Islamist Terror Threatening Putin's Tolerance

"They were caught. Well done to everyone who  helped catch them. Should they be killed?"

"They should and they will be."

"But it is much more important to kill everyone involved. Everyone."

"Who paid them, who sympathized  with them, who helped them. Kill them all."

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head, Security Council, Russia

 

"There are a lot of questions circulating about the issue of the death penalty now. This topic will certainly be deeply, professionally and meaningfully studied."

"And a decision will be made that will meet the moods and expectations of our society."

Vladimir Vasilyev, leader, United Russia Party, State Duma

Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda, a suspect in the shooting attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue, is escorted after a court hearing at the Basmanny district court in Moscow, Russia, March 24, 2024.

 

The Kremlin and certainly Vladimir Putin have no problem condemning Israel for unleashing the Israel Defense Forces for responding in recrimination against the barbaric October 7 attack by Hamas terrorists against civilian populations in southern Israel, where a rampage of mass rape, the carnage of a bloodbath and the outrage of children, the elderly, women and men taken hostage back to Gaza to be held as bankable 'insurance' against a total bombing campaign of the rats'-nest warren of tunnels Hamas leaders and operatives hid themselves within along with their store of rockets, leaving Gaza's civilian population to bear the brunt of Israel's response.

Moscow/Putin have placed themselves fully and foursquare behind the sadistic savagery meted out against the innocents, in essence supporting the atrocities carried out against Israelis by the Hamas death squad whose charter calls for the complete destruction of Israel and murder of Jews wherever they happen to live. Russia values the benefits that accrue to it, in supporting the Islamist Arabs of the Middle East, many of whose agendas reflecting the values of the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran fully engage in efforts to destroy Israel. In lock-step with those 'values', Russia/Putin calls for the unilateral withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza, interrupting their determination to destroy Hamas's capacity to mount further Oct7 horrors.

Now an abhorrent attack in Moscow on the Crocus City Hall concert venue by Islamist jihadists directly caused the death of 137 Russians. A deadly gruesome bloodbath of innocent people going about the quite ordinary business of citizens taking advantage of the recreational enjoyment of attending a concert. But then, where people gather in numbers becomes a huge draw to the thoughts of terrorists mindful of acclaim from their death-cult world of slaughtering those in the non-Muslim world whose choice is not to bow to the terror imposed on their society of a religion that repulses them.

 

Saidakrami Rachabalizoda, a suspect in the deadly terrorist attack in Moscow, sits behind a glass wall of an enclosure during a court appearance on Sunday. His ear was heavily bandaged. Yulia Morozova/Reuters

 

Russian authorities have arrested a handful of new suspects believing them to have provided transportation to the four men alleged to have carried out the atrocity. As for the four suspects themselves, they provided a spectacle themselves appearing in court in obvious physical incapacity, the result of having been tortured and beaten in a raw display of Russian brutality which, given the horror of the attack and its outcome, elicits no compassion for their tortured state, though they remain suspects, the proof of their guilt yet to be validated.

Photographs and videos have been displayed on social media showing Russian security agents, unrestrainedly torturing the suspects, one of whom was forced to chew his own mutilated ear, another man stripped to the buff, subjected to electric shocks, wires attached to his genitals. Russia and its security agents are not known to fastidiously adhere to any conventions recognized elsewhere in the civilized world of humane treatment of captured criminals in the hands of authorities, to be proven guilty as charged.

The four suspects have been identified as migrant workers originating from Tajikistan, bordering Afghanistan, where a branch of Islamic State named as ISIS-K, claimed to have been responsible for the attack. President Vladimir Putin doesn't mind Islamist terrorists plying their trade elsewhere in the world, and particularly against Israel, but he draws the line at the kind of virulent impudence that emboldens Islamist Jihadists operating on Russian territory to target Russian citizens. 

Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon distanced himself and his nation from the suspects. "terrorists have no nationality, no homeland and no religion", he said to Mr. Putin through a telephone conversation. Perhaps he meant other than the Islamic Republic of Iran, the paramount theocratic nation of terrorism-promotion in the Middle East. And while under most circumstances, Russian security services are more discreet publicly about human rights violations, such was not the case when the four accused appeared in court.

One of whom, Saidakrami Rachabalizoda, wore a large bandage over his obviously-severed ear while Muhammadsobir Fayzov appeared in a semi-unconscious state as he was wheeled on a stretcher into the courtroom. Over the weekend that followed, Vladimir Putin took the opportunity to confer with the leaders of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Syria, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. This, despite that the Kremlin holds that Ukraine is behind the Islamic State terrorist attack, with its successful death count.

"During the conversation, Vladimir Putin and Emomali Rahmon noted that special services and relevant departments of Russia and Tajikistan are working closely in the field of countering terrorism, and this work will be intensified."

Kremlin statement

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a statement on Monday. Kremlin

 

The atrocity has led to Kremlin thoughts turning to the restoration of the death penalty, banned since 1996, following a variety of human rights treaties which Russia signed. Those in Russia approving of their nation's invasion of Ukraine have become more aggressively radical as time passes and as assessment of Russian advances on the battlefield have failed to materialize. The concern is that within Russia the Kremlin and security services will utilize the deadly attack as reason to tighten repression and the target will be political opposition figures.

"I look at these faces and again think that the death penalty is too easy."

"Lifelong hard labour somewhere underground, without the opportunity to ever see the light, on bread and water, with a ban on conversations and with not very humane guards."

Margarita Simonyan, head, RT propaganda network

Members of the Russian Emergencies Ministry and workers remove debris inside the burnt-out Crocus City Hall following a deadly attack on the concert venue outside Moscow, in this still image taken from video released March 26, 2024. (Russian Emergencies Ministry/Handout)