He doesn’t seem to have explained how the war could possibly be a jihad, but with this appeal he will likely get some volunteers anyway.
“Kadyrov Calls for Russian ‘Jihad’ Across All of Ukraine,” Moscow Times, October 26, 2022:
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov continued his anti-Ukrainian tirade late Tuesday with territorial claims beyond captured regions in what he characterized as Russia’s “jihad” against pro-Western Ukraine.
“Our territory is not Zaporizhzhia, not Kherson. Our territory is Odesa, Kiyv, Kharkiv. Every region and Ukraine as a whole is our Russian territory,” Kadyrov said in a video message on the Telegram messaging app….
“We have volunteers who will go to the end and we’ve decided not to defend but go on the offensive,” Kadyrov told his 3 million subscribers….
“I give you my word: we’ll attack them every day. We won’t take these shaitans [evil spirits in Islam] prisoner. We’ll burn them. We won’t stop anywhere,” Kadyrov said….
“I’m deeply dissatisfied with today’s situation, but people who command at the top understand more than I do,” Kadyrov said….
“This is a great jihad everyone should take part in,” he said….
PRCS says
The apple didn’t fall from the tree!
PRCS says
far from
Dave says
Putin’s loves his puppet collection.
Dave says
One more time:
Putin loves his collection of puppets. And they love him back, or else.
Wellington says
I am of the conviction that Putin is more beholden to Muzzies than they are to him, one example being that Putin is using Chechen Muslims to kill as many Ukrainian Christians as possible. Yes, who is the “master” here as opposed to the “servant?”
At the least here, a very murky ground, especially considering that both Putin and the Russian Patriarch, Krill, have enthusiastically endorsed this slaughter of Ukrainians, often using the Russian Orthodox faith as one of many pretexts for doing so. How sick and disgusting.
What a waste that after the demise of the USSR—easily a completely tyrannical state opposed to freedom—all Russia could produce was at first a drunk and buffoon (Yeltsin) and then an ex-KGB agent (Putin), the latter being someone who has done enormous damage to Russia because of his hostility to liberty, being just fine with massive corruption that has benefitted this greedy man, and making alliances of one sort or another with the detritus nations of the Earth, among them being China, Iran, Venezuela and North Korea, all the while stupidly being hostile to the West when all along Russia’s best interests are surely aligned with the best of the West.
Russia never learns. If I have leaned one matter about Russian history more than any other, it is this. What a waste of a potentially great people and a a great nation.
Fitna says
Well said Wellington as always.
Putin destroyed all the goodwill that he had created for himself online. When he used to be more low-key, stayed in his lane, people generally liked him, now he’s ruined all of that.
Not to mention Russia was forming some decent economic, business links with the West and was getting some much needed technology, but ofc as soon as he attacked the Ukraine, the West pulled back all the goodies it was offering them, Putin’s an absolute moron.
Russian is desperately trying to build its own fab (chip) industry and is decades behind the West and Asian countries. Rather than cooperate, build ties, make Russian businesses flourish, he decided to play old school tyrant and go for a land grab in the most ugly way possible. Note that Ukraine also had good business relations with Russia as well and now that’s all been trashed.
Some people made it seem that Putin was playing “3 dimensional Chess” but then you realize he’s a clueless bungling idiot who really isn’t thinking at a higher level, but at the lowest level of greed and self-aggrandizement.
I too feel sorry for the average Russian people who didn’t ask for this and I’m sure wish for the same freedom and prosperity we enjoy in the West.
As for the Muslims, it’ll be interesting to find out who’s using whom in this game. I’m sure the Muslims are thinking eventually they’ll take over in time as they have a very sizeable population in Russia. Sadly ofc it’s always the average people that will suffer.
Wellington says
Thank you, Fitna.
Yes, Putin is a disaster, a Cold War relic in the worst way, and he has destroyed or horribly altered a countless number of lives, including untold thousands of Russian lives. He serves as a classic example of someone who has lived too long—like Petain.
Hank says
And to complete the picture, Putin even has his very own “Rasputin” in Alexander Dugin who is his mentor. Just as in the days of Russia’s last tsar family.
Fitna says
You’re welcome Wellington and concurred.
We can only hope some dissidents in the military either take Putin out themselves or provides intel to Ukraine or NATO so they can do the deed.
They’d probably need to go after his loyal cronies as well, if they ever hope to have a fresh start and bring in real freedom/democracy, if it’s even possible in Russia.
david1508 says
Yes, but Putin grabbing Muslims to fight for him can backfire, like it did here.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/mass-shooting-in-belgorod-exposes-russia-s-forced-mobilization-of-migrants/ar-AA13voFK?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=06af49c3bbc74752e26017d6fa3ce3ef
gravenimage says
Agreed, Wellington. Putin has made a Faustian bargain with Kadyrov, allowing him to run a Shari’ah state right on Russian soil.
CogitoErgoSum says
Even more interesting to me is the role being played in all of this by Patriarch Kirill I of the Russian Orthodox Church. This is not a war to re-establish an atheistic Soviet Union but rather an attempt by Putin and Kirill to restore a “Holy Mother Russia.” The Muslims see this as an opportunity to assist the Christians with weakening and killing each other so that Islam can more easily prevail in the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg5_GvssAw0
gravenimage says
I think Putin is using the Orthodox Church as a fig leaf for his invasion–but, disgustingly, Patriarch Kirill is all too happy to provide that fig leaf, even blessing weaponry.
Check out Russia’s disturbing War Cathedral:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/20/orthodox-cathedral-of-the-armed-force-russian-national-identity-military-disneyland
Never mind that a lot of Ukrainians are Russian Orthodox.
CogitoErgoSum, I think you are very much correct in Kadyrov and the rest of pious Muslims seeing this as weakening Infidels, which he is all for.
Hank says
‘This is a great jihad everyone should take part in’
Wow! that would have been dangerous talk in France and the UK with the sizeable Muslim 5th column they imported.
gravenimage says
Chechnya’s Kadyrov on Russia’s war in Ukraine: ‘This is a great jihad everyone should take part in’
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Yes–the Jihad to murder Infidels. Appalling but unsurprising. Kadyrov is now agreeing with Putin that Ukraine is “satanic” for resisting the unprovoked invasion.