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Many Muslim countries have witnessed an upsurge in women studying Islam. But women are still prevented from serving as imams, or prayer leaders, in mosques. RFE/RL tells the story of one young Kyrgyz girl who dreams of being an imam.
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British Home Secretary David Blunkett wants Islamic preachers in the country to learn English to help combat the “clash of cultures” suffered by young British Muslims.
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A senior member of Tajikistan’s Islamic Revival Party (IRP) has complained to Keston News Service that compulsory attestation of imams by a joint religious and government commission in one district alone of the country’s northern Sogd region has seen more than a fifth sacked for alleged sympathy with his party’s views. Keston News Service – […]
At a conference in Moscow on cooperation between government and religious organizations on 10 October, Viktor Zorkaltsev, chairman of the State Duma’s Committee on Public and Religious Organizations, called for creating a center in Russia for the training of Islamic clerics in order to provide Russia with greater “spiritual security” and to limit the training […]
This news item was originally published by RFE/RL, (Un)Civil Societies, Vol. 3, No. 42, 16 October 2002. Copyright © 2002. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036. www.rferl.org
The closure of a number of mosques has led to speculation of an imminent government campaign against the Islamic opposition. IWPR – 18 September 2002 – The Tajik authorities have closed eight mosques close to the Uzbek and Kyrgyz borders in an unprecedented crackdown on Islamic clerics and teachers who practice without state approval. Fifteen imam-khatibs […]
This article was first published on 18 September 2002 (RCA No. 147) by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), London. Posted on Religioscope with permission.
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