Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said Turkey's political leaders had been encouraging the Islamisation of Turkish society, something he said was a problem, Russian agencies quoted him as saying.
Speaking a day after Turkey shot down one of Moscow's jets, Putin said:
"The problem is not the tragedy we witnessed yesterday," the TASS news agency quoted him as saying.
"The problem is much deeper. We observe ... that the current Turkish leadership over a significant number of years has been pursuing a deliberate policy of supporting the Islamisation of their country."
By his statement Putin who had the Orthodox Church of Russia bless his actions is making a direct attack on Islam as a religion offending all Muslims around the world.
Putin forgot that the party ruling today Turkey is the choice of the people of Turkey. The Turkish society is overwhelmingly Muslim, including the Kurds.
On the other hand, Putin is the president that restored the Orthodox Church and ethnic Russian nationalism in the countries within the Russian sphere.
It seems that Putin is faithful to a belief shared by most extreme right European parties: Islam is a terrorist faith and all Muslims are terrorists. The fight is between Christian values and Muslim values.
This clarifies why Putin has been attacking all Syrian factions that have Muslim names independent of their affiliations. Some of them are working hand in hand with the coalition against terrorism led by the United States.
But then why is he allying himself to Iran and Assad who are Muslims?
They are Shia Muslims and his Russian Muslims and those who drove the Soviet Union from Afghanistan are Sunni Muslims. So he seems to be prioritizing his crusade to be one against Sunni Muslims who constitute the overwhelming majority of Muslims around the world.
I am all for separation of Church and State and fighting the fundamentalists ideologies. But there is no way to win over Muslim fundamentalism with "Christian values".
Putin's ideology is the antonym of democratic values. His fight against terrorism is becoming a new crusade. This can have dire consequences by feeding the ideology of Daesh.
Hollande should beware of associating himself to such an undertaking, it would be an attack on the values of the Republic that take root in secularism.
source
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/25/us-mideast-crisis-russia-turkey-syria-idUSKBN0TE0X820151125
Speaking a day after Turkey shot down one of Moscow's jets, Putin said:
"The problem is not the tragedy we witnessed yesterday," the TASS news agency quoted him as saying.
"The problem is much deeper. We observe ... that the current Turkish leadership over a significant number of years has been pursuing a deliberate policy of supporting the Islamisation of their country."
By his statement Putin who had the Orthodox Church of Russia bless his actions is making a direct attack on Islam as a religion offending all Muslims around the world.
Putin forgot that the party ruling today Turkey is the choice of the people of Turkey. The Turkish society is overwhelmingly Muslim, including the Kurds.
On the other hand, Putin is the president that restored the Orthodox Church and ethnic Russian nationalism in the countries within the Russian sphere.
It seems that Putin is faithful to a belief shared by most extreme right European parties: Islam is a terrorist faith and all Muslims are terrorists. The fight is between Christian values and Muslim values.
This clarifies why Putin has been attacking all Syrian factions that have Muslim names independent of their affiliations. Some of them are working hand in hand with the coalition against terrorism led by the United States.
But then why is he allying himself to Iran and Assad who are Muslims?
They are Shia Muslims and his Russian Muslims and those who drove the Soviet Union from Afghanistan are Sunni Muslims. So he seems to be prioritizing his crusade to be one against Sunni Muslims who constitute the overwhelming majority of Muslims around the world.
I am all for separation of Church and State and fighting the fundamentalists ideologies. But there is no way to win over Muslim fundamentalism with "Christian values".
Putin's ideology is the antonym of democratic values. His fight against terrorism is becoming a new crusade. This can have dire consequences by feeding the ideology of Daesh.
Hollande should beware of associating himself to such an undertaking, it would be an attack on the values of the Republic that take root in secularism.
source
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/25/us-mideast-crisis-russia-turkey-syria-idUSKBN0TE0X820151125
No comments:
Post a Comment