EDITORIAL
Russia on the Verge of Religious War

Orthodox Priest Daniil Sysoyev
From his earliest days in the Moscow Kremlin, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s chief claim to fame has been that he brought peace to Russia’s relations with Chechnya and its growing Muslim population (it’s predicted that within the next century Russia will become a majority-Muslim nation).
That absurd propagandistic lie got yet another harsh jolt of reality last week when Orthodox Priest Daniil Sysoyev, Russia’s most active proselytizer in the Islamic world, was shot dead in Moscow. Sysoyev crusaded to bring Orthodox Christianity to the Russia’s Tatar region, and aggressively confronted Russia’s Wahabi Islamic sect with his Christian views. He had written, for example: “In contrast to the opinion of many both the word of God and the rules of the Church condemn marriages between Christians and followers of other faiths.” One Russian Orthodox clergy leader responded: “Father Daniil, his message, and martyr’s end will become a symbol of the rebirth of missionary activity of our Church.”
It appears, then, that the forces of Islam have now struck back, and that Putin’s Russia stands on the brink of holy war.
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