Documents of the Right Word

away than sacrifice his religion and chastity. This was very well
understood by the Russians in the Afghan tragedy of 1986;
hundreds of thousands of red troops attacked with rockets and
aircraft and killed villagers, including women. Muslim children
were taken to Moscow to be made irreligious. Mosques, schools,
houses and foodstuffs were burnt. The number of Muslims killed
from 1979 through 1986 was over one million. But the Muslim
warriors, though thousands of them fell martyrs, did not surrender
to the irreligious. In order to conceal this vulgarity of theirs from
Muslim nations, Russians have prepared and distributed, in
Muslim countries freely, books explaining that there is freedom of
religion, Islamic sciences and rituals in Russia. Muslims in Russia
are unaware of these books since they are only distributed outside
Russia. Their distribution in Russia is prohibited; otherwise, it
would be treachery against communism. Some of these books,
distributed among the people of Algeria in 1986, were sent to us.
High quality paper and gilded bindings were used in these offsetprocessed
Arabic books on which “1400 A.H., Tashkent” is
written. In them, some communists wearing a Muslim turban and
robe are portrayed in pictures as if they were muftîs, imâms or
heads of a religious office. This communist propaganda
contradicts the cruelty done to Muslims by Russians in
Afghanistan. It was prepared so cunningly that one who does not
know of the Islamic religion and the inner aspects of communism
will get deceived by these tricks and lies easily and, thinking that
this excessive enemy of Islam is a friend, will fall into endless
calamity.
Whether it be called socialism, republic, democracy or even
guised in the furcoat of a kingdom, or however sweet and deceitful
its propaganda is, communism is a regime that proves itself to be
the opposite of freedom at all times and everywhere. It is a
dictatorship of an irreligious, merciless and cruel minority. That is
why it is the merciless enemy of Islam. In fact, the name of Russia
was “The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,” which did not
contain the word ‘communism.’ The name of communist East
Germany was “The German Democratic Republic,” and that of
Yugoslavia was “The Federal Republic.” Poland and all other
communist countries carry some sort of republic in their names.
Communism conjures up a dangerous meaning to the world’s
humanity and those who have fallen into its trap hate it so much
that even communists themselves abstain from using this name
and consider it necessary to camouflage the title of their own states
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