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2005-06-27 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-06-27 10:05|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 live mainly in Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan, while residents of the North-West Caucasus, Tatarstan, Bashkiria

aka Greater United Hellholistan

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-27 13:10|| 2005-06-27 13:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Muslims have lived in Russia for centuries, while Islam itself is even older than Orthodox Christianity

A-hem, While the above statement could be argued from the techincal point that the Great Schisim occured in ~1054, I seem to recall that when the Pagan rulers of the russians went shopping for religions, they opted for christianity, ca. 800-1100 AD. The mongols that over-ran russia came later, and even then the mongols were more pagan thatn muslim at the time.

The majority of the muslim presence in what is now Russia started in the 1600s, when expansion eastwards/russian imperialism began.

Posted by N guard 2005-06-27 13:12|| 2005-06-27 13:12|| Front Page Top

#3 The Mongols famously adopted Islam over Christianity because the Islamic delegates arrrived on time, while the Christians from Byzantium [???] arrived a day late - thanx to CLOCK-/TAXI-GATE, vast areas of Mongol-conquered Eurasia became officially Muslim overnight, whether they knew it or not, wanted it or not.

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2005-06-27 20:59|| n/a]">[n/a] 2005-06-27 20:59|| Front Page Top

#4 St. Cyril converted the Khazars of the Dnieper-Volga region from Judaism to Orthodox Christianity ~860 A.D., along with providing them a written alphabet and a Slavonic liturgy.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-06-27 22:11|| 2005-06-27 22:11|| Front Page Top

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