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March 28, 2006

Russia: Creeping Muslim Offensive for Control

After years of carefully observing the situation in Russia, WR has detected a clear Muslim effort to gain significant influence, if not eventual control, over the world's largest country. The stakes are clear. Russia has enormous natural resources and about 20,000 nuclear weapons. No wonder Saudi money has been pouring in to build mosques and schools to spread the intolerant and insidious message of the brutal 7th century Arab warlord, Mohammed.

While Muslims might not achieve any significant power in Russia in the short-term, the fact that they believe they will eventually control the country, whether it take 30 or 50 years, is undeniable. Under the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, that dream may happen sooner than later. With every one of Putin's statements sympathetic to Islam and affirming his friendship with the Muslim world, Russia's Muslim leaders only become emboldened and make more aggressive statements.

Russian Muslims started to throw their weight around shortly after Putin came to power. Head of Russia's Council of Muftis, Ravil Gainutdin, said in 2001, ``today is happening what 100 years ago seemed a wild dream --- Russia is destined to become one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.''

Now compare that statement five years ago to what Gainutdin said two months ago, when he made the assertion that while about 15 percent of Russians were ethnic Muslim (a figure most likely true, and their number might total as much as 20 million), only about 6 percent of Russians were Orthodox Christian. If we dot the `i' then it's clear that Russia's Muslim leadership already considers their totalitarian sect to be the dominant religion in this country of 142 million people. (For the record, the Russian Orthodox Church claims that 80 percent of Russians adhere to its faith.)

Ethnic Russians, however, are experiencing a dramatic population decline with mortality rates among the worse in the world (58.5 years for males) and with an average birth-rate of about 1.2 per couple. Compare this to ethnic Muslims' birth-rate which is believed to be about 3.5 per couple, as well as greater longevity. Muslim clerics believe demographics and time is on their side.

This demographic weapon has already encouraged Muslim clerics to call for having a vice-president in the federal government who would be responsible for Muslim affairs, and such a position would be held by a Muslim.

Other recent troubling developments include the call by Nafigulla Ashirov, co-chairman of the Council of Muftis, the country's most influential Muslim organization, to increase the number of mosques in Moscow from the current four to about 40. Speaking at a press conference earlier this month, he claimed that 10 percent of Moscow's approximate 12 million inhabitants are Muslim and that the mosque expansion is needed to meet their `spiritual' needs.

If this were Buddhism, Hinduism, or any other religion there would be little reason for concern. But only dedicated and passionate Muslim believers have carried out savage terrorist attacks that have killed hundreds in Russia in the past four years. A year ago, some of the children who escaped the slaughter in the school in Beslan in September 2004 told WR how the Chechen terrorists prayed five times a day during the approximate 60 hour siege, and invoked the blood-thirsty Islamic deity known as, Allakh, in Russian.

Mufti Ashirov's recent expansionist platform was tinged with veiled threats, saying that more mosques in Moscow would, ``help prevent upheavals in our society, especially since the situation in the country is far from normal, considering events in the Caucasus region.''

He was referring to armed insurrections by Islamic movements in Russia's Muslim republics of Chechnya, Dagestan, and Kabardino-Balkaria. Besides these regions, Russia's republic of Tatarstan on the Volga River is predominantly Muslim.

Other militant declarations by Ashirov include his outbursts against Russian Orthodox priests serving in the military as chaplains, as well as his fighting the teaching of a course, ``The basics of Orthodox culture,'' in public schools. His most controversial idea has been calling for the removal of the cross from the country's national symbols. In a recent TV interview on NTV he based his position on the fact that the Russian Constitution does not allow one religion to take precedence over another.

For over a 1,000 years Russia has been a predominantly Orthodox Christian country, however. After Muslim armies destroyed the Greek Christian empire of Byzantium in the mid 15th century, Russia took up the cause of Eastern Christianity and defended East and South Europe against advancing Muslim armies right up until the First World War.

In the mid 16th century, led by Ivan the Terrible, Russia finally destroyed the Muslim khanates of Astrakhan (on the Caspian Sea) and Kazan (upper Volga region, today the capital of Tatarstan). For over 300 years, these Muslim states had terrorized Russia with constant brutal and devastating invasions where entire cities were erased from the face of the earth, and women and children targeted for sex slavery.

In the late 18th century, Catherine the Great hatched a plan to liberate Byzantium and make her son, Konstantin, ruler in Constantinople, the occupied Byzantine capital. (For trivia buffs, friends of WR recently found a letter in Russia's Historical Archives where Catherine the Great called for the Scottish-American naval hero, John Paul Jones, to be recruited to join the Russian navy as an admiral in order ``to liberate Constantinople.'' Jones did serve as an admiral in the Russian navy, and scored several major victories against the Ottoman Turks, but Constantinople was never reached and as is well known, remains occupied today by Muslims.)

In the 19th century, Russia liberated part of the Balkans from Turkish Muslim tyranny and genocide.

As is clear from the recent events and statements stated earlier in this article, Muslims in Russia harbor the desire to turn the clock back to the Middle Ages and once again establish their brutal and violent hegemony over the country. Muslims have already turned Chechnya, most of whose ethnic Chechen population was atheist for decades during the Soviet period, into a brutal criminal state where even common Chechens are now regularly terrorized.

Imagine what will happen when the `religion of peace' gains the upper hand throughout Russia? Given current demographics in Russia and a political elite ever so eager to appease the Muslim world, that day looks likely to come, whether it take 25 or 50 years.

Posted by at March 28, 2006 6:25 AM

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