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Author : R. Yengibaryan
Distinguished Scientist of the Russian Federation
HUMANKIND has entered the 21st century with unparalleled achieve-
ments in science, technology, telecommunications, medicine, and genetic
engineering.
Nevertheless, inequality, chiefly economic, is not declining. Moreover, it
is growing in scale worldwide. The division of the world on religious
grounds, something that has imperceptibly regained a key role in human
and international relations because of the spread of radical Islam and its
intolerance of other civilizations, especially Judeo-Christian civilization.
Simultaneously, radical Islamists are dragging the world back to the Mid-
dle Ages with their brutality, intransigence, ignorance, and irrationality
and trying to force their way of life and thinking on humankind.
Today's key players in the Muslim world such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia,
and the oil-producing countries of the Persian Gulf have never aban-
doned their strategic plans of creating a single global Islamic state, a world caliphate. Since the Muslim
world possesses neither the military nor the economic means to achieve this, it has made population
growth and continuous migration the first phase of its movement toward that paramount goal.
The behavior of the liberal leaders of France and other European countries is surprising - one would
have expected them to know that a mosque built on non-Islamic soil is considered territory conquered
by Allah. This is an incontrovertible postulate of Islam. In terms of Islamic fundamentalist ideology,
the existence of Muslim communities in non-Muslim countries means life under non-Muslim occupa-
tion, and hence those communities have the mission of fighting for independence with the ultimate
aim of becoming part of the future world caliphate.
In fact, today's radical Islam plans geopolitical revanche in some form or other and, among other means,
uses a demographic factor for the purpose - the majority of Muslim migrants in Europe don't look for
permanent jobs, don't seek to adapt to European culture, and have no intention to comply with local
rules or etiquettes. Their main purpose is to obtain welfare allowances and then follow Sharia law as
relatively well-to-do and free people, something they were unable to do in their home countries.
While it claims to be a unique civilization, the Islamic world is also globalizing, although the motive
force of this globalization is not politics or economics but religion, the profession of Islam as a factor
of unification.
I can't exclude the possibility that, through the efforts of the Americans and NATO, Russia will be
surrounded by a new geopolitical arc at some point with Turkey as one of its components and Sweden,
the Baltic countries, Poland, and Ukraine as its other elements. Russia should take this scenario into ac-
count and strengthen the positions of Crimea, which has returned under the sovereignty of its home
country, Armenia, and possibly Abkhazia as its main strategic allies in the south.
Another point to bear in mind is that Turkey will use every means to increase its influence on Russia's
Muslim enclaves and has already made significant progress in radicalizing their religious communities.
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