If in total Muslims are 15-18%, among young people of conscription age we speak of 30-40% of his army. Russia’s future is there.
“The only way for Russia to escape geopolitical demise is to become an Islamic state,” said Guidar Djemal, Russia’s most famous Muslim who passed away five years ago. The news coming from the Ukrainian front seems to prove him right.
At a funeral in the Kurchaloyevsky district of Chechnya, a Muslim cleric announced that the families of Abdulbek Taramov and Tamirlan Isaev would each receive one million rubles (7,000 euros) and a cow. A few days earlier, an Islamic scholar from the Chechen capital of Grozny, Salakh Mezhiev, had declared the Russian invasion a ‘jihad’. The Washington Post wrote on one of the most important but least told aspects of the war in Ukraine: the role of Islam.
