The mental play-by-play of Ginx upon reading about this event...
I rushed over here to see which religion I could blame...
WTF is a Chechen? Is that like an Eastern thing? Oh I see... a person from Chechnya... nevermind.
Hold on, I need a minute... I don't know how to react to something violent happening without religion being involved. I think Christopher Hitchen's head exploded like a gin-soaked pinata.
What? They're Islamic? Phew, my worldview is confirmed. I can go back to pretending I know everything.
These are called “Islamic terrorists,” but while the people of Chechnya are Muslim, that is not the source of their response. They want their freedom from colonial domination. Russia conquered this people in the 18th century. They have been oppressed by tsars and commissars. Stalin murdered them by the trainload, ethnically cleansing them because the communists could not control them. The Chechens want self-determination, and that is their right. It was not, of course, called terrorism when the post-communist Russians destroyed the entire capital of Grozny, and murdered many thousands of civilians, with non-suicide bombers. The Chechens are wrong to respond in a governmental fashion. But Russians have been wrong for more than two centuries to occupy and murder these people, who have never accepted the foreign slave collar. Stop the governmental and private terrorism. Russia out of Chechnya!
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The mental play-by-play of Ginx upon reading about this event...
I rushed over here to see which religion I could blame...
WTF is a Chechen? Is that like an Eastern thing? Oh I see... a person from Chechnya... nevermind.
Hold on, I need a minute... I don't know how to react to something violent happening without religion being involved. I think Christopher Hitchen's head exploded like a gin-soaked pinata.
What? They're Islamic? Phew, my worldview is confirmed. I can go back to pretending I know everything.
Ginx, to blame the attack on religion is to ignore the history of Chechnya.
As Lew Rockwell wrote:
These are called “Islamic terrorists,” but while the people of Chechnya are Muslim, that is not the source of their response. They want their freedom from colonial domination. Russia conquered this people in the 18th century. They have been oppressed by tsars and commissars. Stalin murdered them by the trainload, ethnically cleansing them because the communists could not control them. The Chechens want self-determination, and that is their right. It was not, of course, called terrorism when the post-communist Russians destroyed the entire capital of Grozny, and murdered many thousands of civilians, with non-suicide bombers. The Chechens are wrong to respond in a governmental fashion. But Russians have been wrong for more than two centuries to occupy and murder these people, who have never accepted the foreign slave collar. Stop the governmental and private terrorism. Russia out of Chechnya!
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