Tajikistan has drawn up a register of hundreds of allegedly gay citizens and indicated they would be subject to mandatory testing for sexually transmitted infections. As humiliating as this move is for the gay population in the Sunni Islamic nation of Tajikistan, of greater concern is the persecution that threatens to follow this “Purge” and […]
American-trained sniper now Islamic State “minister of war”
The Department of State announced at the end of August that its Rewards for Justice Program was offering “up to $3 million for information leading to the location, arrest, and/or conviction of Gulmurod Khalimov”, an Islamic State member and recruiter. Khalimov is now the top dog “minister of war” for the Islamic State. The 41-year-old […]
Tajikistan seeks to tackle Islamic “extremism” with new classes for teenagers
The subhead to this article is: “Experts doubt the teaching will stop radicalisation.” No kidding, really? In the West, our leaders are staking our future on the success of such programs, even though they have never worked anywhere. A student says: “There are young people in the world who have joined extremist organisations. The main […]
To check jihad activity, Tajikistan cops shave 13,000 men’s beards
This is not going to work: the Islamic State recently directed its operatives in non-Muslim countries to shave their beards and not appear to be ostentatiously Islamic, so as to evade detection. A man may be forced to shave his beard or a woman forced to take off her hijab, but that doesn’t change what […]
Three Muslim countries — Somalia, Tajikistan, and Brunei — now banning Christmas celebrations
“The ban is ridiculous. It projects this image that Islam does not respect the rights of other religions to celebrate their faith.” Uh, yeah. “Christmas celebrations banned in Somalia, Tajikistan and Brunei,” Guardian, December 23, 2015: The governments of three countries – Somalia, Tajikistan and Brunei – have banned Christmas celebrations this year, with punishments […]
Kerry urges Tajikistan not to go overboard in its crackdown on Islam
“Secretary of State John F. Kerry on Tuesday urged the president of Tajikistan not to go overboard in its crackdown on political Islam and expressions of faith….Although the population is 98 percent Muslim, several peaceful Muslim groups have been banned and their offices forced to close. Under the pretext of combatting Islam, men with long […]
At least 10 killed in jihad attacks in Tajikistan, U.S. embassy shut
“The group was led by Major General Abdulkhalim Mirzo Nazarzod…Nazarzod is a member of the opposition Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan…Rakhmon, a former head of a Soviet state farm who tolerates little dissent, has put pressure on the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan…He faced embarrassment earlier this year when the U.S.-trained commander of the country’s […]
Tajik special forces chief who joined Islamic State threatens to behead his brother
“O you who have believed, do not take your fathers or your brothers as allies if they have preferred disbelief over belief. And whoever does so among you – then it is those who are the wrongdoers.” (Qur’an 9:23) “You will not find a people who believe in Allah and the Last Day having affection […]
US-trained Tajikistan special forces chief joins Islamic State, vows jihad inside US
When Gulmurod Khalimov was training in the U.S., all those who were training him assumed that he was a “moderate” who would be a reliable ally against the “extremists.” To have assumed anything else would have been “Islamophobic.” And now he is vowing to come to the U.S. again to murder Americans for Allah. Good […]
“You must kill children without compassion” for the “path of Allah”
“You must kill children without compassion, you must kill women, Jews, infidels and Shiites,” as “this is the true path, the path of Allah.” To try to combat this, “the authorities have already banned the use of the veil for female students, admission of children to mosques and forced thousands of students who were studying […]