Recommend UsEmail this PageeGazetteAlislam.org
Blog
|
||||||||||||
Videos Kazakhstan passes restrictive religion law
New law, which authorities say is needed to curb extremism, bans prayer in state institutions.
Last Modified: 14 Oct 2011 05:23
Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan’s president, has approved a new religious law which authorities say is intended to tackle extremism following a spate of violent incidents over the summer blamed on religious groups, including the country’s first suicide bombing. The law forces all religious organisations to re-register and bans prayer in state institutions such as schools and prisons. But the Central Asian nation’s chief imam believes restrictions on prayers will antagonise the Muslim-majority Kazakh public. Al Jazeera’s Robin Forestier-Walker reports from Kazakhstan’s western city of Aktobe.
|