From the Christian Science Monitor: "Kyrgyzstan tries to squeeze Islamic extremists in Central Asia "
Authorities say that extremists are trying to set up a base here to overthrow Kyrgyzstan's secular post-Soviet government, as well as those in neighboring Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and create an Islamic state.
But observers say that the government's harsh methods - in a country that has had a traditionally tolerant and secular Sunni Muslim population - are creating more radicals than they are eliminating, and igniting ethnic tensions in the Ferghana Valley, a volatile, diverse region shared by Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
The crackdown is also part of a series of incidents suggesting Kyrgyzstan's turn from the West, and the US in particular, and embrace of Russia and Uzbekistan.
Law-enforcement bodies have fought pitched battles with gunmen in recent months. In May, armed individuals overran Kyrgyz and Tajik border posts, killing three Tajik border guards and a Kyrgyz customs official. In July, Kyrgyz security forces killed five suspected members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a group that fought beside the Taliban in Afghanistan.
"We are reaching critical mass of armed people in the region," says Martha Brill Olcott, an expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. "I think there could be a wave of acts of violence in Central Asia."
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Relations between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan were frosty after Bishkek sheltered hundreds of refugees from Andijan, and after the "Tulip Revolution" deposed longtime leader Askar Akayev.
But Kyrgyz officials, under strong Uzbek pressure, now seem to hold the view that militant Islam as well as non- violent political Islam constitute a threat.
Along with the IMU, Bishkek, as well as other Central Asia regimes, has targeted Hizb-ut-Tahrir, a London-based group that aims to unite the world's Muslims in a single sharia-law state. Hizb-ut-Tahrir members say they will achieve this by peaceful means, though their rhetoric is often virulently anti-Western and antidemocratic.
Kyrgyz law-enforcement officials say that Hizb-ut-Tahrir has split, and a number of members now support violence. Organization representatives deny this.
All things considered, the analyst quoted below fails to see an agenda beyond discontent with "corruption and economic stagnation."
Michael Hall, Central Asia director of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, says that the region's authoritarian regimes are afraid of the political challenge the movements pose, which has arisen from corruption and economic stagnation.
"These regimes don't like opposition, period," Mr. Hall says. "If today that comes in the form of Islamic radicals, that's sort of the threat du jour."
"You also have to see it from the point of view of these movements' supporters," he adds. "These are people for whom Islam, even radical Islam, represents justice, fairness, and accountability on the part of their governments - and they are not seeing that right now."
One will recall that Palestinian voters were alleged in some circles to have voted Hamas into power in a similar move against "corruption."
Kyrgyzstan's jihad is totally unlike the other jihads being waged over the globe from Indonesia, Iraq, Thailand, Australia, France, Florida, Germany, to Seattle. Any resemblance is strictly coincidental.
How much longer do the mainstream media and their pitiful experts think they can maintain this charade? It's getting embarrassing for ME to watch them slither and slide past the obvious explanation. Yeah, they want freedom. That's what it is. Please.
Perhaps we can ship them some vowels?
"You infidels are keeping us from the vowels that Allah decreed were to be ours!"
Cake or death!
Finland trying to commit suicide?
Finland grants asylum and residence permits to dozens of Chechens
http://www.workpermit.com/news/2006_08_29/global/finland_asylum_for_chechens.htm
29 August 2006
Finland has begun granting asylum and residence permits to Chechens based upon the threat of violations to their human rights in their home country.
The number of Russian asylum seekers in Finland increased several times over around the turn of the millennium. This can be partly explained by the Russian-Chechen war that started in 1999.
Finland's Directorate of Immigration (UVI) has granted asylum to 21 Chechens since 2004, and residence permits to 67 Chechens since 2001, on the basis of the need for international protection.
Even though the ethnic background of these refugees is not indicated by the statistics, Director of Regional Unit Esko Repo, from the Directorate of Immigration, reports that nearly all of them are certainly of Chechen origin.
Prior to this, Finland never granted asylum to citizens of Russia or any other neighboring country. Chechens have been granted asylum and residence permits by some of the other European Union States.
According to Finland's Directorate of Immigration, people in Chechnya continue to be victims of violations of their human rights. However, not all Chechen applicants have been immediately granted asylum or residency in Finland on the basis of need for protection.
Some of those rejected have appealed the decisions to an Administrative Court, which can either reject the appeal or annul the decision. In some cases, the appeal process has been successful, and the applicant has been granted a positive decision afterwards.
Hence UVI has started to give positive decisions to Chechen applicants more frequently.
"Both the Administrative Courts and the Directorate of Immigration are of the opinion that no Chechen asylum seekers are to be repatriated", Esko Repo reports.
"People returning to Chechnya may be subjected to inhuman treatment. Such treatment is a basis for asylum or a residence permit for persons who have applied for international protection. A situation like this involves a question of human rights", explains Repo.
Besides Chechnya being their home country, the applicants may have other reasons to apply for asylum in Finland. For example, they might have been supporting or hiding guerrillas.
Furthermore, some of the applicants have reported that they have participated in fights against Russian armed forces.
Asylum is not granted if the applicant has committed a serious political or other crime prior to arriving in Finland as a refugee. However, no such cases have yet been recorded during the asylum investigations.
Certain words command a strong response, "corruption," "rights," "injustice," and "oppression" being prominent among them. It's unsurprising that Islamic agitators should have picked up on the prevalent device of couching every demand in such terms. After all, it works well for secular movements.
Perhaps that aspect of things might be changing -- and perhaps what might be changing it is the accumulating recognition that militant groups will say anything at all, no matter its veracity or applicability to the matter at hand, in the contest for the attention and sympathies of the mass media. One can only pull at the reins so many times before the horse develops calluses on his mouth.
The "London based group" being used by the islamic scum should perhaps offer the West its best opportunity for interdiction.
And also for fumigation and deportation.
A good muslim is an oxymoron.
Finland has begun granting asylum and residence permits to Chechens...
About 15 yrs ago an exchange student from Moscow was working for me as an intern. Great kid. Very smart and likable.
Anyway, as a concerned hog farmer I sometimes cannot resist slinging a little crap, so when we're in a room doing a 1-on-1 meeting I said to him, "These Chechens, they are a fine people, no?"
This kid's eyebrows went up, his eyes bugged, the blood drained from his face, and he bolted from his chair and literally backed up against the wall.
He said, "Chechens are animals, extremely dangerous animals. I'm surprised you're familiar with the Caucusus and its role in the Russia. Tell me you're joking, or I quit this job right now." Without exaggeration, he was frightened as he stood there.
I told him that sure it was a joke, maybe even a sick joke in poor taste given the awful subject, and I said was sorry and that he could take the rest of the day off.
He did. But it looks like Finland is signing up for misery beyond belief. The idea that Chechens need anything but asylum from themselves is astounding.
Ain't nothing more dangerous that a white Moslem. They're even more dangerous than a Hindu Moslem (aka a Moslem "Paki").
Alarmed Pig Farmer
we need more stories like those.
It's centuries islam is a plague.
I used to think that former soviet countries were less dangerous than typical muslim countries due to communism brainwashing but I was wrong.
"Along with the IMU, Bishkek, as well as other Central Asia regimes, has targeted Hizb-ut-Tahrir, a London-based group that aims to unite the world's Muslims in a single sharia-law state"
What are things coming to when we have to rely on Kyrgystan to fight Islamic groups that are flourishing in the UK?
Have we completely lost the plot in the UK?