Language:
English
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Jews of Euro-Asia
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 [2] (2003) 6-13
Keywords:
Antisemitism
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Islam
;
Islam Relations
;
Judaism
;
Antisemitism
;
Jewish-Arab relations History 1945-
Abstract:
Discusses expressions of antisemitism found among the Muslim communities of Russia today, which take the forms of religious anti-Judaism and anti-Zionism. Although official Muslim leaders (e.g. Tadjuddin and Gainutdin) distance themselves from antisemitism, many alternative leaders (e.g. Abdul-Vakhid Niyazov and Geidar Jemal) are professed antisemites. When the Chechen separatists took up fundamentalist Islam, their ideology adopted antisemitism. They stress that Chechnya is the victim of a global Zionist plot and that their war is part of the global war between Islam and Zionism. Islamic fundamentalists in Russia made anti-Judaism a main tool in their struggle against Western values and modernization of their religion. In anti-Zionism they find common ground with Russian Orthodox fundamentalists and communists.
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