Islam in its Ukrainian context: relevance and problems of research

Abstract

In the years before our independence, the problem of Islam in Ukraine was not relevant. After the extermination of an Islamic factor in Ukrainian territory by means of Stalin's vandalism, in particular the removal of all the Crimean Tatar people who professed Islam from our lands, we mentioned this religion:

- or in the past when our distant ancestors encountered raids from the south to our territories - a Muslim who, having a poor land, was forced to live by robbery;

- or in connection with the depiction in the press of those events in the Middle and Middle East that disturbed the world with his sacrificial cruelty but were ultimately voiced by the neglect of world Zionism by the fate of the small Palestinian people