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Secular Chechen rebels become Muslim fundamentalists
Nov 22 2007, Apabrita

By now, all of us have heard of the war torn Chechnya. What we are not aware of is the fact that Chechen rebels are actually appreciating Islam and the President is doing almost everything to revive the Sufi movement in this part of the world. Here.

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