Central Asia is a strategic point, in fact it is the main transit corridor. Traffickers use Islam to exacerbate the instability to allow them to control the drug corridor. This is also occurring in Tajikistan with the radicalization of Islam there. This is a new Islam, a reinterpretation of teachings developed by Muslims of ill will. The situation there is only getting worse.
Unemployment is unimaginably bad.
There is no money and no social services. And that is why they turn to the mosque. There they are helped. The majority of the population of Uzbekistan aspires to peace. Islam is part of the government's demand for social peace and order.