Chechens are Muslim, and some share the belief that the West is engaged in a global campaign against Islam.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule.
I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.
Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.
The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish their own objectives that have nothing to do whatsoever with the interests of Chechnya.
Remember, the Boston bombers were Chechen rebels.
'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists.
In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
Muslims know that Islam clashes with Western Civilization. They make no bones about choosing Islam over their new home country, like the Syrians in Germany, or the Somali at Ohio State University. They are very open and honest on polls, because they know they have nothing to fear from the governments that welcomed them with open arms.