Since yesterday, nationalist circles have not been able to recover from the news — the representative of Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 will be an immigrant from Tajikistan, Manizha Sangin (Khamraeva), with the song «Russian Woman». As they say, this has never happened before and here we go again.
Ideally, the issue of Eurovision should not be of interest to ordinary Muslims or ordinary people in general. However, this is not the first time we have seen how the choice of Russia’s representative in this degenerate contest provokes debates about issues of identity in a country as complex as Russia.
Previously, «Russian patriots» were outraged that Alsu and Bilan were chosen to represent Russia. For some «ethnic Muslims», this was an opportunity to engage in a discussion with them from the perspective of «if you like to ride, you should enjoy taking others for a ride», or in this case — if you want to have an empire that includes dozens of different ethnic groups and their territories, then you should accept the consequences. Although every conscious Muslim understood that these were not the cases where one should rejoice that representatives of Muslim peoples represented this country…
However, if before it was the participation of Muslims by origin in events unacceptable from the Islamic point of view, now we are faced with a situation where the person sent from Russia to represent the country arouses even worse emotions among conscious Muslims than among «Russian patriots». As a representative of the ancient Muslim Tajik people, she openly propagates not only feminism, but also so-called LGBT.
«I am not Slavic, I am not Tajik enough. I live by the Koran within the walls of a church. There is one God, and his boundaries are infinite. I seem to be singing something from another test, but my place is unknown to me. In my homeland I am already a stranger, and in a foreign country I am not yet at home,» sings the new «Russian star» about herself.
It would be interesting to take a closer look at her biography. Manizha Dalerovna Sangin (Khamraeva) claims to be the great-granddaughter of one of the first «liberated women of the East» in Soviet Central Asia, who publicly removed the veil and challenged local Muslim customs. Her grandfather, Toji Usmon, was an active Soviet «cultural figure» among the «national cadres» who introduced communist values and ideals into the Muslim community within a national framework.
In other words, she is not a random individual, but a logical product of Soviet social engineering over several generations. And this is exactly the kind of person that Islamophobic Russians dream of, whether they are communists, liberals, or chauvinists, who see it as the mission of Russia and Russian culture to «liberate the women of the East from the shackles of Islam».
Well, they have «liberated» themselves — so what don’t you like? Does it not meet your expectations? Well, sorry — your national leader keeps repeating: «We have an infinite genetic code. It is based on the mixing of blood, to put it simply and colloquially.» And he is right in the sense that it is impossible to combine the preservation and revival of an empire, which those who long for Tsarist Russia or the Soviet Union still dream of, with the preservation of a people who sacrificed their gene pool for it. So, if you choose the former, forget the latter and rejoice in the achievements it has made in de-Islamizing the Muslim peoples you champion.
Indeed, there are Muslims who have nothing to rejoice about, as they are being incorporated into a new progressive agenda hostile to Islam, in the name of «ethnic Muslims». An agenda in which the fight for immigrant rights goes hand in hand with the «fight for LGBTQ rights». Preachers, journalists, human rights activists who are truly capable of fighting for the interests and values of millions of Russian Muslims have been killed, imprisoned, exiled, or threatened. Meanwhile, new «heroes» and «figures» are being created in this vacuum, including as role models for Muslim youth.
Apparently, this is the inevitable future of the «Russian world», and discussions about its traditional character cannot deceive any reasonable person. For there can be no tradition in which the struggle against Islam is a centuries-old geopolitical and civilizational imperative. The destiny of such an empire is a melting pot in which not only genes but also religions and traditional cultures are melted. And it seems to be moving to a new level of its work.