RTTue, 31 Oct 2023 12:52 UTC
© Sergey Guneev/SputnikRamzan Kadyrov, Head of the Chechen Republic
Violent people defying the police should get a bullet in their head, Ramzan Kadyrov has said...
Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Muslim-majority southern Russian region of Chechnya, has ordered the use of lethal force against potential rioters who would resist law enforcement. The threat comes after a crowd in neighboring Dagestan stormed an airport in an attempted anti-Jewish pogrom.
Speaking at a regional governmental meeting on Monday, Kadyrov said Chechen authorities would "apprehend and jail" any rioter, according to local media. The senior official, describing the instruction as an "order" added:
"Or, you know what, make three warning shots in the air, and if after that the person does not abide by the law - make the fourth shot in his forehead."
The chilling warning comes after a mob, which was allegedly riled up by a Ukraine-linked social media channel claim that "refugees from Israel" were arriving in planes, breached the international airport in Makhachkala, Dagestan on Sunday night. Riot police were deployed in response to the emergency, with
ensuing clashes resulting in 20 people being injured on both sides.
Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed the Ukrainian government and its Western backers for the crisis during a security council meeting on Monday:
"We know that [Stepan] Bandera and other accomplices of [Adolf] Hitler are lionized [in Ukraine]. We know that the leadership of Ukraine applauds the Nazis from World War II, who personally took part in the crimes of the Holocaust.
"Now, directed by their Western patrons, [Kiev] wants to incite pogroms in Russia. Scum they are. There is no other way to put it."
In a separate post on social media on Monday, Kadyrov said young Muslims should take advice from their elders to avoid being manipulated into breaking the law.
He said of the rioters in Dagestan:
"They have hurt themselves, their republic. I am sure that reputable individuals in Dagestan had called on them, explaining the senselessness of these actions and the Western manipulation, but they were not listened to. And what came out of it?"
He urged the youth to think before they act and not turn into a "mindless mob."
Comment: '
Dagestan Morning' has been blamed for the anti-Jewish riot at Makhachkala airport:
The social media and messaging platform Telegram has banned 'Utro Dagestan' (Dagestan Morning), a channel with 65,000 subscribers that has been accused of inciting Sunday's anti-Semitic riot in Dagestan. The tech group's founder, Pavel Durov, made the announcement on Monday afternoon.
"Channels that call for violence - such as this one, in the screenshot, will be banned for violating the rules of Telegram, Google, Apple, and the entire civilized world."
The screenshots identified the offender as 'Dagestan Morning', which has been exposed as a Ukrainian intelligence service project set up to stir ethnic and religious unrest in Russia.
A post in the screenshot proclaimed "We hate Jews" and "we will not let them live in Dagestan or the Caucasus," claiming that "Jewish refugees" bound for the Russian republic were on board the regularly scheduled flight from Tel Aviv to Makhachkala.
On Sunday afternoon, over 150 rioters broke onto the runway of the airport in the Dagestani capital and tried to storm the plane. Police were able to restore order after heavy clashes that left more than 20 people - including nine officers - injured. Sixty rioters were arrested.
Russia's Muslim leaders have condemned the riot as unacceptable. So has the head of Dagestan, Sergey Melikov. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that the unrest was "obviously" incited from abroad.
'Dagestan Morning' was swiftly identified as the most likely culprit. Posing as a local outlet, the Telegram channel has received lavish funding from Kiev since the Ukraine conflict escalated in February 2022. Former Russian lawmaker Ilya Ponomarev, who fled to Kiev in 2016 and became a citizen of Ukraine, has openly admitted to the channel being one of "their" assets.
Ponomarev has served as a proxy for Kiev to claim that the terrorist attacks against Russian journalist Darya Dugina and military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky were the work of "Russian dissidents." US intelligence has recently confirmed, however, that CIA-backed Ukrainian spies were behind both assassinations, just as Moscow has said.
Russian Muslim leaders slam anti-Jewish rioters:
Officials issued a statement:
Anti-Semitism and any other form of racism has no place in Islam, Russian Muslim leaders have stressed, denouncing Sunday's rioting at Makhachkala Airport in the Republic of Dagestan. Russian authorities have accused Ukrainian intelligence services of instigating the unrest.
The Russian Council of Mufties said that while the recent escalation between Israel and Hamas had understandably aroused tensions worldwide, there can be no justification for transplanting these onto Russian society, which is composed of numerous ethnic and religious groups.
The Islamic clergy stressed that internal religious conflict should be prevented at all costs, urging Russian Muslims to prioritize stability and peace in their homeland and not to allow the influence of external factors. A scenario where various religious groups within Russian society are pitted against one another would play into the hands of the country's enemies.
"Unacceptable to our religion are injustice, collective punishment, lynching, as well as such forms of racism and hubris as anti-Semitism and Judeophobia," the Mufties argued.
The statement concluded by calling on Russian Muslims not to fall for provocations.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed that foreign actors had "obviously" played a part. The official added that President Vladimir Putin would chair a high-level meeting later that day to address the "attempts by the West to use the events in the Middle East to divide the Russian society."
The head of Dagestan, Sergey Melikov, has denounced the actions of the rioters, saying "there is no courage in mobbing unarmed people who did nothing wrong." He also warned that the authorities would not allow the rioters to go unpunished.
Russian Muslim leader
criticizes anti-Jewish rioters over 'Allahu Akbar' chants:
The head of the Muslim Coordination Center in Russia's North Caucasus, Ismail Berdiev, has condemned the rioters who targeted an airport in Dagestan on Sunday, accusing them of using the term 'Allahu Akbar' in an unacceptable way.
Berdiev criticized the rioters, noting that "extolling the Almighty by shouting 'Allahu Akbar' is appropriate only when there is a sound reason for it."
Berdiev also noted that rioters had used exclamations of religious praise alongside "blasphemous words" that are forbidden in Islam. "The faithful are barred from uttering profanities. A Muslim must control his actions and not shoot off the mouth, thereby setting a bad example for his brothers."
See also:
Putin on Dagestan unrest: US 'geopolitical puppeteers' trying to divide Russia from within
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