin deported her folks from the Soviet Far East to Kazakhstan, where her husband, a Korean-American Peace Corp volunteer found her. Stalin had worried that the Koreans in the Soviet Far East were loyal to the Japanese, an enemy of the Soviet Union. So, he moved them to Kazakhstan, isolated in the middle of Asia.
Wondered that myself as soon as I saw the headline.
I think until recently; probably not any more. Dozens of arrests and frozen/seized assets in early November.
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