Posted on 10/02/2014 12:18:58 PM PDT by markomalley
A man from Pankisi Gorge stabbed his sister in the chest with a knife for refusing to wear a hijab.
The brother, 35, inflicted 7 wounds on his 33 year old sister, a former police officer.
Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge is located in the northeast of the country. The majority here are Kists, a subgroup of Chechens adhering to the Sunni branch of Islam.
The wounded woman underwent emergency surgery at the local hospital. His brother was arrested and is under investigation for attempted murder.
The stabbed woman worked for several years as a police officer at Duisi police station, but left in February to start working at the local school administration. According to some locals, the woman left the police under pressure from her brother.
Neither family members nor relatives are eager to comment on the issue openly in this small but extremely closed community. According to some account the perepetrator has mental problems.
Pankisi Gorge, the home of approximately 7,000 Kists, in the last two decades witnessed the spread of radical Islam – Wahhabism, or Salafism especially among the youth, which is gradually replacing traditional Islam.
This leads to conflict between old and new generations, since the former follow adat; a traditional, moderate Islam and code of conduct widespread among many ethnic groups of Caucasus.
This conflict has come to the surface in Duisi, the administrative center of the Pankisi valley, where moderate and radical Muslims attend different mosques.
During a visit to the valley in December, 2013, DFWatch was told by the elderly people that 80-90 percent of the youth are following Wahhabism, which was their biggest worry.
In Duisi, there was also a prevalence of bearded young men, dressed in specific orthodox style. Although many people there have a more moderate lifestyle, the rise of the radicalisms is quite visible and the prominence of Pankisi men among top ranks of Middle Eastern terrorists is a proof of this.
Pankisi Gorge was the cradle of some of the most infamous Islamist leaders among groups active in the Middle East. One of them, Tarkhan Batirashvili, aka Abu Umar al-Shishani, is head of the military wing of the Islamic State in Syria, though also actively participating in hostilities in Iraq; another one is Murad (Muslim) Margoshvili, aka Muslim al-Shishani, commander of the Junud al-Sham group, affiliated with al-Nursa front, an official branch of al-Qaeda in Syria, and designated as terrorists by the United States.
There are no exact figures about how many Kists from Pankisi are fighting in the Middle East. Accounts range from as little as ‘several dozens’ to ‘hundreds’.
According to Kakheti Information Center (ick.ge), six men from Pankisi have died in Syria so far. One of them is another prominent field commander, Ruslan Machalikashvili, a.k.a. Seyphullah al-Shishani who was hit by a shell last February.
Not that Georgia. You can tell because it doesn’t say “sister/wife/aunt/mother.”
Dang that must a been one helluva shell, maybe from one of those giant clams, Think how bad it would be if he was hit by an artillery round.
As per our great President, he is not Muslim.
I’m sure it was done with love.
Wow, remember the Bugs Bunny cartoon with the maniacal muslim?
Hassan chop!!!
Maybe the hijab should be called the “hestab”.
During a visit to the valley in December, 2013, DFWatch was told by the elderly people that 80-90 percent of the youth are following Wahhabism, which was their biggest worry.
In Duisi, there was also a prevalence of bearded young men, dressed in specific orthodox style. Although many people there have a more moderate lifestyle, the rise of the radicalisms is quite visible and the prominence of Pankisi men among top ranks of Middle Eastern terrorists is a proof of this.
Pankisi Gorge was the cradle of some of the most infamous Islamist leaders among groups active in the Middle East. One of them, Tarkhan Batirashvili, aka Abu Umar al-Shishani, is head of the military wing of the Islamic State in Syria, though also actively participating in hostilities in Iraq; another one is Murad (Muslim) Margoshvili, aka Muslim al-Shishani, commander of the Junud al-Sham group, affiliated with al-Nursa front, an official branch of al-Qaeda in Syria, and designated as terrorists by the United States.
What? Radical terrorist Islam in Georgia?
Who woulda thunk it?
Especially two decades ago, oh yeah...
Maybe it was an attempt to render mercy, so she would no longer be shamed...
Domestic violence. Move along.
"...small but extremely closed community" = "generations of selective inbreeding."
Sometimes ya just gotta be firm with them.
True. Nobody know inbreeding like the muslims.
Just another honor killing to protect the family name.
Pray America wakes
Don’t remember that one. I remember Porky Pig the Legionare fighting against the foam at the mouth Arabs, and Popeye fighting against the evil Abu Hassan (Abu Hassan got it any more).
And Popeye fighting against Sinbad the Sailor.
Oooooooh! Those fun-loving, peaceful moozlums. Remember, children...all cultures are equal.
Should be treated as a case of terrorism because it is Islam-based.
This type of act is exactly what ISIS is promoting worldwide.
Muslims are Muslims, no matter where they go
Pankisi Gorge bordering Chechnya was a kind of safe heaven for Chechen terrorists operating in Russia for more than two decades. It is also an important transit point for Arab terrorists infiltrating into Russia. All of the above were a primary reason of ‘imperialist’ incursions of Russian air forces into ‘little proud democracy’s’ airspace from late 1990s until 2008. And of course, all these ‘innocent victims of evil Russian aggression’ are either Islamists themselves or their supporters because it is hardly believable that they have allowed any other group to live there upon takeover.
Interesting fact, a US military involvement in Georgia under ‘Train and Equip’ program was officially announced as a response to a Russian plea to the Georgian government to kick some Islamist butt resolving a Pankisi problem on their own. In practice this program ended with a Georgian defence budget inflated 30-fold all at the the US taxpayer dime with hundreds of tanks, IFVs, howitzers, even landing crafts and warships purchased (all suitable to a counterinsurgency and mountain warfare - not).
It is nice to learn that Islamists are alive a well after a decade of USMC presence and billions of dollars in aid wasted.
A little factcheck: Pankisi is a northern end of a Georgian Alasani Valley easily accessible by car from Georgia. It is some three miles wide and less than twenty miles long, populated by only a several thousand people in a few villages.
A few thousand troops reinforced by a dozen migration officials would clean every alien in a couple of days out of there without any specific training and equipment.
Yet, Chechens somehow managed to assemble at times a formations of up to four thousand heavily armed terrorists arriving to Georgia and gathering there for months one by one for their attacks. It is hard to believe that Georgian authorities were unaware or interested to resolve.
It is also hard to believe that Clinton, GW Bush and Obama were unaware, either, but remember, there are no violent Muslims in Georgia, honest.
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