(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - When implemented, the so-called Parental Responsibility Law will deny millions of Tajik youths aged under 18 their right to go to mosques, and will also force them to study in secular schools.
The new law will also ban the Tajik youths from attending churches.
A prominent Tajik politician and religious leader, Akbar Turajonzoda, has criticized the new law as being against the will of God.
Earlier, a senior Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi-Golpayegani, also slammed the Islamophobic rules in Tajikistan, saying they aim at stripping the Central Asian country of its Islamic identity.
Ayatollah Safi-Golpayegani warned Tajikistan's government that the “course they have taken ends up in failure,” and called on Tajik officials to formally apologize to the Muslims in Tajikistan and across the globe for their offensive, anti-Islam measures.
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