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Islamic jihadists attack Chechen capital; 20 dead

Dec 4, 2014 4:20 pm By Robert Spencer

Grozny jihadTime for more government studies on “Islamophobia” to demonize those who have been calling attention to this ever-growing global problem.

“Islamic militants attack Chechen capital; 20 dead,” by Musa Sadulayev and Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press, December 4, 2014:

GROZNY, Russia (AP) — Police waged hours-long gunbattles with Islamic militants who attacked Chechnya’s capital Thursday, leaving at least 20 people dead and underscoring Russia’s vulnerability just as President Vladimir Putin used patriotic and religious imagery in his state-of-the-nation address to defend his standoff with the West.

The clashes in Grozny, the city’s biggest in years, dented a carefully nurtured image of stability created by Chechnya’s Kremlin-backed strongman after two separatist conflicts. The new violence raised fears of more attacks in Chechnya and widening unrest in the rest of Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region.

The Kavkaz Center website, a mouthpiece for Islamic militant groups operating in the North Caucasus, carried a link to a video message by an individual claiming responsibility for the attack. The man in the video said he was operating on orders from Emir Khamzat, reportedly a nom de guerre of Chechen warlord Aslan Byutukayev. The claim could not immediately be verified.

The insurgents in Chechnya and other Caucasus regions want to create an independent state governed by their strict interpretation of Islamic law. Some Caucasus militants have traveled to Syria and Iraq to join up with the Islamic State group. IS has vowed to launch attacks in Russia, but there have been no indications to date that it has followed through.

The fighting in Grozny began about 1 a.m., when roughly 10 gunmen riding in three cars fired on traffic police who had stopped them for a check, killing three officers. Some of the militants then holed up in a nearby office building and exchanged gunfire with police who quickly cordoned the area.

The battle left the 10-story Press House, which housed local media offices, gutted by a blazing fire that also spread to a nearby street market. Some gunmen fled to an empty school nearby. It took police more than 12 hours to kill 10 militants, according to Russian authorities, who also reported that 10 officers were killed and 28 wounded.

Russian state television showed video footage of police officers firing automatic weapons and grenade launchers at the three-story school, its windows left shattered and charred.

The gunbattles were still raging when Putin began delivering his address in an ornate Kremlin hall, and the Russian leader sought to cast the violence as a legacy of what he described as foreign support for Chechnya-based insurgents in the past.

“We remember high-level receptions for terrorists dubbed as fighters for freedom and democracy,” he said….

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  1. rev g says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 5:50 pm

    Hopefully this will piss off Putin enough to get him to act. We know our own witless leader never will. It is way past time to play cowboys and muslims. Maybe the Cossacks can show the way.

  2. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 6:13 pm

    “Militants”? Might these be Jihadis?

    • Tradewinds says

      Dec 4, 2014 at 6:43 pm

      Michael – you know you’re supposed to say “extremists.” Or “attackers” is permitted, too.

      • cs says

        Dec 4, 2014 at 7:24 pm

        Here would be ASIANS. lol

        • Darren says

          Dec 5, 2014 at 12:29 pm

          Yep those crazy Asians are at it again. It was all of that anime and manga that made them do it.

  3. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 6:23 pm

    The word “clash” is losing the neutrality and opaqueness so useful to the coverers and filterers in the press. Here “hours-long gunbattles” of “more than 12 hours” are referred to as “clashes”. The press will soon have to change to some new masking-word.

  4. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 6:26 pm

    “their strict interpretation of Islamic law”. Once again (thanks to Robert Spencer) this should be strict “application” of Islamic law. Kill means kill: no “interpretation” needed.

  5. Saleem Smith says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 6:37 pm

    Russian plans to ban the Bukhari hadith collections may not be enough to stop Islamic terrorism. The vile Quran itself has enough exhortations to hate and kill the unbelievers within its pages to keep the Chechen jihadists killing infidels until the next ice age.

    Sharia law is what the devout Mohammedans want.

    They want to apply ALL of Islam.

    Not just some of it.

    We ex-Muslims living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy know that Islamic theology is a diabolical fraud that must go the way of the dinosaur.

    Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:

    “One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Qur’an 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…

    The statement continues,

    Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.”

    http://www.faithfreedom.org/

    • TH says

      Dec 5, 2014 at 9:00 am

      Thanks for bringing this excellent quote which is exactly what Mahommad was. The trick is how to get more muslims to wake up and discover the truth about this fraud called Mahommad.

  6. Richie says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 6:51 pm

    Put once threatened to nuke Mecca- I hope that happens

    • Judi says

      Dec 4, 2014 at 7:35 pm

      Richie – well that will get rid of about 1,000,000 of them but what about the other 1.2 BILLION?

      • rev g says

        Dec 4, 2014 at 7:38 pm

        You have to start somewhere!

      • cs says

        Dec 4, 2014 at 8:12 pm

        They will perceive that Allah is against them.

  7. mortimer says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 8:22 pm

    Chechnya is an excellent example of what happens with a sizeable Muslim minority: JIHAD.

  8. abad says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 8:36 pm

    Chechnya – isn’t that where the Tsarnaev “Boston Bombers” brothers are from??

    • cs says

      Dec 4, 2014 at 8:51 pm

      yep

  9. pumbar says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 10:33 pm

    I read all that and didn’t see the word “restive” once. Very disappointed.

    • Myxlplik says

      Dec 4, 2014 at 11:33 pm

      I’m sure restive Jihad is alive and well in Southern Thailand, isn’t that where the restive strain happens mostly?

      • Myxlplik says

        Dec 4, 2014 at 11:54 pm

        I think it gets used for Indonesia and the Phillipines too, anyplace nice and tropical. It’s like beheading meets a relaxing vacation, it’s restive.

        • pumbar says

          Dec 8, 2014 at 12:32 am

          A very shrewd observation sir. Though parts of the Caucasus are “restive” too. Maybe they have a lot of greenhouses there?

  10. Salah says

    Dec 4, 2014 at 11:23 pm

    “We remember high-level receptions for terrorists dubbed as fighters for freedom and democracy,” he said….

    We also KNOW about high-level positions for terrorists dubbed as “moderate Muslims.” We KNOW about the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood thugs almost everywhere, including the White House, don’t we?

  11. FarmerMike says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 6:10 am

    Okay, the verdict is in: Islam is a religion/ideology of hate, lying, misogyny, pedophilia, sex-slavery, domination, killing, looting, destruction, confusion & self-destruction. Anything else?
    What should be our response? Is this a military problem, or a political problem, or a cultural problem, or a medical problem, or a psychological problem, or an educational problem, or an enslavement problem? Apparently, all of the above.
    To regard it as simply a military problem means war with 1.3 billion people. Gotta be a better way.
    We already see that simply bringing democracy to Muslim lands usually means Muslim Brotherhood types come to power, enforcing sharia.
    Bringing Muslims to Western countries in small numbers has let some become ex-Muslims, which is good. But it has also brought in those who set up mosques to preach hateful jihadist Islam. Not good.
    On the plus side, we need to note that at least SOME Muslims want to escape from Islam, and daringly do so, at the risk of being killed by their former co-“religionists” for doing so.
    I have earlier suggested that those experienced in de-programming people from brain-washing or the “Patty Hearst Syndrome” should come forward and offer suggestions.
    The Chinese went through their militarily/politically enforced “cultural re-education” camps, by sending folks with the wrong kind of education to the countryside to work with peasants. We see where that can be extra bad, whether in China, or especially when we look at Cambodia’s Pol Pot & the “killing fields.” I don’t think we want to see more of that.
    What I’m saying is: We are beginning to see the problem.
    But what is the solution?
    Certainly, raising awareness Robert Spencer-style is courageous, admirable & essential. Many kudos to Robert.
    And somehow enabling & welcoming Muslims to become EX-Muslims is very, very important.
    Anything else seems like conflict & domination, & a lot of bloodshed. I see that as the “testosterone solution.” Some of that might be needed, I admit.
    But my “left-wing tendencies” lead me to want to look at some deprogramming strategies. Which are more peaceful. And cheaper. And allow everybody to do a little more evolving along humanitarian lines. Which I think is something we can all support. Most of us, anyway.

    • cs says

      Dec 5, 2014 at 7:29 am

      Man, I am with you 110%, want even to copy your text. Great.

    • TH says

      Dec 5, 2014 at 9:02 am

      How do you propose to deprogram over a bilion of them?

      • Darren says

        Dec 5, 2014 at 12:57 pm

        We have to get them all linked up to the same network I guess and introduce the software so they can download it into their brains I guess. Hopefully they don’t use windows since it is buggy and god help us all if they have internet explorer. Though I imagine we get the 404 error and blue screen of death error when we try to install the new software. I believe there is something wrong with the code at the most basic level, and even a reformat won’t work. Though a few of them might have Linux installed and are using firefox, I think for the majority of them you will get the blue screen of death.

  12. duh_swami says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 6:36 am

    This is not going to make Putin happy. He’s already all fired up and ready to go…

  13. gts58 says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 3:09 pm

    Just another example of “Muslims being Muslims” and the dog eater in Chief stated in his book he would stand with Islam/Muslims in times of discord.

  14. danny says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 10:02 am

    @ Justin, I agree with you 100%. There seems to be a grand conspiracy between the western leaders and Islam to destroy christianity completely. The silence of american and western ‘christians’ on the persecution of arab\ME christians is very shocking and unbelievable. The silence of american and western leaders on christian sufferings in the hands of islamic jihadist world wide is very suspicios.

    Until average christians on the street stand up against the rampaging islam, the survival of christianity is slim.

    Islam is out there to destroy western civilization and the politicians, media, and the academic community seem to be willin tools in this evil project.

    • FarmerMike says

      Dec 6, 2014 at 1:21 pm

      @Danny, yes, it seems pretty obvious that the Western Powers are not really interested in defending Christians in the Middle Ease. Would this be due to the “Repentant Crusader Syndrome”? Nah. Westerners don’t have that good a grip on history. More likely a serious case of blindness due to “Western Oil Addiction.”
      Now, I don’t go to church, or call myself a Christian. And, BTW, Jesus never became a Christian. That was Paul’s doing.
      Nevertheless, I see Jesus as the most Advanced Being [that I know of] who ever visited Earth. And I think it is only simple courtesy, Christian or otherwise, to not tolerate slaughter or genocide of our fellow humans, even if Malthusians point out its benefit of reducing the over-population of the earth. There are simpler, and much pleasanter ways to prevent over-population in the first place.
      Clearly, our most difficult problem is to figure out how to get along with one another.
      So, yeah, we should do much more to protect the Christians in the Middle East, as well as the other minorities.
      And we definitely should protect Israel. Absolutely.
      Out of all this turmoil & conversation & introspection, I suspect there might come a newer, more embrassing, more tolerant religion than any we presently have. At the very least, I expect there to be a complete overhauling of Islam. Or maybe simply its abandonment.

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