Akramiya

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Akramiya is an Islamist organization founded by Akram Yuldashev that has been designated as terrorist by the Government of Uzbekistan.^[1]

Akramiya broke away from Hizb ut-Tahrir, a commonly designated terrorist organization, when Akram Yuldashev formed Akramiya in the Fergana Valley area in Uzbekistan in 1996. The Uzbek Government says Yuldashev's pamphlet Yimonga Yul (Way to Faith) criticizes HT's goal of creating an international caliphate for impracticality. Yudashev argues in favor of creating an Islamic state on a local level instead.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Muhammad Sadyk Muhammad Yusuf, the former Chief Mufti of Uzbekistan, said, "Akramia has nothing in common with Hizb-ut-Tahrir, and other radical political Islamic organisations. It is for entirely different reasons that I consider Akram Yuldashev's teaching a heresy." Yusuf says Yuldashev teaches that Muslims do not have to pray five times daily or fast during Ramadan.^[1]

Journalists for Demokratizatsiya have cast doubt on its existence, saying the Uzbek government created the organization to justify putting down the 2005 civil unrest in Uzbekistan.^[4]

1 Andijan massacre
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Andijan massacre

Forum 18, a human rights organization based in Norway, reported that during the Andijan massacre members of Akramiya "who had acquired weapons did not prevent free movement out of the square by those gathered there, but their attitude to the hostages did not meet international standards for the treatment of prisoners of war. Forum 18 learnt that several hostages received severe beatings. The hostages had wire tied round their necks and were placed at the perimeter of the square as human shields. Therefore the first to die from the shots fired by Uzbek government forces were the hostages."^[1]