Nice to see you never read my post even though you quoted it. The Chechens were nationalist separatists first. They've only recently (within the last ten years) become dominated by the more Islamic Radicals.
They wanted to leave Russia like all the other republics that left the USSR, and the Russian gov't didn't let them. It was not religious in nature for the first 15 years after the fall of the USSR. Of course, they've been rebelling pretty much since 1905.
Last edited by Ryllharu; Sun, 04-21-2013 at 07:33 PM. Reason: for clarity
I read it and it has little to do with my original post about Muslims in Chechnya or with the brothers or their reasons for bombing the marathon. People were calling racism for associating the bombings with Islamic terrorism based on the fact that the suspects were Russian, not Middle Eastern. But as I stated, there is Islamic fundamentalism in Russia, so this latest attack certainly has Islamic terrorist roots. The Chechen struggle to be free from Russia has little if nothing to do with the brothers' attack on the US.Originally Posted by Ryllharu
For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
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