Note to Ramzan Kadyrov, this man is President of the United States:

Via RFEL:

The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has accused the West of using the Islamic State (IS) group as part of a covert war against Islam.

The Chechen leader expressed these fears of “Wahhabism” on February 5 in remarks on his Instagram account, which has become his preferred way of communicating with the public.

The Chechen leader’s position reflects his deep-seated fears that extremist forms of Islam — or “Wahhabism” as he terms it — could gain a grip in the Chechen Republic and undermine not only the “traditional” form of Sufi Islam that he aggressively promotes, but also his control and authority.

For the Chechen leader, “Wahhabism” and its embodiment, as he sees it, in the Islamic State group is therefore an existential threat to his Chechen Republic.

For Kadyrov, who views the United States and its Western allies as being opposed to the Russian Federation, it is an easy step to blame the West for being behind Islamic State — after all, Moscow has also accused the United States of being responsible at least for creating the circumstances by which the extremist Sunni group was able to rise in Syria and (to a lesser extent) Iraq.

However, the Chechen leader takes Moscow’s accusations several steps further by accusing the West of waging a covert conflict against Islam, with the goal of bringing down the entire religion.

“The Islamic State [group] is a product of the United States and other Western countries that have declared a hidden war on Islam,” Kadyrov said.

Kadyrov’s increasingly extreme accusations that the United States is not only responsible for Islamic State, but is using that group as a way to attack Islam and countries like the Chechen Republic, have not been made in a vacuum.