Uzbekistan: Wearing women's headscarves is declared a 'terrorist threat'

War against Islam in Uzbekistan is increasing and is taking more and more dramatic forms. Tashkent regime is waging war for a total disappearance of Islam in the country. Any manifestation of religiosity, the regime considers as a sign of terrorist threat.

A woman's headscarf is declared to be one of such threat to the State.

On Tuesday armed officers of Shayhantaur district police department in Tashkent raided local outlets, with the requirement for women to immediately remove the scarves. And in case of disobedience retail outlets were closed, and the women were detained by the police, the website of Voice of Freedom informs.

A few minutes before the raid, people in civilian clothes, walked through the mall and started to warn Muslim women about the start of a large raid.

Within minutes, many shops belonging to Muslim women, were closed, and many were forced to take the scarves off. Those who refused to obey the requirements were forced to close their shops and follow the police.

At the exit of the market women were put in a specially fitted buses and taken away, as police said, to the district police administration.

According to traders in the market, other religious women, recently, by the market authorities, together with police officers and certain persons who call themselves employees of state institutions, FTA were told not appear in the market in head scarves.

Were also made emphatic warnings that in case of disobedience, traders will be fined or subjected to administrative detention for 15 days.

Department of Monitoring, 25 October 2009

Kavkaz Center