An influential Islamic organization with offices across the country has been forced to close, highlighting a political struggle over the country’s millions-strong Muslim population. Representatives of the Islamic Cultural Center and analysts said a Supreme Court ruling upholding the center’s closure was politically charged. “This is a bureaucratic order from people who want the Muslim part of society to be represented by puppets,” the center’s chairman and founder, Abdul-Wahid Niyazov, told The Moscow […]