Tajikistan is one of those strange post soviet states in the middle of the Asian Muslim area defined as the stans - Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan etc ....
Eighty years of communism almost, but not quite, eradicated Islam and so the drift back into the Muslim world has been sporadic, with many of the citizens still hankering for some of the Soviet years, while others are looking towards a Sharia future.
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| The Cockpit Of 'Stans' .... |
Eighty years of communism almost, but not quite, eradicated Islam and so the drift back into the Muslim world has been sporadic, with many of the citizens still hankering for some of the Soviet years, while others are looking towards a Sharia future.
