‘Mad Vlad’ urges West and Russia to destroy Islam
By Julius Strauss in Moscow
13/02/2004
Telegraph
The West should unite with Russia against Islamic radicals and Chinese
immigrants, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the flamboyant Russian
ultra-nationalist, said yesterday.
The firebrand politician, who is making a moderate political comeback
in Russia, gave warning that if the former Cold War enemies did not
form an alliance they would be overrun.
In the West, the man who won the soubriquet “Mad Vlad” and who struck
fear into the hearts of political leaders in the 1990s with his battery
of threats, is considered a political has-been.
Even in his homeland the former lawyer, who has called for the Russian
army to invade Alaska and India, drop nuclear weapons on Japan and
flood Germany with radioactive waste, is seen as a buffoon. But he also
has a reputation as a political weather vane who skilfully mines a rich
lode in the Russian popular psyche.
The appeal of his brand of strong authority and ethnic nationalism was
shown in last December’s parliamentary elections when his party, and
Rodina, another ultra-nationalist group, won more than 20 per cent of
the vote.
In the same poll Russia’s liberal parties, which stood behind the
reforms of the 1990s, sank almost without trace, failing to reach the
threshold necessary to win representation in parliament.
Perhaps significantly, Mr Zhirinovsky’s scorching rhetoric is now
directed less against the West and the Jews, his former bogeymen, but
Islam and Asia.
“The white race is perishing,” he said. "Every day there are fewer and
fewer of us. We are half as many as we were 40 years ago. We must unite
against the yellow peril and the green menace.
"We both have the same problem: the invasion of the Asians. You have
Pakistan and India, we have central Asia and the Caucasus.
“Washington, London, Moscow and Tel Aviv need to form a common front.
If we don’t, the terrorist attacks we see today will continue for
another 50 years.”
Russians fear that the growing threat of militant Islam in the Caucasus
and central Asia will strike at their soft and ill-protected
underbelly.
Asked about the threat presented by Chechen terrorists, who are thought
to have been behind the bombing of an underground train in central
Moscow that killed more than 40 people last week, Mr Zhirinovsky
offered a radical solution.
'If I become president, I will let the entire Chechen community in
Moscow know that, if there is a single terrorist attack anywhere in
Moscow or in other cities in Russia, they will all be sent back to
Chechnya. The attacks will stop immediately."
The campaign opened yesterday for the presidential election due on
March 14. But the contest is considered a one-horse race, with
President Vladimir Putin likely to win more than 70 per cent of the
vote and another four-year term.
So certain is the outcome that rival heavyweights, including Mr
Zhirinovsky and Gennady Zyuganov, the veteran Communist Party leader,
have stayed out of the contest.
Mr Zhirinovsky has nominated one of his bodyguards to represent his
party, the Liberal Democrats.
Asked about his record of violent outbursts, Mr Zhirinovsky said:
“Putin is western, talks quietly, takes careful decisions and leaves
the Russians in a torpor. His personal qualities cannot awake the
Russian people.”
Comment:
Indeed Allah swt is correct when it is mentione din the Quran that the muslims are one brotherhood to the exclusion of all others and the non-muslims are one brotherhood to the exclusion of muslims. Statements like this indicate that the forces of disbelief are once again gathering against Islam and muslims like they did at the battle of the ditch. We all know what happened to the allaince of disbelief then and InshAllah muslims will once again today be victorious, all we have to do is follow Islam and work for the return of Islam to society fearing no one but our lord Allah swt from whom the victory will once again come.