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No group is more delighted with the new religious liberty than the mullahs who nurtured the Islamic faith during decades of persecution. "They used to shoot us," says a mullah at Tashkent's Tokhta Baitvacha mosque, which was closed in 1937 on Stalin's orders and reopened a year ago...
In all five Central Asian republics, Muslim officials are emboldened enough to show a certain coolness toward Gorbachev, who was not always so favorably disposed to freedom of religion. Less than four years ago, the Soviet leader described Islam as the "enemy of progress and socialism." Allahshukur Pasha- zada, head...
A visiting delegation of Azerbaijanis from Soviet Georgia sat across the table, expressing condolences over the Baku violence as Allahshukur spoke. Their pilgrimage suggested that the Islamic religious establishment will be considered a source of political as well as spiritual inspiration for the Islamic minority in the future.
Soviet Muslim leaders hope to steer growing Islamic consciousness in the direction of tolerance, to allay Russian suspicions of Islam and to preserve a coherent structure of religious authority and order in the country. But they may be racing against time. Demographics are having their own influence on Soviet Islam...
The population pressures, coupled with the floundering Soviet economy, have added greatly to impoverishment, joblessness and stinging resentment of the better-educated European Soviet nationalities -- and particularly of the well- to-do elite. Last month in Dushanbe these resentments exploded in several days of looting, burning and pogroms against non...