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2008-10-29 Arabia

Russia commits to stronger ties with the Muslim world

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Posted by Classer 2008-10-29 00:25|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Basically anyone who is not friends of the west!!!!

Posted by Paul2 2008-10-29 07:37|| 2008-10-29 07:37|| Front Page Top

#2 So when does Russia adopt Sharia? And have they decided to make nice with the Chechens? And Beslan was just an innocent misunderstanding?

Posted by Glenmore 2008-10-29 08:05|| 2008-10-29 08:05|| Front Page Top

#3 President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiyev took a friendly dig at all those who have a habit of blaming Muslims for everything that goes wrong in the world.

That's funny, considering they believe the exact same thing about Jews.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-10-29 08:25|| 2008-10-29 08:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Putin took a wrong turn here. Thinks he can handle these jihadi fucks. Unless the commitment is to killing them all?

Posted by Last Breath Farm Resident 2008-10-29 08:39|| 2008-10-29 08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe the internal review of the Georgian operation and the economic spreadsheet from the new KGB showed that 'hard' diplomacy wasn't in the cards in dealing with the muzzies for the near future, so he's following the 'soft' diplomacy of the other Euros. Someone else learned that pissing off the big boys to the west and fighting the threat to the east at the same time isn't a good game plan.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-10-29 09:03|| 2008-10-29 09:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Sheer demography works against ethnic russians (IE the muslim part of the russia federation is young and rapidly growing, while the white european russkies are aging and depopulating), russia already is a member of the islamic conference organization, and has a long-standing run of having muslim countries and terror orgs as clients.

So, it' s only very natural russia plays the muslim card against it's "ennemies", it's the only one they've been dealt with. putin is stuck in the "Evil Empire" thought mode, he's a nostalgic of the USSR (whose fall was according to him the "greatest tragedy of th e20th century"), his regime is very busy rehabilitating stalin, making the West as a scapegoat and a scarecrow in a fascistic national-communism fashion... no wonder he's so popular with the french wingnuts who dream of having russian tanks sweeping through Europe to purge it of its decadence... In a very short time span, muslim men will be an absolute majority in military service age group, and china will have colonized de facto the russian far east, but, hey, putin is the blue-eyed blond guy who's turning russia into a "world power", whereas the USA are "stuck in a downward spiral of capitalist-induced decadence "...

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-10-29 09:49|| 2008-10-29 09:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Also, china too is using muslim as proxies, politixcal and possibly military, just as russia does. Just remember the 2001 "anti-racism" durban UN conference which turned into an anti-Western, anti-US, anti-joooo hatefest. The goal of china is to overthrow the western world order in term of values and rules, the dumb muzzies are great footsoldiers for them, from pakistain to iranians.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-10-29 09:52|| 2008-10-29 09:52|| Front Page Top

#8 when did muslims become the scapegoats for everything that went wrong in the world?Last time i checked scapegoats monthly the americans and jews where in 1 and 2 spots

Posted by chris 2008-10-29 10:31|| 2008-10-29 10:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Good job, Vladdy. That Beslan thing? Just an "aberration" I'm sure...

Posted by tu3031 2008-10-29 12:45|| 2008-10-29 12:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Yeah, the 10 year Afghan war was a friendly gesture.

Posted by hammerhead 2008-10-29 13:06|| 2008-10-29 13:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Apparantly Gulliver was committed to stronger ties with the lilliputians as well. Just hope the ropes are weak.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-10-29 14:02|| 2008-10-29 14:02|| Front Page Top

#12 WORLD MILITARY FORUM > RETURN OF RUSSIAN FLEET AIMS AT FINDING NEW NAVAL BASES [post-2017 Sevastopal] IN INDIAN OCEAN [Arabian Sea]. Besides TARTARUS, Syria + returning to their former Cold War SOUTH YEMEN Base, RUSSIA MAY ALSO BE CONSIDERING TO SET UP IN HONG KONG = widening the parallel port of LATAKIA???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-10-29 22:59|| 2008-10-29 22:59|| Front Page Top

#13 WAFF > IRAN CALLS FOR "BALANCED STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP" WID RUSSIA.

You just know the Devil is in the meaning of the term 'Balanced"???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-10-29 23:12|| 2008-10-29 23:12|| Front Page Top

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