Is Russia Banning Islam?

Vladimir PutinRussia appears to be taking serious moves to combat the “radicalization” of Muslims within its border.

Recent pro-Islamic reports are complaining that Russia is banning the Islamic hijab—the headdress Islamic law requires Muslim women to wear—and, perhaps even more decisively, key Islamic scriptures, on the charge that they incite terrorism.

In the words of Arabic news site Elaph, “Russia is witnessing a relentless war on the hijab.  It began in a limited manner but has grown in strength, prompting great concern among Russia’s Muslims.”

The report continues by saying that women wearing the hijab are being “harassed” especially in the “big cities”; that they are encountering difficulties getting jobs and being “subject to embarrassing situations in public areas and transportation.  The situation has gotten to the point that even educational institutions, including universities, have issued decrees banning the wearing of the hijab altogether.”

Moscow’s Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University appears mentioned as one of the schools to ban the donning of the hijab on its premises, specifically, last September (the New York Times bemoaned an earlier instance of anti-hijab sentiment in 2013).

While this move against the hijab may appear as discriminatory against religious freedom, the flipside to all this—which perhaps Russia, with its significant Muslim population is aware of—is that, wherever the Islamic hijab proliferates, so too does Islamic supremacism and terrorism.  Tawfik Hamid, a former aspiring Islamic jihadi, says that “the proliferation of the hijab is strongly correlated with increased terrorism…. Terrorism became much more frequent in such societies as Indonesia, Egypt, Algeria, and the U.K. after the hijab became prevalent among Muslim women living in those communities.”

The reason for this correlation is clear: strict Islamic Sharia commands jihad (“terrorism”) against unbelievers just as it commands Muslim women to don the hijab. Where one proliferates—evincing adherence to Sharia—so too will the other naturally follow.

But Russia’s growing list of Islamic books to be banned on the charge that they incite terrorism is perhaps more significant.  Elaph continues: “This move [ban on the hijab] coincides with a growing number of religious books to be prohibited, with dozens of them being placed on the terrorist list, including Sahih Bukhari and numerous booklets containing verses from the Koran and sayings of the prophet.”

According to Apastovsk district RT prosecutors, Sahih Bukhari is being targeted because it promotes “exclusivity of one of the world’s religions,” namely Islam, or, in the words of a senior assistant to the prosecutor of Tatarstan Ruslan Galliev, it promotes “a militant Islam” which “arouses ethnic, religious enmity.”

This is significant.  While one may expect modern day books and tracts written by the likes of al-Qaeda or the Islamic State to be banned, Sahih Bukhari, compiled in the 9th century, is fundamental to Sunni Islam (that is, 90 percent of the world’s Muslims).   Indeed, the nine-volume book is often seen as second in importance only to the Koran itself and contains the most authentic sayings attributed to the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

And yet, that this important scripture promotes “exclusivity”—that is, supremacism—and “arouses ethnic, religious enmity”—that is, “terrorism”—should not be missed on anyone.  The following few statements contained in Sahih Bukhari and attributed to the prophet of Islam speak for themselves.  Muhammad said:

•“I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings [tawriya, Islamic deception], and I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy).”

•“Whoever changed his Islamic religion [“apostates”], then kill him.”

•In the end times, a “stone will say, ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew behind me; kill him!’”

•“I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah’s Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity” [i.e., until they become observant Muslims].”

Apparently the Russians are aware that such assertions—whether they come from this or that jihadi or from Prophet Muhammad—are enough to incite chaos on their soil.  Indeed, the “terrorist” writings of modern day Islamic jihad groups are all infused with and based on the intolerant texts found in Islamic scriptures such as Sahih Bukhari.

This begs the following question: what of the Koran?  Can it too be banned on the same grounds?  After all, Islam’s number one holy book is also replete with calls to violence and terrorism against unbelievers.  Koran 8:12 is one of numerous examples: Allah declares “I will cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, so strike [them] upon the necks,” that is, behead them, as the Islamic State has been doing—while citing the Koran.

At any rate, back in La La Land, far from banning Islamic texts that incite violence and terrorism, Barack Hussein Obama has banned U.S. intelligence communities from connecting anything Islamic to Islamic terrorism.  In other words, Muslims are free to be incited by Islam’s scriptures—prompting things like beheadings and hatchet jihad attacks in America.  The only ban rests on those who dare connect such acts to the core texts of Islam that so clearly inspire them.

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  • Frau Katze

    The demographics are disastrous in Russia. The Christian population are not having enough kids to replace themselves, whilst the Muslims have large families. Putin’s victory over Islam will be temporary.

    • Bamaguje

      That’s why Putin’s deIslamization drive is even more imperative… before Muslims outnumber non-Muslim Russians.

      With regards to standing up to Islam, the Russian leader clearly has more balls than all Western leaders combined.
      I just don’t understand why he is cooperating with Iran’s nuclear program… To spite the West?

      • Frau Katze

        He’s doing it partly for cash and he’s doing it to spite the West. I think we’ve overreacted over Ukraine. Starting a new Cold War can only benefit the Muslims.

        • Vivienne

          Yes I do believe this is the case. Leave Ukraine out of this and focus on the real issue the Islamic problem.

        • ellake

          I respectfully disgree. We did not overreact over Ukraine We did not react strongly enough.. Because we did not react Russians got Crimea and they are getting Doneck. Majority of Russian were against Putin at the beginning, because they were afraid of Western reaction, but when they did anschluss of Crimea and the West did nearly nothing (the sanctions are quite weak and they do not work well) they started their move to get Doneck..
          What do you think they do next? Do anschluss of some part of Lithuania? or perhaps of Latvia?
          And yes, Islam is an enemy and we should perhaps talk with Russians re this subject, but that does not mean that Putin is an ally.
          And really, who is starting Cold War? Do majority of Americans see Russians as their enemies? I think not. But majority of Russians do see US as their enemy, even many of the ones living outside Russia, in the West.

        • Andy_Lewis

          Which is why “our” leaders doing it – to benefit the Muslims.

      • MukeNecca

        test

      • MukeNecca

        It’s a tough question. I’d would think that Putin believes and
        bets on that eventually and just before it’s too late the West, or Israel, or both will destroy Iran’s capacity for production of nuclear weapons. In the meantime Russia may both profit from its carefully calibrated cooperation with Iran and, not so much “spite”, but pressure the West for strategic gains.

      • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

        To use Iran as a vehicle to attack Turkey.

      • Softly Bob

        He’s doing it because he realizes that at the moment the Sunnis have the upper hand and they are the ones threatening Russia now. Iran are Shia Muslims and are as opposed to ISIS and al-Qaeda almost as much as Putin is. It’s a case of divide and conquer.
        It’s the same reason he invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea. Putin knows his history and he knows that Crimea was strategically important in protecting the Russian Empire from the creeping Muslim Ottoman Empire. Without Crimea Putin cannot successfully defend Russia against Muslim insurgencies that are attacking from Chechnya and Dagestan.
        It’s just my opinion I know, but if you check your history, Russia’s modern affairs in Crimea are almost identical to the situation in the Nineteenth Century.

  • Texas Patriot

    Russia’s historic leadership in the global war against radical Islamic Jihad will never be forgotten.

  • kiwi41

    A bitter irony that Putin will probably be the best ally the west will have.
    They should be courting him, not castigating him, NOW .

    • ellake

      uh, not really. Putin is seeing the West as an enemy, particularly USA But he is also seeing Islam as an enemy. So yes, in that particular subject Putin is an ally,as is China . But only in that subject, in any other he(Putin) and they (China)are the enemies and they say it quite loudly. .

      • Josep Xicot

        REMEMBER THE COLD WAR WAS OVER,THE IDIOLOGIC
        MATER ARE NOT A EXCUSE TO THINK AS YOU DO.ANOTHER
        THINGS IS THE ECONOMY BUT THE CRISIS IS AROUND AND
        WE NEED A GIVE A HAND,BETWEEN SERIOUS COUNTRIES.

      • soviet_immigrant

        Wrong

    • Yehuda Levi

      Putin is no hero. He does what he thinks is in Russia’s best interests.

      Nonetheless, he is reacting as the West should react – with punitive measures against the incitement of hatred that is caused by the religion of Islam. There is no doubt that Islam teaches intolerance of other people and other religions.

      Any ‘religion’ which teaches intolerance and hate should be restricted if not outright banned. This is even more important when the religion endorses violence against others. There is substantial evidence of Islamic violence.

      It is time for the West to realize that Islam is the new Nazism in the world with an emphasis on religion not race. It should be banned by all Western countries as a “hate” religion.

      • billobillo54

        Islam should be dealt with just like we dealt with Communism and communists during the Cold War or as we dealt with Nazis during and after W.W. II. First, stop the immigration of all Muslims into the nation. Pass laws that criminalize the funding or support of terrorist organizations like CAIR, ISAA, The Muslim Brotherhood, etc. Enforce the laws (I say this due to Obama’s disdain for enforcement of laws he doesn’t like). To ban “religion” can be also used to ban Christians or Jews. That, is a mistake in my mind.

        • Lane Cobble

          Classify Islam as a cult. Ban it.

          If you don’t do that as soon as possible, then the Islamists and the Commies will ban Christianity anyway. If not in written law, then in practice.

          For the moment none would dare ban Christianity, they would reap the whirlwind.

          • billobillo54

            The scary thing is that we need to do at least what I am suggesting and to fail to do so will be disaster for us. It’s one thing to ban immigration of Muslims (practically impossible in the current political climate which includes conservatives and Republicans who would oppose a ban) to banning a religion, even though Islam is as evil and destructive as it gets.

          • johnnywood

            They most certainly can “ban” Christianity but they will never stop it. JESUS is building HIS Church and no demon or man can prevent it.

        • Yehuda Levi

          A “religion” should never call for violence or death for those who are not adherents to it.

          Therefore, Islam is not a religion.

          You are right about the consequences of calling it a “religion.” I modified my statement to eliminate that.

      • knowshistory

        no hero? all he is doing is that which he thinks is in his own country’s best interests? sounds like a hero to me. a mangy dog would be a hero compared to the traitors and cowards who have tyrannized the west, and impose their traitorous policies on people who really don’t wish to commit societal suicide, but aren’t willing to rebel against their own treasonous governments who have sold out to Islamic tyranny.

    • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

      Courting Putin for…what? What does Putin have to offer for the benefit of the Western world that the West can’t get itself?

      • John P.

        We can’t seem to get a back-bone, that’s what!

        • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

          The USA has a backbone—it also has different interests from Russia that put it in permanent diametric opposition.

          • knowshistory

            the usa may have backbone, but it is no match for the ignorance, stupidity, and laziness of our population. we did, after all, elect and reelect an enemy of our country. while the ignorance, stupidity and laziness of our population is obvious even to the most casual observer, the backbone is well concealed.

          • Burnerjack

            Amazing what being removed by just one or two generations from the generation known as The Greatest Generation has wrought.

  • http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/ Jason P

    Russia has the longest border with Islam of any non-Muslim nation in the world. That Russia should take the lead in the fight against Islam is understandable. That they use measures that reflect a very different history than ours is also understandable. It’s their call. One can only wish them well.

  • http://islam.com/ arthur disbury

    What I find is that Russia’s army is overloaded with muslims. They appear to be building their own funeral pyre!!!

    • Raymond_in_DC

      An Iran with nuclear weapons is just one nightmare scenario. Another is a Muslim commander in the Russian army with authority over such weapons.

    • Vivienne

      Putin will use them as cannon fodder and stick them on the front lines and we all know what this means. Take WWI as an example!

  • DontMessWithAmerica

    Putin
    is a s.o.b. but in this respect he is OUR S.O.B. May he have all the good
    fortune in this effort. We never saw a hijab, burqa or niqab on our
    streets as little as 15-20 years ago and we had Muslims living here then, too.
    When you see a woman wearing any of these head coverings you can bet your boots
    it is a statement, an assertion, a communication that they are at war with you.
    Let us pray that Putin will stick to this war on their intifada and give
    the world an example of how to deal with this enemy within.

  • rbla

    Now we know the real reason that the wimpy pro-Muslim leaders of the West hate Putin so much.

    • Pete

      I think the fact that BP got shoved out of Russia has something to do with it too.

    • ellake

      Strange, I thought Putin likes Assad and the rahbar Khamenei. He also liked Gadafi and sold him a lot of weapons.

      • kertitor

        It is true, and the communist USSR also trained, armed and supported the Arab anti Israel (in their mind anti American) forces. But never tolerated their jihad inside. The KGB did not hesitate giving strong responses, whenever Islam harassed Russian citizens in or outside the border. Islamist understood that.

    • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

      No…it is because Putin has committed jihad against the West. He claims to be a Christian, but I find it hard to see what he would do differently from what a Muslim would do.

  • Vivienne

    In my opinion Russia has the right attitude. Russia is in a position to take the lead against the world threat of Islam. Putin whatever your opinion is of him does not wish his nation to become Islamic. I personally believe the West, Europe and Scandinavia follow Putin’s example. This stone age 7th cent. religion imposed on the majority of illiterate muslims is indeed enough to incite war and terror on the rest of the world and this precisely the action Islamic politically led nations intend. I am having some difficulty however, with understanding Russia’s interest in building nuclear power stations in Iran. Iran is over flowing with Oil therefore the question I pose is Why assist Iran with building of nuclear power stations?

  • FedUpWithWelfareStates

    Get Some, Mr. Putin! At least we get to fight an honorable enemy for a change…see you on the battlefield.

  • Bamaguje

    For centuries Muslim Ottomans of the Crimean Khanate raided Russia and Ukraine for slaves… until Russia conquered Crimea.
    Hence Russia’s strong historical attachment to Crimea for which they shed a lot of blood… not only against Muslims, but also later against Western powers (UK, France) which collaborated with the Ottoman caliphate.
    In fact but for Western intervention, Russia’s Catherine the great would have crushed the Muslim Ottoman Caliphate a century before the allies did it in WWI.

    • ellake

      Catherine the Great was also an ally of Kingdom of Prussia and of Austro-Hungarian empire during the partition of Poland and Lithuania. If we are talking about attachement of Russian to something perhaps you would also like to talk about their “strong historical attachement” to Lithuania? Or to Poland? Hmmm………….???

      • MukeNecca

        How does the fact that Russia, Prussia and Austro-Hungary had partitioned the totally collapsed Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth contradict the claim that for the Western intervention Russia under Catherine the Great could have crushed the Moslem Ottoman Caliphate?

        I fail to see connection here. So what is your point exactly?

  • gfmucci

    Islam itself is a subversive, terrorist ideology. Its manifestos (Qur’an and other subversive literature) need to be given the same treatment as Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto and Rules for Radicals. Those that promote that material need to be considered subversive. We will not overcome the supremacism and terrorism of Islam until we recognize it for what it really is: Much more a subversive political ideology that promotes destruction of our social and political systems than it is any sort of beneficial “religion”. Several nations are “seeing the light” well before we are and they will be the better for it.

  • USARetired

    I have said all along, Putin is smarter then Obama, without any doubt!~

    • bigjulie

      Not really…if you consider that Obama has given every public indication that he is also an agent of Islam…and intends to oversee the conversion of the United States! We’re the stupid ones letting him get away with it!

      • John P.

        Personally, I don’t see what else I could have done (short of pulling an Oswald on him). I voted against this Islamic imposter and any other politician that followed him, I cussed him every chance I got, I put up signs against this queer president, I informed my family and friends about him. I’m hoping that he’s done in by one of his own.

  • Von Stierlitz

    August 04, 2013, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressed the
    Duma, (Russian Parliament), and gave a speech about the growing tensions with
    minorities in Russia:

    In Russia, live like Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it
    wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, it should speak
    Russian, and should respect the Russian laws. If they prefer Sharia Law,
    and live the life of Muslims, then we advise them to go to those places
    where that’s the state law.

    Russia does not need Muslim minorities. Minorities need Russia, and
    we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to
    fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell ‘discrimination’

    • ellake

      Putin knows that Russians are patriotic and that’s why he is talking like that. Putin also see that the minority are slowly becoming quite visible in the major towns in Russia, particularly in Moscow.. But at the same time Kadyrov is allowed to praise Islam and sharya, at the same time the chechens are majority of foreigners fighting in Islamic State and one of its major commanders came from Chechnya. And at the same time Chinese becaming majority in Syberia.
      Russian politics sometimes are quite bizantine and similarly like in the West some of its politicians pronounciations can loose much of its meaning in real life.

  • rnot

    They need to also look at the moslem’s zakat – or moslem charity – since part of that is about financing violent jihad AND also the stealth jihads against non-moslems.

  • Ellsworth Toohey

    Years back I said that communism would disappear and that one day Russia and the US would unite to fight iSSlam. I was partially wrong, the US is becoming communist AND islamist ! Russia is left alone.

    • Daniel

      You look at your statement……”the US is becoming communist AND islamist!”
      I agree. And you wonder how the US can be embracing two different belief structures that are MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE at the same time!
      Communism and Islam are in no way compatible in the least. In fact, modern jihad started in 1979 when the Russians invaded Afghanistan. This war pitted Islamic jihad against Soviet Communism.
      Obama embraces these two self nullifying belief structures because at his core he is a nihilist destroyer.
      Islam attacks the Christian foundation of the US.
      Communism attacks the capitalist system of the US which supports our military power.
      These are Obama’s motivations.
      Putin, for all his limitations, is not trying to destroy Russia. We cannot say this about Obama and the US.

      • billobillo54

        The confluence between communism and Islam is authoritarianism in politics, economics and society. While you make a valid point regarding the Soviets v. the Afghans, remember that the PLO and Arafat were championed by the Soviets, and so was Nasser of Egypt and Hussein of Iraq. Islam is very compatible with socialism and (of course) totalitarianism.

  • ellake

    Well, they did not exactly ban the book. They baned the translation. And the explanation for that decision is quite interesting.
    “the original the book is, most likely, quite different. But we feel that translation purposely distorts its essence to promote extremism. There is no name of author of translation on the website. And the website say that it is translation of that particular book. But we can not say if it is translation of that book or not. We did not compare it to the original, because they did not post the original on that site. I think that the book in original does not encourage people to turn to extremist activities.. And under the guise of translation one can say whatever one wants to say. ”
    http://www.islamnews.ru/news-437012.html

  • TL2014

    It’s quite tragic that Russia is now the defender of western civilization.

    • ellake

      Excuse me, how Russia can be defender of Western civilization when they do not belong to Western Civilization, at least that’s what they say, now.
      If two countries have the same enemy that does not mean that they are an allies. For example, Germans under Hitler were enemies of communism, but they were not the allies of USA.

      • Erudite Mavin

        Some of these posters are sucked into the Ron Paul propaganda
        on Russia Today of his support of Putin, and his Neo Soviet agenda

    • http://www.facebook.com/aemoreira81 aemoreira81

      Russia is not a defender of Western civilization. They are genetically incapable of being so…they are just practicing Communism by another name.

  • lein

    Putin is a real man and defender of his country. Obama is a traitor to his country and the opposite of manhood.

  • Erudite Mavin

    Putin and his Potemkin policy on Islam while Putin’s ally and partner in crime, Iran, the head of the snake of Radical Islam continue their agenda against America and freedom loving people.

  • RMThoughts

    What we are witnessing before our eyes a undamental “clash of civilizations”, but not between some wholly imaginary “Christian West” and Islam, but between Christian Russia and the post-Christian West – a pseudo-Christian “West” which dares not speak in defense of persecuted Christians, denies its own roots, and does not even respect its own traditions. Russia did not want this conflict. Russia did everything in her power to
    prevent it.

    • joe kulak

      Correction: Not a clash of civilizations, but a clash between civilization and barbarism.

  • Metatrona

    Putin has the right idea. Next, he should ban the cowardice masks that Muslims wear. Notice, even the men wear cowardice masks.

  • SuchindranathAiyer

    Putin is probably the most sensible, mature and level headed head of State in the World. More power to him. The leaders of “The West” and India would put the proverbial ostrich to shame!

  • knowshistory

    banning the hijab is not only useless, it is counterproductive. hijabs don’t terrorize or kill anyone. muslims do. hijabs serve as an identifier of the cause of the problem. muslims. nevermind banning the hijab. the hijab is useful. round up anyone wearing a hijab, and escort her to the border, where there is a one way gate. then find their evil relatives, and send them through that gate as well. that would be effective. banning the hijab is as useful as painting camel dung.

  • sakovkt

    Well, now I don’t feel quite so bad about that sunshiny feeling I get every time Putin eats Obama’s lunch.

  • Mac-101

    If Putin was serious about fighin this and other EVILs he would release his file on Obola and bring about Transparency on our Great Leader!

  • johnnywood

    So, now the Ruskies are persecuting Moosies. Too bad.

  • Claus Heim

    If this news is no hoax I’ll really become a fan of Putin.

  • http://islam.com/ arthur disbury

    When are people going to realise that you cannot reason with inbred SAVAGES!!!!

  • Burnerjack

    As oil heads towards $50/barrel, it will be interesting to see how that effects the Jihadists.

  • mobsie666

    If the general comments on here are typical Americans then your country is doomed. You have no idea at all what the rest of the world thinks about you. None whatsoever. It’s not much, I can tell you that for free.