Kyrgyz Islamists eye chaos with eager eyes
KARA-SUU — Lazily fingering a string of prayer beads outside a mosque in southern Kyrgyzstan, Ayubkhan smiles when asked about the violence which wracked his country earlier this month. A member of Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, he said he had no doubt of what the violent images flashing across his television screen meant for him and for his group’s vision of a pan-Central Asian Islamic caliphate. “I thought to myself: so, it has begun,” he said. Amid the power vacuum which has followed the violence Hizb ut-Tahrir, effectively banned in Kyrgyzstan and most Central Asian countries, is waiting to reap the long-term benefits the turbulence will bring to its cause.... MORE Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100422com3.html |
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