Russia has characterized its invasion of Ukraine as a defense of traditional values against the decadence of the West. Many who deplore that decadence, including many in the West, believe that Muslims will be their allies in their struggle against it. While that is true to some extent, it will never override the Islamic imperative to convert or subjugate non-Muslims. Eventually these conservatives who count Muslims as their allies will find, to their dismay, their allies turning on them.
“Russia calls burning of Quran in Stockholm ‘another provocative act of Islamophobia,'” by Elena Teslova, Anadolu Agency, January 28, 2023:
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday blasted the burning of the Quran in Stockholm “as another provocative act of Islamophobia.”
“These blasphemous actions predictably provoked a harsh reaction in the Islamic world, including the Russian Muslim community,” spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a news conference.
She noted the difference in attitudes to what happened and said in the “world that defends traditional values” the burning was assessed “as absolutely inadequate,” while the Western world “applauds this and says that this is not just normal, but good.”
“The excuses of Swedish authorities, who are trying to hide behind statements about freedom of speech, sound at least cowardly. The police allegedly issued a permit only to hold a demonstration in front of the Turkish Embassy, and no one coordinated the burning of the Quran.
“At the same time, the organizer of the demonstrations, the Swedish-Danish politician Rasmus Paludan, did not hide his plans, and the demand of Turkish authorities to withdraw permission to hold a demonstration was ignored in Stockholm,” said Zakharova.
She noted that Swedish authorities did not take action to investigate the incident.
“They like to teach everyone else how to respect human rights and freedoms, they shout about their democracy at every corner. But in reality, in particular, in Stockholm, they do not show respect for either foreign legitimate governments or world religions,” she said….
BTeboe says
Right burn a Qur’an and get your head chopped off. Sounds normal and reasonable. Just because Muslims can’t do it, doesn’t mean other people can’t. Islamophobia is allowed, just like your Christianphobia is allowed. A phobia is an irrational fear of something, there’s nothing irrational about understanding Islam. Christians don’t chop up other people when their religion is denigrated by Muslims.
tim gallagher says
I thought that Russia had plenty of trouble, the usual muderous Muslim terrorist attacks, etc, with Muslims. This is surely Russia trying to run Sweden down because it wants to join NATO. Anyway, the idea of Russia, with its invasion of Ukraine, having any kind of moral authority is laughable. Up yours, Russia. I hope this burning of the Koran gains momentum and maybe a few Muslims heads will explode.
Wellington says
+1, tg. Russia is representative of one of the three great threats to humanity advancing to a better world. They are, in no particular order, 1) traditional authoritarianism (examples being the regimes running Russia and China); 2) the Islamic sphere of mankind; and 3) the newest woeful creation in man’s history, to wit, Western Leftism. I view the last one as the greatest menace because it is indeed the ultimate enemy within but the first two are more than bad enough. Hope you are doing well in a very unwell world.
tim gallagher says
I agree with your summary of the situation, Wellington. As you say, they are all bad enough. On the issue of the left wing wanker brigade who are out to destroy western civilisation and put in place some Marxist authoritarian regime which would be a thousand times worse, just this morning I was listening to the radio and they were reporting on how the ABC (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) which is our version of the BBC, and is funded by all taxpayers and is nothing but a far left propaganda crowd always trying to drag Australia down, had done a report attacking a couple of hardline Christian schools, mainly I think in order to do damage to our current Premier in New South Wales, because he is a conservative Christian, and I thought, now why don’t the ABC take a look at the islamic schools here and what they are teaching? But, of course, they’ll never do that. islam and the left wanker brigade are working together to destroy our western societies and putting shit on Christianity is a major part of that agenda. I’m doing OK, playing music, singing and writing songs and enjoying doing that. I hope you are going well, Wellington. Oh, I just remembered how you had told me about copping the longer form of Covid. For me, it has not been a problem. I’m back to normal. Being summer probably helped, but mainly taking the anti-viral medication.
Wellington says
Thanks for your reply, tg. No doubt about it, the West and its religion, Christianity, are under virtually constant attack. It’s all mindless and evil rot but it is the norm in our time.
Over Long Covid and very thankful for this. I think the powers that be who created the pandemic and those that then made up freedom-crushing and bogus rules to deal with it have a great deal to explain, though I think these rats, examples being Fauci and Ardern, will probably get away with all the damage they caused. Life so often times simply is not fair.
Glad you are enjoying what you stated about your musical “endeavors.” Hey, whatever keeps you sane in this insane era. Take care.
tim gallagher says
I agree with you, Wellington, about how insane some of the nonsense getting around these days is. Things such as extreme hatred for western civilisation, this critical race theory where you have nutty academics saying that whiteness is a disease, cancel culture where the left winger nutcases are tearing down statues of so many people, the bizarre power of the trans lobby, and so on – it is truly an insane time. Yes, I do enjoy playing music, singing and writing songs along with singing lots of songs I like by other people, playing a bit of golf and keeping an eye on how this sorry world is going. I’m pretty sure I’ll never be completely sane and never have been, but I do my best with the cards I’ve been dealt. And some of the totally insane crap around these days certainly makes me feel very sane.
Deodata says
Roberts Spencer lists every Islamic attack, hardly any if any in Russia
࿗Infidel࿘ says
There used to be a lot of them during the Chechen wars, but it got resolved by Vladimir Putin agreeing to Chechnya becoming a sharia state within Russia. It’s their luck that it hasn’t spread beyond Chechnya
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Tim
I think that is the reason. Russia has no problems allying w/ countries like Syria that crack down hard on sunni islam, but the only reason they’re dissing Sweden is the latter’s intentions of joining NATO
I think this war is more likely than not to end in a stalemate, but it’s in the meantime exposed Russia as more of a paper tiger, that’s had to throw its entire force to just fight Ukraine. Wonder what they’d have done had they hypothetically been invaded by China or Kazakhstan?
tim gallagher says
Yes, Infidel, the moment I read this report about Russia attacking Sweden I thought that it was because Sweden is joining NATO. I agree with you that Russia is looking like a paper tiger. But the damage done to Ukraine has been horrendous from what I see on the TV news here in Australia. A massive rebuilding effort is going to be needed. I hear that the US and German tanks that they are giving to Ukraine are vastly superior to the Russian tanks. For people who live in Australia, it is all far away and , for us, China is the big worry. I’m just guessing, but I think that the Chinese miltary would be tougher than the Russian military. I think that a lot of Russian soldiers don’t want to involved in Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
somehistory says
Just makes one wish to slap the stupidity of the remark, “hide behind freedom of speech.”
When “freedom” is valued, “demands” from a tyrant will absolutely be “ignored.”
the turkey government doesn’t have any authority to “demand” anything of any other nation…even if the tyrant there believes himself to be supreme in the world.
one of the *reasons* she’s making stupid statements is that there are so many mozlums in russia and they easily get out of control, are never really in control…the authorities there live in fear. So, they must pretend that the feelings of the terrorists are more important than freedom of speech…or any other Freedom., and attack those who value those Freedoms.