By Bernama,
Grozny : An ideological campaign against the spread of ideas of terrorism and extremism will be stepped up in the mosques and educational institutions in Chechnya’s capital Grozny, says a resolution issued at a meeting that was held in the office of Grozny’s mayor Muslim Khuchiyev.
Russian news agency, Itar-Tass, reported that Khuchiyev had met with the heads of the city’s civilian district administrations, spiritual leaders and chiefs of Interior departments.
The city is rebuilding itself, as new schools, hospitals and mosques are being commissioned, Khuchiyev said.
Nonetheless, unhealthy ideas spread by paramilitary units still penetrate our society at times, and we mustn’t permit the situation,” he went on saying.
The task is “to prevent the young people from fleeing to forests,” Khuchiyev said meaning the possibility of young men’s affiliation with the paramilitaries.
“We must bring it home to everyone that terrorism means evil, that black is black and white is white,” he said.
Khuchiyev said the city administration is ready to assist people from the low-income groups of society who could fall under the spell of extremist ideas.
Ismail Bisultanov, the chief of the department for public law and order at Chechnya’s Interior Ministry, said that, on the whole, the situation with crime in Grozny is much better than elsewhere in the republic and that Interior officials work actively with the young people studying in the city’s fifty educational institutions.
Spiritual leaders of city districts and imams of the 28 mosques, who attended the meeting, gave assurances that they, too, conduct a serious ideological campaign and that it will be stepped up in the future.
At Khuchiyev’s initiative, the city anti-terrorist commission will hold meetings two times a month from now on versus one meeting a month it has held so fa.,
Chechnya’s President Ramzan Kadyrov said Thursday he was dissatisfied with how the authorities conduct the campaign against the ideas of extremism and terrorism.
“We must see to it that Chechnya’s young do not fall into the influence of terrorists, the propagators of Wahhabi ideas or militants,” he said.