Moscow (AsiaNews / Agencies) - Making Russia a centre for Islamic education that will attract Muslim students from the West. This is the proposal of the supreme mufti of the Spiritual Council of Russian Muslims, Talgat Tadzhutddin, who suggests creating a network in the Federation of Islamic institutions, from the madras to the academy through universities.
"This is an important strategic objective because in this way we are no longer dependent on foreign Islamic universities," said Tadzhutddin during a meeting March 19 in Penza between the spiritual leaders of the Volga region and Grigory Rapota, Special Representative of the Russian President in the area.
As Ria Novosti agency reported, according to the mufti foreign Islamic education has "side effects that are not easy to vanquish and which influence the minds of our youth." "In the near future - said Tadzhutddin - with state support seven Islamic universities will be built, but it is only the first step." The country, he said, needs a complete school system, made up of three levels: "madrassas, Islamic universities and academies." In this way the use of foreign teachers will be reduced only to the teaching of Arabic, excluding religious disciplines. (N.A.)