It is both odd and incongruous that Kadyrov, the son of a respected mufti who studied in the 1980s first at a madrasah in Bukhara and then at the Islamic University in Tashkent, should have grown up with such a rudimentary and flawed understanding of both Islamic dogma and ritual. In contrast to 20-year-old insurgent commanders who quote the Koran ( Read more... )

«День Ашура имеет особое значение для мусульман всего мира. В этот день приходится сотворение Небес, Земли, Арша, Курса, ангелов, первого человека - пророка Адама. Поэтому мы должны отметить этот день как полагается правоверным мусульманам - жертвоприношением. На завтрашний день в республике запланированы масштабные праздничные мероприятия», - ( Read more... )

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May Allah guide us through and to His light, forgive our sins, accept our prayers and sacrifices, and grant us the chance to make Hajj at least once in our lifetime .

Chechen businesses that display advertisements of bareheaded women have been subject to attack and ordered to remove any images of women not wearing a headscarf, under a new ban.
A spokesman for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has denied any government orders to target businesses in this way.
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In fact, a woman wearing a headscarf makes men realize that their persistent attention is undesirable, -grozny info


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Problem is that true Islam will always be based on the Quran and the Sunna too, which is why it kind of doesn't make sense to say that true Islam is something different from what some misguided Muslims do. I mean I know what is there in the Quran, and what is in the Sunna. There are things paving the way for FGM, polygamy, terrorism, and all that ( Read more... )

В европейских школах присутствует «культурный расизм», он выражается в том, что учебники, используемые на уровне средней школы, противопоставляют «устаревший ислам» «современной Европе» на уровне конфликта друг с другом.
«Ислам всегда представляется, как застывшая система установок, не менявшаяся со времён «золотой эпохи религии», Чеченинфо

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Leaving religion aside, just a quick political evaluation as always .

This operation seems to me a way to reaffirm the rights of the peaceful Chechens on the religion, in opposition to those who participate to the armed fight and call for separatism .
It's a sort of "we are more Muslims than you", an attitude in which we often indulge too much .

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