“Don’t worry dad, I’ll come home and show the Russians. I have many thousands following me now and I’ll get more. We’ll have our revenge against Russia.” Many thousands? Why so many misunderstanders of Islam? Didn’t Ben Affleck say they couldn’t fill a double-A ballpark?
“Islamic State Grooms Chechen Fighters Against Putin,” by Michael Winfrey, Bloomberg, October 9, 2014 (thanks to Joseph Zaalishvili):
When the Islamic State commander known as “Omar the Chechen” called to tell his father they’d routed the Iraqi army and taken the city of Mosul, he added a stark message: Russia would be next.
“He said ‘don’t worry dad, I’ll come home and show the Russians,’” Temur Batirashvili said from his home in Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge, on the border with the Russian region of Chechnya. “I have many thousands following me now and I’ll get more. We’ll have our revenge against Russia.”
As the U.S. and European countries assess the risk of home-grown jihadists returning to stage attacks on their native countries, the turmoil in the Middle East also reverberates in the Caucasus. The region wedged between Russia, Iran and Turkey is an intricate web of tensions that’s erupted into violence in the past three decades in hot spots from Chechnya to Nagorno-Karabakh and Georgia.
Batirashvili’s son Tarkhan comes from an area that Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses of aiding Islamist rebellions that he’s spent more than a decade trying to crush. While Russia is focusing on the conflict in Ukraine, Georgians remember the humiliation in a five-day war in 2008, when Putin helped cement the separatist movements in the provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The red-bearded commander now known by the nom de guerre Omar al-Shishani is a leader of the forces fighting for an Islamic caliphate in Syria and Iraq. Among them are dozens of youths from Pankisi who, disaffected by a lack of jobs and angered by Russia’s dominance in the Caucasus, have followed the call to jihad….
Don't Eat the Monkey Meat says
If you know the history of the Chechen people and the Russians this should not come as a surprise. Chechens and people from the Southern part of what used to be called the Soviet Union are treated horribly. That said Russia is about the only country in the world that has a realistic view of Islam and it’s dangers.
Jay Boo says
The Leftists defenders of Islam make endless excuses.
They chose not to remember the Beslan massacre in Russia where 777 school children were kidnapped and 180 of them lost their lives to Islam’s foul ideology, (that condones kidnapping and murder of non-believers)?
The Leftists do the same thing in discussing Iraq and the Islamic State. For example, they claim that (the militants) are butchering, raping and enslaving Yazidis , because ISIS considers the Yazidis a heretical sect as if to say that members of ISIS are only doing it reluctantly because of the intolerant interpretation of Islam and that the Yazidis are somehow partly to blame for not showing proper respect for Islam.
Undaunted says
Your numbers are waaaay off, Boo.
http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2014/09/still-crazy-after-all-these-years.html
Jay Boo says
My numbers are
777 school children were kidnapped and 180 of them lost their lives
What are your (way off) corrections?
Jay Boo says
http://rt.com/news/183964-beslan-school-hostage-crisis/
This link says 186 children were butchered by the filth of Muhammad.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Every entity in the universe has its good and bad. Every element, every geology, and every species. Humanity as a species is complicated, but that much so. Islam represents to bad in human nature, in the human genome. They want revenge for events that never happened, they want wealth, they want women. It is no coincidence that the belief took form on worthless parched land onto which the race group now called Arabs were chased against their will 10,000 years ago. Defeated, their racial memory sprouted a scheme to exact revenge. Revenge for nothing, but the money and the sex are good.
Bezelel says
Wouldn’t fill a double A bark. Video evidence to be sure. That must be some huge ball park.
Bezelel says
typo (bark=park) it’s been a busy day, either way Ben is really special.
PRCS says
Yo, Ben Affleck.
Those are WHITE Muslims!
Who knew, eh Ben?
pumbar says
Yeah, but it’s still racist ‘cos, well, ‘cos, uhhm they is islamic innit.
Beagle says
The number of global jihadis and sympathizers has to be in the many tens or hundreds of millions. I am basing this on available polling. Maher was right citing actual data, and Affleck was wrong doing nothing but having a tantrum like a baby, though not as cute.
RoP and Wikislam do good summaries with clickable links:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/Opinion-Polls.htm
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Statistics
If Affleck had spent one hour, ONE hour, possible with a laptop at lunch, clicking links at those two resources he would either self-immolate due to cognitive dissonance or completely change his mind.
bewick says
As the world faces the threat of ISIS the west picks a fight with Putin. Both the West and Russia are concentrating on a relatively minor spat in Crimea/Ukraine whilst islamic barbarians wreak havoc across the middle east, destabilising that area and threatening globally. The major powers have taken their eyes off the bigger picture. Ironic given that the Charge of the Light Brigade was enacted in Crimea. The difference of course being that the troops this time are metaphorically “in barracks”. Time to put aside the minor problems lads and get western and russian boots on the ground in co-operation to totally annihilate ISIS – no prisoners. The other matters can wait. Assad can wait. This scourge will only grow unless we act soon. I only yesterday heard someone who is, or was, in the UK Government advance the idea that we would eventually need to have “dialogue” with ISIS – as if those scum would even listen let alone reach an honourable agreement. Time to have dialogue with Assad instead and get agreement to remove ISIS, and probably all rebel groups from Syria in return for better governance by Assad. Removing Dictators has hardly been a success in Iraq or Libya after all.
Ciccio says
You might perhaps have mentioned that the charge of the light brigade was the result of England objecting to the Russian idea of putting an end to the Ottoman empire once and for all. As France had supported the Turk in the 18th century, Britain supported them in the 19th and America has now undertaken what the Kaiser started in the 20th.
Centurion_Cornelius says
Here! here!
no quarter in the fight against radical Islam and their terror!
MEMO TO “TEMUR:”
If you want your bearded and filthy head handed to you on a platter, come mess with me and the Rooskies.
We will not give you “constitutional rights” or the other nonsense the West gives you barbarians.
We will give you 7.62 x 39 FMJ “rights”. All 30 of them in banana clips for openers.
Try me!
Yours truly,
Владимир Путин
COL “Vlad” Putin, KGB (ret. but still fairly active)
Stan Pierce says
At least one Muslim in Pakistan has a brain.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/42158/pakistan%E2%80%99s-human-cockroaches/
fair_dinkum says
Russia’s war with Islam will be long, bloody and huge. internal threats and whole Nation States (Chechnya, Georgia). the Caucuses.
Medvedev said “the region will burn for decades” at the start of the Arab Spring.
Him and Putin realise the threat, the chaos, and the ruthlessness needed to cope with it, better than any western nations.
we will sit here and envy the way theyll hit back. theyre not above taking reprisals.