Chechen President Wants Putin to be President ‘As Long As He Lives’

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, when asked in a Newsweek interview who he’d like to see as Russia’s president in 2012, said:

“My idol, [Vladimir] Putin. I want him to be the president as long as he lives. I love him very much, as a man loves a man. He is a man of his word; he brought peace to Chechnya. We were in the hands of bandits, and the alcoholic [Boris] Yeltsin bombed us. Those who criticize Putin are not human, they are my personal enemies. As long as Putin backs me up, I can do everything—Allahu akbar!”

On the topic of independence, Kadyrov said that he doesn’t want Chechnya to be independent from Russia.

“Being independent caused us nothing but trouble. I do not want Chechnya to be independent from Russia. The only thing I am asking [Moscow] for is to allow me a free hand to fight bandits. They are the enemies of people and the enemies of Islam. I want to fight them and finish the war,” he said.

Recall that this is the same president who created “morality police” to instruct people how to live according to Sharia law, which includes enforcing women to wear headscarves and cover themselves from head to toe.