Religious Extremism in Kazakhstan

Religious extremism and terrorism are among the most dangerous and difficult to forecast the phenomena of our time, which are becoming more diverse forms and rampant. Terrorist attacks often produce mass casualties, involve the destruction of material and spiritual values, beyond the recovery times, sow hatred among nations, provoke war, mistrust and hatred between the social and national groups, which sometimes can not be overcome within a generation. Currently, the countries of Central Asia are a topical issue the threat of terrorism and religious extremism, which grow not only in our area, but throughout the world. Of course, in each of the terrorist threat is assessed differently. In Kazakhstan the problem of terrorism should not be acutely.

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Kadyrzhan Smagulov, MA: Studied Political Science at the al-Farabi Kazakh National University. PhD candidate at the al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan