Russia paying to support Islam

Why would they do this in light of Beslan?

In addition, the agreement provides for international seminars on "The Role of Russia and the Islamic World in Strengthening the Alliance of Civilizations."

Since we know in the 'Islamic World, the Alliance of Civilizations, means positioning Islam to be in charge and eventually installing Sharia Law, the Russians seem to be indulging in fantasy, and they are paying for it, and they will continue to pay for it. The 'strengthening' of the Islamic world needs a continuous supply of jizya, and/or violence.
Putin must have been talking to G Bush again. I guess he forgot about Belsan...or maybe the jizya is an attempt to make the terrorists forget about it.
I don't think this philosophy will work, it never has before. Somehow the west has gone from not negotiating with terrorists, to paying them off and making their work easier for them. We can see the results of this, but the world leaders have Islamic blinders on. You can't buy Islam off or change it's collective mind about much of anything. It will take your money, your good will, your wife, and maybe your life, and continue the quest for Allah's World, as they would make it.
We may not be able to stop Islam, but we can certainly cripple it. Stop Islamic immigration. Stop all forms of jizya and financial support. Stop construction of mosques, cultural centers, schools. Publicize the reasons for doing so. Become energy independent. We won't get rid of terrorism by doing that, but we can slow it a lot by cutting off funding...Maybe I should call Putin up and clue him in, he does not seem to know...

Support of Islamic Culture, Science and Education and the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO),

Yet another islamic advocacy organization with a catchy acronym to disguise what it really is, or maybe give it a U.N. flavor, as if that would lend credibility to anything.

There must be one hundred or more islamic advocacy organizations in the United States alone, far too many to represent such a tiny muslim population. "Islamic Culture, Science, and Education" is nothing to celebrate or promote; islamic culture is barbaric; islamic education consists of the inculcation of hate, intolerance, and supremacy, and islamic science is non-existent. If they want to make a wise investment, they should safeguard and preserve their own culture with this money.

Muslims "support" islam quite well; why help them usurp another far superior civilization? After Beslan, I cannot believe these people would promote anything islamic.

The agreement provides for grants and stipends to students of Russian Islamic institutes for research, the translation and publication of books on Islam in Russian.

This I am all for let's start with "The Truth About Mohamed" by Mr Robert Spencer.

The rulers of Russia are sometimes depicted as being, for all of their ruthlessness, "Russian patriots." Thus, for example, Putin. It's nonsense. They show as much indifference, in the end, and as little sense, too, as Infidels elsewhere, for they have failed to immunize their own population from campaigns of Da'wa, and to continue to press the anti-Islam campaign that, under the Soviet regime, as part of a general anti-religious campaign, was so successful in undremining Islam. But Islam is back, and the demographic conquest that is observable working by degrees in the countries of Western Europe is also to be observed in Moscow and other Russian cities to its south.

It's smash-and-grab for the Russian ruling class, and, as opposed to the vicious bully-boy urra-nationalists who beat up anyone who doesn't "look Russian," that is the crude nationalists with their obvious fascination with fascism, there is scarcely to be found the kind of intelligent awareness of what is happening that might lead to a revival of acceptable patriotism (a very different thing from bully-boy nationalism), with such figures of moral authority as Sakharov, the scientist, or as Dmitri Likhachev, the scholar of Old Russian literature and art, and writer, a few years ago, of a kind of summing-up vademecum for the young, unembarrassedly on Truth and on Beauty, that is the kind of thing that needs to be disseminated, instead of the Court Calendar of the Putin regime, with its bribes and scandals and mass thievery, and appropriation by private parties of national wealth, and all the rest that has gone on to create the parody of the worst kind of Dickensian capitalism, that constitutes so much of Russian life today. Sakharov and Likhachev are both gone. But Putin -- oh, he's riding high, having his successor still dance to his tune, povodyr' to Medvedev's obedient medved'.

Remember that Stalin trusted Hitler like a dog.
Also remember what happened when that dog woke up to the reality of Hitler's plans.

Let's not worry about Russia :-)

And to be honest I bet we spend more than that sum a day on islam in one way or another.

Besides the cost of defense and surveillance.

Is there any way in which 'Islam: What the West Needs To Know' (perhaps re-named 'Islam: What Non-Muslims Need to Know') and Mr Spencer's indispensable trilogy, 'Onward Muslim Soldiers', 'The PIG to Islam and the Crusades', and 'The Truth About Muhammad' can be accurately translated into Russian?

Copies of such translations to be given, first of all, to the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church?

The only good news I have heard filtering out of Russia is via the Russian Bible Society - they distributed a new Bible translation in the Tatar language and it was said to be having a good effect among the Tatar, with Tatar-speaking ethnic Tatar Christian groups (apostate from Islam) springing into life.

If there is no modern Chechen version of the Bible, the production of such a thing should be a top priority: and then the production of an audio-recording, and radio broadcasting of same into Chechen territory, 24/7, together with the dubbing of the earnest but seemingly effective 'Jesus' film into Chechen, followed by the widest possible dissemination thereof.

Russia should never appease to Islam. I guess they haven't learned their lesson from Beslan, Moscow Metpo bombings, downing of two Russian airliners simultaneously, bus bombings, passenger train derailments...

Speaking of ex-Soviet Republics, according to TROP there have been no Islamic motivated terror attacks in Kazakhstan in recent years in a Muslim dominated country. Someone please explain...

$1.5 million is a miniscule amount of money to spend publishing pro-Russian materials for Muslims in Russia. This is especially so when one considers the billions of dollars the Saudis spend to promote Wahabhism in the former Soviet Union.

Don't forget that Putin has spent many more millions in funding the resurgence of Christianity in Russia. Putin and especially Medvedev are devout Orthodox Christians.

Hugh,

While Sakharov deserves credit for opposing the Communists, he also turned his back on his Russian culture and became blindly enamoured of the West. For this reason Sakharov was no real hero and has little respect in Russia except by a few westernized cosmopolitans funded by rich leftist troublemakers like George Soros.

Instead, I would cite Sakharov's former colleage Igor Shafarevich, or other leading opponents of the Soviet regime such as Evgeny Barabanov or the martyred priest Alexander Men.

Then there is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the true symbol of Russian cultural opposition to tyranny, not to mention Solzhenitsyn's close friend and co-worker Mikhail Agursky, who died in Israel at a far too-young age. These are the real heroes of Russian opposition to communism.