This week the VII Forum of Free Peoples of Post-Russia took place — an international organization banned in Russia, which promotes the idea of creating dozens of new independent national and regional states instead of the prison of nations falsely called the Federation.
The event was attended by representatives of Muslim-occupied states and peoples: the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, the Committee for Ingush Independence, Free Circassia, the Government of Independent Tatarstan, the Committee for the Bashkir National Movement Abroad, and the Nogai National Movement.
Interestingly, while previous forums were held in Europe and most recently in the United States, this one was held in Japan. Participants were given a tour of the Japanese parliament, several Japanese parliamentarians were guests at the event, and it was announced after the event that a Coordinating Center for Free Eurasia would be established in Japan, headed by Professor Okabe Yoshahiko. One of Japan’s largest newspapers, «Tokyo Shimbun» (東京新聞), with an audience of over one million readers, also covered all this.
This may seem strange and exotic to some of our like-minded people, but already in the 20th century, Japan was not only an ideological ally of Turkic Muslim peoples, especially those fighting for liberation from the Russian Empire, but also a powerful center for Tatar-Bashkir emigration after leaving the USSR. Moreover, it was the Tatars and Bashkirs who, in a sense, introduced Islam to Japan and became the founders and imams of its first mosques, as in the case of the anti-communist mufti Muhammad Gabdulkhay Kurbangaliyev. In general, there was a strong interest in Islam in political and intellectual circles in Japan at that time, and some representatives even converted to Islam. This was largely related to its ideology of uniting Asian peoples in the struggle against Russian communism and Anglo-Saxon liberalism.
Of course, Japan today is not the same country it was before its defeat by these forces in 1945, and it is unlikely to be able to afford such a resolute foreign policy as it did then. Nevertheless, even such an awakening of interest in the fate of nations enslaved by Russia, especially Muslims, should be welcomed. After all, today we again have common enemies — Communist China and the psychopathic and dangerous for its neighbors Russia. Therefore, let’s hope that the sleeping samurai will wake up and turn his gaze to the world of Islam, both in its territorial and spiritual dimensions.