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2004-09-14 06:03 | User Profile
[URL=http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/News/Trifkovic/NewsViews.htm]Chronicles[/URL]
September 13, 2004
RAPES IN BESLAN: IN MUHAMMADââ¬â¢S FOOTSTEPS by Srdja Trifkovic
The media in the United States have been oddly fastidious in failing to report one aspect of last weekââ¬â¢s horror in Beslan: that several Russian girls were raped by Muslim terrorists in front of their parents and classmates. The failure to report rapes in the Russian school was at odds with the eagerness of American journalists, a decade ago, to report ad nauseam on the entirely fictitious "rape camps" supposedly run by Bosnian Serbs in which Muslim women were allegedly subjected to similar degradation.
That Muslim propagandists and their Western abettors should have resorted to this particular whopper is especially galling in view of Islamââ¬â¢s encouragement of violence against women in general, and its explicit blessing of rape of captive non-Muslim women by Muslims in particular. The behavior of Chechen terrorists in Beslan, disgusting in every gory detail by the standards of civilized humanity, was justified by the tenets of Islam and by the personal example of the cultââ¬â¢s inventor, Muhammad.
Having established himself as the ruler of Medina, Muhammad attacked the Jewish tribe of Banu-ââ¬Ël-Mustaliq in December of A.D. 626. His followers slaughtered many Jewish tribesmen and looted thousands of their camels and sheep. They also kidnapped 500 of their women. The night after the battle Muhammad and his brigands staged an orgy of rape. As one of the brigands, Abu Saââ¬â¢id Khudri, later remembered, a legal problem needed to be resolved first: In order to obtain ransom from the surviving Jews for the captive women, Muslims had pledged not to violate them:
We were lusting after women and chastity had become too hard for us, but we wanted to get the ransom money for our prisoners. So we wanted to use the Azl [coitus interruptus]. We asked the Prophet about it and he said: "You are not under any obligation not to do it like that."
Having ethnically cleansed and robbed of property all but one of three Jewish clans in Medina, in A.D. 627 Muhammad decided to deal with the last, Banu Qurayzah. He offered the men conversion as an alternative to death. Upon their unsurprising refusal, some 900ââ¬âexact numbers are unknownââ¬âwere decapitated, one by one, in a ditch surrounding their encampment, in front of their women and children. Muhammadââ¬â¢s Einsatzgruppen worked hard: Torches had to be lit so that the slaughter could be accomplished in one day. The women, thus widowed or orphaned, were raped that same night. Muhammad chose as his concubine one Raihana bint Amr, whose father and husband were both slaughtered before her eyes only hours earlier. (Such treatment of the victims had been duly sanctioned by a prophetic revelation in the Kuran.)
In his early years, as a powerless and often ridiculed outsider in Mecca, Muhammad had enumerated the series of temptations which could enslave human beings: The passion for women, the desire for male children, the thirst for gold and silver, spirited horses, and the possession of cattle and land (Kuran, 3:12). Once enthroned in Medina as the head of a theocratic statelet, he wanted to possess them all. Muhammad freely admitted that two things in the world, women and perfume, attracted himââ¬âso much so that he departed from his own laws in pursuit of both. Contrary to his own regulations he had at least 15 wives (some sources claim up to 25). The youngest was Aisha, who was seven years old when Muhammadââ¬â44 years her seniorââ¬â"married" her. Two years later, 53-year-old Muhammad consummated this liaison and raped the girl of nine left under his control.
The sordid story of Muhammadââ¬â¢s "marriage" to Aisha reflected a mind-set and a lifestyle. Rape of enslaved women came naturally to Muhammad. A Christian slave woman by the name of Maryah aroused his passion for nights on end, which provoked a rebellion in his harem. Divine assistance was, in the end, needed to restore order in the household, with the Kuranic verse duly advising Muhammad not to restrain himself from "that which Allah has made lawful" (66:1ââ¬â3).
Even more scandalous was the case of Zeinab, the wife of Zayd, Muhammadââ¬â¢s adopted son. Lusting after her, Muhammad ordered Zayd to divorce her and took Zeinab as yet another wife. The deal was soon sanctioned by another revelation from Allah: "there should not be any fault in the believers, touching the wives of their adopted sons, when they have accomplished what they would of them" (36:37).
These examples indicate that the status of women in Islam is comparable to that of the human rights in Cuba: theoretically exalted, deplorable in practice. The sources of true Islamââ¬âthe Kuran and Hadithââ¬âprovide the basis for theory and subsequent Shariââ¬â¢a practice regarding the role of women. When a judge in Pakistan recently sentenced a young woman to death for "adultery" by stoning after she had been raped by her husbandââ¬â¢s brother, he had merely followed the Kuranic law. The fact the woman, Zafran Bibi, was raped was of no consequence: She was still guilty of "having intercourse outside of marriage."
Violence against women is also condoned, even mandated, in Islam. Allah mandates that the disobedient wives are to be beaten (4:34). As the authoritative Azhar University scholars in Cairo explain, "the Qurââ¬â¢an bestows on man the right to straighten her out by way of punishment and beating, provided he does not break her bones nor shed blood." Physical violence against oneââ¬â¢s wife is divinely ordained and practically advised in Islam. In Muhammadââ¬â¢s rendering of the story of the righteous Job, Allah ordered him to beat his wife: "Take in thine hand a branch and smite therewith and break not thine oath" (38:44).
Some Muslim apologists claim that the Islamic teaching and practice is in line with the findings of clinical psychology. Beating is beneficial to them, we are told, because "womenââ¬â¢s rebelliousness (nushuz) is a medical condition" based either on her masochistic delight in being beaten and tortured or sadistic desire to hurt and dominate her husband. Either way,
beating is her remedy. So the Qurââ¬â¢anic command: ââ¬Ëbanish them to their couches, and beat themââ¬â¢ agrees with the latest psychological findings in understanding the rebellious woman. This is one of the scientific miracles of the Qurââ¬â¢an, because it sums up volumes of the science of psychology about rebellious women (The Australian Minaret, Australian Federation of the Islamic Councils, November 1980, p.10).
Islam stands or falls with the person of Muhammad, a flawed man by the standards of his own society, as well as those of the Old and New Testaments (both of which he acknowledged as divine revelation). He was flawed even by his new law, of which he claimed to be the divinely appointed medium and custodian. The horror unleashed by Chechen terrorists on Russian children in Beslan, and the rape of adolescent girls in particular, is the fruit of Muhammadââ¬â¢s example.
The problem of Islam, and the problem of the rest of the world with Islam, is in its claim that the words and acts of Muhammad provide the universally valid standard of morality and behavior for all time. Islam, in Muhammadââ¬â¢s texts and its codification, discriminates against women. It is extremely offensive. Those who submit to that faith must solve the problem they set themselves. Islam further discriminates against all "unbelievers." Until the petrodollars support a Kuranic revisionism that does not, we must go for it with whips and scorpions, hammer and tongs.
2004-09-14 06:05 | User Profile
I have personal confirmation that the rapes and the rape video are real.
But I'm not concerned, as our own formidible Ruffin assures me that Islam is no threat to the West.
Walter
2004-09-14 13:02 | User Profile
Allow me to recommend Mr Trifkovic's book on Islam, [u]Sword of the Prophet[/u]. Quite an eye-opener.
2004-09-14 14:44 | User Profile
From the selections I've seen online, Trifkovic has written the must un-apologetic, most thorough deconstruction of Islam yet - on the secular level, I mean.
Some selections from the book available in here.
[url]http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=1024[/url]
Petr
2004-09-14 15:07 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Petr]From the selections I've seen online, Trifkovic has written the must un-apologetic, most thorough deconstruction of Islam yet - on the secular level, I mean.[/QUOTE] It is a 'secular' book, in that it does not make theological arguments against Islam. It is a kind of 'crypto-Christian' book, however, because it details the immense and lengthy atrocities committed by Muslims against the Christians in Muslim-controlled areas. I daresay anyone finishing the book would feel much more sympathetic to Christians. It also serves to educate Westerners about Byzantine and Eastern Christianity, about which most of them are all but oblivious. Westerners tend to regard the Orthodox as foreign and alien, but they need to realize that we are all part of Christendom.
2004-09-14 20:05 | User Profile
Sorry Charlie, I'm not going to get on the hate Muslim bandwagon. Of all the people on the face of the earth they are the only ones fighting for what they believe in. The heroic Iraqi resistance has earned the admiration of the world.
The filthy jew rat bastards want us to get on a hate binge against the poor arabs but I refuse.
Want to talk atrocities? Well Dresden and the murder of 1.8 million German POWs by the USA after WWII is the real atrocities.
You let me tell you if this weak vile form of Christianity which everyone is united in being ashamed of will not fight then the world should be Muslim. The Muslim is a real man the Judeo - Christian is a pathetic joke. The world despises him.
I say to the brave soldiers of the Prophet (Peace and blessing be upon him) that they throw the infidel invaders out. (talk about rape, I thought the nigger wrote the book on that. And by the way you turkey headed idiot why should I get worked up about Arabs raping filthy jews 1,500 years ago when the niggers are relentlessly raping us around the clock without ceremony.) May those valiant Muhadeen come over here and free us from the yoke of the Judeo - Christian.
2004-09-14 20:22 | User Profile
Like I keep saying,,,,,,
No one has proven to me that the Arabs have done anything in America in order for us to hate them or INVADE them.
You may find a few crackpots here and there, but, you will find this in every race.
MORE ISRAELIS HAVE BEEN KICKED OUT OF THE USA AFTER 911 THAN THE REST OF THE RACES PUT TOGETHER.
"When the truth comes into the light, the lies will hide in the dark",,, Ponce
2004-09-14 20:37 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Walter Yannis]Having ethnically cleansed and robbed of property all but one of three Jewish clans in Medina, in A.D. 627 Muhammad decided to deal with the last, Banu Qurayzah. He offered the men conversion as an alternative to death. Upon their unsurprising refusal, some 900ââ¬âexact numbers are unknownââ¬âwere decapitated, one by one, in a ditch surrounding their encampment, in front of their women and children. Muhammadââ¬â¢s Einsatzgruppen worked hard: Torches had to be lit so that the slaughter could be accomplished in one day.[/QUOTE] How do I vote for this guy?
2004-09-14 20:37 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ponce]No one has proven to me that the Arabs have done anything in America in order for us to hate them or INVADE them.[/QUOTE] They detest the modern world, and immigration, as we do.
They wish to keep their own culture and resist the joint Jewish-Christian occupation of the world.
They're allies, in my view.
2004-09-15 05:16 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Samuel]Sorry Charlie, I'm not going to get on the hate Muslim bandwagon. Of all the people on the face of the earth they are the only ones fighting for what they believe in. The heroic Iraqi resistance has earned the admiration of the world.
The filthy jew rat bastards want us to get on a hate binge against the poor arabs but I refuse.
Want to talk atrocities? Well Dresden and the murder of 1.8 million German POWs by the USA after WWII is the real atrocities.
You let me tell you if this weak vile form of Christianity which everyone is united in being ashamed of will not fight then the world should be Muslim. The Muslim is a real man the Judeo - Christian is a pathetic joke. The world despises him.
I say to the brave soldiers of the Prophet (Peace and blessing be upon him) that they throw the infidel invaders out. (talk about rape, I thought the nigger wrote the book on that. And by the way you turkey headed idiot why should I get worked up about Arabs raping filthy jews 1,500 years ago when the niggers are relentlessly raping us around the clock without ceremony.) May those valiant Muhadeen come over here and free us from the yoke of the Judeo - Christian.[/QUOTE]
You misunderstand me. I admire virulent Islam.
I simply recognize Islam as an enemy. There's nothing wrong with admiring a worthy enemy.
The point is that they are enemies, as are the Jews, as you rightly point out. People seem to have difficulty in recognizing that we can have more than one enemy at a time.
This war with Islam is a good thing for us, because it's inevitably forcing us as a people to recognize external threats. But if we seriously hope to deal with external threats, we clearly must first put our own house in order and deal with internal threats. I believe that Crusade and Inquisition are flip sides of the same coin. There's historical precedent for that.
By supporting Crusade against our external enemies, we will be forced to deal with our internal enemies by means of Inquisition.
That's why this war is good for us. The longer, bloodier and more horrific this present war is, the more tribal our people will become. Once we become aware of ourselves as a European, Christian and English-speaking people beset by enemies both foreign and domestic, then we will unleash hell. Until then, we will be incapable of effective action, and our very self-identity will continue slowly to dissolve into a large, brown mass.
Islam is the external enemy. Judaism is the internal enemy.
One doesn't exclude the other.
We need to get clear on that.
Walter
2004-09-15 12:23 | User Profile
[QUOTE=neoclassical]How do I vote for this guy?[/QUOTE] Respectfully, you're missing the point. He did this to these Jewish villages because they were nearby. Then he did the same thing to the pagans, then to the Christians, then to the Hindus, and then to the Christians some more. Islam is perpetually aggressive and expansionist.
2004-09-15 12:28 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Walter Yannis] Islam is the external enemy. Judaism is the internal enemy.[/QUOTE] Hear, hear. I really don't understand why this is so hard for people to grasp. They can understand either one or the other, but not both. Judaism has been working against Christianity from the inside for 2000 years. Islam has been working against Christianity from the outside for 1300 years. The triumph of either means the death of Christendom.
2004-09-15 12:30 | User Profile
Walter Yannis,
As I said on this thread: [QUOTE]The Neocons are upset their marxists buddies lost Russia. Chechen like to murder Russian so the Neocons are pro-Chechen for now. Osama bin Laden wants the Zionist and Americans out of the mideast. So Neocons are anti-bin Laden, if the Chechen go more ant-Zionist, the Neocons will go anti-Chechen, but for now the Neocons gleefully enjoying seeing Russian murdered by Chechens.
[url]http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14987[/url] [/QUOTE]
2004-09-16 02:49 | User Profile
[QUOTE=neoclassical]They detest the modern world, and immigration, as we do.
They wish to keep their own culture and resist the joint Jewish-Christian occupation of the world.
They're allies, in my view.[/QUOTE]
You will explain why they indulge in leaving their desert lands in such multitudes.
You will thus explain why they feel the desire to occupy Europe in terrible numbers and erect ugly structures to their Islamic religion.
They take and they hate. For they are the immigrants. For they are the migrants. For they are the takers from others.
Of course, they can have their culture. In their own lands - Not in mine.
Bush and Putin will teach them that lesson. And it will be severe and correct instruction. And when the cowardly donkey that calls himself the leader of Germany is removed, we will be the leaders in that crusade.
It is correct as it is proper. And it will be done.
Mentzer
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2004-09-16 14:02 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Samuel]May those valiant Muhadeen come over here and free us from the yoke of the Judeo - Christian.[/QUOTE] If Allah, blessed be His name, permits such an event to come to pass you are in for a bigger shock than a race-blind White liberal who has just dropped the soap during his first shower at the local county jail. :osama:
[QUOTE=Mentzer]It is correct as it is proper. And it will be done.[/QUOTE]
Amen. Onward to the day when the Turk is kicked back across the Hellespont.
2004-09-16 18:29 | User Profile
[QUOTE=na Gaeil is gile]Amen. Onward to the day when the Turk is kicked back across the Hellespont.[/QUOTE]
Not far enough.
Kick the Turk back beyond the Caspian from whence he came.
2004-09-17 16:49 | User Profile
[URL=http://www.russiajournal.com/news/cnews-article.shtml?nd=45533]Russia Journal[/URL]
MOSCOW - According to a Chechen rebel Web Site, Shamil Basayev, a Chechen warlord, has issued a statement on Friday, in which he claims responsibility for Beslan school siege. During the tragedy more than 320 hostages were killed, half of them children. Basayev, who is the most wanted man in Russia, said in his statement that brigades of the group Riyadus-Salikhin, which he heads, carried out the terror attack in Beslan and also two bomb attacks that downed two passenger airplanes in Russia at the end of August, [url]www.kavkazcenter.com[/url] reports.
Basayev is behind the most atrocious terrorist attacks against Russian targets and has been fighting Russian forces for more than 13 years. Basayev blamed Russian president Vladimir Putin for the bloody outcome of the Beslan crisis. The warlord claims that the storm of the school was planned from the very beginning and finally led to the bloodshed.
Basayev states that the group of rebels who seized more than 1,100 hostages demanded withdrawal of the Russian forces from Chechnya and resignation of Putin in case the first condition was not met. He also says that in case of meeting demands the hostages would be given food and water and the youngest children would be released.
Kremlin has ruled out any negotiations with terrorists and put a bounty of $10 million to those who will help to track down Basayev and the Chechen leader Aslan Maskhadov.
2004-09-17 19:49 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Quantrill]Respectfully, you're missing the point. He did this to these Jewish villages because they were nearby. Then he did the same thing to the pagans, then to the Christians, then to the Hindus, and then to the Christians some more. Islam is perpetually aggressive and expansionist.[/QUOTE] What good thing isn't expansionist? I think current Islamic strategy is somewhat different. The USA (Christian) and Israel (...) represent a threat to it. After that, if they see a strong civilization in the west, they will leave it alone from fear. If we're weak... well, everyone will be destroying us anyway at that point, because things with less resent things with more, so it's not a big issue who is the final one to stick it in.
2004-09-17 19:52 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Mentzer]You will explain why they indulge in leaving their desert lands in such multitudes.
You will thus explain why they feel the desire to occupy Europe in terrible numbers and erect ugly structures to their Islamic religion.[/QUOTE] They're from impoverished countries, naturally they'll move to wealthier countries.
When there, they have a choice between giving up their culture/religion or continuing to practice it, so they make the healthy decision.
I'm not whitewashing their flaws here, but until proven to be so, I do not view Muslim extremists as enemies.
I think they'd be very happy to have an anti-Judaism force in the world.
However, the have-nots will always want what the haves have, so prepare for the entire world to hate and loathe you if you succeed. And thus they will inevitably come to take what you have, as they see it...
2004-09-17 20:39 | User Profile
[QUOTE=neoclassical]They're from impoverished countries, naturally they'll move to wealthier countries. Which is why we should prohibit their immigration.
[QUOTE=neoclassical]I'm not whitewashing their flaws here, but until proven to be so, I do not view Muslim extremists as enemies. Islam has been anti-Christian since its very beginnings. It has been the single greatest external enemy of Western Civilization. If you don't view Muslim extremists as enemies, then you are no friend to Christendom.
2004-09-18 01:12 | User Profile
neoclassical
I care not for Islamic so-called impoverishment. I care even less for their unhappiness - or otherwise. It is self-made and self-imposed. They will keep it in their own places.
That they are allowed to spread their disease is due to liberal weakness and fear. Weaklings and queer thinkers.
A warning to all liberals : what you endorse will make you into a corpse. But then it will be fully deserved.
Islam, and itââ¬â¢s little women and men, with their numerous offspring, wish to occupy and colonize. One of their first aims is to erect Mosques as political meeting places and terrorist ââ¬Ësafe housesââ¬â¢. They then fill the local schools with their litters of ââ¬Ëbrothersââ¬â¢ and ââ¬Ësistersââ¬â¢. And the American and the British and the German repulsive ââ¬Ëteachersââ¬â¢ give them education. And thus the teacher-filth demands approbation from those that hate them.
They may screech ââ¬Ëracismââ¬â¢ when they are found out. They may squeal and they may quack. But they are on their way out. Of that there is no doubt.
Do not make the ignorant error that they will take from me or my people. You have no notion of what awaits them.
Mentzer
2004-09-18 03:49 | User Profile
I find it very interesting that we don't care about the Muslims or Arabs but we go into their land in order to "teach" them how to be "free"??????
Freedom at the point of a gun is not freedom but slavery, the same as in Palestine by what the Zionists are doing to the Palestinian people.
What you win with a gun can be lost to another gun and then as a bonus you will have 1.5 billion new enemys.
When the white man was living in caves the Muslims were already living in palaces, using toilets and even had medical services.
The Americans have waken up a giant and now we are in a real danger, and that's not even counting the sleeping bear and the sleeping dragon.
The Jews will destroy America and there is nothing that you will be able to do about it, all you care about is your six pack of beer and your NFL game.
I have the most beautifull house in the world in the best place that I can think of in the state of Orego but someday I may have to leave in order to stay alive.
2004-09-18 06:54 | User Profile
I am not American. And I do not live in America.
I care nothing of Arabs and Muslims - understand that clearly.
My land is German Land. It belongs to no one else - no Arab and no Muslim and no Jew.
They will come to understand that. And they would do well to get out of my land.
And I hope you will understand that also.
Mentzer.
2004-09-20 04:31 | User Profile
[URL=http://www.utro.ru/articles/2004/09/17/352096.shtml]Utro.ru [/URL] is reporting that Georgia is preparing to attack the breakaway republic of South Ossetia.
North Ossetia is part of the Russian Federation, and was the scene of the Beslan school attack. South Ossetia is in Georgia, but the border is completely artificial. The Georgian Stalin gave Georgia South Ossetia for his own reasons way back when.
[URL=http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1220995/posts]Some analysts say [/URL] that this is a good time for Georgia to attack, since North Ossetia and Russia are distracted by concerns with the Chechens and Ingush, and because powerful western-kosher interests have staked a claim to Georgia as a transit country for the [URL=http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15046]Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan [/URL] oil pipeline, which is of strategic importance, especially to Israel. Rothschild and Soros are deeply involved in Georgia and the pipeline.
Maybe these analysts are right, but I'm not so sure Russia will not respond militarily, maybe with a preemptive strike against [URL=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,366217,00.html]Georgia's Pankisis Gorge[/URL], on Georgia's tiny mountain border with Chechnya, where Chechen terrorists train.
Walter
2004-10-13 18:28 | User Profile
The Ossetians are mostly Orthodox Christians, and they observe the traditional 40 mourning period after the death of loved ones.
That period elapsed today.
For your information only.
It's looking like the whole thing might just fizzle out this time around.
2004-10-14 14:49 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ponce]I find it very interesting that we don't care about the Muslims or Arabs but we go into their land in order to "teach" them how to be "free"??????
Freedom at the point of a gun is not freedom but slavery, the same as in Palestine by what the Zionists are doing to the Palestinian people.
What you win with a gun can be lost to another gun and then as a bonus you will have 1.5 billion new enemys.
When the white man was living in caves the Muslims were already living in palaces, using toilets and even had medical services [Yeah, yeah, they built the pyramids, rocket ships, and flew around moon]. [/QUOTE] I thought I'd logged onto salon.com for a moment :blink: What's next Ponce, your rendition of "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing"?
2004-10-17 08:21 | User Profile
[URL=http://english.mn.ru/english/issue.php?2004-39-3]Moscow News[/URL] 17 October 2004
Ossetians Vow Revenge for Beslan
The traditional Orthodox 40 days of mourning comes to an end on Wednesday for the relatives of the Beslan school siege victims. The North Caucasus holds its breath, waiting to see if Ossetian vows of revenge against their Ingush neighbors will spark another bloody war in the region.
Last week, Tanik Kuizev buried a niece who was among hundreds of those who died after a North Ossetian school was seized by raiders, among whom were members of a rival Ingush ethnic group. After Wednesday, he vows, he will bury an Ingush to be killed in retribution, The Associated Press reports. Fears are high that Ossetians will seek bloody revenge for the more than 330 people - more than half of them children - who died in the maelstrom of gunfire and explosions at the school on Sept. 3.
Russians traditionally observe 40 days of mourning after a death. Wednesday is the 40th day, and Ossetians say the end of the mourning period could herald an outbreak of inter-ethnic violence in days to come.
"There will be violence. It won't be noisy. It will be quiet - one person at a time," Kuizev said as he wandered through the burned-out husk of the school, stepping over flowers and stuffed animals left in memory of the victims.
Although Kuizev's 12-year-daughter was among the hostages, she survived. But that hasn't softened his anger.
"They say, 'forgive, forgive.' How do you forgive something like this? How do you explain this? Forgive? No way," Kuizev said.
"It's not a secret that we are waiting" for the end of the 40-day period, said 67-year-old Sergei Tandaleyev of the village of Sunja.
"We will demand that (the Ingush) leave. All of them," he said. If they don't, "there will be war."
Venom and fear run deep between the Ingush and the Ossetians -two of the myriad ethnic groups that mix uneasily in the Russian Caucasus region, which also includes Chechnya, where rebels have been fighting Russian forces for more than five years.
Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev reportedly claimed responsibility for the school seizure and said at least 9 of the 32 raiders were ethnic Ingush.
The Ingush are predominantly Muslims and are closely related to the Chechens; Ossetians are overwhemlingly Christian and historically have had close ties with Russia.
The Ingush and Chechens were exiled en masse to Central Asia under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. In 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, thousands of Ingush who had returned from exile were evicted from their homes in towns around the North Ossetian capital, their belongings looted and houses burned. Hundreds died in 10 days of fighting.
Thousands of Ingush remain in squalid, makeshift towns and refugee camps on the border between North Ossetia and Ingushetia. Those that remain in North Ossetia are subject to harassment, discrimination, and after Beslan, death threats. Many Ingush still claim title to lands and homes now occupied by Ossetians.
Russian authorities have vowed to prevent revenge attacks, dispatching hundreds of extra police and troops to the region. President Vladimir Putin has said anyone who commits revenge attacks would be siding with the Beslan terrorists.
Meanwhile, frightened Ingush youth have left universities and institutes. Ingush parents are afraid to let their children go to school with Ossetian children.
At School No. 1, the gymnasium walls are lined inside and out with rows of flower wreaths, and scrawled with graffiti including "Answer for the children."
Georgi Kozarev, 34, said he watched from a nearby apartment balcony as the chaos and slaughter erupted on Sept. 3. He said he later helped a mob lynch one of the fighters who had escaped the school and changed into civilian clothes.
"The elders are saying: 'No, no. There's no need (for violence)," he said. "But an eye for an eye. How does one understand this? How do you forgive it?"
2004-10-17 16:43 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Mentzer]I am not American. And I do not live in America.
I care nothing of Arabs and Muslims - understand that clearly.
My land is German Land. It belongs to no one else - no Arab and no Muslim and no Jew.
They will come to understand that. And they would do well to get out of my land.
And I hope you will understand that also.
Mentzer.[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately, your government and fellow citizens do not share your views. Germany is every bit as politically correct as the United States. Combine that with lack of basic freedoms ( eg: speech ) and rampant Marxism/socialism and you're left with a Germany that is barely distinguishable as an independent entity. I say this with great sadness as I am ( proudly ) of German descent and I have viewed the destruction of my ancestral homeland ( and the rest of Europe ) with horror. There would appear to be no chance of reversing this trend as the people of Germany are Just as spineless as those here when it comes to going against the tide and demanding that there governtment(s) do what is best for them and the future of their nation.