Russian Muslims to ask Hillary to "Adopt" Islam

Considering all the Islamic kissing that the White House, Department of Justice and the State Department have been doing, she might as well get it over with and convert. Muslim or not, the results will be the same.

Muslims of Kazan will offer Hillary Clinton to adopt Islam

Moscow, October 13, Interfax - Muslims of Tatarstan intend to offer USA State Secretary Hillary Clinton to adopt Islam during her visit to Kazan.

"As an imam I have to do several things when I meet her (Clinton - IF). First, I will meet her with peace and mercy from the Almighty. Then I will tell her about monotheism and recommend to adopt Islam," the Tvoy Den paper has cited imam-khatyb of the Kazan Zakaban Mosque Said-Jafar Lotfullin as saying on Tuesday.

He also believes he should ask USA State Secretary "not to infringe on Muslims rights in America, to develop Islamic cultural centers, to build more mosques."

In frames of her visit to Russia, Clinton plans to hold talks with Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiyev in Kazan Kremlin and to visit Qul Sharif Mosque and the Annunciation Cathedral. She is expected to communicate with Muslim and Orthodox spiritual leaders and parishioners.

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East Europe Grumbles About Downgrade in US Ties

This is a follow-up to the "Obama Backs Away From Missile Shield in Europe" article. While some people are calling Obama stupid, I don't think that of him at all. He is clearly trying to drive a wedge between us and our allies. All in his effort to weaken America.

East Europe grumbles about downgrade in US ties
By KAREL JANICEK and WILLIAM J. KOLE

PRAGUE – Scuttling a missile defense shield in the Czech Republic and Poland helps smooth relations between the U.S. and Russia. But at what price?

Some of America's staunchest allies are the East Europeans — and on Thursday, they expressed dismay at what many see as a slight after decades of their support for the U.S.

Among them were some famous names, including Lech Walesa, the former Solidarity leader and Polish ex-president. "I can see what kind of policy the Obama administration is pursuing toward this part of Europe," he said ruefully, adding: "The way we are being approached needs to change."

For most of the past decade, cozy relations with Washington were practically a given across the "new Europe." George W. Bush famously courted the region after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and leaned on it for troops to fight alongside U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Barack Obama took office undecided about Bush's plan to base 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and sophisticated radar in the Czech Republic — a system designed to shoot down long-range missiles that might be fired from Iran or elsewhere in the Middle East. Building had not started in either country.

The Czech installation was planned for the Brdy military installation 55 miles (90 kilometers) southwest of Prague. The Polish site was slated for a former military air base near the town of Redzikowo, about 115 miles from Russia's westernmost edge.
Obama has been reaching out to Russia, which had expressed outrage at the notion of missiles being pointed in its direction from a region that was firmly in the Soviet orbit just 20 years ago.

On Thursday, Obama announced he was shifting the plan from Eastern Europe to other locations. He and other administration officials said they have concluded that Iran's medium- and short-range missiles pose a greater threat and require more flexible technology.

Obama's decision got a positive reception in Russia, hailed by President Dmitry Medvedev as a "responsible move."

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VP Biden Insults Russia, Looks to Bully Them

Our loudmouth VP Joe Biden apparently thinks that he can bully Russia. Judging from this picture, I doubt it.

US Vice President Biden hits nerve in Russia
By LYNN BERRY, Mon Jul 27

MOSCOW – An interview U.S. Vice President Joe Biden gave to an American newspaper was front-page news Monday in Moscow, where his characterization of Russia as a weakened nation hit a raw nerve.

Biden said Russia's economic difficulties are likely to make the Kremlin more willing to cooperate with the United States on a range of national security issues.

"I think we vastly underestimate the hand that we hold," he said in an interview to The Wall Street Journal published Saturday.

Biden's comments appeared to catch the Kremlin by surprise, coming less than three weeks after President Barack Obama said on a visit to Moscow that the U.S. wants to see a "strong, peaceful and prosperous Russia."

"It raises the question: Who is shaping U.S. foreign policy? The president or members of his team, even the most respected ones?" said Kremlin foreign policy adviser Sergei Prikhodko.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Monday downplayed suggestions that Biden was setting a different U.S. policy from that laid out by the president.

When asked whether Obama thought Biden had gone too far in his remarks, Gibbs said the president stated his views on Russia during his recent visit and the vice president agrees with those views.

Gibbs said both leaders believe Russia will do its part to improve relations with the U.S.

Most Russian newspapers put Biden's interview on their front pages Monday, with headlines casting doubt on Washington's commitment to forge a more constructive relationship with Moscow.

"Joe Biden unexpectedly returned to the rhetoric of the previous Bush administration," the newspaper Kommersant wrote.

Moskovsky Komsomolets said Biden, with his "boorish openness," showed what the Obama administration really thinks about Russia. "We should respond to the Yankees in the same way," the newspaper wrote. "Any other language, unfortunately or fortunately, they do not understand."

The papers jumped on Biden's comments about Russia's demographic and economic problems.

"They have a shrinking population base, they have a withering economy, they have a banking sector and structure that is not likely to be able to withstand the next 15 years, they're in a situation where the world is changing before them and they're clinging to something in the past that is not sustainable," Biden said in the interview.

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Picture of the day!

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev shows Obama no respect!

Hat tip to Tribune7.

Russian Media:"Obama: Deceiver, cheat, swindler, liar, fraudster, con-artist."

Hugo Chavez has called President Obama ignorant, the Mullahs of Iran have shown him no respect, Castro put him in his place, and now the Russian news agency Pravda has unleashed their disdain for Obama. I guess that the leftist fantasy of everyone getting along after Obama takes office is not happening.

Obama assured of a chilly Russian welcome despite first signs of thaw

Published Date: 04 July 2009
By Chris Stephen in New York

BARACK Obama will have few traffic problems getting to the Kremlin for his first summit with Russian president Dmitri Medvedev on Monday – the Obamamania that has swept much of the rest of the world is absent from Moscow; there will be no adoring crowds to greet him.

A recent poll by Russia's Levada Centre found only 23 per cent of citizens believe the US president will "do the right thing in world affairs", with many doubting his promise of change will heal antagonisms between Russia and the West.

A long list of issues – from Nato's eastward expansion, to missile defence, to human rights, to the contest for oil and gas in Central Asia – continue to poison relations between the former Cold War superpowers.

Russian news agency Pravda was less than subtle in an editorial summing up the Obama administration, headlined: "Obama: Deceiver, cheat, swindler, liar, fraudster, con-artist."

The root cause of the antagonism is a belief in the Kremlin that relations with the West must inevitably be a "zero-sum" game – every gain for the West is a loss for Russia.

Masha Lipman, of the Moscow Carnegie Centre research group, said: "Russia has negative priorities, so-called 'red lines', such as Nato enlargement that might include Georgia or Ukraine."

But America needs Russian co-operation on a host of global issues – for example, the Start treaty limiting the number of nuclear warheads held by Moscow and Washington expires in December and a new one must be negotiated. Those negotiations will be complicated by Russia's anger at US plans to deploy a missile defence shield in the Czech Republic.

Washington also sees Russia as playing a pivotal role in the diplomatic chess game Mr Obama has launched in the Middle East and Asia, which will rely on unity among the big powers to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons, combat the Taleban and prod Israel and the Palestinians into peace talks.

Michael McFaul, Mr Obama's director for Russian and Eurasian affairs, said: "There are ways that we can co-operate to advance our interests, and at the same time do things with the Russians that are good for them as well."

Climate change is one such issue, and Mr Obama will also find common ground with his Russian counterpart in his two days of talks on efforts to tackle the global recession, terrorism and drug trafficking.

And Mr Medvedev is ignoring Mr Obama's criticism of Mr Putin. In a statement on the Kremlin website, he said: "The new US administration headed by President Obama is now demonstrating readiness to change the situation, and build more effective, reliable and ultimately more modern relations. And we are ready for this."

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Russia Surrenders

Early last month I had posted an article telling us that Russia had allowed Chechnya to become an Islamic state within Russia. Just a day later six members of the Russian security forces were killed in an Islamic bomb attack.

Which once again showed us that appeasement does not work. Now for some unknown reason Russia has completely surrendered to the Islamic separatists of Chechnya and have announced that they are ending their counter terrorism operation and pulling their troops out of Chechnya. This is an obvious victory for Islam. Have the leaders of Russia lost their will to fight or do they just not care?

Russia ends Chechen counterterrorism operation
By MUSA SADULAYEV

GROZNY, Russia – Chechens danced in the streets and waved flags to celebrate Russia's decision Thursday to end its decadelong counterterrorism operation in the war-weary southern region.

The order by President Dmitry Medvedev paves the way for the withdrawal of tens of thousands of federal troops, whose presence has been hugely unpopular amid allegations of widespread abuses against civilians.

The counterterrorism operation — launched at the start of the second of two separatist wars that have battered the region in the last 15 years — involved curfews and limits on civilian air flights and limited access for journalists, among other measures.

Its cancellation boosted the authority of the region's Kremlin-backed President Ramzan Kadyrov, who joined several thousand people Thursday in dancing in a square in central Grozny.

Motorists blared horns and waved Chechen and Russian flags from car windows, as schools and a university interrupted classes to let students to join celebrations.
"I'm very happy that the horrible years we saw will never come back," said 21-year-old student Isa Musayev. "We spent those years in constant fear for our lives."

Kadyrov, who has steadily strengthened his grip on power since his election in 2007, had long pushed for an end to counterterrorism operation in order to reduce federal military presence in Chechnya and remove restrictions which hampered trade.

"This is a victory over evil which we have fought over the last 15 years," Kadyrov said in a statement. "A peaceful and prosperous Chechen Republic in the united family of peoples of Russia — that is our strategic course for the future."

He said the airport in Groznny would soon be opened for international flights and foreign trade, which he said would help attract investors from Arab nations and Europe.

Kadyrov, whose election was choreographed by the Kremlin, has gained increasing popularity among Chechens as he has won more economic freedom for the region and brought many militants into line.

He is credited with bringing in millions of dollars in Russian funds to rebuild the war-ravaged capital, which artillery assaults and aerial bombing had turned into a near-wasteland.

Kadyrov also persuaded hundreds of former militants to join his feared security units. But Chechnya has remained plagued by what international rights groups have called rights violations by Kadyrov's militia, including rampant abductions, torture and murder.

Amnesty International said Thursday's move must be followed by impartial investigations into past and continuing rights violations committed by federal forces as well as by Kadyrov's militias and militants. They include indiscriminate killings, torture, abductions, arbitrary detentions and other abuses.

"The true benchmark of a return to normality is to give people what they have been wanting for over a decade — they want the truth, and they want justice," said Irene Khan, Amnesty International's secretary general. "They want to know the fate and whereabouts of relatives and friends who are among the disappeared, and they want those responsible brought to account."

Commentators said the measure represented Kadyrov's victory over Russian law-enforcement agencies, which have viewed the Chechen leader with suspicion.
"It strengthens Kadyrov and weakens the influence of the federal government," independent military analyst Alexander Golts said in a telephone interview.
Officials haven't said how many troops are currently stationed in Chechnya, but Golts put their number at 40,000, split about equally between the defense and interior ministries.

Interior Ministry spokesman Col. Vasily Panchenkov said last month that ending the regime could lead to the withdrawal of about 20,000 ministry troops, though one of its brigades and a division of military troops would remain.

Russia said it intended to end the operation last month. But the decision was delayed after one of Kadyrov's strongest enemies, Sulim Yamadayev, was shot to death in Dubai. Police in Dubai said Kadyrov's right-hand man, Adam Delimkhanov, was suspected of ordering the killing. Reports said Delimkhanov was also suspected in last year's killing of Yamadayev's brother Ruslan. The deaths of the Yamadayev brothers eliminated two of Kadyrov's most powerful opponents.

Though major fighting in Chechnya died down several years ago, sporadic clashes between militants and troops persist in the region and the violence has spun off into neighboring Dagestan and Ingushetia.

The first Chechen war began in 1994 as separatists led by the late Chechen President Dzokhar Dudayev pressed to split off from Russia. The Russian troops withdrew in 1996 under an agreement that left Chechnya de-facto independent, but the region was then plagued by lawlessness and Islamic fundamentalists became increasingly influential.

The Russian troops swept back into Chechnya after Chechen fighters invaded Dagestan in the summer of 1999, aiming to form an Islamic caliphate in a sector of that republic.

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Chechnya:Name Your Baby Mo, Make Bank

One week ago I posted about how the Russian government has allowed Islamic rule in Chechnya. Since then six Russian officers were killed in a bomb attack and now Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov in an effort to strengthen Islam is offering a cash reward to anyone who has a baby on Mohammad's birthday and names him Mohammad.

Chechnya asks newborns to be named after Mohammad
Mon Mar 9

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia's Chechnya region asked parents of boys born on Prophet Mohammad's birthday to name their children after the Muslim prophet, Russian media reported Monday.

Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov added that every boy born on March 8 and March 9 will also receive 50,000 roubles ($1,394) -- a hefty sum more than double Russia's average monthly wage.

State television channel Vesti 24 showed rows of newborn babies sleeping in a hospital in Chechnya's capital Grozny who will be named Mohammad Monday. Earlier, the capital sent fireworks into the early morning skies around a lit-up mosque.
"I ask their parents to name the boys after Mohammad," Interfax news agency quoted former rebel turned Kremlin-loyal leader Kadyrov as saying.

Some analysts say that in return for quelling rebel attacks, the Kremlin has let Kadyrov usher in some Islamic-inspired rules, such as requiring women working in government offices to wear headscarves and long skirts, and imposing periodic alcohol bans.

Chechnya, on Russia's southern border, is now relatively peaceful after two wars fought by separatist rebels and Islamist militants against Moscow's rule starting in 1994. (Reporting by Amie Ferris-Rotman; Editing by Matthew Jones)

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Russia to Saudis, Respect is a Two way Street

The Christian oppressing Saudi Royal Family has asked Russia if they can build a Mosque in Russia. Russia has done what no other country has done and has answered yes, but only if they can build a Church in Saudi Arabia. Do any of the politicians of the US or the UK have guts to take this stand?

A Russian church for a Saudi mosque?
Belief Blog
POSTED December 03 2008 BY Julia Duin
This delightful story just came in thanks to getreligion.org: The Saudis have recently asked permission to build a mosque in Moscow, a city where there are only four mosques and 2 million Muslims. The Russians, however, are saying they want, in return, an Orthodox church in Saudi Arabia.

As we all know, the Saudis have a habit of constructing mosques in dozens of world capitals while forbidding houses of worship for any religion whatsoever outside its Wahabist brand of Islam. They've gotten some bad PR locally for some of the hate language in textbooks at the Saudi Academy in northern Virginia. Not only are hapless Christians terrorized and jailed for daring to hold private prayer services in Saudi Arabia, but God help them should they try to convert someone to their religion. And that's for a fellow People of the Book: One can only guess at what the treatment of Buddhists and Hindus must be like.

Wouldn't it be so ironic if the Russians were the first Christian body to win acceptance of the right to build a church in, say, Riyadh? (Some of the Russians are calling for a church in Mecca, but the chances of any other religion getting a foothold within walking distance of the world center of Islam is less than zero.) Of course we all know the Saudis aren't about ready to let Bibles or other religious literature, let alone a church, anywhere near their homeland, but all the same, it's amusing to see the Russians give the Saudis a taste of their own medicine.

-Julia Duin, religion editor

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Russian Newsweek Warned for Insulting Muslims

Usually we see Muslims trying to stifle our freedom of speech. It happened in Michigan and the United Nations. But this time it was not even Muslims, it was Russian prosecutors. I wonder if these prosecutors find the Koran insulting to non-Muslims? That is if they even bothered to read one.

Russian Newsweek warned for "insulting" Muslims
2 hours ago
MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow prosecutors say they have warned the Russian-language edition of the Newsweek magazine for allegedly insulting Muslims.
The Moscow Prosecutor's Office says the magazine published two stories that could be "insulting or humiliating" to Muslims. It said Tuesday on article also included one of the 2005 Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
The magazine published the stories on Muslims in the European Union in late October. It could not be immediately reached for comment. About 20 million Muslims live in Russia.
Under President Vladimir Putin and his successor, Dmitry Medvedev, Russian news organizations have come under increasing official pressure. If prosecutors' warnings are ignored, publications can be fined or threatened with closure.

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