CENTRAL ASIAN ISLAMISTS IN SYRIAN CONFLICT AND THEIR INFLUENCE TO RADICALIZATION OF HOME COUNTRIES
Journal Title: Medzinárodné vzťahy - Year 2017, Vol 15, Issue 4
Abstract
Central Asia is currently under the pressure of unfavorable internal and external influences related to the question of the radical Islam rising. The article analyses external factors for the dangerous phenomenon which has become exceptionally up-to-date in contemporary post-Soviet region, when speaking about the existence of so-called Islamic state. Some citizens of former post-Soviet republics of Central Asia have significantly contributed to the fights of ISIL in Syria and Iraq. When expected military defeat of it nears, more and more occurs so called “Syrian Footprint” by the rise of radical Islam influence in Central Asia. The article describes the real threat of further spreading the Islamic radicalism to specific facts and in specific countries of the region, including the need of taking necessary measures that have the chance to minimize its influence.
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Ľubomír Čech
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