A Muslim woman reportedly received death threats for exposing her stomach on Instagram
Madina Basaeva (Photo: Instagram courtesy dina_saeva)
Madina Basaeva, a Moscow-based blogger, shared an innocent video of herself dancing in a crop top and matching shorts on Instagram about a week ago. But, apparently because she is Muslim, Basaeva has received death threats in the comments on the video, the Daily Mail reports.
Basaeva’s Instagram account — and the target of all the fury — appears to be @dina_saeva, though it looks as if there are multiple accounts impersonating the blogger on Instagram. The post, shared a week ago, had 95,000 likes as of this writing.
⠀⠀ Какая твоя слабость? 🤤 ▫️⠀ What is your weakness? ▫️⠀ ما هي نقاط ضعفك؟ ________________________________________ Track: RASA & Kavabanga, Depo, Kolibri – Витамин
A post shared by 🕊 𝒟𝒾𝓃𝒶 𝒮𝒶𝑒𝓋𝒶 🕊 (@dina_saeva) on Jun 5, 2018 at 10:22am PDT
According to the Mirror, this all may be due to the fact that Basaeva showed her stomach in the video. As the Mirror explains, Basaeva is part of the Tadzhiki Muslim community.
Many of the comments on Basaeva’s Instagram post are in Russian. But according to both the Daily Mail and the Mirror, the comments include various death threats, including one that reportedly reads, “When will you finally die?”
Both U.K. outlets also report that Basaeva has responded to online backlash in the past by saying the commenters “don’t like anything” she does.
“’You don’t like if I am dressed, you don’t like if I am undressed, you don’t like the new content, finding a new song and coming up with choreography is that you don’t like either,” Basaeva has said, according to the Daily Mail. “It is impossible to satisfy you. Each and everyone of you. Do you understand?”
The outlets didn’t say whether or not Basaeva reported the comments to the police, but threatening someone online can constitute criminal activity. And even for those who don’t agree with Basaeva’s actions, it’s not OK to threaten her life. Religious disagreements can be the source of productive dialogue and conversations, but comments like these should never be tolerated.
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Ali Baba Bar
by Andrey Troitskiy
The Ali-Baba Bar usually closed at midnight on Sundays, but it was dead
tonight, so Edik, the only member of the staff who stayed on after they
emptied the cash drawer and drove the money away, decided to knock off
early. According to the clock it was already twenty to eleven, meaning it
was about time he started getting ready to lock up. Edik came out from
behind the bar, walked over to the teenage girl and guy seated at the little
table by the narrow, slit-like window and intimated it was high time they
were on their way. The kid tapped the face of his wristwatch in protest, but Edik just turned his back on the pair and walked over to the corner, where he shook
awake a drunk who’d dozed off on a chair, and announced that his time
was up: the establishment was closing in a quarter of an hour. When he
got back to the bar, Edik finished his coffee, picked up a dishtowel and
dried some beer mugs standing on a tray. And he was about to go to the
staffroom to peel off his filthy apron and change his clothes, when the door
opened and a new customer blew in.
A man of about forty, in a rumpled gray suit, walked up to the bar.
He put his club bag on the floor, took a seat on a stool and ordered
a lager beer. Edik recognized the fellow, nodded to him and, in an
effort to master the sudden onset of anxiety, he tried to muster up the
semblance of a smile. The fellow’s face was tanned, and his dark hair
lightened by the sun; there was a faded tattoo of a ring on the middle
finger of his right hand. They called him Oleg Slavin, though the name
was surely an alias, and his passport a fake. It was obvious at once that
he’d traveled from afar, from somewhere in the south, that he was
tired after his long journey, in need of a good sleep, and ill-disposed to
shooting the breeze.
“I haven’t got the keys today,” said Edik quietly, casting a glance
behind Slavin. That damned kid and his chick hadn’t gotten the hell out of
the bar yet, the solitary drunkard had stayed put and was now sucking back
the rest of his flat beer. “They told me you wouldn’t be showing up until
Tuesday or Wednesday.”
“Circumstances have changed,” said Slavin. He had a gulp of beer,
wiped his mouth on the back of his hand and put a pack of cigarettes on
the bar.
Edik ducked into the staffroom, pulled his cell phone out of his jacket
pocket and dialed a number, but not the usual one—he dialed a different
number entirely. And quietly, cupping his hand around the mouthpiece,
even though nobody could hear him anyway, he said, “It’s me. He’s here.
Yes. Only just. Out of the blue…”
“Will you be able to keep him there for half an hour?” asked the
fellow on the other end. “In a way that won’t arouse suspicion?”
“Actually, he’s not used to having to wait around. Well, okay. I’ll try.
But I’m begging you—let everything go down the way we agreed. No
blood.”
“Don’t worry about it,” answered the man. “Nobody wants there to
be any blood.”
Edik hung up, walked up to the window and looked out on the
courtyard, dark and filthy. A look of melancholy and apprehension had
set in his eyes, and he didn’t want to go back behind the counter, but
mastering himself, he shuffled back to his station.
“They told me to call back in fifteen minutes,” he said to Slavin,
who was unhurriedly sipping his beer and, so, as to occupy himself with
something, Edik went back to drying the washed mugs.
He poured Slavin another beer and snuck a furtive, sideways glance at
his watch—it was as if time had stood still. Then he thought of something
else he could occupy himself with; he started scrubbing the sink with a
brush. The work made him feel somewhat calmer.
Slavin had been showing up here for the last six months, dropping
by two or three times a month, usually on weekdays. Edik was always
informed in advance of his imminent arrival by persons unknown to him.
The minute Slavin crossed the threshold of the establishment, Edik was
supposed to dial a telephone number, which was changed monthly, if not
more frequently. An unfamiliar voice would dictate the address of a newly
rented apartment, to which Slavin was to proceed.
Sometimes things happened differently. A man would come into
the bar and leave a couple of keys for Slavin, to a car and an apartment,
and give Edik the address, which he had to memorize, without writing
it down. They would often leave a cell phone; once they entrusted him
with a big, heavy Samsonite suitcase with a tumbler lock. Why the hell this
Oleg Slavin came all the way up here from the southern climes, what he
was doing in Moscow—those were questions Edik didn’t bother his head
about, because he didn’t want to know more than he needed to. Clearly the
man was a courier, and he wasn’t moving Tadzhiki melons, either. And that
was that.
When it came right down to it, though, Edik wasn’t assuming
any risk. Especially since the people coming into the bar for keys and
addresses were always different. Before Slavin there was somebody named
Khaburgaev, who skulked into the place now and then; before him it was
some Tadzhik or Uzbek with a surname you couldn’t pronounce, and a
couple or three times a good-looking woman by the name of Svetlana
came by.
If the cops ever put the squeeze on him, he would deny everything.
Edik was just a little guy—they asked him to phone someone—he
phoned. They left something—he passed it along. End of story. What was
so criminal about that? He got paid good money for carrying out a few
simple tasks. Not allowing himself any overindulgences, he socked every
kopeck away, in the hope that one day he could escape this stifling dump
and open his own bar, big and bright. And not in Moscow, either; he didn’t
have the stomach for it. The dirty cops and all the city council racketeers
put the screws on you with all of their kickbacks. He’d start a business back
home, in Penza. He’d let all the beautiful people come, with their bulging
wallets, and not any hoods or winos.
“Isn’t it time for you to call back?” asked Slavin.
“Right, right,” answered Edik. He turned on the tap, rinsed the suds
off his hands and wiped them. “I’m going right now.” He popped into the staffroom again, stood there for a couple of minutes with his back pressed up against the wall, and went back into the bar.
“They don’t seem to have it together over there, they asked me to call
back again,” he lied, feeling his face stiffen from the strain of it all. “Shit, it’s
always like that. Just a second…”
He came out from behind the bar and walked over to the drunk.
Grabbing him by the scruff of the neck, he stood him up, led him to the
entrance and shoved him out the door. Then he hung out the “Closed”
sign, but left the door unlocked. He let down the blinds on the windows
and went back behind the bar.
“Another beer?” he asked Slavin, but the latter shook his head no.
Edik looked at his watch; the half hour had elapsed long ago.
A few days back, at the same time of night—before the bar closed—
three brawny young fellows showed up. They weren’t very amicably
disposed, aggressive even. They put an envelope full of money down on
the counter and said that upon the arrival in the bar of a tanned fellow
with a tattoo on his finger, he was to call such and such a number. At first
Edik started to panic, and even tried to make up some excuse, but then he
decided that in his position it didn’t pay to argue—otherwise he might be
asking for it.
“Alright, alright,” he replied. “I’ll do whatever you say. Only don’t
stick that gun in my face.”
The fellows left, having promised to pay Edik double the amount
once he’d set up the meeting with Slavin. And they also promised there
would be no disputes, much less any blood. They just needed to talk to the
man, make him a business proposal or something like that.
Clearly, Edik’s bartending job at this place was finished. All he had to
do now was get the money he’d been promised, buy a train ticket, and head
home. He hadn’t found himself either a decent chick, or any friends in
Moscow; there was nothing to keep him here. He’d already packed up his
suitcase and gym bag, though he still hadn’t informed his landlady that he’d
be leaving any day now.
Chain-smoking and tapping the bar with his fingertips, Slavin fidgeted
uneasily on his stool. And when the front door opened and the three young
guys in tracksuits walked into the bar one after the other, he only turned
his head slightly and looked Edik in the eye with a grimace of contempt.
Slavin knew a set-up when he saw one.
And he was swift: he jumped off the stool and over to the side, toward
the john, covertly pulling a pistol out of his jacket. He fired three shots
from the hip. It took all of two seconds. There was a volley of automatic
gunfire in reply, then another. More shots were fired from the pistol.
Having hidden behind the bar, Edik was sitting on his haunches. He bent
down, lowered his shoulders and decided he ought to lie down on the
floor, but he didn’t get the chance. He felt a blow to his side, under the ribs,
and a sharp, burning pain, which caused him to double over. Edik thought
he must’ve been hit. It was probably only a flesh wound, because he was
alive, and conscious…but why was there so much blood? The world swam
and reeled before his eyes.
The shooting ceased just as unexpectedly as it had begun.
The three fellows approached the bar, turned Slavin over from his
stomach onto his back, rifled through his pockets and fished out his papers
and billfold. There was a smoldering butt stuck to the dead man’s lip; the
ashes were falling into his half-open mouth, which had filled with blood.
One of the guys pulled a camera out of his jacket pocket and snapped a
few pictures, while another grabbed the club bag. Then they both hurried
to the door. The third guy followed close behind them, but then he turned
back. He leaned over the bar on his stomach and looked down at the
bartender, who was lying in a pool of blood.
“Help me,” Edik managed to whisper, but so quietly he barely heard
himself.
“Right away,” answered the fellow.
And transferring his pistol to his right hand, he shot the bartender
twice in the head, then turned and walked away.
trans. Krystyna Steiger
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