America and Russia could fight Islamic terrorism but that would be politically inconvenient.
After the Islamic terrorist attack in Moscow, Russia’s basic response (stripped of blaming Ukraine) looks a lot like ours.
There’s a narrow focus on the handful of direct perpetrators, threats of consequences, retweets of statements of support from Muslim countries (Hamas has also expressed sympathy), and a calculated refusal to mention the “I” word.
While people expect a more vigorous response from Putin than they would from the White House, Russia is no better at fighting Islamic terrorism than we are. Russia can bomb terrorist camps, but so can we. And while bombing the occasional terror enclave is fine, terror attacks depend on a domestic infrastructure.
That is to say it depends on mosques, Islamic organizations and populations inside Russia or America.
While Putin won’t say much publicly, there will be some sort of crackdown on the large population of Muslim migrants in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia. But there have been crackdowns before.
Moscow is dotted with illegal and legal mosques and a large Islamic population in much the same way that London, Paris or Brussels are. Not to mention New York City.
Putin has the capacity for a larger crackdown than just shaking up a few hovels, kicking out a few thousand Tajiks and closing down a few illegal mosques.
And he won’t do it for the same reason we won’t either.
Russia has come to depend on Muslim labor, political support, and even military resources in Ukraine. That’s why Putin would rather blame Ukraine than Islam. Blaming Ukraine is politically helpful and not dangerous. While blaming Islam is.
Our leaders blame everything on Russia. Russia blames everything on America. Both sides blame Israel or any of the handful of countries still willing to stand up to Islam. Meanwhile, we cozy up to the terrorists.
Russia hosts Hamas. We host the PLO. Russia backs Iran while we back the Saudis. We support the Brotherhood, Russia supports Assad. And so it goes.
America and Russia could fight Islamic terrorism but that would be politically inconvenient. It’s easier for us to fight each other.
Jay Lykins says
Why Russia Is No Better at Fighting Islamic Terror Than We (America) Are ……
Because neither of us has identified who or what the enemy is.
Until it is realized that Islam is a political and religious entity, attempting to mirror not just Judaism and Christianity, but the religions of pre-Islamic Arabia as well, caught up in its own eschatology, we will continue to fight “radical Islam” on its own terms.
The underlying direction of Islam, from its inception to present day has been towards world domination: one religion, that of Islam, ending with Armageddon. Islam is not a religion of peace. That perhaps has been the big lie throughout history. One need only look at their final destination to know that Islam is a religion of the lesser JIHAD.
Islam is finite, as long as it follows the path laid down for it. Its own holy books indicate that Islam will last for 1,500 years. Based on a startup in the year 610, Islam passes on in the year 2110 — 86 years is we hold the numbers firm. What next? I have no idea. Will Islam hold to this number? Who knows?
Learn the enemy; what are its weak points. Islam is more of a cult than it is a religion. It is a man-made product, based on a number of false premises and presuppositions. What are some of these? The claim that Islam is an Abrahamic religion. Based on what? Anything more than its own assertions? Because it came out of the Middle East? Because it claims to have the same elders and leaders of Judaism and Christianity? Because it claims to worship the same God as Jews and Christians? Where is the evidence? Islam claims that it was created because there are errors and mistakes made in the Old Testament and the New Testament. Does that really hold water?
Too little time and too little space to continue here, but you put it to the test. Don’t take my word for it; and certainly do not take Islam’s word for it. I am only passing on what Islam says of itself. It’s time to wake up, folks. Of course, you can just lie down and watch the world go by. If that is what you want.
Wellington says
+1. Yes, Russian leadership remains as clueless as does America leadership (even Trump and his advisors I feel compelled to indicate) about the gigantic menace which is Islam. Ditto (easy call here) for once impressive nations like the UK, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
In any case, Russia has, like the so-called Palestinians, missed yet another opportunity to miss an opportunity. Putin is maliciously and tactically smart but he is geopolitically and strategically stupid. Not only does the Islamic world eye Russia for its own but so does that giant menace which is China. Putin’s epitaph should read as “Just one more foolish man leading Russia.” Russia’s best interests lie with the West (or at least what’s left of it) and he is a dope for not comprehending this.
tim gallagher says
You are right, Jay. If only enough non-Muslims throughout the world would wake the hell up and see islam as the enemy that it so plainly is, then islam would be dealt with in the tough way that it deserves to be dealt with. Too many sleepwalking idiots in our societies still think that you can get along peacefully with islam and its followers. Totally delusion, of course.
Kosh's Shadow says
And Russia needs Iranian arms – pointing out Islam is the problem could lose Iranian support.
James Lincoln says
Islamic terrorism cannot be effectively fought without understanding islam.
And not the whitewashed version.
gravenimage says
Why Russia Is No Better at Fighting Islamic Terror Than We Are
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This is grimly true. Even here at Jihad Watch, you sometimes see posters wistfully opining that if only we were a dictatorship as Russia is, that there would be no danger from Jihad terror–but this is *anything* but the case.
Putin constantly apeases Islam and Jihadists–opening the largest Mosque in Europe in Moscow alongside Erdogan and Abbas, and lauding Dar-al-Islam as Russia’s “traditional trading partners”. Patriarch Kirill has lauded Islamic values, as opposed to freedoms and human rights in the “decadent” West.
Not only has Russia allied with Iran and Yemen’s Houthi pirates, but also with other Jihadists. Here’s Lavrov schmoozing with the Taliban:
https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-152e2e945b3d67dbea869db74fd9ba0c
Putin is more interested in killing Ukrainians and twitting the West than he is in protecting his people from Jihad terror.
libertyORdeath says
Because white Europeans are too scared to treat non-whites equally.
That would be both racist and islamophobic. So we’ll just keep importing Muslims and catering to them until they take over.
Russ Wivell says
I’ve read the Koran. The world is in trouble.
gravenimage says
Yes–every Infidel should read the Qur’an to know what Islam has in store for us.