“Nazi” Ukrainians should be killed “like parasites with pesticides,” Mufti Talgat Tadzhuddin said
by Massimo Introvigne
“No fascists or parasites should be allowed to exist next to us, because we may run short of pesticides,” said Mufti Talgat Tadzhuddin, the chairman of the Central Spiritual Board of Muslims of Russia speaking in Ufa, the capital of the Russian Republic of Bashkiria.
On the occasion of the Eid al-Adha holiday, he prayed for the Muslim and non-Muslim soldiers involved in the “special military operation” in Ukraine.
“We are proud of our vast Motherland and a worthy national leader, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin,” the Mufti said. He introduced the audience to Imam Khamza, who will soon go to Ukraine along with volunteers from Bashkiria.
The Mufti explained that the Western nations are “minions of the Antichrist and the Dajjal” (the Islamic equivalent of the Antichrist) as proved by their “arrogance, extremism and terrorism.”
As for the Ukrainians, they are carriers of the “brown plague,” Nazism, and should be stopped before they spread it to Russia. While outrageous statements by leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church are known internationally, there is a network of “state Muftis” loyal to Putin that is not less extreme.
Speaking of the Gay Pride parades, Tadzhuddin said that, “representatives of sexual minorities can do whatever they want, only at home or somewhere in a secluded place in the dark. If they still go out into the street, then they should only be flogged. All normal people would do it.” According to him, “gay people have no rights… To be gay is a crime against God. The Prophet Muhammad ordered the killing of homosexuals.”
Massimo Introvigne (born June 14, 1955 in Rome) is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. Introvigne is the author of some 70 books and more than 100 articles in the field of sociology of religion. He was the main author of the Enciclopedia delle religioni in Italia (Encyclopedia of Religions in Italy). He is a member of the editorial board for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion and of the executive board of University of California Press’ Nova Religio. From January 5 to December 31, 2011, he has served as the “Representative on combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with a special focus on discrimination against Christians and members of other religions” of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). From 2012 to 2015 he served as chairperson of the Observatory of Religious Liberty, instituted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to monitor problems of religious liberty on a worldwide scale.
