This means that he is sentencing anyone who burns the Qur’an to be killed.
Putin’s statements, however, have less to do with Islam than with the West. Putin is at war with the West’s libertinism and immorality. He sees the freedom of expression as part of the problem. Ironically, so does the Leftist cabal that currently rules the E.U., the U.S. and Canada. Sweden just ruled in favor of that freedom, but only reluctantly and amid controversy. It’s on its way out everywhere.
“Putin: Those guilty of burning the Quran will serve sentence in Russia’s Muslim regions,” Middle East Monitor, June 14, 2023:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that anyone found guilty of burning the Quran will have to serve their sentence in the Federation’s predominantly Muslim regions.
Putin was quoted by Russia’s TASS news agency yesterday as stating: “They will serve their sentences, as stated by the Minister of Justice, in places of deprivation of liberty located in one of the regions of Russia with a predominantly Muslim population.”…
Putin’s statement comes after Nikita Zhuravel, a resident of the city of Volgograd was detained last month after being suspected of burning a copy of the Quran in front of a mosque. The act, which was recorded, prompted outrage in the country, in particular, the Muslim-majority republic of Chechnya, where thousands protested against desecrating the sacred text. Zhuravel has since been taken to a pre-trial detention centre in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.
According to the Moscow Times, lawyers and activists have warned that the decision to transfer Zhuravel’s case to Chechen investigators puts him at risk of torture or even death. Russia’s Investigative Committee have claimed that the accused confessed to having acted in exchange for a $125 (10,000 ruble) payment from Ukraine’s intelligence agencies.
Following the incident, Minister of Justice of Russia Konstantin Chuichenko proposed “after the verdict is passed, the person who committed the crime should be sent to serve his sentence in one of the correctional institutions located in the region with a predominantly Muslim population.”…
BTeboe says
Might as well just shoot them on sight and not waste the money to ship them off to Muslim controlled areas.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Precisely! Just save him the torture, and themselves the expense while he’s alive
mgoldberg says
on the other hand, if a muslim happens to burn a synogogue full of Torahs, holy books et al…. they will be given every opportunity to repent?
Wellington says
A bad man defending a bad religion.
gravenimage says
+1
Smooth Lee says
That’s a 100% guaranteed ‘off with your head’ penalty . . . but not before a proceeding few hours of horrific torture.
Enquirer says
There has to be more to this. Putin has no love for Islam and he is not stupid. Perhaps there is some misreporting here, or a translation issue of some sort.
gravenimage says
There is nothing else. Putin has been shown to be Islamophilic before, if he believes it can be used against the West.
A few years ago he opened the largest Mosque in Europe in in Moscow with Erdogan. Then, Patriarch Kirill (who never says anything without Putin’s OK) has said that Islam is a bulwark against the decadence of the West. Apparently child rape and persecuting Christians counts… He has also urged the West to accept Islamic immigrants as Russia does, and has condemned the West for allowing cartoons criticizing Islam.
Ideas that Putin is staunchly against Jihad and that he is strategically brilliant are both mistaken.
Shalom says
Me too, seems to contradict what I expected to read.
Bruce Crichton says
Putin is a bitch of Islam.
gravenimage says
Putin says anyone found guilty of burning Qur’an will serve sentence in Muslim regions of Russia
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I wish I could say that this surprises.
notoislam says
Thank you ! Sometimes saying the truth is necessary.
My Mom lived to be 98 and maintained that Putin and Russia were wrong and against the USA.
I will still agree with my Mom- She lived through all those wars.
But it does not surprise me either.
We in the USA even have pictures of that islam-0-nazi dishing out the lies to Egypt!
gravenimage says
+1
clem.alford@talk21.com says
During the period of the USSR there was never any problem with Islam. Plenty of Islamic regions and ironically many of those Muslims are nostalgic about the former USSR times in spite of it being supposedly a then atheistic regime.
This burning of the Koran, if the reporting is true, seems to be a provocative act by a paid Ukrainian plant to cause dissent within Russia.
Bruce Crichton says
Rubbish.
Putin is a bitch of Islam.
DazzleMe says
+1
gravenimage says
Agreed, Bruce.
gravenimage says
Good grief. Jihad has not been uncommon in Russia, from Beslan to attacks on non-Muslims in Chechnya to beheading toddlers. And anyone should have the right to criticize that vicious creed–pretending that it is “anti-Russian” to say anything critical of this vicious creed is absurd.
As for the Soviet period, such Jihad was likely not reported.
Bruce Crichton says
Very well said, Gravenimage.
Ching says
If that is true he can burn in hell. I doubt that he said that.
Time to make cancer Islam history. Send them back to the desert.
DazzleMe says
+1
buck peters says
Putin is reaching out for islamic sympathy for his activities!
DazzleMe says
Islam is evil and can go straight where it doesn’t snow! It doesn’t surprise me that Putin is embracing Islam.
Angemon says
The man who in 2005 said “Russia is the most reliable partner of the islamic world and most faithful defender of its interests” is… carrying water for the islamic in 2023? I’m shocked, SHOCKED!!!!!
Bruce Crichton says
Thanks for the quote