by Raymond Ibrahim
[PJMedia] Russia appears to be taking serious moves to combat the "radicalization" of Moslems within its border.
Recent pro-Islamic reports are complaining that Russia is banning the Islamic hijab--the headdress Islamic law requires Moslem women to wear--and, perhaps even more decisively, key Islamic scriptures, on the charge that they incite terrorism.
While this move against the hijab may appear as discriminatory against religious freedom, the flipside to all this--which perhaps Russia, with its significant Moslem 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 Moslem women living in those communities."
The reason for this correlation is clear: strict Islamic Sharia commands jihad ("terrorism") against unbelievers just as it commands Moslem 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. in the words of Arabic news site Elaph: "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 bully boy Islam" which "arouses ethnic, religious enmity." |