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Tajikistan Jails Teen for 10.5 Years for IS Recruitment
[AnNahar] A court in ex-Soviet Tajikistan sentenced a 16-year-old boy to 10.5 years in jail for calling Tajiks on social media to join the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group, a court official told Agence La Belle France Presse Thursday.

The official said a "schoolboy from the northern Sugd region operating under the pseudonym Hidoyatullo" had attracted a 1,000-strong following on the Russian social network, Odnoklassniki.

The official did not name the schoolboy, citing his status as a minor, but confirmed the length of the sentence, which was handed down on Wednesday.

In December, a Tajik court sentenced seven people, three of whom were minors, to terms between seven and 27 years in jail for raising the Islamic State group's flag in the south of the country.

The government has said up to 1,000 nationals, including the former chief of the interior ministry's special forces unit, have left the country to join the jihadist group fighting in Iraq and Syria.
Tajikistan and Tajiks have been much in our pages recently, a search of the archives reveals. Mostly causing problems in Afghanistan along with Pakistanis from Orakzai tribal agency as ISIS, oddly enough, though about 1,000 joined ISIS in Iraq/Syria.
The secular Central Asian country has witnessed a heavy state crackdown on Islam recently, with widespread reports of forced beard shavings and bans on the sale of Islamic clothing in specific cities.

Social media users in the Central Asian state moreover complain of regularly losing access to Russian social networks, as well as Facebook and YouTube. The government has denied authorising the blocks but consistently highlights social media's purported role in spreading murderous Moslem ideas.

Tajikistan's foreign minister Sirodjidin Aslov was in Washington Wednesday to meet U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
 and the foreign ministers of four other Central Asian republics. The meeting was the second of its kind in the so-called "C5+1" framework that Washington is using to promote cooperation with the economically depressed region bordering Afghanistan.
Posted by: trailing wife 2016-08-06
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