Islam with fire and sword have not installed either in Chechnya or Dagestan. This is done only famous Tamerlane lame. But in general, central role played by his own missionaries in Dagestan (I mean, Islamization, above all, the Avars and Dargin), and in Chechnya, Dagestan, missionaries. You even Chechens are not properly understood.
Secondly, I think you’re some exaggerate if we bear in mind the current situation. Chechen elite suffered a lot and learned for themselves. There inside ‘toggle switched’, and repeat the tragedy of the past will not allow anyone. Actually, the moral support their young leader, they have repeatedly demonstrated. I was on one of their celebrations in Moscow, where Chechen-known politicians (A. Aslakhanov, Khasbulatov, D. Zavgayev …) expressed full support for the rate of Kadyrov junior. I think the conflict of interests and ambitions in this regard is largely unchecked.
There is a clear understanding that at this historical juncture is Ramzan – the most adequate figure head of the republic. It is understanding, did not immediately come probably after a real business and success. But I want to draw your attention to the following. Mode ‘the dictatorship of recovery’ if it does not move in time with ‘the dictatorship of development’ (economic, political), then comes syndrome ‘Autumn of the Patriarch’ (remember the hero of the famous novel by Colombian writer and Nobel Prize winner – Gabriel Garcia Marquez). This is getting used to the adulation and rejection of truth, and this sense of the Chosen and loss of the sense of realism.