CENTRAL ASIA GOING ON “HYPER-ISLAMISATION”: BETWEEN ADAPTATION TO POST-COMMUNISM AND CALLS FOR RADICALIZATION

Abstract

Post-Soviet Central Asian states celebrate their 26 years of independence in 2017 in a context marked by fear of terrorism and the significant impact of jihadist issue in the former USSR. The sensitive topic is now widely publicized among the civil society, at least in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan echoing the situation in the Russian Federation, but also in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan where it has become an obsession for the ruling power in recent years. This article aims to present the current situation of the djihadist radicalization issue in Central Asia, mostly from the social point of view, trying to highlight the path from re-islamization to radicalization in the region and some political means that the current power try to implement in order to solve the problem

Keywords

• Islam in Central Asia
• Re-islamization
• Radicalization
• Djihadism
• Terrorism