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Students
attend the new "secular-religious" school in
May 06, 2009
Said Ahmadov,
a school official and former head of the state Religious Affairs Committee,
told RFE/RL's Tajik Service that the school teaches Islamic and modern subjects
according to a plan from the Education Ministry.
He said some
70 percent of students' time is spent studying Islamic subjects and 30 percent
in classes such as English, Tajik, literature, and science.
The school,
which is supported by the Swiss government, currently has about 20 teenagers
attending it.
Student
Hikoyat Safarova, who can recite most of the Koran in both Arabic and English,
told RFE/RL that she has wanted to study Islam and modern subjects together
since she was a child.
The first
lessons in the school began in September.
Tajik expert
Ghaffor Mirzoev said that secularism is not an enemy of religion, as some
Tajiks believe, and such an example like the Imam Hanifa school can help find a
compromise between the two.
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