Putin’s Ideological Dept. of Nashi Fights for the Hearts and Minds of Russia’s Youth

Yup, I’ve seen this before in Nazi Germany… Balder von Schirach did about the same thing, only he didn’t have the Internet to help spread the word…

P.S. – Che, welcome back! I figured I’d serve up this nice cup of tea for you to comment on… Cheers.

 

Nashi members hold photos of a young Russian killed in Estonia.

Youth Groups Created by Kremlin Serve Putin’s Cause
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
Published: July 8, 2007
NYTimes

MOSCOW, July 2 — Yulia Kuliyeva, only 19 and already a commissar, sat at a desk and quizzed each young person who sat opposite her, testing for ideological fitness to participate in summer camp.

“Tell me, what achievements of Putin’s policy can you name?” she asked, referring to Russia’s president since 2000, Vladimir V. Putin.

“Well, it’s the stabilization in the economy,” the girl answered. “Pensions were raised.”

“And what’s in Chechnya?” Ms. Kuliyeva asked, probing her knowledge of a separatist conflict that has killed tens of thousands and, although largely won by Russia’s federal forces and Chechen loyalists, continues.

“In Chechnya, it’s that it is considered a part of Russia,” the girl responded.

“Is this war still going on there?”

“No, everything is quiet.”

Ms. Kuliyeva is a leader in the Ideological Department of Nashi, the largest of a handful of youth movements created by Mr. Putin’s Kremlin to fight for the hearts and minds of Russia’s young people in schools, on the airwaves and, if necessary, on the streets.

Nashi, which translates as “ours,” has since its creation two years ago become a disciplined and lavishly funded instrument of Mr. Putin’s campaign for political control before parliamentary elections in December and a presidential election next March.

It has organized mass marches in support of Mr. Putin — most recently gathering tens of thousands of young people in Moscow to send the president text messages — and staged rowdy demonstrations over foreign policy issues that resulted in the physical harassment of the British and Estonian ambassadors here.

Its main role, though, is the ideological cultivation — some say indoctrination — of today’s youth, the first generation to come of age in post-Soviet Russia.

Using rape as a weapon

More weirdness from the mindless drones of Allah.

I often hear Muslim apologist’s speak of respect for women and Islamic respect of family. Take a quick look and decide for yourself who the terrorists in Iraq really are. Most people believe Islam to be just another religion but with Islam comes a call for sharia, which is just an excuse to rape, and murder at will.

Personally, I do not like the term “honor killing”, murder is murder and there is no honorable excuse for it. While so-called honor killing are not limited to Muslims they are the most prolific at it. The actually killers are seen as heroes who defended their family and it is extremely rare to see anyone actually punished for murdering a family member.

That will change as more and more Muslims immigrate to western nations as we have an entirely different view of this barbaric practice.

Muslims talk a lot of smack about the Ummah, well here it is, Muslim brotherhood and respect in all its glory.

Diane King, The International Herald Tribune
July 8, 2007

Iraq’s diverse cultures share a way of understanding the family, “patriliny,” in which identities ranging from religion to ethnicity to clan are conferred by fathers alone, not mothers. Understanding patriliny can help shed light on inter-group conflict in Iraq, specifically on the inter-sectarian rapes and killings that take place every day.
In the cultural logic of patriliny, a child receives social and legal categories from his or her father. The child of a Kurdish mother and an Arab father, for example, is regarded as 100 percent Arab.

There are not any Iraqis who are legally regarded as belonging to two different parentally conferred categories. The categories are thus sealed off from each other by the conventions of kinship, and there are no people who share multiple categories. While that alone might be regarded as giving rise to the perfect inter-sectarian storm, it is not the only facet of patriliny that may contribute to conflict.

In the kind of patriliny found in Iraq, procreation is imagined via a seed and soil metaphor. During ethnographic research I have carried out since 1995, Iraqi Kurds have explained to me their understanding that, during sex, a man “plants a seed” in a woman. This seed is then nurtured in the “soil” of the womb. Only the seed is seen to contribute the essence of the child. I once heard it explained by a proponent of this cultural theory that a child who bears resemblance to his or her mother is a product of a seed that failed to fend off permeation by some of the soil during gestation. This could lead, I was told, to ridicule of the child’s father for producing weak seed.

Violent agenda carefully veiled

It looks as if the Australians are not as hampered by political correctness as other western nations.

Outright banning of groups like the Hizb ut-Tahrir should have happened long ago. Islam and democracy, western freedoms and individual rights are not compatible and allowing groups like this to operate is a slow suicide.

Several Muslim countries already ban groups like this and yet they flourish in the west. It is almost like we do not believe Muslims understand the call to jihad.

The British plot has led to renewed calls for a ban on Hizb ut-Tahrir
Rebecca Weisser
July 09, 2007

LAST week Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said he would look again at whether Hizb ut-Tahrir should be banned in Australia. If Ruddock decides it should, Australia will become the first Western nation to proscribe the shadowy organisation, which is active in more than 40 countries across the world.

Former British prime minister Tony Blair came close to banning Hizb ut-Tahrir two years ago after the July 7, 2005 bombings. But in the end it was decided there wasn’t sufficient evidence to show Hizb ut-Tahrir was a terrorist organisation or provided material support to terrorists.

The US came to the same conclusion. In Australia, NSW Premier Morris Iemma has called for the organisation to be banned. But although ASIO has investigated it on two separate occasions, there has never been sufficient evidence linking it to terrorism to outlaw it.

According to Zeyno Baran, director of international security and energy programs at the Nixon Centre in Washington, DC: “Hizb produces thousands of manipulated brains, which then graduate from Hizb and become members of groups like al-Qa’ida. Even if Hizb does not itself engage in terrorist acts, because of the ideology it provides, it acts like a conveyor belt for terrorists.”

Anti-Liberal Fatwa Issued

For all you zombie Liberals out there who either knowingly or unknowingly empower Muslim Sharia Law in our society, I say, bully for you!

Yup, nothing like rolling out the red carpet for your own beheading…

Saudi fatwa against liberals raises fears of violence
Sun Jul 8, 2007
Breitbart
By Andrew Hammond

RIYADH (Reuters) – A religious edict by a prominent Saudi cleric suggesting liberals are not real Muslims has enflamed debate over reforms in the conservative Islamic state, with self-professed liberals fearing they will be attacked.

Saudi Arabia is one of the few countries that rules by strict application of Islamic law, giving clerics a powerful position in society, but Islamists fear that liberal reformers are gaining ground under the rule of King Abdullah.

Responding to an online request for a religious edict, or fatwa, Sheikh Saleh al-Fozan said last month: “Calling oneself a liberal Muslim is a contradiction in terms … one should repent before God for such ideas in order to be a real Muslim.”

The fatwa said that liberal in this context meant “freedom which is not subject to the bounds of sharia (Islamic law) and which rejects sharia laws, especially concerning women…”

“He who wants freedom with only the controls of man-made law has rebelled against the law of God,” it said.

Al-Qaeda Linked to One of the UK Bomb Plot Suspects

Further evidence that al-Qaeda has begun scraping the barrel…

Al-Qaida linked to British bomb plots 
Jul 8 2007
Breitbart
LONDON, July 8 (UPI) — British authorities have confirmed a link between al-Qaida and at least one suspect in car bomb plots in London and Glasgow, Scotland, it was reported Sunday.

One of the suspects was in contact with al-Qaida members in Iraq by telephone or e-mail in the months before the attack, the Times of London reported.

Intelligence received in April by Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism unit suggested al-Qaida terrorists were planning attacks to coincide with the departure of Tony Blair, who stepped down as prime minister last month, the Times reported.

The terrorist cell in Iraq is believed to be led by Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who took control of the cell when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed during a U.S. airstrike last year, the Times reported.

Eight people were taken into custody after two car bombs failed to detonate in London and a third car was driven into a terminal at the Glasgow Airport late last month.

Paris Bomber Now a Traffic Warden in England

C’mon, the poor guy is just trying to make a living. Right?

The terrorist who became a London traffic warden
By IAN GALLAGHER and RHODRI PHILLIPS
8th July 2007 – Daily Mail UK

A terrorist jailed for his involvement in a bomb attack on the Paris Metro – which killed eight people and wounded 80 – has been working as a traffic warden in England.

Mustapha Boutarfa, 32, was arrested by Scotland Yard’s anti-terrorist squad in 1996 and extradited from Britain to France two years later.

He stood trial for his auxiliary role in the 1995 attack on the St Michel station by a notorious Islamic militant group and was given a two-year prison sentence.

But after his release, Boutarfa, who held dual French and Algerian nationality, managed to get back into the UK with his wife and children – and also secured the job as a parking attendant in Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey.

“We often see him in his grey uniform prowling the streets and handing out tickets,’ said one resident. “I had no idea about his past. It beggars belief.”

When his employer, NCP Services, learned of his background – three years after he first started work – it suspended him, saying it could “understand public concern about this matter”. Boutarfa is now being investigated by police.

The apparent ease with which he returned to Britain and gained employment as a law enforcer caused fury.

Shadow Home Secretary David Davis described the system that allowed Boutarfa to return as a “disgrace” and blamed “our porous borders”. He said: “And what better grounds for national security do you need than someone convicted of terror offences?”

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