I really don't see the social strife and terrorism in the Caucasus region as a "complex problem" at all, Peter Coates. I see it as another spectacular failure of multiculturalism and another (how many do you need) object lesson in why it is utterly stupid to create societies composed of different ethnicities with wildly differing values, beliefs, cultures and behaviour.

You hardly need to be hit over the head with a 4x2 to figure out that the higher the proportion of Muslims that any society has the greater the civil strife and the worse the terrorism. Whatever population proportions that the Caucasus region has between Christians and Muslims you can bet that Australia will experience the same levels of Muslim terrorism when Australia reaches the same proportion.

I notice that peter seems to be suggesting that this is al the Russian's fault because the Muslim areas are so poor and the Christian Russian areas are well off. Memo to Peter. Every Muslim country on Earth that is not floating on a sea of oil or does not have a bunch of Chinese running the economy is poverty stricken. Has it ever occurred to you that there is a clear connection between Islam, poverty, repression, terrorism, ignorance, and female subjugation?

It the Islam, stupid.

My advice to Putin would be to forcibly deport to other regions of Russia every Muslim in the place and scatter them around in small groups where they are such a tiny minority that they can cause no trouble and where they can be integrated with time. Do what the Muslims do and give them financial incentives to leave Islam and become Russians instead of Muslims.

Problem solved.

Pullyourlego has started 2014 with an inspired comment. In it, he is offering advice to Putin no less. Mr Y. take note!

It seems that PYL is against Islam/Muslims wherever they occur and wants to see them broken up into small groups. PYL didn't actually say that the Cages in Guantanamo would be ideal as long as the cages didn't allow any form of communication. But he implied it!

It seems that PYL is also very much against multi-culturalism even though humans have been interacting with different races for ten thousand years. It's a bit late to start segregating now, PYL, kind of like unscrambling eggs!

What PYL doesn't know is that, for a long period of time, the Islamic Empire was the only civilized nation on Earth and their advances in the arts, science, architecture, etc, contrasted strongly with the barbaric Western nations that they conquered.

Anyway, keep up your good work, Pullyourlego! I'm sure Obama would like to have you as one of his advisers although exactly how well he would respond to your racist views given that he is a colored person is unknown!

P.S. There might be a drone missile with your name on it or Obama's assassination squad might be planning a suicide mission (yours)!

Cheers to all for 2014!

David G said with a mouthful of multiculturalism;
the Islamic Empire was the only civilized nation on Earth

No they were not !
There were several other civilisations in that period, not the least the Chinese.
There were a number of active trading countries especially from
Scandinavia to the Middle East.
Britain had formally organised "Kingdoms" which was all an agrarian
country needed after Rome departed.

Sure they had a golden period in the few centuries before Ferdinand
and Isabella shoved the moslem invaders out of Spain.
The sad part is their religion got the better of them.

They kicked off their history by invading the area between Egypt and Lebanon.
The object being to kill or remove the Christians and Jews who at that time were the majority religions.
Does that ring any bells ?
Their intolerance of others cannot be changed.

Their objectives are written into the Koran and cannot be interpreted differently under pain of death.
The upshot is, driven by their religion, they have been waging war on
all the rest of us ever since their founding.
It is the Moslems that are the racists or infidel haters.

Oh and while I think of it, you are confusing racism with religious
discrimination. Not to worry that is a mistake many others make.

"It is the Moslems that are the racists or infidel haters," says our Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzz!

You can't even spell MUSLIM correctly, you intellectual weed. And your knowledge of World History matches your white-supremacy racism.

Ask your primary school teacher to recommend some simple history texts that might bring some enlightenment to your tiny, narrow mind.

You and LEGO can go to the top of the class: the simpleton's class!

@LEGO

How's it going in your home outside moderate Australia?

Your belief that Muslim immigration to a Christian North Caucasus caused a multicultural problem ignores the facts.

It was the Christian ethnic Russians who moved south invading the Muslim majority North Caucasus between 1763 to 1864. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_War

The Russian occupation force stayed on to commit many massacres of North Circassians by the Russian Army and then KGB paramilitaries through to the 1940s. Massacres of Chechens have since occurred during Putin's rule.

Extreme ideologies converge.

The Russian's also committed LEGOs Final Solution of mass deportation from the 1860s to 1940s during Tsarist and then Soviet Communist times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechnya#Soviet_rule

It is no coincidence that LEGOs extreme right-wing ideology and mindset is very similar to the extreme left-wing Soviet Communist model of Stalin.

Hi David G

We might differ in our attitude to the US but we share a humanitarian approach. Thanks for your comments.

Pete

Well, well, it is a well known tactic to abuse your opponent when you
are losing a debate. I understand both moslem & muslem are correct.

And yes Plantagenet it is a pity the Islamists do not share your
humanitarian leanings.

Is there a country that has not had trouble with moslems ? (muslems to make him happy)