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On 1 February 2014, there was a scientific round-table discussion entitled, "Extremism is a threat to economic security of the country" in the capital of Tatarstan in Kazan. There presented the Islamic scholars and orientalists all over Russia to discuss the ways of struggle with the ideological development of Russian Muslims.

"It is time to realize that times have changed, there is an ideological confrontation and I must admit that now we are losing this confrontation to the forces of extremist character," said Leonid Sjukiaynen, an Islamic scholar and a professor of the Higher School of Economics.
The professor of the Institute of Oriental Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences), Taufic Ibragim said: "Unfortunately, many people do not know how to dispute, how to oppose to extremist ideology <...> their arguments. But the young people have a thirst for knowledge, for real explanations. They should be taught religion not only by a set of postulates, not only by the stamps, but also we should skillfully explain the features of the Arabic language, the translations of the Quran and its verses. Again, it is necessary to use our heritage of the Islamic thought in Russia. It will be awful if we do not use."

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For more than 10 years in Russia they have been trying to find a method of struggling with Islam. The search and analysis of the struggle has become a subject of discussion, as in the higher echelons of power and in the expert community.

"One should struggle with the idea only by other idea", the supporters of the mental struggle with the Muslims who carry Islamic ideological leadership said. This position is characterized by the intellectuals and the people that are far from the violence and use of force.

"The Muslims understand only brute force" - the supporters of repressions who are mostly related to security services and law enforcement agencies stated.

Wanting to curb and control an Islamic factor, the authorities tried to divide the Muslims for all sorts of signs and thereby restrain the development of Islam. But the development has been and the number of the Muslims who understand their religion as an ideology, has steadily increased. Then the Muslims were massively persecuted: the flywheel of repressions has been actively unwounded for the last few years. But the supporters of the "brute force" have won only those who offers the other methods of struggling with Islam.

Islam can not be defeated by force. Furthermore, the repressions resulted in the alliance of the Muslims and their activities. The convergence of different dgamaats and the solidarity in protecting of the Islamic Ummah's interests took place against the background of the repressive government policies.

Strange, but true the ranks of the Muslims, who want to spread their religion, do not thin, but on the contrary, they have become thicker and wider. The agents from the Muslims that work in the formal structures of the priesthood and who justify the repressions of the authorities against the believers, have finally marginalized in the Islamic environment, have lost their credibility. And the brutal repressions, fabrications against the simple sons of the Islamic Ummah have caused the activation of influential personalities, journalists and the Muslim intellectuals and this fact has just discouraged the authorities.

The authorities, trying to intimidate Muslims and even trying to expel them out of the country, did not get the expected result, but faced with the unprecedented unity and interaction. That is why now they have started to seek new solutions in the struggle with Islam and its sincere believers and that was discussed during the scientific round-table in Kazan on February 1st.
The authorities have nothing to oppose to Islam.

Therefore, they are rushing from one method of struggling to another, but Islam and the Muslims continue their natural development. Thus, the enemies of Islam and the Islamic Ummah are getting closer to the time of the establishment of the Second Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashida that defends the oppressed Muslims in any country of the world!
Almighty Allah (swt) said:

((وَيَوْمَئِذٍ يَفْرَحُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ * بِنَصْرِ اللَّهِ يَنْصُرُ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الرَّحِيمُ))

"And on that day the believers will rejoice* With the help of Allah. He helps whom He wills, and He is the Almighty, the Most Merciful." [30: 4-5]

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Suleyman Ibragimov