This needs to be read in light of the fact Russia’s people and their Muslim communities have a vastly different relationship in how they view one another than westerns do...both historically and currently.
Islam is considered as one of Russia’s ‘traditional’ religions, legally a part of Russian ‘historical heritage’ and now the second largest religion in Russia..... currently there are about 8,000 mosques in Russia.
“” “” Islam is considered as one of Russia’s ‘traditional’ religions, legally a part of Russian ‘historical heritage’ and now the second largest religion in Russia..... currently there are about 8,000 mosques in Russia.”” “”
And it is not near as disfunctional as other societies with Muslim population of near that much.
Lenin on Islam....
“Muslims of Russia…all you whose mosques and prayer houses have been destroyed, whose beliefs and customs have been trampled upon by the tsars and oppressors of Russia: your beliefs and practices, your national and cultural institutions are forever free and inviolate. Know that your rights, like those of all the peoples of Russia, are under the mighty protection of the revolution.”