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Russia
needs university to teach about Islam: official
Tuesday December 07, 2010 11:53:58 AM,
RIA Novosti
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Moscow:
Russia should open a secular university to train teachers and
experts on Islam, a top official has said.
Alexander Khloponin, Kremlin's envoy to the North Caucasus region,
Monday said: "We need this secular university on Islamic studies
in Caucasus today...because we do not have experts to teach the
basics of this religion."
Khloponin said this would help prevent religious conflicts in the
region.
"Today, when we see prayer rooms in the dormitories of
universities in Stavropol (in southern Russia), for example, and
do not understand the literature their students are reading - we
then should not be surprised that we have (religious) clashes on
the streets," he said.
North Caucasus federal district includes the volatile republics of
Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia. The majority of the population
in North Caucasus is Muslim.
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