Yesterday, at a meeting with the Kremlin’s military propagandists, known as «war correspondents,» Vladimir Putin announced that the creature who burned the Koran manuscript in Volgograd would be punished in a Muslim region, namely Chechnya. We have already written about this issue when the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, made the same statement. It is worth mentioning that the same official has been involved in falsifying criminal cases against numerous Muslim preachers, journalists, human rights defenders and covering up their murders, as was the case with the investigations into the cases of Timur Kuashev, Orkhan Dzhemal and many others. However, since this kind of populism continues to excite many naive Muslims, it is worth repeating.
Yes, it is understandable to want to retaliate against the devil who decided to desecrate the Book of Allah. And if this had happened in a Sharia state or by zealous defenders of the religion of Allah, there would be no questions.
But we must not forget that Russia is not a Sharia state, and Putin is not the ruler of the believers. Moreover, Russia is a state of systemic Islamophobia, and Putin is an oppressor and executioner of Muslims whose hands were elbow-deep in Muslim blood (Chechnya, Syria) long before they were elbow-deep in Ukrainian blood.
In this state, cases in which Muslims are unlawfully arrested and tortured are not sent to be tried in Muslim regions, for example, by Muslim juries who could return acquittals. Instead, such cases involving Muslims are sent to military courts in non-Muslim regions, where the defendants are subjected to humiliation and torture because of their religion. And even in those cases that are held in Muslim regions, they are carried out by colonial lackeys and their accomplices among the local mankurts.
And now they have decided to send the culprit who burned the Koran manuscript in Volgograd to Chechnya. But what prevented them from trying and punishing him to the fullest extent of the law in his own region? After all, there is certainly no shortage of Muslim prisoners in almost every penitentiary today.
The answer is obvious: on the one hand, they wanted to score points in the eyes of Muslims, and on the other hand, they wanted to make them dependent on the Kremlin by stirring up hatred against them among the rest of society. For example, why is a non-Muslim Russian from a non-Muslim region being sent to a Muslim region to be tried and serve his sentence for a crime against Islam? This is seen as the Islamization of Russia and its subordination to Sharia law — that’s how a Russian sees it, as naive as the Muslim who finds it exciting.
This is how the Kremlin carries out its traditional policy of «divide and conquer» and manipulates the Muslim factor, both in the form of Muslims themselves who fall for it, and in the form of those who begin to see Muslims as the support base of the Putin regime and its privileged group.
Such a perception is the last thing Muslims need. The truth is that Muslims are one of the most oppressed and powerless groups in Putin’s Russia, facing repression and lawlessness from the security forces long before others. And now the enemies of Islam in power and in opposition are trying to create the opposite impression — that Muslims are a favored group of the authorities.
We must not encourage or fall for this manipulation.