CEP20050812027223 (Internet) Kavkaz-Tsentr News Agency WWW-Text in Russian 0000 GMT 11 Aug 05
Since the victory (in the first war) which God granted us, we have observed all the laws and procedures which have applied across the world, apart from the laws of God. We declared a democratic election campaign where everyone had the right to vote, where Russian grannies from Groznyy unable to leave for Russia and those who used to be servants of the occupation forces had the same voice as the mojahedin member carrying a rifle upholding the freedom of his country.
We invited observers from all the infidel countries and the OSCE. In other words, we recognized their right to observe and to judge these elections. We made them judges, never mind the fact that their presence alone was considered a great political success. Although that same head of the OSCE Guldeman clearly and unambiguously stated as he left Russia that he did not recognize Chechnya's sovereignty. This was not the opinion of one individual, but the position of the whole European community.
At the time we wanted to become part of the system of the new world order. Nine years have passed since then. The Russian infidels, with the clear support of the European countries and other infidels, have shown such indiscriminate and cruel brutality that there should be none among us who are deluded. But (and this is surprising) our official representatives are still building a policy and wording their speeches in such a way to get the western community to recognize us.
We would not, for example, mind if Switzerland recognized us. This, by the way, is a country where 52 per cent of the population have expressed their consent that single-sex marriages should be legalized. Even one who does not have a profound knowledge of the Islamic faith should be disgusted by the attitude of such countries and such societies, never mind inviting them as observers and judges. But this is the same European community which we should hold in contempt and despise. They did not even think it necessary to explain their position of political idiocy when, whilst recognizing the legitimacy of the Chechen president and the legality of his election, they did not recognize the legality of the Chechen state. [Passage omitted: reference to Koran]
We built our state, "on a model accepted throughout the world". In other words, we believed it normal to imitate the Jahilliat state model based on atheist (Satanist) ideology. Perhaps, if we had drunk vodka and eaten pork we would have committed a lesser sin. But God knows best! We elected a president and a parliament, formed a cabinet of ministers and appointed a prosecutor. The president we elected (may God have pity on him and on us) declared that the courts would be half Shari'ah and half secular. Parliament legalized almost all the former Soviet holidays under other titles. It seemed that the most abnormal thing was the creation of the so-called Chechen army which was a copy of the Russian army. Even a respect for "patterned berets" was cultivated.
In other words, we cultivated not just an army but also an ideology of an army of non-believers whom God humbled and punished with our hands. As expected, during their very first test at the beginning of the second war all these "berets" disappeared, and after the first week of the war you could have found room for the whole official army of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the Mercedes of the Chechen defence minister. Whereas in the first war the state in the guise of its structures stayed together for about a month from the moment combat operations started, in the second war these structures broke up within a week. The onslaught of the enemy was in the main countered by forces of the mojahedin who had nothing to do with the Chechen army.
The fact that a state based on the Jahilliat system cannot withstand an onslaught was clearly seen, too, in the example of Iraq. This state was a "subject of international law" and had a 600,000-strong army which was very well equipped with weapons. This state and this army crumbled, and in Iraq today there are quite different people who are waging a war against the occupation forces.
These obvious facts should have prompted us to a certain reflection about things. Perhaps it is of the greatest blessing that we did not become a "subject of international law"?! After all, if these fighters for the rights of sexual perverts had accepted us, then things would have been much worse. Our ignorance of the false path we had chosen would have been fortified and we would have considered it normal to worship God in a mosque, but in real life worship "international law". May God save us from such destructive delusions! [Passage omitted: quotes from Koran, relationships between Muslims and their attitude to the law]
Our foreign policy and diplomacy
Since we have already touched upon this subject, we should at least briefly sum up the results of our activity in a European (western) direction and the degree of effectiveness of our efforts. Europeans adhere to the principles of "realpolitik". In realpolitik such basic categories of human ethics as "truth", "justice", "good" and "evil" are of subordinate, secondary importance. Realpolitik is based on materialism and on a so-called rational approach to reality. The infidels have always adhered to realpolitik and it is not an invention of recent times.
If we look at the realpolitik of the Europeans we can see that they have no intention of complicating relations with Russia just because the latter is destroying the Chechens, because, in the first place, Russia, as a source of energy and with its sales markets for European goods is much more important to them than any violations of notorious "human rights". Second, there is no point in annoying and again entering into a confrontation with a nuclear power for immaterial reasons. The third, and main reason is that the destruction of the Muslims cannot be a material reason and arouse pity in the soul of the infidels, because this is clearly stated in the Koran.
The Chechens are of particular interest to the Europeans. First, to put occasional political pressure on the Russian leadership by playing the so-called "Chechen card"; second, for recruiting agents of influence from among Chechen representatives in Europe, and third, in order to obtain information about the real state of the forces of the mojahedin and to expose areas where we are vulnerable.
With this in mind, permanent contact is maintained with Chechen representatives abroad and numerous human-rights campaigners and representatives of humanitarian missions and journalists are sent to Chechnya. Fourth, in order to create this kind of information-psychological background, where the struggle of the Chechen people is made to look illegal and foolish and the activities of the Chechen leadership are motivated by extremist ambitions leading to a "humanitarian disaster".
We have no objection to our representatives abroad embarking on a path of realpolitik. But in order to do so they must proceed from the following concepts: first, they must always remember that God alone is the greatest real being and everything that happens does so only through His will. Second, we Muslims are aware that we will achieve victory in the war against the non-believers not by force of arms and numbers of troops, but by the grace of God who will reward us because there are God-fearing Muslims among us. Third, we can outwit the non-believers in exactly the same political way not because of the resourcefulness of our minds (although this is not a hindrance), but because we are God-fearing.
First and foremost, we must place all our hopes in God and observe the Islamic faith. Fourth, we must not simply place our hopes in God but we are obliged to know our religion. We derive true information about the nature of non-believers and hypocrites, their aspirations, their tactics and about what they hide in their hearts and what they show, in what aspects they are united and in what they are divided, from the Koran and the Sunna. Only in this way can we shape our realpolitik in our relations with those who are without faith.
[Signed] The Islamic Centre of Strategic Research and Political Technology
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