Russia Blames West after Antisemitic Mob Storms Dagestan Airport | DW News

Oct 30, 2023 | Israel has called on Russia to protect its citizens and Jews in general after a mob stormed the main airport in Russia’s Dagestan region following the arrival of a plane from Israel. As many as 20 people were injured in the riot at the facility in the city of Makhachkala. At least 60 people were temporarily detained. The airport has now reopened.

Related article here.

Mob Storms Dagestan Airport in Search of Jewish Passengers from Israel

GUARDIAN EUROPE: Airport in Russia’s Muslim southern region closed after hundreds storm tarmac and climb on to planes

Rioters at the airport held signs reading, ‘We are against Jewish refugees’ and ‘Child killers have no place in Dagestan.’ Photograph: Twitter
GUARDIAN EUROPE: Airport in Russia’s Muslim southern region closed after hundreds storm tarmac and climb on to planes

A mob in Russia’s mostly Muslim region of Dagestan has stormed the airport in Makhachkala in search of Jewish passengers arriving from Israel.

In the past day, local people have besieged a hotel in search of Jewish guests and stormed the airport after reports emerged that a flight from Tel Aviv was arriving in the city. While no one appears to have been seriously injured or killed in the riots, passengers have been forced to take refuge in planes or hide in the airport for fear of being attacked. » | Andrew Roth | Sunday, October 29, 2023

Antijüdische Übergriffe im Nordkaukasus: Russland ist offiziell ein Land vieler Völker und Religionen. Doch die russischen Muslime halten zu den Palästinensern. In einer aufgeheizten Stimmung machen sie Jagd auf vermeintliche Juden. »

Daghestan : les images de l’aéroport pris d’assaut par une foule hostile à Israël : Plusieurs dizaines d’hommes ont pénétré, dimanche, sur le tarmac et dans le terminal de l’aéroport de Makhatchkala, capitale de cette république russe à majorité musulmane, à l’annonce de l’arrivée d’un avion en provenance d’Israël. »

Boston Bomb Trail: Answers in Russia's Islamist South
The Boston bombing suspects lived in Russia's terror-riddled South before moving to the United States. Radical Muslims are still fighting for control of the region.

The Saudi Connection Linking the Boston Marathon to September 11
HAARETZ: Albeit the dimensions are somewhat smaller, but the pain, fear, and anger are the same. America has again been caught off guard by foreign terrorists seeking to sow destruction and death.

Almost 12 years have passed since that “great tragedy,” the attacks of September 11, and the United States has yet again experienced a national tragedy. Albeit the dimensions are somewhat smaller, but the pain, fear, and anger are the same. America has again been caught off guard by foreign terrorists seeking to sow destruction and death.

In September 2001 the terrorists were Saudis (15 out of 19) and Egyptian. This time, the culprits where to Chechen brothers, Tamerlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev. If it turns out that their motivations were religious, the context of their country of origin will not be coincidental. Until now there has not been any testament from the two, neither written nor filmed – which is generally common practice in the case of such attacks – nor has there been any claim of responsibility from Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri. Al-Qaida also tends to take responsibility for attacks to which it was unconnected at the operational level, if it shares an ideological bond with those responsible. Despite this, it is very likely that there is a strong, ideological and operational connection between the attacks of 2001 and 2013.

Back in the early nineties, Chechnya and neighboring Dagestan became a stronghold in the Caucasus region for the radical stream of Sunni Islam, Wahhabism. Mosques and madrasas were opened; training camps for young combatants were established to prepare them for the “jihad against the infidels.” Until this day, the teachings of Said Buryatsky, a charismatic, Wahhabist radical, are among the most downloaded files in Chechnya.

This radical Islamist movement was founded in the Arabian Peninsula and adopted by tribes that founded a kingdom in the 18 century, which later became Saudi Arabia. This puritan, aggressive movement is considered by orthodox Muslims as heretic. Many approached it with suspicion and rejected it, but the situation changed once the “black gold” began to flow from Saudi Arabia’s soil. Thus the Wahhabists gained their much-wanted recognition, and began to send money to religious institutions around the world, including in Chechnya and Dagestan. » | Ksenia Svetlova * | Saturday, April 20, 2013

* Ksenia Svetlova is a writer and analyst on Arab affairs for Channel 9, and has a doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Middle Eastern Studies.

From Wedding Dress to Suicide Vest

THE MAIL ON SUNDAY: Aminat Kurbanova, 29, of Dagestan, seen smiling on wedding day in 2003 / Brought up as an Orthodox Christian and met husband at drama college / But she converted to Islam in 2007 and blew herself up three months ago / Brother-in-law introduced her to Islam but later died; as did her husband

Brought up as an Orthodox Christian by her mother, Aminat Kurbanova looked a picture of happiness at her wedding nine years ago - marrying the man with whom she had fallen in love at drama school.

But she converted to Islam in 2007 and three months ago walked into the house of a Muslim cleric in Dagestan, Russia, wearing a 3lb bomb, and blew herself up - killing eight people including her.

Once a stage actress, the 29-year-old mother had transformed into a Muslim suicide bomber. The blast shocked Russia but her mother Vera Saprighina insists she was ‘a kind person, not a monster’.

Kurbanova was brought up in Makhachkala, Dagestan, and gained top marks at the city’s arts and drama college - where she met her future husband Marat Kurbanov, reported the Sunday Times [£].

The couple married in 2003 and she gave birth to a daughter, Malika, two years later. In 2006 the couple were introduced to Islam by Marat’s brother Rustam - and Kurbanov converted a year later.

‘She said she had finally found the right religion for her,’ her mother Vera Saprighina told the Sunday Times. ‘Before long, both left the theatre because dancing and acting are considered un-Islamic.’

But Rustam was killed in a police house raid on suspected militants in 2008. It shocked the couple. Marat left home, never to come back, and is thought to have joined militants to avenge the death. How Russian Islamic convert kissed her daughter goodbye and blew herself up at cleric's home » | Mark Duell | Sunday, November 18, 2012

Islamic Cleric Warns of Civil War in Russia's Dagestan
REUTERS.COM: Russia's most senior Islamic cleric warned on Wednesday that civil war could break out in the southern region of Dagestan after a moderate Muslim cleric was killed in a suicide bombing that has heightened religious tensions.

An ethnic Russian, who was both wife and widow of Islamist militants, was named as the bomber who on Tuesday killed Said Atsayev, 74, a prominent Sufi sheikh in the mainly Muslim region who had spoken out against violent Islam.

The murder followed the killing of a moderate Islamic cleric last month in Tatarstan, also a mainly Muslim region, and was carried out as President Vladimir Putin made a rousing call for unity and tolerance to ensure Russia does not fall apart.

"A lot of strength, wisdom and fear of God are needed from the Dagestani people to maintain the situation within the legal framework, avert a bloody civil war and not allow quarrels to split society," Ravil Gainutdin, chairman of Russia's mufti council, said in a statement. » | Steve Gutterman | MOSCOW | Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Gewaltsame Islamisierung im Kaukasus
Besuch im Heimatdorf einer Selbstmordattentäterin aus Dagestan
NZZ am SONNTAG: In den Bergen von Dagestan hat die Scharia das weltliche Gesetz längst abgelöst. Extremisten verbreiten von dort aus Terror. Korruption und staatliche Willkür geben ihnen Auftrieb.

Balachani ist ein verschlafenes Nest in den Bergen Dagestans. Im Schritttempo kämpft sich der Lada auf der Schotterpiste ins Hochtal hinauf. Frauen im schwarzen Ganzkörperschleier huschen über die staubige Dorfstrasse, bevor sie wie Schatten in den Höfen verschwinden. Nur ein paar Kühe sind sonst unterwegs. Balachani liegt im schroffen Vorgebirge des kaukasischen Hauptkammes, vier Autostunden von der dagestanischen Hauptstadt Machatschkala am Kaspischen Meer entfernt. Im März erlangte der 1000-Seelen-Ort traurige Bekanntheit, nachdem sich zwei Selbstmordattentäterinnen in der Moskauer Metro in die Luft gesprengt und 40 Personen in den Tod gerissen hatten. Eine dieser sogenannten schwarzen Witwen, Mariam Scharipowa, war in Balachani zu Hause. >>> Klaus-Helge Donath, Machatschkala | Sonntag, 09. Januar 2011

Islamic Terrorism: Second 'Black Widow' Moscow Metro Bomber Named as Maryam Magomedov
TIMES ONLINE: A 28-year-old computer science teacher has been identified by her family as the second of two female suicide bombers who killed dozens of people on the Moscow metro a week ago, a newspaper has reported.

Rasul Magomedov recognised his missing daughter Maryam after being shown photos of the remains of the unidentified suicide bomber, the novayagazeta.ru website said.

More than 50 people have been killed in suicide attacks in Russia over the past week, both in the Moscow metro by bombers Russian media have dubbed “black widows”, and in a town in the turbulent North Caucasus region of Dagestan.

Fears of a new bombing campaign against the Russian heartland increased after a double bomb attack on a railway line on Sunday which security forces said was linked to the earlier attacks.

“My wife and I immediately recognised our daughter Maryam. When my wife last saw our daughter she was wearing the same red scarf we saw in the pictures,” Mr Magomedov, a teacher from the village of Balakhany in Dagestan, told Novaya Gazeta.

Mr Magomedov said his daughter graduated with a degree in mathematics and psychology from the Dagestan Pedagogical University in 2005. She returned to her village, lived at home and taught computer science at a local school.

“I would really like the investigation to uncover the true picture of what happened. We cannot even suggest how Maryam could get to Moscow. Yes, she was religious. But she never expressed any radical beliefs,” he said. >>> Foreign Staff | Easter Monday, April 05, 2010

Suicide Bombs Strike Southern Russia
THE NEW YORK TIMES: MAKHACHKALA, Russia -- Two suicide bombers including one impersonating a police officer killed at least 12 people and injured 18 others in the southern Russian province of Dagestan on Wednesday, officials said. Nine police officers were among the dead.

The blasts in the North Caucasus region came two days after a twin suicide bombing tore through the Moscow subway system, killing 39 people and wounding scores, and a day after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed to drag terrorists ''out of the sewer.''

Dagestan borders Chechnya, where Russian troops have fought two full-scale wars against Islamic separatist rebels in the past 15 years.

In Wednesday's attacks, a suicide bomber detonated explosives in the town of Kizlyar near Dagestan's border with Chechnya, when police tried to stop the bomber's car, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said in televised comments.

''Traffic police followed the car and almost caught up -- at that time the blast hit,'' Nurgaliyev said, adding the car was heading toward the center of Kizlyar.

As investigators and residents gathered at the scene of the blast, a second bomber wearing a police uniform approached and set off explosives, killing the town's police chief among others, Nurgaliyev said. A school and police station nearby were also damaged.

Grainy cell phone video footage posted on the life.ru news portal showed the moment of the second blast, with officials wandering past a destroyed building before a loud clap rings out and smoke rises in the distance. >>> Associated Press | Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Russia - Dagestan: Radical Islam Sweeping into North Caucasus

The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Dust Jacket Hardcover, direct from the publishers (UK) >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Paperback, direct from the publishers (UK) >>>

Gunmen Kill a Journalist in Russia's Dagestan Republic
VOICE OF AMERICA: Police in Russia's southern republic of Dagestan say gunmen have killed a prominent television journalist.



Police say Abdulla Telman Alishayev died in the hospital Wednesday morning. Two men shot Alishayev Tuesday evening, as he sat in his car in the republic capital, Makhachkala.



Officials say Alishayev suffered shoulder and head wounds. Doctors operated, but they could not save his life.



Alishayev was an editor and show host for an Islamic television channel. He also produced documentaries about Wahhabism, a radical form of Islam.



Russia has long been considered one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists.



Sunday, the owner of an independent web site in nearby Ingushetia was shot and killed while in police custody. 



Police say Magomed Yevloyev was arrested and shot accidentally when he lunged for an officer's gun. But human rights groups call the death deliberate. 



Both Dagestan and Ingushetia border Chechnya, where Russian troops have been battling separatists for more than a decade. [Source: VOA] Additional reporting by AP and Reuters | September 3, 2008

The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Dust Jacket Hardcover, direct from the publishers (US) >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Paperback, direct from the publishers (US) >>>