{"id":69753,"date":"2013-04-19T18:03:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T15:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=69753"},"modified":"2023-04-03T00:06:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T21:06:37","slug":"the-issue-is-not-chechnya-its-islamic-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/04\/19\/the-issue-is-not-chechnya-its-islamic-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Issue is Not Chechnya, It\u2019s Islamic Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we know who the bombers are and one of them is dead, and that they are Chechen Muslims, the media has gone into \u201cPalestinian\u201d mode insisting that we need to talk about the conflict in\u00a0Chechnya.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-69754\" alt=\"A combination of handout pictures show the suspects wanted for questioning in relation to the Boston Marathon bombing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/s1.reutersmedia.net_.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/s1.reutersmedia.net_.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/s1.reutersmedia.net_-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>We can talk about Chechnya, but the issue there and everywhere else is Islamic nationalism or Islamism. The bombers could have been from Chechnya or Mali or Bosnia or Iraq or Egypt or Afghanistan or any Muslim country where Islamists are active. And that\u2019s most Muslim countries, especially after the Arab Spring.<\/p>\n<p>There is a conflict in Chechnya and Iraq and Pakistan and Afghanistan and Thailand and Nigeria and the Philippines and India and Israel and France and a hundred other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Where there is a sizable Muslim majority or even sizable minority, there is conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Any talk about pressuring Russia into \u201cresolving\u201d or \u201cappeasing\u201d Chechen Islamists (at least the ones not allied with Russia) is a silly waste of time.<\/p>\n<p>Russia isn\u2019t Israel. It\u2019s not going to be intimidated into making deals with terrorists. And talking about the demands of Chechen Islamists is a waste of time. Their demands are the same as the demands of all Islamists.<\/p>\n<p>Islamism is Transnational. You cannot solve it locally. The situation in Israel has proven that. Giving in to territorial demands always fails because a transnational movement wants more than a few miles here and there. They want a regional and then a global Caliphate.<\/p>\n<p>America had nothing to do with the conflict in Chechnya. That didn\u2019t stop Dzhokar Tsarneav and Tamerlan Tsarneav from carrying out the mass murder of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>To understand Dzhokar Tsarneav and Tamerlan Tsarneav is to understand that Islam is transnational.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorld view\u201d is listed as \u201cIslam\u201d and his \u201cPersonal priority\u201d is \u201ccareer and money\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He has posted links to videos of fighters in the Syrian civil war and to Islamic web pages with titles like \u201cSalamworld, my religion is Islam\u201d and \u201cThere is no God but Allah, let that ring out in our hearts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Allah Akbar all over again.<\/p>\n<p>via The Issue is Not Chechnya, It\u2019s Islamic Terrorism | FrontPage Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we know who the bombers are and one of them is dead, and that they are Chechen Muslims, the media has gone into \u201cPalestinian\u201d mode insisting that we need to talk about the conflict in\u00a0Chechnya. We can talk about Chechnya, but the issue there and everywhere else is Islamic nationalism or Islamism. 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