Today is one of those days when everyone is once again posting pics of mass prayers in the streets of Moscow. It happens every year (and on a bigger and bigger scale), and we still can’t get used to it and gasp in surprise.
It’s Uraza Bayram, dear Muscovites and citizens of Russia. Also known as Eid al-Fitr. Today you can say to someone: Hi, happy Eid al-Fitr.
I also congratulate all Muslims on Eid al-Fitr, and I expect that Russia’s traditional Muslim communities (Tatars, Bashkirs, Dagestanis, etc.) should agree that scenes like this in the streets of Moscow clearly show us, among other things, a crisis in migration policy. It is neither good nor healthy to have such an influx of foreign religious populations into a major city that—whether that is good or bad is another question—is not especially religious.
For those already composing a comment along the lines of “there are migrants everywhere,” let me tell you about Barack Obama. Even though he is a Democrat, close to liberals, he has apparently gone completely off the rails. He is proposing the deportation of the children of illegal migrants:
You see the kind of atrocities enlightened North America stoops to. We are still far from that. We do not need to deport children; we need to stop at least someone from entering. After all, we have a visa-free regime with Central Asia and the South Caucasus, and in practice there are no illegal migrants from there. They all arrived legally.
U.S. citizens do not want to admit people from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador without visas, while for some reason we have become an open thoroughfare for citizens of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and so on.
And that is despite the fact that the people heading to the U.S. are not evil Wahhabis with heroin, but merely kind Catholics with cocaine.
Let’s not offend children (like Obama does), but start with adults and with the elementary, basic measure without which no migration policy is possible: introducing a visa regime with the countries from which people come here to celebrate Eid al-Fitr.
Already 67% has been collected. According to every poll, an overwhelming majority of Russian citizens support the introduction of a visa regime. But, strange as it may seem, this initiative has never once been considered at any remotely serious level. If we collect 100,000 votes, we will force the Russian government to at least remember this issue again. Let’s show that there is a stable group of people in the country pushing for it.
Don’t be lazy—go here, register, and vote.
Also, a reminder about our promo site http://viza.navalny.ru/ — it would be great if you shared the link.
The whole country is afraid of Banderites and Right Sector activists (members of a Ukrainian far-right movement). Right Sector is far away, but this is close,
and it is already with us forever. Now all we can hope for is that it stops and does not spread further. That these people assimilate and behave the way it is customary among the native residents of Russia’s cities. But if our country continues to remain an open thoroughfare, that will never happen.
Vote for civilized measures to limit migration. Vote for a visa regime! http://viza.navalny.ru/