Kyrgyzstan Jihad Update. "Islamic terror leader seized in Kyrgyzstan," from UPI:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The arrest in Kyrgyzstan of a suspected Central Asian Islamic terror leader has highlighted his movement's close relationships with the Taliban and al-Qaida.
Abdulkhai Yuldashev was detained in the Osh region of southern Kyrgyzstan, according to a statement from the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry in the capital Bishkek reported by the Interfax news agency.
Yuldashev was a leader within the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, or IMU, and is accused of involvement in attacks on Kyrgyz and Tajik border posts in May 2006, which killed several police and customs officials, the agency said.
Local media said Yuldashev was also known as Artyk, Interfax reported.
The IMU was formed in 1998 to create an Islamic state in Uzbekistan, but in the years since its formation, and under the ideological influence of al-Qaida, it has broadened its field of combat to include the entire Central Asian region militants refer to as Turkestan: Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and the Xinxiang province of China.
Some members of the group have begun to refer to themselves as the Islamic Party or Movement of Turkistan, according to the Terrorism Knowledge Base maintained by the Oklahoma City Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism.
Last year, IMU fighters holed up in the Pakistani tribal area on the Afghan border clashed with local tribal militias.
Hopefully, Beijing has been doing in Xinjiang what they've wrongly done in Tibet - flood that province with Han Chinese, and dilute the Islamic population. Now, if they can do what al Qaeda does, and diversify - maybe send Han immigrants into Kyrghyzstan and Tajikistan and dilute the Muslim populations there too, they'll have done the region a lot of favors. The idea of the Jihadis having an empire in the heart of Asia is too repulsive to imagine.
China would rather sit back and let others do the dirty work and then clean up afterward. Isn't that area a possible source of oil?
Speaking of China, have Muslims or their apologists called China insensitive for celebrating the year of the pig?
This guys are everywhere.
Has somebody been printing more Korans lately?
profitsbeard -
you asked has somebody been printing more Korans lately?
Well yes: they did publish a Koran in Kyrgyz sometime in the last 8 years.
But there's a twist to the tale. Around the same time the Bible Society produced and disseminated a Kyrgyz translation of the New Testament.
Seemingly many Kyrgyz - who are mostly literate, thanks to the Russians - picked up *both* books, the Kyrgyz Koran and the Kyrgyz New Testament and...compared them.
Guess which of the two they found to be most human-friendly?
So, although the msm won't tell you about it, there IS, in Kyrgyzstan, at the moment, a Kyrgyz-speaking ethnic Kyrgyz
Christian church, and last I heard, it was growing.
Correction to the above.
The first Kyrgyz NT was brought out in 1991, and was read and used, though some people found it hard to understand.
A new, improved version was completed and launched in 2006, to much acclaim from Kyrgyz Christians -
http://www.biblesociety.org/index2.htm
Pray that it will circulate - and that while it does, the powers-that-be in Kyrgyzstan will keep the worst of the jihadis, the revivalist Muslims, firmly under control.
The more Kyrgyz take the chance to leave a nominal, heavily syncretised Islam, for a clearly-understood and intelligently practised Christian faith, the fewer recruits the jihad preachers will get.