Thursday, December 16, 2010

(Nationalist) Russians protest killing of Maxim Sychyov and Yegor Sviridov, by suspects from mainly Muslim Caucasus, and 'pro-Muslim' authorities

Protests were held on Saturday in Moscow and Saint Petersburg (BBC 1) against the killing of Sychhyov, and again on Wednesday in those two cities as well as in Samara (BBC 2).

The weekend rally began as a protest against the killing of a member of the Spartak Moscow team's fan club, who was shot with rubber bullets in a fight with Caucasus natives at a bus stop earlier this month. (AP 2)

The initial tension was sparked by the death of Yegor Sviridov -- a Spartak Moscow fan who was shot in the head December 4 during a fight with men from the Russia's predominantly Muslim North Caucasus. (AFP)

Spartak fans were further incensed with how Yegor Sviridov's killing was handled by police. They claimed that while police arrested one suspect following the fight, they released others because they had powerful backers in the Caucasus. (AP 2)

Moscow police chief Vladimir Kolokoltsev acknowledged Monday that investigators had made a mistake and said three more suspects have now been arrested. (AP 2)

Aslan Cherkessov, 26, from the Kabardino-Balkaria region in the Caucasus, was formally accused by a Moscow district court of murdering Mr Sviridov and placed in custody until 6 February. (BBC 2)

The demonstration appeared to have inspired students in Rostov-on-Don, where 18-year-old Maxim Sychyov died last month after being beaten up by fellow university students from the nearby Caucasus. (AP 1)

More than 1,000 students gathered at his dormitory Sunday to light candles in his memory and then marched along the central avenue shouting "Go, Russians" and "Russians are united." They called on university and city authorities to clamp down on students from the Caucasus. (AP 1)

Resentment has been rising among Slavic Russians over the growing presence in Moscow and elsewhere of people from the southern region of Caucasus, the home of numerous ethnic groups, most of them Muslim. People from other parts of the former Soviet Union, including Central Asia and Azerbaijan, also face ethnic discrimination and are frequent victims of hate crimes. (AP 2)

While ethnic minorities complain of continuing discrimination in Russia, some ethnic Russians accuse the authorities of trying to play down hate crimes against Russians. (BBC 1,2)


Source: AFP, AP (1, 2), BBC (1, 2)


Comments: Yet another case where authorities are suspected of favoring Muslim immigrants accused of crimes, over the rights of native victims.

Just yesterday, Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty said that international authorities in Kosovo did not investigate Muslim crimes, including credible claims that Christian Serbs were being killed and their organs harvested, properly.

Elements of race and ethnicity involved here and there is a need to watch out that Russian nationalism don't get out of hand.

But Muslims are also involved too and Russia has a huge problem with Islamic terrorism.

Conflicts involving Muslims usually get over generalized as an ethnicity or race issue but this can be shown to be false by showing that the same problems arise all over the world in different places, between different races and also even among Muslims themselves.

And, crucially, when non-Muslims are in the same disadvantaged situation, they do not cause as much problems or violence or terrorism as the Muslims (if at all).

There will be racism and discrimination (also by Muslim), and these should be addressed, but they do not explain everything.

Some quotes from previous articles posted on this blog

Thilo Sarrazin said
"no immigrant group other than Muslims is so strongly connected with claims on the welfare state and crime"
Germany's Family Minister Kristina Schröder said
Religion was part of culture and culture shaped behaviour

“If someone made an issue of the disproportionate tendency to violence among young Muslims, it was always said that this was a blanket judgement. But that’s not the case,”

“Social disadvantage and discrimination are important factors, but they are not sufficient as an explanation,”

Some previous similar or related stories:

Multiculturalism utterly failed in Germany, say German Chancellor Merkel [Will multiculturalism involving Muslims work in Russia?]

Palestinian Jordanians and native Bedouins clash at soccer match in Jordan – Palestinian loyalty questioned but they say they face Glass-ceiling [Muslims clash among themselves too]

Monument for Christian behaded by Chechen Muslim terrorists on video [Christian Russian soldier Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Rodionov was beheaded]

Terrorists shouting Alluha Akbar attack Chechnyan Parliament; 6 dead with body parts and a severed head [Terrorism in Russia]

Finally some PROOF: German studies find religious and cultural roots to Muslim propensity to violence, PC excuses can't explain all – like so DUH!!! [Muslim in Russia might try PC excuses]

Problem of Asian (MUSLIM PAKISTANI?) gangs luring and sexually abusing young White girls in Northern England but PC authorities won't admit [Questionable authorities]

Gunmen kill 29 in Karachi during bye-election for assasinated MP's seat [Mohajirs who are descendants of Urdu-speakers who moved to Pakistan after the partition from India clashing with Pashtuns in Pakistan]

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