Kadyrov calls the war in Ukraine a jihad

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called Russia's war against Ukraine a jihad. He published this on his telegram channel.

He stated that he loves his country, people and traditions and does not understand those "who love their homeland only in words."

Kadyrov is sure that “they want to break his homeland into pieces, humiliate, trample in the dirt and, in the end, defile our faith and culture so that we don’t have any identity and not a single family value.”

“I use the word 'Satanism' for a reason. Indeed, there, in the West, Satanism is openly acting against Russia,” the head of Chechnya wrote and specified that “Satanist democracy is when the rights of atheists are protected, but believers are offended, or when traditional couples are deprived of children, and the latter are intentionally transferred to same-sex families.”

“And I would rather fight it in the bud there than let this abomination envelop our homeland here,” Kadyrov stressed.

He wrote that "the state and the president need us today" and addressed "first of all the Caucasians", urging them to remember "the rally in Grozny against the cartoons of our beloved Prophet."

“You came to this million-strong meeting. You expressed dissatisfaction like all Muslims. The same forces that insulted the best of people today are fighting against us in Ukraine, or rather, they are already fighting on the land of our Russia. The protesters in Grozny threatened to go to Europe and deal with the offenders. Where are these heroes? A self-respecting Muslim will not look for excuses,” Kadyrov said.

“This is Jihad!” he wrote and added that “our Chechen commanders made a decision not to defend, but only to attack, to destroy these shaitans, wherever they are and no matter how well they hide.

Earlier, the UOJ wrote that the hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church called the war in Ukraine "spiritual resistance.”