The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is monitoring all Salafi clerics
and their mosques in the region to assure they are not recruiting for
the Islamic State, according to Mariwan Naqshbandi, an official at the
Ministry of Religious Affairs.
The decision to observe the mosques and mullahs, as Salafi clerics are
known, was taken after several prominent figures aligned themselves with
ISIS and young people from their mosques turned up fighting for the
extremists in Syria, Naqshbandi said.
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