Chairman of Kazakhstan Agency for Religious Affairs Kairat Lama Sharif. ©pm.kz
Some young Kazakhstanis have joined Jamaat of the Central Asian mojahedin and Jund al-Khalifa terror organizations, Kairat Lama Sharif, Head of the State Agency for Religions, said May 17 at a conference titled Islam against terrorism, Newskaz.ru reports. “The current situation in the realm of religions is stable across Kazakhstan, with some country regions seeing concentration of possible sources of religious extremism (…) the number of citizens driven by religious beliefs and opposing to the state and the society is on the rise in some regions (…) in the West of the country a number of planned terror acts have been revealed and prevented (…) Law enforcement agencies are spotting underground extremist groups (…) law suits against some of their members testify to the extremism being real”, he said. He briefed that the number of people convicted for committing terror-related crimes in 2012 reached 105. “We can’t help being concerned over the fact that Jamaat of the Central Asian mojahedin and Jund al-Khalifa terror organizations have some young Kazakhstanis in their ranks. Deceived by advocates of extremism and terrorism, these young Kazakhstanis go to hot spots to join the so-called sacred war”, Kairat Lama Sharif said.
Some young Kazakhstanis have joined Jamaat of the Central Asian mojahedin and Jund al-Khalifa terror organizations, Kairat Lama Sharif, Head of the State Agency for Religions, said May 17 at a conference titled Islam against terrorism, Newskaz.ru reports.
“The current situation in the realm of religions is stable across Kazakhstan, with some country regions seeing concentration of possible sources of religious extremism (…) the number of citizens driven by religious beliefs and opposing to the state and the society is on the rise in some regions (…) in the West of the country a number of planned terror acts have been revealed and prevented (…) Law enforcement agencies are spotting underground extremist groups (…) law suits against some of their members testify to the extremism being real”, he said.
He briefed that the number of people convicted for committing terror-related crimes in 2012 reached 105.
“We can’t help being concerned over the fact that Jamaat of the Central Asian mojahedin and Jund al-Khalifa terror organizations have some young Kazakhstanis in their ranks. Deceived by advocates of extremism and terrorism, these young Kazakhstanis go to hot spots to join the so-called sacred war”, Kairat Lama Sharif said.