The pseudo-opposition «Echo of Moscow» near the Kremlin has once again demonstrated its attitude toward Islam and Muslims. This time its editor-in-chief, Alexei Venediktov, stood out in an interview with Esquire magazine. In particular, he stated that the main enemy of the West is not the «Russian world» but «still Islamic fundamentalism,» and within Russia itself, the «main threat is national minorities and republics. Further clarification left no doubt that he was referring specifically to Muslim minorities and Muslim republics.
«A few years ago, I spoke with a person who has a high position in law enforcement, and he said, ‘Do you know how quickly mosques are being built in the Volga region? Do you know that only young people go there? We have grandmothers wearing headscarves, while there it’s only young people. It’s maturing there,» Venediktov told his interviewer, agreeing with his thesis that «the Volga Bulgaria is being formed.
However, he was also negative about the Kremlin’s interference in the languages of the titular nations of the Russian republics: «It is very painful for the people. Let’s remember 1917: Alexander III’s language policy led to all national minorities in the country supporting the revolution 20 years later. They saw Russian imperialism as a threat to their culture. The same thing happened in the 1990s.
What is this, schizophrenic split consciousness? If the «main threat is national minorities and republics» and «the Volga-Bulgaria is being formed,» which is presented as something between the Third Reich, ISIS, and Bandera’s Ukraine, then it turns out that the security agents are doing everything right by declaring war on national languages in the republics.
However, it is possible that Venediktov believes that this struggle could be limited to mosques, understanding that they are the main centers of resistance of Muslim peoples to the degradation and dumbing down coming from Moscow, using national languages for it. This is how the communists did it, effectively implanting atheism among the Muslim peoples under the guise of «national in form and socialist in content» cultures.
But the communists had a little more brains for it and a kind of ideology — Marxism-Leninism. Fortunately, today’s fighters against Islam in Russia lack both.