[lbo-talk] The Uzbek tinderbox

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Tue May 17 08:57:16 PDT 2005


--- Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote: But surely there was a moment, not so terribly long ago, when the choice wasn't starkly between Karimov and Jihadis -- when there were genuine reformers on the scene. These people, I'm told, were jailed or otherwise neutralized leaving only the Jihadis standing.

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Actually Uzbekistan locks up (real and alleged) Islamists too. All mosques in Uzbekistan need to be state-sanctioned. You'll get arrested if your beard is over a certain length.

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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