Friday, October 12, 2012

Hundreds of Muslim Azerbaijan Attacked Police

Hundreds of Muslim Azerbaijan attacked police when they staged a protest refused to ban headscarves in schools. "Stop Islamophobia and freedom for the hijab," according to their demands, like-quoted by AFP on Sunday (5/10).

The activists gathered outside the Ministry of Education. They called for the elimination of the ban Islamic headscarves in schools since 2010. They rejected a rule requiring female Muslim students to wear regular uniforms. Clashes himself had recorded and then uploaded to the page radioa Azadliq. Seen in the video, a police memukili activists with sticks.

As a result of the clashes, 70 people were arrested, a number of activists and police were injured. Like the other countries of the former Soviet Union, after independence Azerbaijan experienced a resurgence of religion. Previously, religious activities are very limited.

Entering the era of democracy, particularly in governance Ilham Aliyev, the country's Central Asia have tighter control over agama.Pertengahan February 2010, the government ordered all civil servants to remove Islamic symbols in their offices. The state also requires all religious communities to register to the State Committee.

Government mandates all religious groups to align their teaching with the authority of the Caucasus Muslim Board (CBM), a council-backed Muslim clerics painful negara.Yang Azerbaijan, the government campaigned closure and destruction of mosques. Last year, the government accused the two mosques built illegally destroyed.

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