Russia’s exiled chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt was speaking after gunmen killed 19 people in the mainly Muslim region of Dagestan in southern Russia in attacks on churches, synagogues and the police.
“The Russian authorities during the last years have used the law enforcement authorities to repress any kind of opposition to the Kremlin, opposition to the war and any movements like the LGBT movement which was declared as extremist. People are sent to prison for criticising the war,” Goldschmidt said in a video interview from Berlin.
“So instead of using law enforcement and the interior ministry and FSB (security service) to provide security for Russian citizens, it’s being used to eradicate any opposition to the regime. And here we see the results, that such terrorists like ISIS are able to again and again mount successful attacks against houses of worship, against cultural events.” […]
Putin offers condolences
The Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin expressed his deep condolences over Sunday’s attacks, but it has not commented on who was to blame or why authorities failed to stop them.
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Goldschmidt himself left Russia soon after the start of the war and has encouraged more Jews to follow his example rather than stay on in what he called a “semi-totalitarian” country.
“Tens of thousands of Jews left, and I’m happy they left,” he said. “We are worried for all of those who are still there.”
This was not a “mass shooting” US style…
This is likely linked to Dagestan’s desire to leave the Russia Federation.
People of Northern Caucuses are not Russian ethnically or culturally nor do they want anything to do with their colonial daddy.
Russia is weakened by the war in Ukraine so these people are activating. Good for them. Fuck Russia.
Hopefully insurgency takes hold.
There are many other regions like this!
Maybe don’t write good for you in response to churches and synagogues getting attacked? It’s not like these guys went after legitimate military targets (with the exception of a police checkpoint).
These attackers may very well be tied to Isis; there is absolutely nothing good about them other than the fact that this is a problem for the Kremlin.
I don’t cry over pedo protection sites being attacked. Religion is cancer, it kills.
And yet you’re rooting for religious extremists, ironic.
I am rooting against Russia… Enemy of my enemy…
Also, Russia really fucked these people, so they are 100% justified in taking arms against their colonizer.
Surprised this only now starting but hey, fuck Russia!