In what Slavyansk.org deservedly
characterized as a “Poem of Courage and Love,” Risa Jabar, an orphan from
Afghanistan who joined the Novorossiya militia, explains the cause of
Novorossiya as follows:
I’m not here for the Russian government or for any other government.
I’m here for the Slavs, for these people, the friendliest people—a people who
are nevertheless targeted for extermination. …
My comrades fighting at my side: they’re Ossetians, Russians, Cossacks,
Kalmyks, Yakuts—an entire family of the Soviet Union’s fighting alongside me!
We’re the union of tribes, as it used to be, understand? And Ukrainians are
here with us too! You can’t split people like that! … These Ukrainians who
forgot their roots, they no longer consider themselves to be Slavs. But even
they’ll have no place here! The need slaves here! … The Slavs, they’re that
layer which carries its own civilization, its own civilizational imperative.
And at its root, [this imperative] is contrary to all this business, contrary
to all this world domination. They don’t want the Slavs, understand? They don’t
want their spirit. …
It’s written in the Qur’an that one should never act for money—yeah,
one’s allowed to trade. One can trade, buy and sell, but only within permitted
limits. One’s forbidden from doing low, disgusting things—like the things they
do. And that’s why I’m here. … There’s in principle nothing surprising in the
fact—that certain Muslims are taking the side of the Slavs now. That’s because
the world’s split into two camps, and small countries, small states—they can’t
live on their own any longer. … I’d like to say this: “Don’t worry, we’re all
with you, you have all of us—Russians, Ossetians, Chechens, Afghans—we’re all
here, right beside you, like one big family.[1]
[1]
“An Afghan
Freedom Fighter in Donbass: a Poem of Love and Courage,” Slavyangrad.org, July
13, 2014, <http://slavyangrad.org/2014/07/14/afghan-freedom-fighter-july-13-2014/>
Accessed on October 22, 2014.
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