Russia’s President Proposed Headscarf Ban and Promotes Orthodox Agenda

Two Women Wearing Burqas

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has proposed what many consider to be at least one anti-Islamic item while increasingly pushing part of the agenda of the Russian Orthodox Church:

24 October 2012

Last Thursday Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly spoke out in favor of a ban on headscarves in Russian schools. To this end he intends to introduce legislation laying down guidelines for school uniforms.

Putin’s announcement came after a months-long official campaign promoting nationalism and orthodox Christianity aimed at diverting attention away from the increasing social tensions in the country. About 20 million of the 143 million people living in Russia are Muslims. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/head-o24.shtml

23 October 2012…

“Putin has tapped the aspects of conservatism that seem to be prevalent in society – a certain kind of nationalism, militarism and xenophobia, a kind of macho culture.”

Mr Putin has championed this agenda since coming to office again, with speeches about Orthodox values as the bedrock of a society. He also supported the prison terms handed down to Pussy Riot, the feminist punk rock group jailed for “religiously motivated hatred” after performing a protest song in Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral. Mr Putin’s United Russia party is pushing legislation through parliament that would prohibit blasphemy. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/487f0600-1cf5-11e2-a17f-00144feabdc0.html

Of course, it is not just the Russian President that has taken steps to ban parts of Muslim influence including female garb. Several European countries have taken steps to reduce Islamic influence; see for example, France Begins Burqa Ban, Burqa Banning in Belgium, Italy, France, and Australia, Anti-Islamic PVV Gaining in the Netherlands, Netherlands: Wilders Not Guilty of Islamic Defamation, Germany’s Merkel: Multiculturalism a Total Failure, and Switzerland Votes to Ban Minarets. Probably because of European steps, Vladimir Putin feels that his proposals will not cause much in the way of international outrage.

The divide between Islam and the nominally-Christian Europe and Russia is going to become more and more real. Though there will be apparent cooperation between Islam and Europe (cf. Psalm 83; Daniel 11:27) and possibly Europe and Russia, they will turn on each other. First with a Muslim force in a failed attempt against Europe (Daniel 11:40-43) and later an apparently Russian-led Asia force will be more successful against Europe (Daniel 11:44, etc.).

But soon thereafter, Jesus will return and these types of problems will be over.

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