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    Azerbaijani power propagates Islamic Radicalism

    by David Stepanyan

    ARMINFO
    Thursday, February 6, 18:39

    Azerbaijani power with a help of secret services has been propagating
    Islamic Radicalism followed by repressions and arrest of religious
    believers just on this basis, Azerbaijani political expert, Arif
    Yunusov, told Arminfo correspondent, when commenting on the
    information about the threat of terrorist groups.
    '

    "For instance, immediately after raising of tension in the relations
    of Azerbaijan with Iran, National Security Ministry immediately
    revealed and arrested another group of "Iranian spies". If the EU
    adopts a resolution against the anti-democratic policy of the
    Azerbaijani authorities, another "group of terrorists" is immediately
    arrested. All these "spy-terrorists" will court-martialed secret and
    the society will be only informed about the term of their sentence.
    The young people living in Azerbaijan, which do not agree to the
    policy conducted by the power and organize rallies, are dangerous for
    the power. As for the radically tuned believers which fight in Syria
    and other countries of the East, the authorities do not care of them",
    - he said.

    Actually, no radical Islamic organization voiced any threats addressed
    to Azerbaijan, he said and added that the information in mass media,
    was fabricated by Baku. The expert is confident that Islamists
    themselves openly publish their programmes at websites. Moreover, the
    lexicon of "Islamists" also causes doubt and is similar to the lexicon
    of atheists from National Security Ministry enhanced by the flag of
    Azerbaijan which radical Islamists do not recognize.

    "We have to understand that the Soviet-time has run away forever, and
    the role of Islam will grow in our society, and the role of atheists
    fall. One cannot stop this process. But the power which still thinks
    by the old Soviet categories, can make only repressions. Meanwhile,
    not all the religious believers in Azerbaijan have radical positions,
    they are divided to Shiits and Sunits, and the majority of them are
    far from politics. However, their presence causes fear of the
    authorities, which scare the growth of the religion in the society.
    For this reason, the authorities have started the campaign against the
    salafits. They arrest them and do not let them enter mosques. So,
    parallel to the growth of repressions, the number and activeness of
    the moderate islamists transferring to the positions of radicalism is
    growing", - he concluded.

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