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March 3, 2006

Hamas Love-Fest Begins in Moscow

A delegation from the terrorist organization, Hamas, arrived in Moscow today at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin, a man who President George Bush calls a ``reliable partner in the War on Terrorism.''

Putin's support for terrorist regimes is well documented. A former KGB colonel and an admirer of all things Soviet who has squashed democracy in Russia, Putin is the most ardent supporter of the Islamic Republic of Iran's bid to start a nuclear program. Other close friends include Syria, and the international pariah, North Korea. To this day, the Russians mourn the fall of their decades-long friend, Saddam Hussein.

Officially, Hamas will meet with the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, but given the Soviet-style rule in the country, it is quite possible Putin will find time to secretly meet with the Islamic terrorist organization. Hamas has already made it clear it will continue to be faithful to the Koranic call to smite the infidel.

"I don't think Hamas will change radically,'' the Palestinian envoy to Moscow, Bakir Abdel Munem, told the Moscow Times. He added, however, without elaborating that, ``it will look at things from different angles, and looking from different angles means new scenery''

What that means is anyone's guess. Could it mean that Hamas will soften its call for the destruction of Israel? Or could it mean that Hamas will take the Mohammedan exertion to kill the infidel to the very extreme, and ask Russian assistance to create a `peaceful' nuclear program?

Given Russia's track record helping the main supporter of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran, acquire nuclear technology for `peaceful purposes', we should suspect the worse. (Now, why would one of the world's largest oil producers need to switch to nuclear power?) Hamas is an Iranian ally, and with or without Russian help, we can only believe that the fruits of the Iranian nuclear program will end up in Hamas hands.

While in Moscow, Hamas also plans to meet with local Muslim NGOs and ex-pat Arabs, most likely to forge closer relations with Islamic terror cells in Russia. Moscow has been frequently targeted by Islamic terrorists, with a rash of bombs on the underground, and most dramatically with the Chechen siege of a theater in autumn 2002 that left about 120 people dead.

Now why would Russia go out of its way to court an Islamic terrorist organization when itself is the victim of Islamic terror? Muslims comprise about 12 percent of the Russian population, and number about 16 million. They come from different nationalities --- Tartars, Chechens, Dagestanis, Bashkirs, Cherkesi, etc. --- most of whom were atheists in Soviet times. In recent years, oil-flushed Arab charities have actively financed a Muslim resurgence among these people, which of course has opened the way to the Koranic teaching of violence and intolerance toward the infidel. The Russian government greatly fears increasing Islamic terrorism, and hence, the invitation to Hamas can only be seen as appeasement. In a number of recent public appearances, Putin has emphatically told the Muslim world that, ``Russia is your friend.'' Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today that Russia fancies itself a ``bridge'' between the West and the Islamic world.

By all accounts, Putin is a committed Russian Orthodox believer. But he is well aware that the Russian state and law-enforcement system is weak and totally corrupt, and unable to combat increasing Muslim lawlessness and violence. To this day, the government cannot bring order to little Chechnya. The Russian policy of appeasement, however, is doomed. Chechen Islamic terrorists are already unhappy with the Moscow meeting, and have promised to continue their campaign of terror.

``I want to make it very clear that the Palestinian mujahedeen are our brothers,'' said Movladi Udugov, a spokesman for the self-proclaimed Chechen Islamic Republic of Ichkeria, reported by Newsru, a non-government controlled Russian web-based newspaper. ``But we are very unhappy with this meeting because Hamas will be shaking the hand of the murderers of 250,000 Chechen Muslims.''

Udugov was referring to the Chechen attempt to secede from the Russian Federation beginning in 1991, and to establish a repressive Islamic state. What Udugov and the Chechens prefer not to speak about is the ethnic cleansing from 1991-1996 against the Christian and Jewish population in Chechnya. The number of victims totaled several hundred thousand. The lucky ones had their homes taken away and were forced to flee for their lives. The unlucky were massacred, while children of mixed marriages were kidnapped by their Chechen relatives. It was this ethnic cleansing that provoked Moscow's heavy-handed reaction that led to over a decade of war and left most of Chechnya leveled.

Posted by at March 3, 2006 7:47 AM

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