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July 27, 2006
Kazakhstan: Seven Muslim Radicals Arrested
According to Interfax-Religion, seven members of the Islamic missionary group Tablighi Jamaat have been detained in Kazakhstan by officers from the department on countering extremism, separatism and terrorism at the Kazakh Interior Ministry. The men were apprehended in Aktobe region.
Two of the seven are Kazakh nationals. The seven came to the Aktobe region from Karaganda region. Acting head of the anti-extremism department, Major Nurtai Nugayev, said that criminal charges have been filed against them.
In northern Kazakhstan in June, members of the group were put on trial for illegal missionary activity.
Tablighi Jamaat was founded in Mewat, India in 1927 by Muhammad Ilyas Kandhalawi (1885 - 1944). It has recently been courting the London Borough of Newham with its attempts to build a massive mosque at the site of the London Olympics, which are due to be held in 2012. A report from the Middle East Quarterly describes its attempts at destabilising governments through coups.
The group is also behind much of the movement to politicise Muslim women by making them wear the headscarf. It also responsible for radicalising prisoners in French jails through its missionary work, as we reported in January and again last month.
Though many Muslims claim Tablighi Jamaat is "peaceful" and "Islamic", its associations with extremism are all too evident when one remembers that between May 1 and May 11 the Pakistan Taliban in Waziristan agencies announced a complete ceasefire while a grand gathering of Tablighi Jamaat took place in the region. 1 million were said to be attending.
The headquarters of Tablihi Jamaat are based in Raiwind in Pakistan.
In the first half of 2006, there were 10 instances of members of Hizb ut-Tahrir distributing leaflets in South Kazakhstan in the first half of this year, the interior affairs department announced today. This group is banned in Russia and Kazakhstan, and is intent on destroying nations and democracies to reestablish a Caliphate. The last Caliphate, that of the Ottomans, was crushed in March 1924.
619 officially acknowledged religious organizations are recognised in south Kazakhstan. 525 of these are Muslim, 89 Christian, one Jewish and four are of "alternative" religions. The region has a population of 2.2 million people.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at July 27, 2006 7:58 PM
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