"When the regime weakens, then everything will be remembered"

The New Times looked with the native of Dagestan Sunday programs of the federal channels and found out what the Russian Muslim is feeling, watching Russian news about Muslim refugees in Europe

Broadcasting about the "atrocities of the Muslim aliens" in the West, television people do not think about how the Muslim viewers perceive it in Russia

The theme of the invasion of migrants for Europe today is one of the key for Russian propaganda. The logic here is this: the USA, encroaching on the dictatorial regimes of the Middle East, plunged the region into chaos. Europe is “actually devoid of sovereignty” and “dancing under overseas pipe”. Problems with migrants - reckoning for the inability to resist the will of Americans.

At the same time, a very special image of the refugee is created - as an enemy with a capital letter, dirty, embittered, unable to perceive European norms and only violence sowing around itself. And sometimes even death. Recently, a degree of hatred of migrants has reached an inexplicable intensity on Russian TV. The television and propagandists, it seems, simply forgot that in Russia there are millions of Muslims, for whom immigrants from the Middle East are primarily co -religionists.

Ali Gadzhiev (the name was changed at the request of the interlocutor.- NT )-a 30-year-old resident of Makhachkala, studied at an economist, after the army was engaged in business and belongs to those who are called the "Islamic intelligentsia." Ali agreed to comment on the NT fresh (at the time of delivery of the number. - NT ) The plots of "Sunday time" and "Vesti of the week" about migrants in Europe.

Time is a scam

In the Sunday Time program, only the “migrants” and “refugees” appeared with Irada Zeynalova - therefore, Muslim Ali watched the creation of Channel One relatively calmly.

“I casually read the story about“ Raping the girl Lisa (see NT No. 2 of January 25, 2016), ”Ali shrugs. “The only thing I know,” they tried to disassemble it in Islamic communities, and many data on rape denied it. But maybe this is inaccurate information - I did not check.

Following - the plot about the consequences of what happened in Cologne. “European tolerance grazes before intolerance of those who entered a strange house with their charter,” the commentator is torn, and Ali sharply presses the “stop” button.

- Here is a quintessence, a highlight! He exclaims. —- Not that there are Syrians or Pakistani are bad, but the fact that the project of the European house is cracking at the seams. A message remains behind the scenes: we have our own sovereign, original house, our own juches, and we will not let another culture impose our own orders. It is not necessary to show that Muslims are bad (this is a common thing), but that Europe is weak.

Back hatred

"News of the Week" with Dmitry Kiselev causes Ali a violent reaction. He constantly pauses and comments on what is happening on the screen. There are replaced by Arabs - drug dealers and pogroms - and Jews who thank Vladimir Putin for the proposal to move to Russia (but they promise to "continue the struggle in France").

“So today people say“ Hurray, Bay Obama! ”, And tomorrow, when Obama will not be, everyone will understand that the king is naked. Then everything will be remembered "

“There are elements of truth in this,” Ali says thoughtfully. - Europe really has problems. But they knead it with so many lies, take it to a profitable side for them ... Of course, I want to sometimes break into the studio and say: "You are wrong!" But these are emotions, and I'm not used to giving them free rein, and there is no such thing that I wanted, sorry, to destroy and break. Moreover, these guys do not cause such emotions, he nods to the TV. - They don’t care anything, just to remove: they will say tomorrow, how, they say, they were blind. The most important thing that annoys me is that they lie, brazenly lie. Here people are very outraged about this, - Ali admits, but there is little rationality in their indignation. There is a common desire to "defend their own."

We sow the wind

In general, Russian Muslims do not know how the Arab world refers to Russian intervention in Syria, their identity is more connected with the state, Ali assures.

“They are stupefied, live Kiselev,” he is getting excited, finally giving free rein to emotions. -They really believe that the Russian “combat astronauts” (military-space forces.-NT) protect Muslims from terrorists! The people in the villages (and not only) believe that Russia eliminates the hegemony of the United States, wants to show the Americans how cool we are.

But when the conversation returns to how Russian Muslims relate to the image of Muslim refugees in Europe, Ali is gloomy.

- If a person who watches these videos is not quite “quilted jacket”, then he will immediately remember how Muslims and Caucasians blamed before everything. The situation in the Cologne of the Dagestan Facebook, the Dagestan intelligentsia was not very discussed. But what is shown in Kiselev, about Muslims - drug addicts and criminals, will definitely take it negatively. But it seems to me that when all this, he does an indefinite hand - passes, a storm will begin. Not our war and, perhaps, not yours ... although not, to a greater extent yours. Rather, the war is against all. As long as there is a strong mode and at least a stuffed refrigerator, there will be no action. Remember the Chechen wars: when the regime weakened, they immediately remembered everything about 1944 (deportation of Chechens and Ingush to Central Asia and Kazakhstan. - NT) how many people died there. So today people say “Hurray, Bay Obama!”, And tomorrow, when Obama will not be, everyone will understand that the king is naked. Then everything will be remembered.

 PS. According to ** nt **, in all Muslim regions of Russia, the issues of Sunday information and analytical programs are broadcast without any bills.

Photo: Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters