Tajik Officials Have Closed 1500 Mosques Since Start Of 2011

[Toramana]

In the latest of a series of moves that recall the Soviet approach to Islam in Central Asia, Tajikistan has closed some 1500 mosques, in many cases at least nominally because their leaderships have failed to secure registration, health and tax documents that Dushanbe has been reluctant to give even when imams have applied for ..

http://www.eurasiareview.com/tajik-o...asia+Review%29

[Haris]

What?!

I understand if they closed them for health/safety reasons but after reading the article, to me this just seems like overkill. Bureaucratic secularism gone mad!

[graveyardofempires]

Tajokistan needs to be freed once again

[Haris]

The government discriminates against the Muslims more than the Christians & others because they are paranoid regarding Hizb ut Tahrir, Islamic Renaissance Party, Taliban and their civil war in the 90s.

They closed down 50 mosques a few years ago simply because they found out some Tajiks were in GitMo.

[Nokia_Apridy]

da tajiston govt cha rwan kary da ?....muslmanan di kal ba sok ?

[Manzareh]

why dont they fight instead of yeilding to the kuffar and closing mosques??? are they affraid?

[Haris]

^They did in fact

Civil war in Tajikistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


There are still many resistance groups there

[Manzareh]

may allah help them in there struggle, inshallah they will prevail.

[randolph85]

the taint of secularism is alive and well in muslim nations. an inferiority complex that has survived the fall of the soviet union in tajikistan.

from what i have read, and i hope i am wrong, most people in tajikistan are non practicing muslims. so a simple regime change into an islamic regime won't solve the problem. there must be a grassroots effort to reintroduce islam to the people.

[retro]

The government discriminates against the Muslims more than the Christians & others because they are paranoid regarding Hizb ut Tahrir, Islamic Renaissance Party, Taliban and their civil war in the 90s.

They closed down 50 mosques a few years ago simply because they found out some Tajiks were in GitMo.

What "Christians and others" Tajikistan is 98% Muslim? Whatever else Tajikistan's problems are the lack of Mosques in the country isn't one of them.

The Soviet's somewhat developed Dushanbe and it's my understanding that their are a few hundred thousand Tajiks in Russia. Who I might add are made to feel a good deal less than welcome. However Tajikistan like many other former Soviet republics is IMO drifting back towards Russia's orb.

[Haris]

In recent years it seems the government has been cracking down on all religions, not just Muslims (although they get the brunt of the oppression). And yes there are Christians, Jehova's witnesses, Jews and others. The fact that they are a minority does not mean they don't have rights.

Here's the sources:

Religion Law's worst impact is on Muslims
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When is a mosque not a mosque?
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Jehova's Witnesses banned
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Religous Freedom survey 2011
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No rights to organize prayers
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Four religous communities reject government claims to OSCE
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More than half of religous communities to be illegal?
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Authorities demolish Mosques, Synagogues & Churches under threat
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Ban on religous education abroad without state permission to be adopted soon?
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There are many more sources. If you read those sources you'll see they go into detail regarding religous oppression of not only Muslims but others too.


You are right, the problem isn't the lack of mosques, it is the government's secularist oppression on the very people who look to attend those mosques.

[retro]

You are right, the problem isn't the lack of mosques, it is the government's secularist oppression on the very people who look to attend those mosques.

It's cronyism, nepotism and corruption, that undermines the development of most Central Asian states and not secularism. As you can't have a functioning, multi-ethnic society without secular governmental institutions and it's a mistake to equate, moral or religous abandonment with secularism.

The smaller post-Soviet states aren't moving towards Russia orb out of nostalgia. They are worried about national secuity and foreign backed groups taking advantage of socio-economic conditions in the country to promote divisions.

[Haris]

It's not religous abandonment as you put it. It is religous oppression.
It is oppression of religious rights which is secularist in nautre (def: a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations).
The Central Asian states have always been influenced by Russia since the Tsars and the Soviets. Under the Tsars there was a policy of Russification where the native populations were marginalised and White Orthodox Christians (later Atheists under the Soviets) were moved into their communities. With the Soviets many rights were forgone. Many were oppressed. Mosques were banned outright. People had to have secret meetings underground just to pray. There was widespread torture and many other human rights abuses. This is all oppression in the name of secularism and their legacy lives on with the likes of Karimov and Rahmon.

So tell me what good is 'development' if you have few rights to enjoy under it?