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Giulio Meotti : Putin’s Russia Claims the Role of Defender of Christians Under Islam
The Geller Report ^ | 4/24/17 | Giulio Meotti

Posted on 04/25/2017 2:07:22 PM PDT by marshmallow

Fears of Islamic terrorism permeate Russian history. In the nineteenth century, Russian novelists wrote books about Russian officers fighting Islamic warriors in the Caucasus (such as Hadji Murat by Lev Tolstoy). The Russian soldier fights the Islamic warrior, the one struggling to protect the Christian civilization, the other determined to eradicate it.

Now Russia has quickly replaced the United States as the number one enemy of Al Qaeda, the Islamic State and other Sunni jihadist groups motivated by the violent and puritan salafist ideology. Recent Middle Eastern Russian interventions, including those in Syria and Libya, have raised Russia to the status of the main target of the Jihadists. Everywhere it has intervened abroad, Russia seems to have been always moved by a deep fear of Islam. Putin said to CBS’ Charlie Rose that the “most important” reason why Russia came to war in Syria was the “threat of their return.” “They” are the 7,000 Russian Muslims who fought for the Caliphate.

Some Russian experts, including Alexei Malashenko of the Moscow Carnegie Center and Roman Silantiev of the Ministry of Justice, estimate that there are thousands of Salafist prayer groups in Russia nowadays, with Islam spreading practically in all regions of Russia, including Siberia and even in the Far East. Russia has also an internal demographic fear. A recent report by the Jamestown Foundation entitled “How Islam Will Change Russia” explained this challenge very well: given the demographic changes, Muslims will represent from one-third to half of the Russian population by 2050.

In addition to adventurism in Muslim countries, Russian forces have embarked on a massive counter-insurgency campaign against Islamic militants in its own soil. The jihadists were responsible for major attacks on Russian soil, including the hostage crisis at Moscow’s theater in 2002, the siege in Beslan in 2004, the............

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1 posted on 04/25/2017 2:07:22 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Lol.Like Stalin before him.


2 posted on 04/25/2017 2:08:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Russia is the least Christian country I have visited in Eastern Europe. By far.


3 posted on 04/25/2017 2:09:49 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: marshmallow

And the USA’s progressive, globalist, interventionist elites claim to be defenders of Islam.

My, how things have changed in a few decades.


4 posted on 04/25/2017 2:12:32 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: marshmallow

Pope F is doing a poor job too.


5 posted on 04/25/2017 2:14:32 PM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: marshmallow

That’s why Putin is presiding over an unprecedented flooding of Russia by mislim immigrants, both legal and illegal, from Central Asia and the Caucuses. Especially Moscow,which is about 50% muslim now, who say that not Moscovites have built Moscow, but Allah.


6 posted on 04/25/2017 2:15:38 PM PDT by Mi-kha-el ((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
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To: marshmallow

That’s why Putin is presiding over an unprecedented flooding of Russia by mislim immigrants, both legal and illegal, from Central Asia and the Caucuses. Especially Moscow,which is about 50% muslim now, who say that not Moscovites have built Moscow, but Allah.


7 posted on 04/25/2017 2:15:51 PM PDT by Mi-kha-el ((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
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To: Mi-kha-el

I stuttered.


8 posted on 04/25/2017 2:16:39 PM PDT by Mi-kha-el ((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
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To: marshmallow

“Putin’s Russia Claims the Role of Defender of Christians Under Islam”

I fail to see why this is funny because the sad fact is that since no one else wants the job then Russia owns it by default.


9 posted on 04/25/2017 2:23:58 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: marshmallow

Imperial Russia did the same!


10 posted on 04/25/2017 2:25:32 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Mi-kha-el

Actually, the 2012 religious statistics of Moscow give the total percentage of Muslims in the city as being about 4% Russian Orthodoxy was 53% Other Orthodoxy was 2%, Old Believers 1%, pagans 1%,, Protestants <1%, Deists 19%, and Atheists 12%


11 posted on 04/25/2017 2:29:45 PM PDT by Jacob Kell (A New Day has Dawned, let's Make America Great Again!)
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To: lodi90

“Russia is the least Christian country I have visited in Eastern Europe. By far.”

That’s your opinion. From what I have witnessed,Russian Christians are more devout than most Americans, by far.


12 posted on 04/25/2017 2:53:31 PM PDT by semaj (Audentes fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold. Be Bold FRiends.)
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To: Jacob Kell

Actually, the 2012 religious statistics of Moscow give the total percentage of Muslims in the city as being about 4% Russian Orthodoxy was 53% Other Orthodoxy was 2%, Old Believers 1%, pagans 1%,, Protestants <1%, Deists 19%, and Atheists 12%


That is most likely based on the old Soviet style resident registry system that Russia still uses. Others estimate those not officially registered and that figure is 2 million or more Muslims living in Moscow.


13 posted on 04/25/2017 3:06:46 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: marshmallow
A Remembrance From Days Gone By

The Ballad Of
Abdul ABul Bul Amir & Ivan Skavinsky Skavar

Seem The Hate Between Russia And The Muzzies Do Go Way Back

We used to sing this when I was a kid and I had no idea of the meaning back in those days


14 posted on 04/25/2017 3:25:17 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Jacob Kell

Today, it’s 2 mln out of 12 mln. Official statistics. Unofficially, many more.


15 posted on 04/25/2017 3:27:09 PM PDT by Mi-kha-el ((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
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To: marshmallow

More believable for Putin to say it than if Obama (”I’m Christian, I went to Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years”) had claimed to be a defender of the Christian faith.


16 posted on 04/25/2017 3:40:17 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: lodi90

Shhhhh. Don’t let on otherwise the putinista crowd will be upset


17 posted on 04/25/2017 3:43:28 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: MeganC

It’s funny because if you think that is why Putin continues his expansionist policies you are highly misinformed


18 posted on 04/25/2017 3:45:46 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

If you think you can read my mind you’re deluded.


19 posted on 04/25/2017 4:03:09 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: MeganC

I don’t have to read your mind. I read your post


20 posted on 04/25/2017 4:25:24 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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