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@Fantastic Mr. Fox:, where does this source states that the attack in Moscow was carried out as a part of the Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus? By your logic, all activities of the IS-KP should be mentioned in this article? Nivzaq (talk) 16:56, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
@Fantastic Mr. Fox: Provide any adequate argument if you have any or your edits must be reverted. Nivzaq (talk) 17:00, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The source states about IS recruitment across Asia. There is a belief that the attack was designed to boost IS membership via a propaganda victory, which would lure people to Islamic State's many wings across the world including IS-Caucasus, helping it undermine Russia there as a whole. It is also stated on the Crocus Hall Attack article itself that the motive behind the attack included 'revenge' for the Chechen wars, which have links with the current insurgency. Fantastic Mr. Fox (talk) 17:18, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
About first argument on boosting IS membership and "undermining Russia as a whole in Caucasus" - That is really insufficient argument to include the attack with general goal of boosting IS membership which would also boost IS membership in Caucasian wing and undermine Russia there too, because this article is about very specific insurgency in North Caucasus. The attack in Moscow might consequentially help IS activities in North Caucasus too and make it stronger there, but it needs to be shown that this was the main motive rather than a consequential effect of boosting IS worldwide (which would also consequentially include North Caucasus). The provided article does not states anywhere that the attack was specifically carried out as a part of North Caucasian insurgency. The general reasons are irrelevant for the specific article. By that logic, almost any attack of IS-KP in Russia or anywhere can be included in this article, which would be not be logical.
Second argument about Chechen wars - the information on the Crocus Hall Attack page about Chechen wars being a motive is unsourced, so it needs to be removed and can not serve as an argument here. Nivzaq (talk) 17:31, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
1: If you were looking at the point of IS, your main target audience for recruitment after an attack on Russia would be people living in Russia. They are probably fully aware that the Crocus Hall attack would not hit big in the West. Somebody from Russia isn't going to disappear off to Mali or Iraq except in very strange circumstances due to extremism, but some be more open to sneaking off to a place inside there country, particularly if they do not like Russia as a country. And only certain groups of people in Russia will have a sizeable consensus disliking Russia, and they can mostly be found on the Caucasus. IS-K and IS-C are both sides of the same coin, they both have the same general objectives in mind, and so a devastating attack at the heart of Russia has many effects which help both wings in there respective goals. Some coordination is required to do that, and hence why I consider the attack to be from the North Caucasian Insurgency.
