Unfortunately there is a romantic/aristocratic concept of freedom which means weak royal/state power combined with the complete license for the upper leisure/quarrelsome class and destitute debased mass of toiling peons.
This idea of Golden Aristocratic Freedom was quite spread in XVII/XVIII century - it lead to the ruin of Poland and to the bad image projected on more practical "opressive" powers of Russia and Prussia.
Muslim raiders, trade-slavers and conquerors fit nicely into the ideal of aristocratic adventurer. So, yes there are quite a few of NON-Muslims who see emir Khattab inspired Chechnya as beacon of freedom.