Russians embrace Islam for better armed struggle against the regime, KGB says

7 February 2011

A KGB government "Islamic researcher" Roman Silantyev, officer in the terrorist gang KGB-FSB and member of an "advisory council for state religious expertise at the Russian ministry of justice", told what the KGB thugs think about the growing number of ethnic Russians who embrace Islam:

"A large part of people embrace Islam in order to be engaged in terrorism and to overthrow the government. People tell, write about it in their livejournals, many of them come from Nazi organizations, many of them are now leaving Nazi organizations and join Islam. They have a simple logical goal: to cause maximum damage to authorities", Silantev complained in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda TV.

According to the KGB officer, "one hundred years ago such people took part in anti-Tsarist city guerillas groups engaged in terrorism", and now citizens with similar ideas believe that "terrorist activities should be carried out by means of Islam" which they consider to be "the most reliable instrument for the armed struggle".

"Last summer's Russian Far-East guerrillas may not have been Muslims, but they actively used computer discs with sermons by a Russian Islamic preacher Sayeed al-Buryati. Islam has become a refuge for people who want at any cost to blow up the situation in the country and to make a new Revolution afterwards", Silantev pointed out.

He cited statistics according to which ethnic Russian Muslims who are supposedly amount to "less than 10 thousand people" gave Russia "more terrorists than the Tartars with 4 million Muslims".

"It's very unpleasant statistics for Russian Muslims (it depends for whom - KC). Both Russian imams were put in jail under article # 282 of the Russian criminal code, for incitement. Russian Mufti Evteyev, a former mufti of North Ossetia, has been deported with a scandal from Saudi Arabia for his extremist statements.

Incidentally, one of ethnic Russoan imams was a mentor for a presumed Moscow airport bomber Razdobudko. It was the well-known Pyatigorsk mosque imam Abdullah Stepanenko, he was imprisoned for one year under the "incitement" article, and he was charged with many of other crimes", the KGB officer said.

The KGB officer claimed that there was less than a half of reported true ethnic Russians among Russian Muslims:

"These are mostly people with Ukrainian and southern Russian surnames (Ukrainians who live on Russian-occupied Ukrainian lands in so-called "southern Russia" - KC)", and "they now form the terrorist elite, plan terrorist attacks and are engaged in ideological propaganda".

According to Silantyev, newly converted Muslims are being also afraid of in Europe and the U.S., because they are actively engaged in guerrilla activities there. Some recent Hollywood movies, including a film called "Unthinkable", also tell about concerns in regard to newly converted Muslim guerrillas.

Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center

Source: Kavkaz Center.
Link: http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2011/02/07/13478.shtml.