Mission Statement

Central Asia has definite traits which distinguishes it from the societies in the Middle East and North Africa. Islam is accepted but exists alongside older cultural traits. Even Iran's government is much more 'practical' than Islamic. Other countries, like Tajikistan, struggle to teach their children about Islam, lest they be radicalized. There is an incredible - and tragic - lack of accurate texts examining the Islamic religion, with the result that extremists and tribal leaders and manipulating politicians all use Islam to perpetrate atrocities. There are genocidal projects underway in Central Asia, as in the Middle East. We will examine them. We will be assessing political, cultural, ecologic and economic elements and factors, but from a depth going back to the Ice Age.

 

'Tomb' of Turkic poet Yunus Emre (1240?-1321?)  in Uzbekistan. His body is not there but his spirit still pervades the greater Turkic world.