"WE HAVE ISLAMISTS,WAHHABIS,SALAFIS WHO HAVE FOUGHT IN SYRIA WE CAN'T STOP PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DIE WITH HONOR"TATARS WARN RUSSIA RISKS PROVOKING JIHADI BACKLASH






Crimean Tatars, wary of Russia after Stalin deported their entire population from Crimea in 1944, are warning that any Russian annexation of Crimea could lead to a new "jihadi front."



There are roughly 280,000 Tatars in Crimea and Mustafa Jemilev, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, has warned that a number of them have approached him with promises they would fight any Russian occupation.



Guy Chazan, writing for the Financial Times, reports:



“We have Islamists, Wahhabis, Salafis . . . groups who have fought [with the opposition] in Syria,” [Jemilev] said in an interview in Simferopol, the Crimean capital. “They say: ‘an enemy has entered our land and we are ready’.



“We can’t stop people who want to die with honour,” he said, making he clear he did not endorse a jihadist campaign.




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