Yes, Your Beatitude, you could put it that way. It was indeed an attempt to sow discord between Jews and Muslims in Russia. But the idea that they maintained good relations, and could again, is based on an ignorance of the deep antisemitism in the Qur’an, and of Islam’s imperative to “dominate and not be dominated.”
“Airport riot an attempt to sow Jewish-Muslim ‘discord’ – Russian Christian leader,” AFP, October 30, 2023:
Moscow’s Orthodox spiritual leader, Patriarch Kirill, condemns an anti-Israel riot at an airport in the Muslim-majority region of Dagestan as a bid to “sow discord” between Russia’s Jews and Muslims.
The powerful religious leader speaks a day after a violent mob descended onto Makhachkala airport looking for Jews after a flight from Israel had landed.
There was “no moral justification for those who planned to attack innocent people,” he says of Sunday’s incident, adding: “I see what happened as an attempt to sow discord between Muslims and Jews in Russia, who over centuries maintained good relations of friendship and cooperation.”
Kirill, a fervent supporter of President Vladimir Putin, sees outside interference in the riot, as did the Kremlin.
“I have no doubt that forces who provoked this incident will stop at nothing to cause disorder in our country,” he says in a statement, adding: “In these events we see an attempt to put this alien confrontation onto our land.”…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Okay, but do either Sergei Kirill or Vlad Putin condemn the muslims at Makhachkala Airport who went Jew hunting? If yes, will any action be taken against them, or are they too busy appeasing them so that they’ll happily pour in more bodies in the war in Ukraine?
GreekEmpress says
How is it that the top clergy of several faiths are so ignorant about Islam?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I think the problem is faiths with a top clergy. If you pick faiths w/o them, like Judaism, Hinduism, Therevada Buddhism, & any other faith whose following is distributed i.e. w/o a theological leadership, you won’t find them as ignorant about islam
James Lincoln says
Good point, Infidel.
somehistory says
The only way mozlums and Jews could have a working relationship ..”good relations of friendship and cooperation.”…would be for the mozlums to be those who would rather leave the cult, are not devout, and do not believe they should follow the evil filth in the book.
“There are none so blind as those who will not see.”