Monday, August 20, 2007

The Right On The Rise

Who would have thought that one of the biggest threats facing Russians these days comes from the Right, that's right, not the Left, the Right. The Partisan was right (confused yet?), Neo-nazi groups are growing ever more radical and committing constant violent abuses against migrants. One of these crimes was filmed recently:

'The video, viewed by the Reuters news agency, shows two men with their mouths gagged and hands tied behind their backs, kneeling in front of a swastika flag in a forest.
To a backing track of heavy metal music, the video appears to show a masked man hacking off the head of one captive with what looked like a hunting knife. In another section, a man could be heard shouting "Glory to Russia", then firing a handgun at the head of a second captive kneeling next to a shallow grave.'


This sickening scene is reminiscent of the now infamous Al-Quaeda videos that have circulated the globe time and again. What's interesting is the similarity of cause to some popular and regular Australians:

'Neo-Nazis have been involved in at least 92 murders and 760 attacks on immigrants in less than two years, according to an independent group that monitors racially motivated crimes.
The youngest victim was Khursheda Sultanova, a nine-year-old Tajik girl who bled to death on the outskirts of St Petersburg after being stabbed by skinheads chanting "Russia is for Russians". '


And Cronulla is for Aussies!!!!!! Pauline would no doubt blush, but where does she think her anti-immigrant politics will eventually lead? And similarly, what do all those lovely anti-Muslim blogs think their tirades will produce? Take this from Crusader Rabbit:

'So in the interests of muslim awareness...The man is a Hindu and he's being beaten to death.His crime? To have been walking past a mosque after Friday prayers, when the faithful have been whipped into a frenzy.The Religion of Peace.To the organisers of the awareness week: fuck you! You're apologists for this filth.'

Can you see the rationale? Extreme Muslims elsewhere behave violently and aggressively therefore the whole religion and all within it are to be blamed and their friends abused. I'm sure this flawless reasoning also resides in the minds of Russia's Neo-Nazis but do CR even notice the similarity? The bashing of a hindu man for such a 'crime' is deplorable and there's no reason to think that all Muslims would support such a thing but this fact doesn't matter to such minds, all Muslims are guilty by association, full stop. This is not dissimilar to fascist attitudes towards Jews in Hitler's Germany, yet once again, they don't realise how close they are to the line. Instead they believe the Left are closer merely because it's the "National-Socialist" party (don't you know?). So without fear they post things like this:

'"Muslims are being put on trains and sent to concentration camps, gassed and buried in mass graves I suppose."

We can only dream.'

And still they fail to see the connection. Incredible.

So as you can see, it's not the Left killing migrants to keep Russia pure, or lumping all adherents of Islam in the same bag for discrimination, it's YOU Crusader, it's the Right.