L'IMAM DE TCHETCHENIE
Friday, August 20, 2010
Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov tells Russia
he should take new title.. something like..
... The Imam of Chechen
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| Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov |
The Chechen leader has told the men in his region to take ~ 2, 3, 4 wives for themselves. His latest efforts for Shari'a seem to be to authorize squads of bearded men to physically attack and intimidate women not wearing Islamic headscarves during Ramadan.
Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's leader, says only the Russian head of state merits the title 'president'
In a nod to the central authority, Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov has ordered the Caucasus republic's parliament to come up with another title for him.
"To my mind, there should only be one president in the state," he told the Russian press. On the list of proposed new titles are "leader of the republic", "president of the government" and "Mekkh-da", which means father of the nation and imam in Chechen.
The idea is quickly gaining momentum and has been welcomed by other leaders from other regions including Dagestan, North Ossetia and the Komi Republic. According to political analyst Dmitry Badovsky, the proposal may even be discussed this autumn in the Duma.
Kadyrov has launched a series of tactless and at times unbearable charm offensives on Moscow since he came to power in 2007, including a proposal to rename the Chechen capital's main thoroughfare Putin Avenue. But traditionally streets had been named after deceased leaders, which has struck many observers as rather Freudian. Others interpreted the gesture as less-than-subtle backing for Prime Minister Putin, even as he entered into his working partnership with President Medvedev.
A much more problematic Chechen proposal surfaced in April 2009 when Kadyrov began promoting polygamy, a symbol of the republic's Islamification that flew directly in the face of the Russian constitution.
"There are more women than men in Chechnya. And they must all find their place in life," the Chechen leader declared.
To help sweeten the pill, Kadyrov resorted to theatrical praise of Vladimir Putin.
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