ASTANA -- Kazakhstan plans to open prayer rooms and bookstores specialising in religious literature in its airports and train stations, as well as within 300 metres of government buildings, Informburo.kz reported Saturday (April 1), quoting the government.
The date for opening such facilities was not reported. The government banned them in 2012, after a spate of terrorist attacks in 2011.
"Believers need prayer rooms in train stations and airports," Taraz theologian Sanjar Suleimenov told Caravanserai. "[Many] Muslims were outraged after their closing in 2012 ... Now this problem is solved."
Going to extremes has never led to positive results anywhere. There was no need to close them! Fortunately, now our fellow citizens will be able to freely perform namaz while traveling. Respectfully, Ali Apsheroni (Oleg Rubets), writer, philosopher, theologian.
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