From the Independent, UK:
“Gunmen in the Russian republic of Dagestan killed a television journalist who promoted an officially approved form of Islam, police said today.

Abulla Alishayev was the second journalist to die in three days in Russia’s north Caucasus, a region scarred by fighting between federal forces and Muslim rebels.

Unknown assailants shot Alishayev - an editor at an Islamic television station who made a documentary countering the radical Wahabist form of Islam - as he drove through Dagestan’s capital last night. He died today.

Analysts say predominantly Muslim Dagestan is fertile ground for radical Islam to attract disenfranchised young men, a trend they say could spread further through Russia’s north Caucasus.

“Alishayev received wounds to the shoulder and head. He was operated on, but his life could not be saved,” Dagestani police said.

On Sunday the owner of an opposition Web site in the nearby republic of Ingushetia died from gunshot wounds while in police custody. Police said Magomed Yevloyev was shot dead when he lunged for a gun. Human rights workers said they did not believe this story.” Gee, why not?

The “opposition website” was a radical Islamic website. No doubt the police were just doing what Russian police do so well, which was trading an eye for an eye. Radical Islam is on the march in Russia and China, and I have the feeling that it’s going to fare poorly. Not before causing major disruptions to the societies of both nations, however. The Russians have done what we should be doing, which was to institute an “official” form of Islam that didn’t threaten The State. Now the Fundamentalists are out to kill off any Muslim who supports the official version and considering the blunt methods of the Russians, this can only lead to internal warfare.

If only Mohammad had just stuck with goat herding, how much happier and more prosperous the whole world would be today.