Just when you think the nadir has been reached, a craven invocation of pan-Slavic ‘racial’ mythology appears at CiFillis, which in another time and place–if the words ‘Jews’ and ‘Germans’ were substituted for ‘Muslims’ and ‘Russians/Serbs’–would have been published in the editorial pages of Der Stürmer:

The independence of Kosovo is a hugely emotional issue for Russians (because Kosovo [sic] is part of the sacred soil of the Holy Slavic nation) … intensity of opposition to Kosovo’s independence in Serbia and Russia is such that it would be a mistake to ignore it (we will not tolerate this war of extermination against the Holy Slavic nation) … create a precedent for many separatist movements all over the world, from the Basques in Spain to the Uighurs in China (and especially those pesky Chechens, of whom we cannot massacre enough–100,000 and counting) … Many Russians warn that the creation of a Muslim state in the middle of Europe will strengthen the position of Muslim minorities and of Islam in Europe generally (we must protect our sacred soil from the dusky asiatic hordes) … They also point to the role of Kosovars…in drug and people trafficking in Europe (because there is absolutely 100 percent no drug or people trafficking going on anywhere in the former Soviet states–oh no) … If Serbia, an independent state…can be partitioned like this, flagrantly against its will (the will of 95% of Kosovans must not be allowed to interfere with our Holy mission) … Even if one accepts that Serbia committed abominable atrocities in Kosovo–which few Russians do (those weren’t atrocities because they fucking deserved it–they have hairy palms, they cannot control their sexual appetites and they don’t sit straight on the toilet) … how would the British feel if in 20 or 30 years Windsor, for example, proclaimed its independence on the grounds that the majority of its population was now Muslim (Windsor was a part of Pakistan until it was annexed by the British Empire in 1912–honest).