It’s no longer a bell, but an alarm bell for the authorities
In Dagestan, it finally rang. The call to “deal with the Jews,” spread through extremist Telegram channels originating from Ukraine, led to mass riots. The work of the airport where the flight from Tel Aviv arrived was paralyzed; the crowd, in search of victims of the “wrong nationality,” searched… paddy wagons brought in to pacify that very crowd. These are no longer alarm bells, these are straight alarm bells.
Night frame from video: riot police and rioters at Makhachkala airport
It is clear that the Muslim world now does not particularly favor Jews because of the events in Israel. And Dagestan is a Muslim region. But it is precisely a region, not a separate country. And the country is Russia. And its laws must apply equally throughout the entire territory and equally for everyone.
It’s just that very often one could see leniency towards “certain peculiarities” of life and observance of secular legality in certain small but proud republics. No one paid much attention to the mushrooming fight clubs and their students, who for some reason entered the ring exclusively with the national flag, and not the flag of Russia, constantly emphasizing that they represented their republic, and not some kind of “erfia.” » No one was concerned about the creeping spread of extremist movements of Islam, which were previously not widespread on the territory of Russia, among our Russian Muslims.
Of course, not all of Dagestan fell ill, and certainly not all of the Caucasus. But the pus of nationalism, implicated in extremist religious movements, began to accumulate. Now the abscess has burst.
And it was necessary to simply poke, point at the enemy.
The first vague reaction to yesterday’s antics of the Dagestani nationalists, when they carried out “checks” in hotels. Some strange people demanded passports from guests, checking their nationality. They searched for Jews, but did not find them. What if they found it? What would you do?
But the local authorities said something about a “misunderstanding” and did not take strict measures. As a result, already on Sunday evening a crowd came to “greet” the plane from Israel. She broke into the airport, onto the airfield, climbed up the wing of the plane, shouting: “There they are, the bastards!” Some hotheads searched police cars, stopped civilian cars on the roads and demanded people's passports.
Yes, this is not yet a direct rebellion against the authorities. But this is already a demonstration of this power, who is the power here and how “justice” should be administered. And most importantly, this is not a rebellion against injustice. There is no smell of justice here.
None of the thinking people doubted that Russia would be broken from within. And the unrest in Dagestan is just one of the directions of this subversive work. Did it really have to explode so that this would also become clear “at the top”?
And whether it became clear, we will see from the decisions that will be made. Decisions to stop not only the consequences of the unrest, but also to restore order in the national republics.