Chechnya

Source: www.qoqaz.net

To the leaders of the Islamic World... To Islamic Organizations and Charities around the world... To human rights organisations, we ask: What are the characteristics of the people you defend, and do the people of Chechnya qualify   for a share of your efforts?

To women's rights groups: Women in Chechnya are being attacked and dishonoured. They are being tortured and beaten, do the women of Chechnya have any rights?

To animal rights organisations: Livestock and the environment are being destroyed and burnt in Chechnya, do they have any rights?

To doctors and journalists, to all Muslims, and indeed to all people around the world.. Is it not time for you to open your eyes? Is it not time for you to awaken from your slumber? Children have been orphaned, women have been widowed and the elderly have been murdered...enough of this slaughter!

Your silence is a disastrous embarrassment...why then do you remain silent? What is it that you are waiting for? For the people of Chechnya to be exterminated? Or for our country to be wiped out? Or for our religion to be extinguished?

Let not the care of Russian mothers for their soldiers, the very soldiers who are committing these atrocities, be greater than your love for your brothers and sisters in Chechnya. Will you care for the lives of your brothers and sisters? Will you care if they are slaughtered? Will you care for their right to live? If the unbelieving polytheist Orthodox Crucifixers in Russia and their brethren in the West joined ranks in Churches and prayed for the victory of the Serbs during the genocide in Bosnia, why do you, the People of Faith not hasten to pray for your brothers and sisters in Chechnya? Is there a difference between Chechnya on one hand and Bosnia or Kosova on the other?

The Muslims of Chechnya are being subjected to a calculated and systematic war or extermination by the Russians.This holocaust is going unchallenged by the people of goodness and faith, and is even receiving unlimited backing and support from certain quarters. The people of Chechnya suffered from a war of extermination during Soviet colonial times during the reign of the infidel Stalin. They are now being subjected to another war of extermination at the hands of the Russian Government. This latest war of extermination is being supervised by Jews and is receiving limitless support from the West that is hateful of Islam and Muslims; This slaughter is taking place in full view of the entire world - where are the people of goodness and faith? Why do they not work to bring an end to this shame?

Russia would never have been able to conduct this war of extermination without the support it received from the World Bank, NATO and other so-called international organisations. When the fighting was at its peak, Russia received US$40 million in aid. This was followed by another US$00 million and the halving of Russia's US$40 billion foreign debt. In stark and painful contrast, how much aid have the Muslims given to their brothers and sisters in Chechnya?

Where was the World community when Grozny was being turned into a wasteland? Where was the World community when every building was destroyed, and when the corpses littering the streets gave way to the plague? Where was the World community when 400 innocent people were massacred in the village of Katyr-Yurt during a single day?

Indeed, where was the World community as 5000 Muslims were plunged into the dungeons and torture chambers of the Astinia concentration camp? If this war of extermination was truly "an internal affair," what makes it different then from the situation in East Timor? Why were voices raised and red lights illuminated in East Timor? Why did the World community hasten to threaten, promise, attack, defend, build and rebuild in East Timor and not in Chechnya?

Chechnya was part of the Soviet Union, and with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Chechnya was no longer bound legally or in any other way to Russia, which itself was also part of the Soviet Union. What gives Russia the right to occupy and dominate other parts of the former-Soviet state? And what makes Chechnya different from Georgia, Armenia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia - Christian states, some of which are smaller than Chechnya, but nevertheless received full support and had their independence recognized? Truly the scales are unbalanced when the fate of Muslims is in question.

This is conclusive evidence of the dark hatred against Islam and Muslims. Although every proof has been established to support the cause of the Muslims in Chechnya, the fact remains, as Allah describes it:

" With regards to a believer, they respect not the ties, either of kinship or of covenant! It is they who are the transgressors " [Quran 9:10]

" And never will the Jews and the Christians be pleased with you until you follow their religion..." [Quran 2:120]

Will the Muslims heed this call? Will they support their brothers and sisters and bring victory to their deen?