{"id":1475664,"date":"2024-07-06T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1475664"},"modified":"2024-07-06T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T00:20:00","slug":"russias-majority-muslim-regions-are-paving-the-way-by-temporarily-banning-the-niqab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/russias-majority-muslim-regions-are-paving-the-way-by-temporarily-banning-the-niqab\/1475664\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia’s Majority-Muslim Regions Are Paving The Way By Temporarily Banning The Niqab"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia’s Majority-Muslim Regions Are Paving The Way By Temporarily Banning The Niqab<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s majority-Muslim regions of\u00a0Dagestan<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Karachay-Cherkessia<\/a>\u00a0temporarily banned the niqab on security-related pretexts in the aftermath of\u00a0last month\u2019s terrorist attacks<\/a>\u00a0in Dagestan.<\/strong> The temporary nature of this restriction is meant to avoid violating federal law after a government document from the Cabinet seen by Kommersant in late May described a full ban as\u00a0unconstitutional<\/a>. That came in response to the head of the Human Rights Council\u00a0calling for this<\/a>\u00a0shortly after late March\u2019s\u00a0Crocus<\/a>\u00a0terrorist<\/a>\u00a0attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It’s ironic that Russia\u2019s majority-Orthodox Cabinet considers a full ban to be an unconstitutional violation of its citizens\u2019 freedom of religion while at least two of its majority-Muslim regions thus far consider a temporary one to be a prudent security-related measure. <\/strong>This disconnect is likely due to the first\u2019s fear of offending Russia\u2019s growing Muslim minority, which the Grand Mufti\u00a0predicted<\/a>\u00a0in 2019 will constitute around one-third of the population in the next 15 years, and the second\u2019s on-the-ground reality.<\/p>\n

The Cabinet might be acting nobly, and there\u2019s no doubt that there\u2019s a sizeable segment of this minority that would object to banning the niqab, but those Muslims on the front line of Russia\u2019s domestic War on Terror in the North Caucasus understand the pragmatism behind temporary measures. At the very least, the niqab can be worn by male terrorists to disguise themselves in order to move freely among society while smuggling explosives and\/or weapons, thus making this garment a security risk.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the fact that the Central Asian Republics from which the\u00a0vast majority of Russia\u2019s migrant population<\/a>\u00a0originates have banned the niqab to varying degrees for similar security-related reasons as well as concerns that this foreign (Arab) tradition contributes to radicalizing members of society. By letting their citizens wear it during their stay in Russia, the federal government is inadvertently undermining their policies, which in turn risks destabilizing those countries once those citizens return.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPutin & The Patriarch Reminded Russians That Ethno-Religious Hate Speech Is Unacceptable<\/a>\u201d as part of their national unity efforts after the Crocus terrorist attack, but publicly discussing the socio-security benefits of banning the niqab doesn\u2019t constitute such. It\u2019s only controversial if someone associates terrorism with Islam like the Head of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin recently did while lobbying for this policy and\u00a0accidentally upset<\/a>\u00a0Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov as a result.<\/p>\n

The latter\u2019s region already informally banned the niqab long ago, with this being the case beyond any doubt after a group of women were\u00a0scolded on local TV<\/a>\u00a0in late 2020 for wearing this garment in public and then forced to remove it. <\/strong>Chechnya, much more than any other region in Russia, understands the socio-security risks of applying a laissez-faire approach towards foreign religious traditions even if this is for well-intentioned reasons related to upholding citizens\u2019 human rights and whatnot.<\/p>\n

While the federal government might remain fearful of reversing its position on the alleged unconstitutionality of officially banning the niqab, Russia\u2019s majority-Muslim regions of Chechnya, Dagestan, and Karachay-Cherkessia are paving the way through their informal and temporary bans. More regions could foreseeably follow their lead and couldn\u2019t be accused of ethno-religious hate speech since it\u2019s Russian Muslims themselves that are pioneering this pragmatic solution to such a sensitive issue. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 07\/06\/2024 – 16:20<\/span><\/p>\n

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Russia’s Majority-Muslim Regions Are Paving The Way By Temporarily Banning The Niqab Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Russia\u2019s majority-Muslim regions of\u00a0Dagestan\u00a0and\u00a0Karachay-Cherkessia\u00a0temporarily banned the niqab…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1475665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1475665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}