Expert opinion on "The Charter of Muslims Of Ukraine"

Abstract

Having considered the text of the "Charter of Muslims of Ukraine," the Department of Religious Studies firstly notes the positive fact of the emergence of a fundamentally new document that highlights the principles and approaches of the modern vision of the life of Muslim communities of Ukraine in a society with a dominant non-Muslim population. Moreover, unlike the famous "European Islamic Charter", which was adopted in 2008. (and caused a constructive discussion in the Muslim environment that ended with the signing of this document by more than 400 Muslim organizations), the "Charter of Muslims of Ukraine" is a document more concrete and less declarative, since it means the principles of the common life of Muslims, taking into account Ukrainian specifics.