Thursday, March 05, 2009

BLOG: Struggle in the Caucasus and the Jihad of Imam Shamyl (attalib.blogspot.com)

Kerim Fenari, Winter 1996.

The Chechen people's desperate struggle for freedom has taken many by surprise. As with Bosnia three years ago, the very existence of this Muslim country was unknown to many in our community. But now, as the savage hordes of Tsar Boris the First pour down from the barbarian lands of the north to bring fire and the sword to the Chechens, it is worth remembering that the Caucasus has always been the graveyard of invaders and the birthplace of Muslim heroes who names still resound in the forests and valleys of that most romantic of all mountain lands.

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