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| Ukrainian mufti considers Kadyrov's threats against him real | |
| 2023-02-11 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] Kadyrov
As the "Caucasian Knot" has reported, prisoners from Chechnya who talked with the mufti in Ukraine should punish the mufti after their release, Ramzan Kadyrov said. Kadyrov's anger was provoked by the mufti's questions about why the military operation in Ukraine is called jihad in Chechnya. Mufti of Crimea Aider Rustemov asked the prisoners why they had come to participate in the military operation in Ukraine. He noted that the Koran is one, despite the fact that the countries are different. "Why is it called jihad now in Chechnya, can someone explain to me?" - Rustemov asked. The prisoners could not tell about the reason for declaring the military operation in Ukraine as a jihad. The mufti's question about whether they were forced to go to Ukraine was also answered briefly. "There was an order - we arrived," one of the prisoners said. "They gave us two or three days, they told us to get ready," another man said, according to a video posted on the YouTube channel. Mufti of Crimea Ayder Rustemov, who lives in Ukraine, commenting on his conversation with prisoners from Chechnya, said today that they are being forced to go to Ukraine. "These people explain this by saying that they were forced to do it. Propaganda really works very hard there. They are really ordered, they are forced, some may even be blackmailed," he said in an interview with a correspondent for the Ukrainian radio NV. He also indicated that, in his opinion, there are people who go to the military operation in Ukraine "for the sake of money." According to him, the reticence of the interlocutors is explained by their understanding that "if they say something on the cameras, then during the exchange that will take place in the future, they will be killed or something else will be done." In his opinion, Kadyrov's sharp reaction to the video recording of the conversation with prisoners from Chechnya is due to the fact that the video received a response (on the YouTube channel of blogger Vladimir Zolkin, the video has gained 1.27 million views since January 28, on the YouTube channel of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Crimea - 60 thousand views - note of the "Caucasian Knot" ). “I do not rule out that it touched his soul,” Rustemov said. Kadyrov's threat may be real, the mufti pointed out. "These may well be just ordinary Chechens who are here ( in Ukraine - Approx. "Caucasian Knot ") and they have relatives in Chechnya. This relative is taken, they begin to torture him and contact him The authorities and religious leaders of Chechnya have repeatedly called the military operation in Ukraine a jihad, urging Muslims to go to it. So, at the end of October, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, declared jihad against "satanic democracy", promising "not to defend, but only to attack." On February 28, 2022, a few days after the start of the special operation in Ukraine, the Mufti of Chechnya, Salakh Mezhiev, addressed the residents of the republic, in which he stated that those who went to fight in Ukraine "went to jihad", because together with NATO in Russia "will come all the dirt" and everything that is unacceptable according to religion. On June 23, 2022, Kadyrov published on his Telegram channel a video with a sermon by Adam Shahidov, adviser to the head of Chechnya on religious affairs. "The fight against the henchmen of Iblis must be waged by Muslims always and everywhere, and even the most ardent religious skeptics cannot argue with this postulate," Kadyrov wrote in a commentary on Shahidov's video. On September 16, 2022, against the backdrop of Ramzan Kadyrov's reports about the next dispatch of special forces soldiers to Ukraine, a video appeared on social networks of an oath that combatants from Chechnya utter, pledging to "lead gazavat in the name of Allah." | |
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