Kazakhstan Wants to Join the Caravan of Fighting the Niqab in Central Asia
News:
The Senate of the Kazakh Parliament has proposed amendments to the law on crime prevention. According to the new amendments, wearing the burqa, niqab, and clothing that completely covers the face in public places will be prohibited. This was reported by the Kazakh news agency Tengrinews.
The proposed amendments stipulate that wearing the niqab will only be permitted for medical necessities, civil defense, legal requirements, extreme weather conditions, or during sports and cultural activities.
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev affirmed at the National Congress held in March of this year the necessity of promoting national dress instead of black face-covering clothing.
Comment:
As is known, anti-Islam laws have also been adopted in Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan under the pretext of the niqab. In particular, raids are frequently carried out in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, where police officers take niqab-wearing Muslim women and bearded men walking in the streets to police stations on charges of practicing "religious extremism." Law enforcement officers in Kyrgyzstan launched raids last month against the niqab in the southern region. Now, the Kazakh regime is about to join the caravan of fighting the niqab.
Of course, the battle of the authorities in Central Asia against Islam did not begin recently; it probably started after they eliminated their opponents and established dictatorial regimes. For example, the Uzbek tyrant, the late Karimov, began a large-scale battle against Islam and Muslims after organizing the bombing of February 16, 1999, in Tashkent.
Also, the Tajik tyrant, Emomali Rahmon, banned the naming of children with Islamic names, under the pretext of combating terrorism and extremism. The Tajik regime shaved the beards of tens of thousands of men and forcibly removed the veils of thousands of women.
In Turkmenistan, the police inspect the homes of people they consider religious and confiscate all kinds of religious literature except for the Quran. Turkmenistan is no less than Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the war on Islam and Muslims. Forcibly shaving the beards of Muslim men under the age of 50, forcing them to drink vodka, and severely beating Muslims who refuse to comply with these demands and imprisoning them for 7-8 years without any trial or investigation, has become commonplace! Civil and military employees are also prohibited from performing acts of worship such as prayer, and those who do not comply are immediately dismissed and subjected to various financial and physical pressures.
Last year, the Council of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan adopted a law on religious affairs aimed at restricting Islam and Muslims. Under this law, our Muslim sisters were prohibited from wearing the niqab, and the war intensified in detention centers against our Muslim brothers who carried the call, and illegal activities, such as electric shocks and severe beatings, became normal. In this way, the regime is trying to control the Islamic environment rooted in society.
As for Kazakhstan, the fight against Islamic values has intensified after schoolgirls were banned from wearing the hijab.
In fact, preventing the niqab and the beard contradicts the democratic values to which these dictatorial regimes adhere. More precisely, freedom of belief and individual freedom in democracy guarantee a person the practice of any religion and the use of any feature. These values are the constitutional law of the secular state. However, the West, the center of democracy, has already begun to abandon its idea. In other words, for the West, these freedoms apply only to non-Islam and non-Muslims. For example, religious freedom is granted to worshiping Satan or other vices. Non-Muslims are allowed to wear whatever clothes they want and even go out into the streets naked. But when it comes to Islamic values, the issue is viewed differently. This is clearly manifested in the ban on wearing the hijab in schools in France in 2004, the expulsion of Muslim female employees from public institutions, and the ban on the niqab in public places in 2010!
This means that the democratic regime and the authoritarian regime are two sides of the same coin, that is, both place their will above the will of the people! In particular, the events that occurred in East Turkestan, Afghanistan, Syria, and most recently in Gaza, showed that the slogans of freedom, women's rights, and children's rights were buried in the ground by bomb explosions.
In reality, Muslim women do not wear the niqab because hypocritical democracy allows it or because of individual freedom, but rather they wear it as a legitimate ruling and an Islamic value. Muslims also do not shave their beards because the disbelievers or their agents forbid it, but rather they grow them because of the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, because in the Messenger of Allah ﷺ there is a good example for every Muslim in all aspects of life. Therefore, we must resist the war of the dictatorial regimes in Central Asia against Islam, because the government that prevents the hijab and the beard today will naturally prevent our supplication, prayers, and fasting tomorrow as well.
Written for the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir Central
Mumtaz Mawara' al-Nahr
