Just at the end of last week we wrote about the fact that the ongoing annexation of Kazakhstan by USSR 2.0 poses a threat to the Muslims of Turkestan (https://golosislama.com/news.php?id=40405). And now the confirmations are pouring in.
First of all, if before it was only their propagandists, now the Muslims themselves have decided to become scapegoats for what is happening in Kazakhstan. For example, Anatoly Antonov, the Russian ambassador to Washington, wrote on the embassy’s website: «Kazakhstan has come under attack from radicals who espouse a hateful ideology. Thousands of jihadists and marauders have tried to undermine the constitutional structure. They are using weapons against peaceful citizens.»
That this is not just the ambassador’s personal opinion is indicated by the fact that the Kazakh Foreign Ministry expressed solidarity with her in its official statement, stating that «among the attackers there are individuals with experience of combat participation in ‘hot spots’ on the side of radical Islamist groups. The participants did not carry Islamic flags, they did not chant takbir or tahlil, there were no Islamic parties or jamaats.»
Even Arman Wild, who is touted as one of the organizers of these demonstrations and who comically combines Islamic vocabulary with profanity in his speeches, actually came to the protesters to urge them to calm down and not to destroy everything around them. Nevertheless, it is the Muslims who are being blamed for this story, not those who provoked the people with a multiple increase in gas prices, not those who tormented them with their corruption and dictatorship, and not even those who released criminals from prisons who became the striking force of the marauders, but specifically the Muslims; yes, it is the conscious and practicing Muslims who are meant when we speak of «jihadists» and «Islamists.
This is confirmed by the operation carried out and publicized today by the security forces against the Tabligh Jamaat (banned in Russia, of course), accused of involvement in the recent events. Anyone who knows the Tablighi Jamaat and their methods knows very well that they never do anything like this, and of course the question may arise: why have Muslims been chosen as scapegoats? But this question can only arise in the mind of a very naive person.
The point is that the popular Soviet film «White Sun of the Desert» shows, albeit in a comedic form, the official Soviet attitude towards the image of the Islamic world and way of life as something wild and fanatical that needs to be revised and «cultivated». This comedy is just one of many works of art on this subject, in addition to which such images and ideas were circulated by ideological propaganda; in this regard, the hopes of some commentators who position themselves as Muslims for the recreation of the USSR can be explained either by the fact that they are agents of the enemy or by the severe form of idiocy of such individuals who cannot put two and two together to make four.
Sometimes fantasies about the horde that Putin will create and present interfere with this simplest mathematical operation. What is overlooked is that the Horde became Dar ul-Islam only after the proclamation of Islam by Khan Uzbek, although the followers of the Ibn Taymiyyah line deny this and accuse its rulers of infidelity for mixing Islamic and non-Islamic laws. But this victory of Islam occurred as a result of two circumstances: first, the serious struggle of missionaries of different religions for influence on the Khans, and second, their religious neutrality and tolerance; of course, there is no sign of religious tolerance and neutrality in the USSR 2.0, so its «Khans» (or rather, «Pahans») perceive true Muslims as a hostile element in need of «re-education,» as the Chinese Communists are doing to the Uighurs.
Therefore, the joining of Muslim countries to such an anti-Islamic horde only leads to subjecting the followers of Islam to the rule of their enemies. Certainly, the current regimes of these countries are in many cases no better in this regard. However, as the example of Uzbekistan’s development after the death of Karimov shows, where an independent Muslim environment with strong Islamic roots is preserved, there is always the potential for both ordinary people and rulers to return to it. This cannot be achieved when a militant and intolerant horde like the communist one invades the country and begins to tear out these roots.