Chechen warns against Islamist Muslims

Human rights leader Chechan warns against Islamist Muslim militancy, a spreading ideology of hate

Nora Boustany with the Washington Post reported Wednesday, Feb. 6, on a Chechan human rights leader’s warning against “militant Islamic ideology…gaining currency.

The Islamist Muslim ideology is seen as growing in militancy in the Russian separatist state of Chechnya and beyond into the North Caucasus regions.

Ousam Baysaev, 43, an author and former journalist who has made a career of chronicling human rights abuses in Chechnya and surrounding republics, presented his conclusions in a lecture in Washington last month at the National Endowment for Democracy.

Such findings are likely to cause new anxiety among U.S. and European policymakers already concerned by the unrest in a region strategically important to the United States because of its proximity to Iran, Turkey and Afghanistan.

Russia has fought two post-Soviet wars against separatist rebels in Chechnya, including one in 1999 that helped propel Russian President Vladimir Putin to power.

Fighting declined in Chechnya recently after the Russian military established a Kremlin-supported government, but turmoil in the wider North Caucasus has spread.

In recent weeks, there have been protests in the neighboring, mostly Muslim republic of Ingushetia in response to a government crackdown on political opposition.

Demonstrators rose against official corruption under president Murad Zyazikov, a close ally of Putin who visited a military unit stationed in the hills of Dagestan Monday, a restive republic on Chechnya's eastern border.

"In those republics, there are metastasizing rebel movements," said Miriam Lanskoy, a senior program officer for Central Asia…"They come to Chechnya, fight for a week or two, and go home having more credibility and status." 

The threat of homegrown terrorism is spreading, and gaining numbers, in the Caucus region of Russia, ironically to include the Russian state of Georgia there.

The U.S. has its ow “metastasizing rebel movement” called Muslims of the Americas camped in two locations in the U.S. state of Georgia – and dozens of other locations nationwide.

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