This reminds me on how my sympathy for the Chechens evolved since the fall of the USSR.
At first, I was very sympathetic and wondered why other former Soviet 'republics' were allowed to form separate sovereign nations, but not Chechenya.
I knew nothing of the demographics -- irrelevant, right?
When the separatists began to abandon guerilla tactics [which are limited to military and infrastructure] and target civilians, my sympathy quickly evaporated.
It wasn't until several years later that I found out that there was a significant number of Muslims in Chechenya. Then I said, "but of course!"
Friend, find one country on the face of this earth where the Muslim minority is not killing the majority for a permanent and separate homeland...I challenge you.
Mr. Walford, Chechnya was never one of the Soviet Republics.
That's why with the breakup of the Soviet Union it didn't go it's own way like Khazakstan and the Ukraine. It was and is part of Russia, and Russia has insisted that its territorial integrity remain intact, as is their sovereign right.
>"It wasn't until several years later that I found out that
>there was a significant number of Muslims in Chechenya."
Indeed. Amazing how that fact is deliberately concealed by the MSM.