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The journalist who went public with a story about how Chechnya’s Muslims are purging the nation of gays by hook or by persecution crook has now gone into hiding, fearing retribution and for her own life.
This is not a casual fear.
Jihadists have officially named her as a target. And a Muslim cleric has called for retribution against her.
From the Gay UK:
“The Russian journalist who is responsible for breaking the news that Chechen officials had rounded up, tortured and detained men suspected of being gay, has said that she is in hiding and fearing for her life after a ‘jihad was declared against her.’
“Speaking on the Victoria Derbyshire show, Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina said that a jihad had been declared on her and the staff at her outlet after 15,000 people met in the biggest mosque in Chechnya and denounced the paper and journalists who published the original story.
“‘They reacted [to the story] in a terrifying manner… on April 3, in the biggest mosque in Grozny, 15,000 religious and various types of people came together and announced a Jihad on us… not just me personally, but all journalists at Novaya Gazeta.
‘They said the people at the newspaper who raised this question have damaged the honour of Chechen nation and should be prosecuted.'”
A Chechnya government official called her claims “lies and disinformation,” and said gay people didn’t “exist in the republic.”
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If Chechnya achieves full independence from Russia, image the utopian state that would exist.
?????????☠️⚔️???
Lol, and then some.
It would likely become a new front for the Islamic State…
Knowing full well they would require a caliph, Erdogan is keeping a hopeful eye on Chechnya.
Rightly so, to say anything that defames islam is apostasy, which is punishable by death. She would do well to get to the civilized parts of eastern europe as soon as possible.
The word “apostasy” from ancent Greek “apo-” = “apart”, “away” + “stasis” = “standing” means you have been a part of something (in your example of Islam) and made a decision to separate from it.
This woman (“Elena” is a Christian first name) was never a Moslem, so she cannot be in apostasy to Islam.
Apostasy has nothing to do with names, there are muslim apostates named muhammad, police beat upon him, that are murdered for apostasy against islam.
See, I understand that English is probably not your first language, it is not mine either, even though my mom’s ancestry is partly British.
The point is this: “apostasy” means — and not only in English, in all languages that use this Greek word in various similar forms — that you have left something and are no longer a part of it. That’s all that word means. Nothing else. Perhaps you are thinking about “blasphemy” which is not the same thing at all.
Only Moslems can be apostates from Islam, only Jews can be apostates from Judaism, only Christian can be apostates from Christianity etc.
“Only Moslems can be apostates from Islam, only Jews can be apostates from Judaism, only Christian can be apostates from Christianity etc.”
Not so. This small dictionary gives a simply explanation of “apostasy”…:
You’re trying to relate to religion, and it’s more than just that.
Mahou stated it correct, when she said in part:
“to say anything that defames islam is apostasy,”
Absolutely not. Nowhere in the example you quote does it say that a Buddhist criticising Bahai’i is an apostate in terms of Bahai’i religion.
In order to be an APO (away) STATE (stander) = ONE WHO ABANDONED something (mostly religion), you need to have been an INSIDER first.
If you had not been a member, you are not an apostate. End of story.
And I never said it applies only to religion, indeed I quite emphatically said ANYTHING (ie including non-religion).
So stop this useless crap, kindly.
A distinction that doesn’t concern the goat humpers.
Muslims can be named Elena too. Elena Isinbayeva?
True in principle, but this woman is not Ishinbaeva. her family name is also derived from a Christian name.
Besides, we cannot know for sure which religion even Elena Ishinbaeva practices in her private life, if she does indeed practice any.
Whoa! Holy Scary Racist Muslims!!
Well………they won’t exist for long……………if they do!
Kadyrov is Putler’s satrap. So the Kremlin junta is ultimately responsible for the gay genocide.
Yeah sure muhammud, it’s Putin who’s killing gays in Chechnya. Why don’t take your ahadith and quranus and use them as suppositories?
You really don’t like using your brain, ahh? I already explained to you that Chechnya is not a sovereign state. It is brutally and illegally occupied by Russia, kind of like Crimea. Russian forces have already committed 2 genocides in 1994 and 2000, that have murdered at least 400,000 people. After that, the Kremlin junta has installed a murtad puppet as a satrap in the conquered Chechnya.
So, the ultimate responsibility for whatever Putler’s satrap does, lies with Russia.
Chechnya has it’s own president muslum worm — go crawl back into your mosque. It’s not Russians who are killing gays in Chechnya, it’s Chechen muslums. Nice try at obfuscating that fact but no sale muhamMAD.
If you were at least a little bit educated, you would’ve known that Chechnya doesn’t have a president. Kadyrov is known as the “head” of Chechnya (and not the president) precisely because PUTLER IS THE PRESIDENT. All of Russia is extremely homophobic. (Just check out their “gay propaganda” laws) Chechnya is an occupied territory, the murtad Kadyrov is Putler’s strap, and the occupying power is the one ultimately responsible for the crimes against humanity.
The lone wolves are apparently hunting in packs of muslamics.