Islam Reborn - Tajikstan

June 1996
Islam Reborn follows the return of Islamic refugees from Afghanistan to Tajikistan who were pushed out during the civil war.

The ruling Kulabis are
reliant on Russian funding, and the resurrection of an Islamic mosque
suggests the Islamists are yet again establishing a strong hold. A report on
the defeat and recovery of Islam in Tajikistan. A bus rumbles through the shimmering heat to a Russian check point. Behind it, 1300 miles of barbed wire mark Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan. The bus contains anxious Garmis returning home from Afghan refugee camps. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, they were driven out by a vicious civil war between their own Islamic forces and the Soviet backed Kulabis. They now return, fearing reprisals from a new Kulabi government, but hoping after 4 years to resume normal life. In the south where the worst fighting took Place, villages are full of bombed out buildings and weary widows crouching in the dust. Starving hungry, they wait patiently for flour from the World Food Programme to be weighed out on antique scales and distributed. In the capital, Dushanbe, the Prime Minister claims stiffly that the economy is not collapsing and that "in the very near future we will be able to pay salaries". With Russia's financial support, Kulabis cling onto power, stationing their khaki tanks on every tree lined avenue. But the careful restoration of an blue mosaic mosque represents an Islamic renaissance. If Russia pulls out, Garmis in exile may storm the capital and transform Tajikistan into an Islamic state. Report on the aftermath of civil war and the suppression of ethnic/political differences. Includes archive footage of the civil war.

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[vatandust]

@khokhar12000 Well said, brother, however Muslim is one who submits to Allah alone and follows the footsteps of his messenger(s). We should not deviate into sects and hold on tight to the rope of Allah!!!

[AbuQatadah96]

shia kaffir forever

[Jaboor420]

@moLeOnPoT is that in south africa or america or portugual or australia? if you ask a black person who are racists they will tell u white man.

[obaidCarkey]

@southpark123secret

pakistan has failed as a state to provide and aide its people.

nawaz sharif, musharraf, the bhutto's and zardari have made beautiful islamic pakistan into a rentboy for bush

and obama and clinton for dollars.

[PollaEfir]

@southpark123secret why?

[MaTaRoe]

@southpark123secret or even better fuck kafirs afghanistan only for muslims

[roxor1080]

@infiltratorr Well, its like the Sikhs in India : the most so-called 'anti-national' ethnicity are the most pro-Pakistan. I've met Pukhtoons, and their problem, if they've got one, is the Pak Army's actions in Waziristan, for instance, but not the whole idea of Pakistan as an Islamic state. Sorry dude.

[siyovushtj]

Alloh Dar Tojikistonjon amoni, tinji va sulhro nigahbon boshad....

[southpark123secret]

@zoeyvoey okay to be real, not all pashtuns have the same idea

there are more pakistan pashtuns to that want to be pakistanis than pakistani pashtuns that want to be with afghanistan, so far at this streek, the awnsers to such question revolves around the taliban.... And why not Afghan refugees who want to join and become pakistanis and not afghans anymore like their fellow pakistani pashtuns had done hundreds of years ago....

[southpark123secret]

@zoeyvoey i'm a pashtun from pakistan and i hate pakistan ....