3. Jihad
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3. Jihad
Michael Leontjev (one of “Odnako” program’s hosts on ORT channel) concluded his comment on hostage-taking at the “Nord-Ost” performance and extermination of terrorists with a folly: “For every Jihad there is Russian spetsnaz”.
“Jihad” means “holy war” when translated from the Arabic. Essentially it means that the followers of God’s kingdom upon Earth are forced to defend themselves, their families and allies because murder is a sin. But murder is a smaller sin than impiety brought in openly or indirectly by the enemies of those who forcedly resorted to Jihad. [3]
But what is going on in Chechnya is not Jihad. It is a pseudo-Jihad.
If one turns to the history of how one of the world’s regional civilisations developed its culture on the basis of Koran’s revelation one notices that before the prophet Muhammad started a Jihad he spent ten years preaching peacefully. During that time:
· On the one hand, all opponents of Muhammad and his first followers had every chance of getting to know the revelation of Koran, delving into its meaning and thinking about their personal attitude to the Revelation and their personal relationship to God (this is what religion actually is). As a result some of them adopted Islam according to their personal understanding of good and evil, benefits to the community.
· On the other hand, first Muslims themselves were firm in enduring everything their opponents used against them - conspiracy and violence amounting to murders including attempts to assassinate Muhammad himself, hunger and economic genocide caused by a trade boycott organised by the clan leaders of Islam’s opponents.
And only after that did they start the Jihad which resulted in the complete defeat of their enemy. Taking precedent into consideration had Chechnya started a true Jihad then Chechen leaders themselves would have put an end to the train-robbing “business”. The same goes to the issue of taking hostages for ransom or slavery.
In this case Chechnya would not be striving for “independent statehood” and at the same time commit a great many crimes. Chechen deputies in the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation (or in the Duma if this historic scenario would include the fall of the Supreme Soviet as well) would build their speeches on ethic and philosophical principles of the Koran and would try to point out a way to solve the problems of multinational Russia in concord with God’ will. Our knowledge of the Koran’s texts even in Russian translations, our understanding of the present events, our experience of exchanging views with people of different social strata suggest that if this were the case the reformers and democratisers would quickly lose their air of intellectuals and freedom-lovers in many people’s opinion, because it would then come to light that by their idle talk they hush up an international fascist dictatorship of usurers coming into being and their legislative activity is aimed at it.
Islam as a teaching of human freedom inside God’s will. It condemns slavery no matter what means are used to exercise it [4] and especially does not tolerate the power of usurers over economy and social life. Despite this we did not witness events, when Chechen representatives in Duma would fight against this kind of enslavery.
It was the course of history that the Koran was revealed to people in the times when slavery was in the order of things and the mighty of this world preferred to misuse Koranic texts in their interpretation of life, justifying slavery by pettyfogging reference to the Koran. Acting contrary to the slave-owning custom of the Islam that existed in the historically real Islam one of the founders of the Muslim civilisation, Muhammad’s relative and fellow-fighter - Ali, bought slaves as was customary in those times, taught them the Koran getting them to know Islam and in a year freed them and gave them enough money to live independently in a Muslim society and return to their homeland as free people. Many of those released slaves upon returning to their home started teaching Islam to their peoples.
Certainly the Chechen leaders in the 11 years that passed since the break-up of the Soviet Union (this is a longer period than the one preceding the Jihad started by Muhammad) managed to get many people bowing to a prayer rug five times a day. Muhammad said, “The prayer gives to the servant of God [5] only what he has understood from it”.
One must admit that getting someone to nonsensically bow to a prayer rug as a part of an obscure ritual is one thing, and teaching a man to live a religious life in the course of God’s will and in peace with other people and the Universe is somewhat different.
And every Russian citizen when recollecting those thousands people reported missing who were actually turned into slavery and those of their countrymen who died in acts of terror, would hardly recollect a single person whom the Chechens did convert in true Islam, so that this person by all his life would act as a credible example of a righteous man of God. Although there are several examples of people converted into the historically real type of Islam, the type of thoughtless worshipping - and supporters of usurious slavery immediately grabbed the opportunity, turning that fact to their advantage in the movie “Musulmanin” (“The Muslim”).
The Chechen leaders had succeeded in getting people to thoughtlessly bow to a rug and used that as a basis to create robot-like kamikazes to exercise power against the will of God but in His name. This message could be read in the face of Movsar Barayev when he was interviewed for the last time in the bearing factory’s palace of culture: a listless stare shunning the camera; a dependant look befitting a zombie who is not speaking on his own, who is acting on orders transmitted over the telephone and who is not aware of what he is doing, because even his masters had not been trusted the secret of the global psycho-Trotzkian scenario in which all of them are being used without knowing it. All this and the implementation of God’s will is incompatible.
That is why those who think that the “spetsnaz” had put a bottle of cognac into Barayev’s dead hand before video-taping his body in order to defile the true warriors of Jihad in the opinion of Muslims - are wrong. First, the body lay exactly where Barayev met his death, which is proved by the pool of blood which the body lay in. And a theatre bar is not a key defence position and not the best place for arranging headquarters and commanding the battle, so even if he were a stray Muslim warrior he had nothing to do in that bar. Second, those led by God usually achieve more than they have expected and the “guerrillas” got into a mess and failed, discrediting all Muslims as potential terrorists and their accomplices in the opinion of others.
And the main thing: the above-mentioned incident exposed to every man capable of thinking in concord with his consciousness, that the Chechen attempt to build a society with independent statehood in which slavery is legalised has degenerated into gangsterism and is contrary to the spirit of Islam; and that true Jihad was fought by the spetsnaz who put an end to the gangsterism of pseudo-Muslims brought up by the Chechen leaders during the last decade. [6] The use of special means in the course of the operation, which brought about casualties among the hostages can not be put at fault to those in-charge of the operation. It was successful in not giving the kamikaze-terrorists the chance to blow everything up, for everyone would have died in this case. And this is God’s gift to Russia, given in advance for her future, in order that she could quietly get rid of all types of slavery and thereby solve the Russian-Chechen relationship problem.
Attempting to solve the Russian-Chechen relationship problem along with building the so-called “civil society” based on the Western concept of “human rights” in Russia is hopeless, as it is a continuation of the conflict between the two systems of slavery:
· The primitive tribal system based on brutal force which is exercised by the Chechen “pahanat” and
· The “highly civilised” one based on the Jewish supragovernment corporate/mafia monopoly on usury, stock exchange quotations, copyright which controls the Western world.
Hakamada, Nemtsov, Yavlinski and other politicians of the liberal front may not understand it, but they cannot help sensing it. That is why the actual state of things pushes their interests towards concluding a “voluntary” agreement with the Chechen “pahanat” (which would be fatal for the future of people in Chechnya and the rest of Russia) on isolating “Ichkerya” into a separate state, because it leaves them a chance to keep the control over Russia in the hands of their “backstage” masters.
Accordingly, the society needs an alternative - a level of morals and awareness alternative to the multi-faceted slavery of mob “elitism”.