Tajikistan, een land waar 95% van de bevolking moslim is, en een buurland van Afghanistan, neemt het voortouw in de strijd tegen extremisme.
Tajikistan removes headscarves from 1,700 women and shaves beards off 13,000 men to tackle jihadism
Police in the central Asian state of Tajikistan have forcibly shaved nearly 13,000 men and 'convinced' 1,700 women to remove their headscarves in a bid to eradicate radical Islam in the country.
The crackdown, aimed at reducing 'foreign influences', is the latest in a series of moves by the authoritarian government to tackle extremism.
According to Radio Liberty, a central Asian focused blog, who sourced the official Tajik news agency, police 'brought to order' men whose beards were deemed 'too long and unkempt'.
Last week, the parliament voted to ban Arabic or 'foreign-sounding names' after a rise in babies named Mohammad.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-jihadism.html
President van Tajikistan:
Parade der ere van de overwinning op nazi-Duitsland in de hoofdstad van Tajikistan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rIYU1WpSLM