Video from Ukraine: Chechen jihadis scream ‘Allahu akbar’ as they fire on apartment block

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is not a jihad, but Muslim leaders in Russia have issued a fatwa saying that Muslims who are killed in it are “martyrs,” which essentially guarantees them a paradise. Western secularists do not understand this or refuse to do so, but this is a powerful incentive.

“WATCH: ‘Allahu Akbar!’ – Chechens Open Fire on Apartment Block In Azov Stronghold Mariupol,” by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, March 19, 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH9ZpkMmzUo

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has shared footage of his men opening fire on an apartment block and shouting “Allah Akbar!” in Mariupol, the encircled coastal stronghold of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion.

The coastal city on the Sea of Azov is currently the scene of the fiercest fighting in the war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, with Mayor Vadym Boichenko describing “Tanks and machine-gun battles” in the street and “Everybody… hiding in bunkers” last night.

Mariupol is a key stronghold of the notorious Azov Battalion, a more or less openly neo-Nazi outfit bearing Waffen SS insignia founded as an irregular paramilitary force during the chaos of the Euromaidan revolution in 2014 but now incorporated formally into the official National Guard of Ukraine.

Long used by Russian propagandists as proof of their claim that the Ukraianian state is compromised by Nazi elements — despite having a Jewish president and a Jewish prime minister — the Azov Battalion appeared to welcome news that Kadyrov, who rules the Checehn Republic of the Russian Federation virtually as a private fiefdom, was joining Vladimir Putin’s war effort, with the National Guard sharing footage of “Azov fighters” greasing bullets in pig fat for the “Kadyrov orcs”.

Kadyrov, who fought against Moscow during a jihadist insurrection in the mid-1990s but switched sides during another conflict at the turn of the century, runs Chechnya along broadly Islamist lines, and the republic’s mufti has declared that Chechens who join the fight in Ukraine are “on the path of Allah”.

A social media aficionado, the Chechen leader has already shared unsettling video footage which he claims shows the “Nazis of Ukraine” being subject to “reeducation” on the battlefield, and warned that “naive” Azov members who throw away their insignia will not escape his clutches as “Your lists with names, photos and addresses have long been with us!”…

Yes alleged Christian.

Putin is Hitler reincarnated! Demented Joe is Mr. Chamberlain reincarnated.

INTERESTING INFO:
“The Azov battalion was organized in 2014 when the poorly armed and unprepared Ukrainian army was forced to fight an unexpected war against Kremlin-orchestrated “separatism” in eastern Ukraine.

Seeing how the military was failing, one of the richest Ukrainian industrialists and the governor of the Dnipro Oblast, Igor Kolomoisky, spent a hefty chunk of his own money to recruit and arm a volunteer battalion to defend Ukraine. The unit was named Azov after the small Azov Sea in southern Ukraine. This was quickly followed by a series of Ukrainian victories, in which Azov played a part.

Its initial sponsor, Kolomoisky, is Jewish and has since become an Israeli citizen, living in Israel. Not exactly neo-Nazi material, but the media influencers conveniently omit that fact. The smear is as absurd as if Hitler were to spread rumors about General Patton being a Nazi so as to hinder the American war effort. To reference American popular culture, Azov is the Ukrainian version of the Suicide Squad.

Accordingly, they chose a bellicose, ominous-looking emblem of the crossed letter Z that also calls to mind a modified Ukrainian Trident but, to the critics, it appears too close to the SS emblem or the swastika. It arguably follows traditional embroidery ornaments, and, after all, we don’t demonize the entire Buddhist community in Asia for the continued use of their traditional swastika symbol.

In the seven years since Azov was formed, it has been cleaned up to become a special unit in the Ukrainian National Guard, but the smear of being a neo-Nazi militia is still being artificially inflated out of proportion. It came to a point in January of 2021 when the battalion had to write an official refutation to a Time Magazine article that called them a “white-supremacist militia.”

If you remember what happened in Washington in January of 2021, you may wonder if the timing of that story was not coincidental and if a Russian influence operation may play a role in the sudden surge of “white supremacist” and “Nazi” name-calling in the American media, aimed to split and demoralize the country.

By the logic of the Nazi smear, Azov should be fighting on the Russian side against Zelensky. But Russian propaganda has never bothered to be consistent. The more insane, the better. Of the English-language sources, observe the debunking of one of the vile examples of the anti-Azov Russian hoaxes.

On the eve of the Netherlands’ referendum about relations with Ukraine, Russian propaganda released a video in which alleged “Azov members” in masks threaten Dutch citizens with violent terrorist acts and burn the Dutch flag. This example speaks volumes about the goals, methods, and targets of such operations. Speaking of neo-Nazi videos, here’s a recent one on Instagram, in which neo-Nazis swear allegiance to their Fuehrer. Only they are not Azov fighters, nor are they even Ukrainians. They are goose-stepping, black-clad young Russians declaring their undying love for the Putin regime.

In other words, Putlerjugend.

The best source is saved for last. It was published by The Hill and written by Kristofer Harrison, who worked for defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and was a foreign policy adviser to Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign. He is a co-founder and principal of AMS, a company that specializes in Russian information warfare.

In the article “Did California’s Ro Khanna get duped by Russia’s propaganda?,” Harrison writes: Congratulations, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), it appears you were just duped by Russia (and bragged about it). As a result, you promoted Russian propaganda about Ukraine’s Azov Battalion being Nazis with text in the behemoth $1.3 trillion spending bill.

The question is, who put you up to it? ... It is ridiculous nonsense that Ukraine is beset with a bunch of Nazis.

The Russians have been pushing this foolishness for a while. In Russia, if you want to discredit someone, call them a Nazi. Putin is using it to justify his war to his subjects. Russians are not particularly keen on attacking Ukraine. But if it is to free them from the yoke of Nazis, well, that’s different.

The reason why the Kremlin is using information war against the Azov Battalion, specifically, is partially because they sometimes make themselves easy PR targets. These are guys with guns fighting a Russian invasion, not a PR agency with media training. But the bigger reason is that the Azov Battalion is one of the most effective defensive units.

Russia can’t beat them on the battlefield, so they use K Street lobbyist sellouts to help cripple them. Who wants to provide guns to fascists? Nobody. That is the ruse you fell for. ... In this instance, the Russian active measure began with an article in a publication that should know better: Foreign Policy.

John Conyers read the piece on the Congressional Record. It then spread like wildfire among lazy journalists and Russia’s network of fools, knaves and propagandists. ... Russia is attacking the U.S., and quisling K Street lobbyists are helping them. Help us identify them.

Propaganda surely exists on both sides, it’s part of any war. But it’s curious to see how, in American social media, especially among some conservatives, it has become popular to ridicule and debunk any embellishments coming out of Ukraine, with no attention whatsoever to a less noticeable, creeping insertion of anti-Ukrainian tropes in the American media.”

“About Those ‘Neo-Nazis’ in Ukraine...”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/about_those_neonazis_in_ukraine.html

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