Religijne uwarunkowania radykalnego rosyjskiego nacjonalizmu. Tożsamość rosyjsko-prawosławna a islam – kwestia sprzężenia zwrotnego

The aim of this article is a presentation of the most important events of recent years that allows to specify today’s relation between the most radical environments of Russian nationalism and Islam. As the radical nationalists and representatives of the fundamentalistic trend in Islam generally already make themselves enemies, and their growing importance is largely the result of the antagonistic relationship towards each other, obviously it makes sense to talk about effect and the model of “mutual influence and feedback.” This is a relatively new situation. Several years ago, radical nationalists emphasized the need for close cooperation between Orthodox Church and Islam in the name of their common ethos of “municipal community” and the contestation of the liberal-democratic order. In the light of recent events the prognosis for Russia, assuming that the conflict the Russian-Orthodox and Islamic world will be increasing, is surely entitled. Because most immigrants are also Muslims, it should be expected that the radical nationalists will more often identify “strangers” also throughout their religion, which is not rarely seen as “Islamic plague”, and slogans such as “Muslims get out from Russia” raised by skinheads interrupting prayers in Moscow mosques, will be happening more frequently. Even in these national-radical environments which sources were originally neo-pagan, there is no longer any denial of Orthodoxy as the link between Russian nation, but more often and in most cases these groups choose a compromise, namely f.e. pagan-orthodox syncretism directed at Islam.