Islam and communism or "Long live the Soviet Power! Long live the Shariah!"

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Apr 7, 2007 at 17:04

Hi, dhimmi-no-more !

You suggested :

"If I spend some time I will find something in the Qur'an or the bogus hadith or the bogus sira that will prove that communism comes from Islam."

In the meantime you may instead extensively refer to the early history of bolshevism in Russia in order to underline these conspicuous and most natural mutual leanings and kinship between the two totalitarianisms . So in the wake of the October Revolution :

" Sacred Islamic monuments, books and objects looted by the tsars were returned to the mosques: the Sacred Koran of Osman was ceremoniously handed over to a Muslim Congress in Petrograd in December 1917. Friday, the day of Muslim religious celebration, was declared the legal day of rest throughout Central Asia. "

"(...)A majority of Muslim leaders expressed conditional support for the workers' state, convinced that there was a greater chance of religious liberty under Soviet power. The Bolsheviks were therefore able to conclude alliances with the Kazakh pan-Islamic group the Ush-Zhuz (which joined the Communist Party in 1920), the Persian pan-Islamist guerillas in the Jengelis, and the Vaisites, a mystic Sufi brotherhood. In Dagestan, Soviet power was established largely thanks to the partisans of the Muslim leader Ali-Hadji Akushinskii. In Chechnya the Bolsheviks won over Ali Mataev, the head of a powerful Sufi order, who led the Chechen Revolutionary Committee. "

" Moscow employed non-Russian troops, many of them Muslims ; to fight in Central Asia, where Tatar, Bashkir, Kazakh, Uzbek and Turkmen detachments were pitted against the anti-Bolshevik invaders. Tatar soldiers in the Red Army exceeded 50 percent of the troops on the Eastern and Turkestan fronts of the civil war. In the Red Army in the Caucasus, the ‘Sharia Squadrons' of the Kabardinian mullah Katkakhanov numbered tens of thousands. The Tartar Bolshevik leader Mir-Said Sultan Galiev wrote, ‘During the civil war one could see villages and even whole tribes of mountain peoples taking part in the battle against the troops of Bicharahov and Denikin on the side of Soviet forces, solely for religious motives: "Soviet power gives us greater religious liberty than the Whites," they said'.

"Trotsky noted in 1923 that in some of the southern republics as many as 15 percent of party members were believers in Islam. He called them the ‘raw revolutionary recruits who come knocking on our door'. In parts of Central Asia, Muslims made up as much as 70 percent of the Communist Party membership. They brought with them vestiges of their religious customs and beliefs: in the mid-1920s even wives of high-ranking Communist Party members in Central Asia wore veils."

"The Muslim Commissariat in Moscow oversaw Russia's policy towards Islam; Muslims with few communist credentials were granted leading positions in the organisation."

Not to overburden the post with references to the Russian sources I might just point to

http://www.marxists.de/religion/crouch/bolshislam.html

where the above quotes come from.

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