How about because it was muslims that did it? Next question...

Additionally I proved earlier that the insurgency in Chechneya is Islamist in nature here... Do your research and then come back.

My protest is right here on this blog folks and also at my work. Every day we actively combat these fucktards. The warnings I am putting on here are for the Muslim community's benefit. There is only so long that the world will leave the rest of you out of it. Stand up and take back your religion.

this is  a link to an la times article that describes how russian troops rounded up and held chechen leaders' families during the first day of the school siege.  Link

there appears to be nothing resembling moral high ground.  once again the question is which is worse?  and the answer is neither. 

Gabriel summed it up nicely. One side slaughtered kids and the other didn't. Kingbee you can do better than this. Moral equivalency on these two issues just makes you seem retarded.

of course not.  there is no justification whatsoever.   nor is there any justification for what russia has done to chechnya over the past 150 years. 

i believe you mean gideon.  hopefully hell still he around to read this as well.

there are times i wish i was retarded because it would permit me a much simpler world view in which every incident existed independent of history.   it would also enable me to ignore the possibility you arent familar with the past 150 years of tsarist, stalinist and the 'enlightened' russian republic's attempts to destroy chechnya's people in order to maintain their hold on the place.  it's difficult for me to imagine thats the case because of the nzz online link you posted elsewhere.

while it doesnt describe the russian conquest of chechnya in the 1850s or the chechen's almost continual attempts to win back their independence since then--attempts that prompted brutal tsarist retribution,  bolshevik occupation and stalin's purge of chechnya following ww2 (during which as many as 800,000 chechens were deported to siberia, 100,000 of whom died in the process)--that article's coverage of events that transpired after chechnya  tried to extricate itself from russian dominance (as did  other former ussr entities) seems accurate and objective.

hopefully you didnt gloss over the aftermath of the russia's first two unsuccessful attemps to retain control.  had russia not left chechenya in ruins--both physically and economicaly--hoping to eventually benefit from its instability, there likely would not have been a power vacuum for radical islam to exploit.  islam doesnt seem to have been a major factor in chechnya's previous attempts to liberate itself (if anything, the extreme violence inflicted upon the chechens may have been justified in part by russian christian anti-muslim hatred).  one need only look to other former ussr muslim client states like uzbekistan and kazakhstan by way of comparison and contrast.

as i pointed out in one of my recent articles, putin's rise to power owes much to the perception he would be ruthless in dealing with chechnya.  yeltsin and putin are as much responsible for the rise of radical islam in chechnya as any crazed mullah.  that doesnt mitigate any of the actions of the chechens but it does put them in perspective.

as to the little green football chapter of the Vast Right Wing Anti-Muslim-or-Whatever Conspiracy, i agree with the general consensus regarding radical islam.  while ridiculing islamist revisionist nonsense such as the crew roster of columbus' expeditions, those of yall solidly supporting a  president who equivocates creationism with science while sending american troops abroad to help sistani establish his islamic republic of iraq (inadvertantly but what difference does that make?) --and a national political party that requires its nominees to be annointed by the mullahs and ayatollahs of evangelical extremism-- would be well advised to remember the proverb about people who live in glass chapels.

if you read what i wrote youd see that i wasnt apologizing or justifying anything.  what could be more clear than to say three times (3 count em) in this thread that there was no justification or mitigation?  nor am i supporting any butchers on either side.   

if you dont believe russia fertilized the chechen soil with enough blood to fertilize the seeds of radical islamist hatred, please check the nzz document greywar provided to someone else here Link.

as far as the bereancall site goes, check your muslimhate post.  i left ya one that links to an article proposing to prove that the heretical catholic church is inexorably bound to islam because they both believe in a false jesus.  i also liked the newsletter on that site that said y2k preparations were paving the way for the antichrist.   

different article.  this one dates back to 2000.  i just edited my earlier reply and added the link.