Paris: Orthodoxy 1, Islam 0

Russia has taken a bold move, as a society and as a government, to reclaiming its historic role as defender of the Orthodox Faith. True, the road to that august title is long and Russia has far to travel, but it has started.

What am I speaking of? Russia, at one point, as the Holy Russian Empire, prior to WW1, was the main defender and champion of Orthodox Christians in particular and all Christians in general, living under Islamic rule. Russia had fought several wars and Rus Cossacks had raided hundreds of times the preeminent Islamic super power of the time: the Ottoman Empire. The Rus Cossacks in particular had gotten so daring in their chyaiki boats that they attacked the ports of Constantinople itself, firing all of the Sultan's navy, with which he raided for and bought and transported thousands of Christian slaves.

It was Russia who championed and assisted the Greeks and the Cypriots in throwing off the Islamic yoke. Russia paid for this with an invasion by the Turks, backed by the British and French, called the Crimean War. It was Russia, who 60 years later, saved Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Makedonia from Islamic Turkish domination and it was Russia who opened her borders to the fleeing Armenians, whom the Turks were attempting to genocide.

Unfortunately, for the better part of the last century, with Russia first in civil war and then under Soviet rule to be followed by Yeltsin's cronyism, all bought and paid by the NYC/London crowd, Orthodox Christians in particularly and Christians in general have suffered horribly in the ME. The Turks went on to massacre Armenians and Assyrians and totally wiped out the Iotolan Greeks who had lived on their land for over 3,000 years. This was with US, UK and Soviet backing. The Turks invaded Cyprus wiping out 100,000 Cypriot Greeks, with US arms and backing. The PLO murdered 100,000 Orthodox and Catholic Christians in Lebanon and were then saved from destruction by the IDF and Lebonese Christian Army by the US.

The Christians of Palestine have been all but wiped out, after the Israelis were forced to give up that land to the PLA, the PLO that the US had saved and brought to power.

The Christians in Iraq are now almost gone, after 2,000 years, all under the watchful eye of the US/UK and NATO.

Egypt expelled half its Coptic Christians. Pakistan is murdering off its own. NATO actively helped cleanse Christians from Bosnia, Kosovo and western Macedonia as well as turn the blind eye to massive anti-Christian prosecution in southern Albania.

But finally, finally, Russia is taking her place. This occurred in Paris, where the Russian government paid top dollar for a piece of land, formerly owned by the Paris Meteo France and will now build a Russian culture center there which will include a Cathedral. The purchase of this land was a direct order from President Medvedev and is the first time Russia has done such a thing since 1917, when the last church was commissioned by a Russian government.

The land, located not far from the Eiffel Tower, was won in a contest with Saudi Arabia, which was planning on putting a nice, big shiny Islam center for the continuation of the Islamicization of Europe. Fortunately for all, Russia won. Christ will be in central Paris and with His grace, salvation.

President Medvedev had been quoted as saying: "The Church should be in the soul of each of us. Every person has his own path to follow. One has to look into one's own heart, but the state should create conditions that allow people's desire to go to church to be satisfied," Medvedev stressed.

Xristos Voskresse!