FAITH REQUIRES KNOWLEDGE

Article 22 of the Constitution guarantees
freedom of conscience to citizens of the country. About how this statement
is implemented in Aktobe region, the Letter said
head of the regional Department for religious Affairs
The Alimbek Turaliev.
- The religious situation
in the region is stable.
All registered religious associations
of the region operate
in accordance with
the legislation
of the Republic of Kazakhstan
head of the Department.
Registered in the region
67 branches of the spiritual administration of Muslims of Kazakhstan,
9 Orthodox, 2 Catholic,
13 Protestant churches and
Aktobe society for Krishna consciousness. If you look
at the statistics of religious buildings, there are 67 mosques,
6 Orthodox, 9 Protestant and 2 Catholic churches.
- Islam prevails, can you tell us how well trained the clergy are?
– In the mosques of the RAMU serve
115 clerics (imams, Naib-imams, muezzins,
mullahs and ustazs), all of them received religious education
and took theological courses. Compare if one of them is
77 percent currently have
higher and secondary special
theological education,
while according to 2017 data
, only 44 percent had it.
In support
Alimbek Turaliev
gave a fresh fact.
Recently, the chief
Imam of the region Tolebi Ospan presented to the staff
of the Central mosque of Aktobe
the new chief Imam of Aktobe,
Nurlybek kuzenbayev.
He is an international graduate
Kazakh-Arabic University in Shymkent, Haseki training center
(Turkey), master
's degree program of the University of foreign languages and business career (Almaty). This year in the direction of
DUMK completed a refresher course for imams on the prevention
of extremism and terrorism at
al-Azhar University in Egypt.
Father of three children, one of them,
who actively conducts information and propaganda work
and rehabilitation of adherents
of destructive religious movements. Member of the Republican information and explanatory
group at the Duma.
– You touched upon the current
topic of state policy
in the sphere of religion, what has been done
in this direction since the beginning
of the year?
– There are regional, city and twelve
district awareness groups in the region. They include
University professors,
public figures, government and law enforcement officials, theologians,
representatives of traditional
religions, and journalists.
234 people. For example, the regional group includes 15 representatives of the Duma, 10 religious scholars, theologians and psychologists.
In the first half of the year, members
IRG organized 952 events of various formats
covering about 47 thousand residents
of the region. The activity was affected
by the quarantine. In 2019, we conducted
2,089 events where priority was given to preventing the
spread of destructive
religious movements. Since March,
due to the threat of the spread of coronavirus infection
in the country, awareness-raising activities among
the population have been held in the following mode
online, subject to restrictive measures. In connection with the mode
Emergency situations in social networks conducted 344 live broadcasts, which
covered almost 33 thousand people, of which 585 are
adherents of DRT.
In addition to the local nine theologians and two psychologists
, ten specialists of the national level were involved in explanatory work. These are such authoritative experts as
Askar Sabdin, Kairat Zholdybaiuly, Rauan Cengagenow, Rope
Alsynbaev, Aslanbek Tynystanov, Bauyrzhan Esmahan, Dinara
Nurgaliyev Will Samsat Edilbaeva,
Zharas Ahan. One of the results
the joint work of the information and propaganda group
and government agencies is
that today in General education institutions, the requirements
for students to wear school uniforms are fully met.
– One of the important areas of your work concerns the criminal correctional system.
In short, what are the successes?
– At this point in CPS
859 convicts are serving their sentences in Aktobe region.
Of these, 456 are in correctional
institutions, and 403 are in
pre-trial detention. At the beginning of July, the punishment under the article
"Exter" served 47 people,
five of them are in a pre-trial detention center.
Local theologians were involved in the work of institutions within the framework of the state social
order of the Department
. Tolegen Maldybaev nurmukhambet
Razaks conduct regular
classes according to the Hanafi
madhhab. In total
, 126 events were organized in correctional institutions in Aktobe.
As a result of consistent
rehabilitation work, three
people were deradicalized and
one was adapted to the norms of traditional Islam.
– How effective
is the helpline service?
- KSU "Ansar" received
325 questions from 256 people. Most of them, and this
68% are related to family and marriage problems.
Expanding on the answer, since the beginning of the year
, about nine thousand
information and propaganda materials have been posted on Internet resources, 144-in print publications, 47 TV and 22 videos. As part of providing
the Jamaat with reliable religious information in YouTube
the channel of religious lectures
"ad-Daru al-ilmi" has been opened, where a
collection of 40 translated
lectures by theologian T. Taldybayev from
Arabic on the following topics is posted: "Fiqh"
and "Aqida". At the same time, to increase the effectiveness of Internet monitoring, identify and
block destructive content
religious content, as well
as analysis and prevention of Internet sites, we use the information systems "Cybernadzor"
and " Counter".
96 links were sent to is "Cybernadzor", as a result, 62 are unavailable for use and 3 are blocked.
Also, since the summer of last year, the
Internet space has been using
the Analytical Internet map information system,
which allows for
automatic analysis in order
to monitor the activity of Salafist views in the Vkontakte social
network.
23,085 users were identified. At the moment, as a result of joint work with the authorized bodies, the number
of users has decreased by almost
a third.
Also, local authorized bodies under articles 490
and 453 of the administrative Code (Distribution
of printed materials containing signs of propaganda of ideas
of extremism and terrorism (import,
manufacture, storage)
initiated administrative cases against nine residents of the region
and imposed fines totaling 1,099,729 tenge.
I would like to conclude a serious conversation on the eve of the upcoming holiday-Day
Constitution-good news. At the beginning of the month
, a family
in the Bayganinsky district received the keys to a new apartment. A long-standing
dream was fulfilled thanks
to the charity event "El
Les – Perge". Handing keys
to new residents, the chief Imam of the region
Tolebi Ospan noted that Meirambek Kobenov became the seventh
Aktobe citizen for whom believers were formed. In total, 223 needy families in Kazakhstan
found shelter in this way.
The Constitution speaks of freedom of conscience, but in reality it
is the freedom to do good, believing in
the best, praying for the best and light that elevates us.
Zhanat SISEKENOVA,
Aktubinsk