Parenting & Family Quote by Akhmad Kadyrov

Akhmad Kadyrov’s line is the kind of gentle-sounding sentence that, in a postwar society, does heavy political lifting. “Nurture” and “raise children” are soft verbs, domestic and protective. They frame the project as care rather than control. But the real payload sits in “a new generation” and “in the spirit of Islam”: this is about manufacturing continuity after rupture, defining what counts as normal, and deciding who gets to author the future.

Kadyrov’s context matters. As a Chechen religious figure turned Kremlin-aligned statesman during the Chechen wars, he operated in a landscape where identity was both weapon and wound. In that setting, childhood becomes a strategic frontier. The phrase “new generation” signals an implicit break with what came before - not only Soviet secularization, but also the chaos of war and the competing claims of nationalism, clan loyalty, and militant Islam. “Spirit of Islam” is deliberately elastic: it can mean moral discipline and communal bonds, but it also grants the speaker (and the state apparatus he’s tied to) authority to define “proper” Islam against rivals labeled extremist or foreign.

The rhetorical trick is that it sounds like a cultural affirmation while functioning as a legitimizing blueprint. If politics is unstable, you move the argument to the nursery: a place where dissent looks like irresponsibility. Education, family, and faith become instruments of statecraft, wrapped in the language of protection.