DUSHANBE, October 29, 2015, Asia-Plus – Two Tajiks have been detained in Moscow oblast on suspicion of being involved in robberies.
According to the Russian Interior Ministry’s website, the police station in the city of Shchyolkovo received an application from local resident that unknown assailants threatening him with weapons had seized his car and money. A total damage was reportedly estimated at nearly 1.5 million Russian rubles (RR).
Two Tajiks, who have previous convictions, were arrested on suspicion of being involved in that crime. The preliminary investigation has established that the detainees are supporters of ideology of an international extremist group Takfir wal-Hijra.
Besides, several Russian nationals, who had previously traveled to Syria to join the Islamic Sate (IS) militants, were detained.
Subversive literature was confiscated from them.
Takfir wal-Hijra (Excommunication and Exodus alternately “excommunication and emigration” or “anathema and exile”), was the popular name given to a radical Islamist group Jama”at al-Muslimin founded by Shukri Mustafa which emerged in Egypt in the 1960s as an offshoot of Muslim Brotherhood. Although the group was crushed by Egyptian security forces after it murdered an Islamic scholar and former government minister in 1977, it is said to have “left an enduring legacy” taken up by some Islamist radicals in “subsequent years and decades.” Today, some believe, Takfir wal-Hijra has members or supporters in several other countries, allied to Al-Qaeda. In November 2013, Russian security forces detained 14 radical Islamists suspected of belonging to Takfir wal-Hijra
