Hundreds of thousands of people staged a rally on Monday (January 19) in Russia’s Chechnya region against French magazine Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, which the predominantly Muslim region’s leader denounced as “vulgar and immoral”. Carrying signs declaring “We love Prophet Mohammad’ men in traditional Chechen dress and women and children shouted “Allah Akbar” (God is greatest) as they streamed down the main thoroughfare of Chechnya’s capital, Grozny, rebuilt after two separatist wars in the North Caucasus region.