Muslim religious minority in Ukraine: preservation of cultural traditions or political struggle
| Autor: | Elena Klymenko |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Bulletin of Mariupol State University. Series: Philosophy, culture studies, sociology. 10:116-123 |
| ISSN: | 2518-1343 2226-2849 |
| DOI: | 10.34079/2226-2830-2020-10-19-116-123 |
| Popis: | The article highlights the problem of political manipulation of Muslim religious minorities in the context of preserving their cultural traditions. The author considers the possible risks of an outbreak of Islamic extremism in Ukraine, in the context of European trends and an increase in the percentage of Muslims in the multinational Ukrainian community. The aim of the article was to study the risks arising from the social interaction of the Muslim religious minority with the Christian majority in Ukraine. As the research of recent years is mostly focused on social and political problems of Crimean Tatars, which arose as a result of the annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the author draws attention to the level of social activity of migrants from the Middle East arriving in Ukraine. In the context of the events in Crimea and Donbas, there have already been attempts to raise the issue of the growth of extremism and the expansion of the zone of presence of radical forms of Islam. Of course, such separate facts confirm this, and there are places, but to speak about the purposeful Islamization of certain regions of Ukraine, and even more so about the mass examples of the establishment of camps for the training of extremist groups are unfounded. These incidents are unlikely to be considered a serious threat, but the main feature of the Ukrainian mentality, which also extends to Muslims, is the passivity in taking and implementing any actions. Therefore, all manifestations of extremism are exclusively external in nature. Despite the small number of Muslims in Ukraine and until recently their unity, in 2019th there was a new trend a split. Muslims from Crimea have recently accused Muslims in mainland Ukraine of negative attitudes, discrimination on territorial grounds and neglect of their problems. There is a real threat of excessive politicization of the rights of the Muslim religious minority in Ukraine, which some members of the Crimean Tatar national minority are trying to impose on society. Thus, analyzing the Islamic world in Ukraine, it can be divided into two parts: religious organizations that preserve their cultural traditions, regardless of nationality, and Crimean Tatar religious organizations, which simultaneously wage political and in some cases armed struggle, trying to join the military-political conflict with is separated from the state. Thus, while Islamic fundamentalism poses a fairly high threat to EU countries, there are more serious national security issues for Ukraine today. |
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