DUSHANBE, December 3, 2014 Asia-Plus — The Islamic Revival Party (IRP) board will meet within the next few days to consider the issue of filing lawsuit against the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, IRP leader Muhiddin Kabiri told journalists in Dushanbe on December 3.
According to him, he himself is opposed to filing the lawsuit against the Academy of Sciences, but the issue will be discussed by the party board.
We will recall that during a meeting with representatives of Tajik labor migrants and the Tajik Diaspora that took place in Moscow on November 30, IRP leader Muhiddin Kabiri sharply criticized “a certain part of employees of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan” who have reportedly done nothing for development of Tajik science and just been engaged in blackening separate political parties and religious figures.
In response to this the director of the Center for Modern Processes Studies and Forecasting under the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Hofiz Boboyorov, said in an interview with Asia-Plus on December 2 that the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan (IRP) is of a threat for modern society no less than the Taliban or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
“Our Center is engaged in studying events taking place in the world, including those taking place in the Muslim world, and informing society of them,” the think tank head noted.
“Articles about the threat posed by the IRP to secular society that have been published in media sources in recent months are the point of view of our researchers,” said Boboyorov. “The Islamic Revival Party with its pseudo-democratic slogans and anarchical views should go out of the political arena of Tajikistan. We will continue to prove the uselessness of a religious party in modern society in the future as well.”
Asked about the upcoming parliamentary election, Kabiri told journalists on December 3 that the Islamic Revival Party hopes to win no less than five seats in the 2015 election and to form its faction in Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament.
In all, the IRP reportedly intends to nominate 40 candidates for the 2015 parliamentary election due in late February. The party intends to include 20 candidates in the party list and our 20 other candidates will run in single-mandate constituencies.
Founded in October 1990, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan is the only Islamic party registered in CIS Central Asia. The IRP was registered on December 4, 1991. It was banned by the Supreme Court in June 1993 and legalized in August 1999. Its official newspaper is
Najot
(Salvation). According to some source, the IRP now has some 50,000 members. Women reportedly constitute more than 51 percent of the Islamic Revival Party members.
It won two seats in the 2010 parliamentary election. IRP leader Muhiddin Kabiri and IRP deputy head, Saidumar Huseini, represent the party in the current parliament; both of them came to the parliament from the party list.
