Kadyrov, 33, was once a separatist but switched sides, recasting himself as an Islamic leader who is also loyal to Moscow.
At first, his injection of national pride along with lots of money from the central government in Moscow soothed war-weary Chechens.
And at first, the process of Islamization was voluntary. Any female student who wore a headscarf initially earned a prize of $1,000. Now all females, regardless of their religious convictions, must cover their heads in schools and government offices.
Kadyrov has banned the sale of European-style wedding dresses in the republic’s bridal salons. Polygamy is increasing. Members of the team around Kadyrov openly have several wives. Kadyrov has also supported honor killings.
Lipkhan Bazaeva, who runs a nongovernmental organization promoting women’s rights, says Chechnya is going back to the Middle Ages.
“Yes, we are a traditional, conservative society, with our own values, but the government has gone overboard, declaring unacceptable limits on women — that they should sit at home, they should obey their husbands,” she says. “As an individual, she has no rights even if her husband beats her, despite Russian laws to the contrary.”
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johnpi
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johnpi
Lebanon’s Shiite clans seek end to some old traditions.
It started with a small traffic incident and ended in yet another murderous showdown in the age-old vendetta wars between the powerful Shiite Muslim clans who rule Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley.
But unlike past feuds, this time clan elders and the militant group Hezbollah stepped in to defuse tensions, handing over to authorities the suspect accused of murdering a rival clan member and agreeing on a pact to end the revenge killings.
The “gentleman’s agreement”, drawn up earlier this month, marked a first step in clan efforts to do away with their reputation as outlaws who have long ruled supreme in the remote arid plain of the northern Bekaa, a Hezbollah stronghold traditionally ignored by successive Lebanese governments.
“Our customs date to pre-Islamic times and dictate that each family is responsible for the security of its members,” said Moflih Allaw, a member of one of the most powerful clans in Hermel and whose relative was involved in the recent killing.
“If someone from a clan was murdered, a member of the opposing clan had to die and that was part of our tradition,” added Allaw, 67, a local councillor in Hermel who helped formulate the recent pact.
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aziz
Has anyone managed to reconstruct the grand debate on traditionalism in the Islamsphere from circa 2006? About half blogs involved have broken/inaccessible archives.I seem to recall someone here at TI mentioning it recently but couldn’t find it.
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aziz
(since the thread has been hijacked from my initial purpose, I am removing the post content and will try again later.)
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buzz
Worship services at the first (and last) unsplintered monolithic religion
Every simpleton who watches Fox news knows clearly that while we ’speak’ of moderate and extreme Muslims…in fact, they are all one fatwa away from being radicalized. Rifqa Bary has made this quite clear.
So it goes with Christianity in the dreaded “Fitnutz” debate. While abrogation has been defined and refined, one thing most of you involved in the discussion will agree on is that Christians are all idiots who believe exactly the same thing: the Divinity, the Trinity and the only begotten Son of God.
Not necessarily so fellow bloggers. Meet the non Trinitarians. Here the divinity of Jesus and the trinity are debated according to scripture. Can it be that there is variation in Christian belief? I thought that was only a “Muslim thing.”
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razib, murtad fitri
from below abu noor says:
Obviously one needs context, but there is a notion in the American/European context that associates religious observance with conservativeness. I see no reason why that should always be the case, or even an assumption.
i think this is an important point. people create definitions which are natural in their own context, but implicitly generalize them. for example, for most of american history up until 1960 the proportion who were affiliated with a christian church was increasing. most of this was due to increased urban concentration and transportation, but some of it was due to revivals of religion such as the second great awakening or the religious revivals concomitant with the progressive movement of the early 20th century. similarly, the % who are religious and believe in god has increased in south korea, and ‘liberal’ views tend to be concentrated among christians in that nation.
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thabet
I think Daniel Larison underestimates the psychological damage ’social pressure’ can have on people (speaking of what I have witnessed of traditional, religious, close-knit, families and communities as an ‘insider’):
