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November 7, 2007

Movladi Udugov’s answers to Alla Dudaeva's questions

 

SIA CHECHENPRESS November 7, 2007

 

 

In view of the fact that the Head of the National Information Service of the ChRI Movladi Udugov could not answer the questions posed by Alla Dudaeva, the office of Chechenews.com has decided to fill this gap by publicising the Draft Proposal for the Construction and Security of an Islamic State, drawn up by the Islamic Centre for Strategic Studies and Political Technologies under the editorship of M. Udugov

Draft

Proposal for the Construction and Security of an Islamic State

This proposal is based on the Nisam (Constitution) of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeriya (CHRI) with Sharia amendments and additions of 4 July 2002, as well as the official interpretation of the fundamental matters of foreign and domestic policies of the Chechen state, and of the reform of the form of government of the CPI of 13 February 2006, given by the President of the ChRI, by the Emir GKO-Majlisul Shura of the ChRI Sheikh Abdul-Khalim.

"Strength and Flexibility"

Preamble

The proposal on the construction and security of an Islamic State (referred to from now on as ‘the Proposal’) is a fundamental system of political and ideological principles, which form and determine the strategy and tactics in the areas of construction and consolidation of an Islamic State and its security.
 
The proposal formulates the main components of an Islamic State’s policies.
 
An Islamic State is a state, based in Sharia, where Allah is the sole source of power, and the Koran and the Sunna of the Prophet Muhammad are the sole sources of laws.
 
The security of an Islamic State implies security of its subjects – the Islamic religion, its citizens, the Sharia government institutions (the Sharia order) and the state sovereignty (the dependent Islamic territories).
 
« If any do fail to judge by (the light of) what Allah hath revealed, they are (no better than) Unbelievers» (Koran, Al Maida, 44).
 

The State
 
Only an Islamic system creates such an order where the only Feasor for everyone – be it a ruler or a subject, black or white, rich or poor, close or far – is God the Almighty and all are equal before His Laws and all are obedient before him. With all other types of organisation people spend their life serving their like and following laws created by other people.
 
Law making – is one of the prerogatives of supreme authority. He who takes it upon himself to write laws for others, in reality claims supremacy whether he openly declares it or does not. He who allows such an impostor to lay down laws at his whim, in fact recognises the other’s right to supremacy, whether he calls things by their proper names or invents other terms for them.

Said Kutb
 
15 years on after the restoration of its independence on 6 September 1991 the situation in the ChRI is characterised by an overall crisis of government institutions as well as of the state itself – caused by the military intervention and occupation.

At the same time the external military aggression was a mere catalyst of the critical processes which had affected the Chechen state even before the war.
 
The source of the crisis in the Chechen Republic of Ichkeriya was the historically determined fact that no authority had ever been considered legitimate in Chechnya unless it was a medium for Sharia.
 
The half hearted nature of the steps to implement the Sharia reform in 1996-1999 did not allow stable Islamic state institutions to take root before the beginning of the Russian military aggression.
 
This was the reason to call together on 4 July 2002 an extended meeting of the Majlisul Shura of the ChRI (which had acquired the status of the Constitutional Assembly) with the participation of all of the branches of power (The ChRI President Aslan Maskhadov, the Chairman of the ChRI Parliament Dardail Khiryaev, MPs, members of the government, the leadership of the Supreme Sharia Court, commanders of the fronts and branches of the ChRI Armed Forces), NGOs and djamaats, who introduced the Sharia amendments and changes into the ChRI Constitution on the basis of the ChRI Presidential decree on the Sharia reform of 4 February 1999.

Article 1 of the ChRI Constitution was changed to read: «The Chechen Republic of Ichkeriya is a sovereign independent Islamic state governed by the rule of law, and created as an expression of the self determination of the Chechen people. The Koran and the Sunna are the sources of all decisions adopted in the ChRI».