It turns out that it is very
difficult to get to Syria or another hot spot in the Middle East. Is it
true that they immediately give a lot of money and many benefits, including 50
virgins? What happens to women who find themselves in such places?
“Unusual week” with Inna
Novikova and Yuri Zinin
Yury Zinin, senior
researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies at MGIMO, told Inna Novikova about
this to Pravda.Ru chief editor .
Read the beginning of the
interview:
– Yuri Nikolaevich,
continuing the conversation about terrorist fighters in Syria and the entire
Middle East, of course, it must be said that there are fanatics and mercenaries
from all over the world, including from Russia. Of course, they are also
used for propaganda, including making films with allegedly Russian military for
provocative purposes. As you said, there are women there, including
ours. We remember that even a student at Moscow University, Varvara Karaulova , went there to join the Islamic State group,
banned in Russia *.
– Yes, but this is still a
special case, here the role was played by her purely internal, mental
perception. Of course, terrorists everywhere are trying to recruit people,
but I don’t think it would be widespread, although such attempts have taken
place and continue. Here, the calculation is made on some youthful,
youthful desire to oppose themselves to general trends, mainstream trends, to
stand out with something, play with something.
Young people are always
characterized by a certain romance, disbelief in adults, a desire for
thrills. Here, as they say, even the count on the head is comic, but I
still check it myself or myself. These things can be, of course. But
I would not consider that this is some kind of mass phenomenon, that almost
everyone without exception is infected with this.
Apparently, these are still
separate, rather rare phenomena. And this as a whole, of course, is already
ending. But even earlier, even just to go there and get to the destination
was not an easy task. I can’t even imagine what and how they needed to do
this, although I worked a lot in these countries.
It’s even harder on the
spot. Firstly, it is difficult for our people there climatically, and
secondly, in terms of language. As an Arabic translator, I couldn’t always
clearly understand what they were talking about, because there are a lot of
dialects. How is it to go there without knowing the language at all, and
still take up arms? Generally unthinkable things! How can one live
there? What language to speak, well, I just don’t know …
– They somehow drove through
Turkey, they were helped in this.
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