Paul Goble
Vienna, March 9 – Most Moscow commentators blame the recent upsurge in the killings of women in Chechnya on the revival of customary law (adat) or the imposition of Islamic law (shariat), but a new analysis suggests that the real explanation lies elsewhere in the dislocations caused by the military conflict there over the last 15 years.
On the one hand, independent Chechen journalist Salakh Kasayev says, this tendency to blame Islam reflects the “clash of civilizations” argumentation many people find persuasive especially when they focus, because of ignorance or some other reason, on Muslim doctrines rather than Chechen practice (www.caucasustimes.com/article.asp?id=19562).
And on the other, such commentaries reflect an unwillingness to recognize or at least to highlight the ways in which Chechen society has been transformed by the ...
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