Friday, January 18, 2008

Tajikistan: Getting tough on Moslem death cult - and I love it

Tajikistan tells Moslems to get with the program or else.

They're cracking down in Tajikistan.

Tajikistan’s education minister has extended official strictures on personal and religious freedoms with an assault on deeply ingrained practices at one of the country’s major institutions of Islamic learning.

Less than a year after he effectively eliminated Islamic-style head scarves in public schools, Abdujabbor Rahmonov has ordered male students at the Islamic University of Tajikistan to don suits and ties and shave their beards, and he has vowed to introduce teacher uniforms there and ban head scarves, known as hijabs.

Read it all. 300 Mosques have been bulldozed. 350 are ready to lose their license. Imams are tested - if they don't pass the test - they're gone.

Don't get me wrong. I'm all for religious freedom, but there comes a point in time when enough is enough and I think Tajikistan may be on the right track here. The danger is they will go too far. (although at this point I am having a hard time deciding what's too far - people that keep blowing innocents up and killing women tend to do that to you, I guess.)