War on Terror
Georgia on My Mind: Russia should look to a fresh engagement with Islam and Muslims
By Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi
19 August 2008
The methodology has been defeated – but Russia had won. The old order had been swept away but two institutions, the strongest, had survived. Gorbachev and Yeltsin were the Communist Party. Politics. First, they had to be de-activated. From the clouds of dust over the parliamentary buildings there emerged the survivors – the KGB and the Army. Stalinism had disgraced the Party system, Afghanistan had shamed the still powerful Army. Out from the ranks of the KGB stepped a new leader. All of us dismissed him as an apparatchik, but we were wrong. Bush said he had looked into Putin’s soul and he was good, meaning in his language, a pushover. Putin, however, had read his time correctly. Pull back the commodity ownership from the loathsome capitalist oligarchs and Russia became, inside the magical International Community, the dominant power of the world’s land-mass, commanding a wealth not based on an abstract money-system, but on necessary power commodities, oil and gas.
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