RFE/RL: Moderate Leader's Death Accelerated Transformation Of Chechen Resistance
posted by circassiankama on July, 2009 as CHECHNYA
June 17, 2009
Moderate Leader's Death Accelerated Transformation Of Chechen Resistance
by Liz Fuller
The death three years ago today of Chechen Republic Ichkeria (ChRI)
President and resistance commander Abdul-Khalim Sadullayev was a
milestone in the evolution of what emerged in 1994 as an almost
exclusively Chechen fight for independence into a pan-Caucasian,
multinational Islamic resistance movement.
Although
he occupied the post of president for just 15 months, Sadullayev
succeeded in formalizing the organizational and logistical framework to
expand the war into other North Caucasus republics, while at the same
time banning hostage takings and terrorist attacks on civilian targets.
But whether wittingly or under pressure from more radical and pragmatic
figures within the resistance, he also dismissed the predominantly
secular ChRI government and parliament in exile, and established in
January 2006 an advisory Council of Alims (Muslim scholars) ...
FOOTHOLDS, OR AN IDEOLOGY OF SLAVERY July, 1st 2009
SNA CHECHENPRESS, Publications and Media Section, 19/06/09
We are not going to hold a debate with the Kremlin’s puppets, the likes of Kadyrov, in this study. Nor do we plan to polemicise with smaller scale sidekicks, all those former Ichkeriytsy [supporters of the state of Ichkeriya] who have joined the enemy camp and have ?seen the error of their ways”. For every word we write or utter to refute their slavish arguments equates us, albeit in a virtual way, with their opponents and we have no desire to serve as such, InshAllah. In other words, what could free Nochkho Muslims talk about with people whose slavish mind obscures every human trait the Аlmighty Allah has endowed us with? All that comes from their foul mouths are some texts which they have memorised and which they have been allowed to recite before the general ... >>full
Tataria and Chechnya – A Comparative Study, by Stephen D. Shenfield
Introduction
In several basic respects, the Volga Tatars and the
Chechens have much in common. Both Tatars and Chechens have religious
traditions typical of “northern Islam” – that is, they belong to the
Khanafi school of Sunni Islam, embrace a form of “popular” Islam
combining Moslem law (Sharia) with local customary law (adat), and are strongly influenced by Sufi brotherhoods (Islam
1998). Both Chechens and the majority of Volga Tatars were incorporated
into the expanding empire of the tsars against their will as a result
of military conquest. The suffering and humiliation of both peoples
under the tsarist regime led many of their secular intellectuals to
support the Bolsheviks, and it was these individuals who constituted
new indigenous political elites in the early Soviet years. For both
peoples, the Stalin period brought the repression of their ...
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