Somehow, Moscow fails to see this trend as the direct threat to its sovereignty that it is. "Muslim revival brings polygamy, camels to Chechnya," by Amie Ferris-Rotman for Reuters, December 16:
GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - Adam, 52, keeps his three wives in different towns to stop them squabbling, but the white-bearded Chechen adds he might soon take a fourth.
"Chechnya is Muslim, so this is our right as men. They (the wives) spend time together, but do not always see eye to eye," said the soft-spoken pensioner, who only gave his first name.
Hardline Kremlin-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov is vying with insurgents for authority in a land ravaged by two secessionist wars with Moscow. Each side is claiming Islam as its flag of legitimacy, each reviles the other as criminal and blasphemous.
Wary of the dangers of separatism in a vast country, Moscow watches uneasily as central power yields to Islamic tenets. It must chose what it might see as the lesser of two evils.
It's really just limiting itself to a choice between a faster or slower version of the same thing.
Though polygamy is illegal in Russia, the southern Muslim region of Chechnya encourages the practice, arguing it is allowed by sharia law and the Koran, Islam's holiest book.
By Russian law, Adam is only married to his first wife of 28 years, Zoya, the plump, blue-eyed mother of his three children, with whom he shares a home on the outskirts of the regional capital Grozny.
His "marriages" to the other two -- squirreled away in villages nearby -- were carried out in elaborate celebrations and are recognized by Chechen authorities.
The head of Chechnya's Center for Spiritual-Moral Education, Vakha Khashkanov, set up by Kadyrov a year ago, said Islam should take priority over laws of the Russian constitution.
"If it is allowed in Islam, it is not up for discussion," he told Reuters near Europe's largest mosque, which glistens in central Grozny atop the grounds where the Communist party had its headquarters before the Soviet Union fell in 1991.
"As long as you can feed your wives, and there's equality amongst them, then polygamy is allowed in Chechnya," he added.
Islam is flourishing in Chechnya which, along with its neighbors Dagestan and Ingushetia, is combating an Islamist insurgency which aims to create a Muslim, sharia-based state separate from Russia across the North Caucasus. [...]
Animals are also being used to reintroduce Islam at Chechnya's round-the-clock Muslim television channel, where 60 young bearded men and headscarved women create children's programs in large studios adorned with photos of Mecca.
A bevy of bumble bees joyfully scream "Salam Alaikum" (Peace be with you) upon entering the studio of Ruslan Ismailov, who is making a full-length cartoon on hi-tech Apple computers for the channel, which is called "Put," meaning "The Way" in Russian.
"The bees appeal to children, and they will teach them how to live properly by the Muslim faith," Ismailov said.
Set up two years ago by the state and broadcast to thousands across the North Caucasus, instantly becoming one of the top channels in the region, it also features programs for women on how to keep home and reading of the Koran throughout the night.
"It's no secret what Chechnya has been through," said the channel's general director Adam Shakhidov, sporting a ginger beard and traditional black velvet cap.
"Two wars, the Soviet Union and today's Muslim extremism... it's time to show the true beauty of Sufism and install the basis for sharia," he said.
Just as I'm looking forward, and with enormous excitement about it, to seeing Opensewerabia become like Somalia once its oil runs out, I will certainly enjoy seeing the Kremlin get its bones crushed by this Boa constrictor it's been feeding and allowing to grow, without any worries about whether or not it might kill it one day.
"If it is allowed in Islam, it is not up for discussion...
So, what 'is' allowed in Islam? Never mind, we all know...
The list of what's allowed is long and reads like the Devils list of things to do today...But we are not allowed to discuss them, or even mention them...Who are we to question the wisdom of Allah?...Stupid kufr...
"Muslim revival brings polygamy, camels to Chechnya,"
I thought you were allowed to have four wives, not four-legged wives.
Mr. proud Kuffar.
Are you suggesting you want Russia to loose to these ungodly totalitarians?
Go watch "truthtube" and I think you will want Russia to win no matter how foolish it has behaved in the past.
Another thing is that fear of muslims introducing sharia into their own societys. Why be afraid of that?
If I were a muslim I would want sharia, because being a muslim that is how lame and ungodly I would be. Lameness and ungodliness deluxe being just another day at the islamic factory for muslim me.
Lets have as much islam in dar al islam as possible!
Yes every muslim boy and girl will suffer from more islam, but they already do and still want more, so why not let them have it. That grand jihad is coming our way, anyway.
This is the third global jihad and let us get used to that.
And what really matters is the nonmuslim world, not the dar al islam, which Chechnya is so sadly a part of. I mean look at that Kadyrov character, and tell me this is not the ultra mobster-jihadi-scumbag!
Mmmm. I see polygamy and camels still go together in islam.
According to a hadith, when Mo's 'wives' and slaves were out of commission, he used to go and schmooze with the camels, particularly the female ones, though he was not averse to the odd male one as well.
Well, if you're going to have a Worship-the-Penis Club then multiple wives and camels would come in handy.
French King, it isn't that I wish to see Russia be destroyed by mahoundianism, but its leaders, through acts like their Ahmadinejadistan ass-kissing and allowing mahoundianism to blossom in the Caucasus, don't seem to care whether or not this will explode on their faces; so long as the capitalist Western world is weakened, they obviously do not care how that happens. And, once they no longer share that mutual goal of destroying the West, mahoundianism inherent ability to lay waste to everything it touches will deliver a big pay off to the Russians, for their recklessness in having chosen it as an ally.
Right on the spot mr. Kaffir!
Ofcourse Putin and the rest of his stupid KGB gang deserves to have their hands burned when playing with fire....
Yet your point about them wanting the "capitalist West" to go down in flames, is a quite an overkill, if you get my meaning. They dont want that at all if you ask me!
Russia is defeated and weak and its moron leadership wants to pretend that this is not the case at all and that they are still going strong.
That is why we have to assure them, that we wish them no harm and in fact we must offer them friendship and alliance against Mad Mo and the zombie children begotten by his evil spirit.
This offer they will hate ofcourse, but they will come around when they have endured a few more jihadi attacks of the diabolical Beslan type!
Beslan by the way is a most true and direct testament to islams inner darkness.
How is it possible to explain it away as so many have done or are trying to?
We really must crush this enemy!