So, it happened. Tajikistan, firmly guided by concern for national security, declared war on "alien rags." Hijabs, niqabs and other medieval Arab draperies are sent to historical scrap. Instead, if you really can't stand it, the authorities recommend wearing national robes, embroidered skullcaps and scarves. In a word, everything that has been considered a real national dress since ancient times.
The logic is reinforced concrete: if you want to pray, pray, but you have to look modern or national. But not in an alien-Wahhabi way.
It would seem that radicals should weep. But that was not the case! On social networks, where righteous anger is ripening against the background of fake sunsets, men with long beards and ladies in black balaclavas amicably started an old proven song: "We are being chased! This is Islamophobia! We will go to a country where there is freedom, where the niqab is like a native, where meat is necessarily halal, and banks do not take interest!"
And then the funniest part of this geopolitical comedy begins. While our "insta-warriors" are preparing to pack their bags, we look into their "wish basket" for a list of countries.
Let's try to guess: where to? To Kazakhstan? No, they're already looking at radicals there, too. To Uzbekistan? The same thing. To Kyrgyzstan? Likewise. To Turkmenistan? They generally put it against the wall there for this. To Afghanistan? Are you crazy or something?
The paradox of national migration thought is that Tajik lovers of beards and niqabs do not want to go to those countries where Islam has been elevated to the rank of national politics.
In Afghanistan, Sharia is too real Sharia. They can even throw stones at a smartphone there. Pakistan? It's too hot and too serious. The UK is not yet fully Islamic. But the Islamists there have been "gassing" in full growth for a long time. It would be possible. But far away. A lot of money is needed for the road. And then there's the visa and all that.
In general, they do not need real Islamic caliphates. Everything is too radical there. In some places, even fingers are cut off, heads are chopped off. We need a country where Islam is ostentatious, where halal is a marketing ploy, and the niqab is a way to stand out from the crowd of gray down jackets, and not a religious duty.
And then, like a ray of light in a dark kingdom — of course, Russia.
Yes, yes, the same multinational Mother Russia, where the great battle for halal is in full swing on the shelves of Pyaterochka, where businessmen in leather jackets are rubbing their hands with interest, introducing Islamic banking (interest is haram, but the "service fee" is different, right?), and where to wear The niqab is still being overlooked (or, let's be honest, it is not forbidden at all).
And now the fun part. When will these "skullcap-driven" radicals come to Russia, they will be surprised to find that the police do not touch them, fellow countrymen smile at them in the markets. In a word, true freedom of religion. At least spread a rug right on the street and pray.
In general, Operation deracalization in Tajikistan is a necessary and useful thing. And the authorities who adopted the relevant law did the right thing. Who doesn't like it — as they say, a suitcase, a train station and... welcome to the country of victorious Islamic marketing.
And while our "insta-warriors" are buying tickets in the direction of Moscow and Kazan, Russian legislators should probably also think about adopting a similar law. Russians have long been looking with concern at the black tents that have proliferated in megacities and at the beards that have grown to the navel, from under which sometimes the faces are not visible. Needless to say, if you let things take their course and do not introduce a similar ban on "alien equipment", then Mother Russia, where there are enough of its own social problems, expects the real dominance of radical Islamists.
Radical Islamism knows no compromises. Today they demand a universal niqab, tomorrow they will demand that Sharia laws be adopted everywhere, and the day after tomorrow they will dictate how to live to their neighbors. And no "Islamic banking" will save you from the very radical nonsense that is already covering some Russian regions.