Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan's president, has approved a new law aimed at putting an end to religious extremism.<br /><br />The law forces all religious organisations to re-register and bans prayer in state institutions such as schools and prisons.<br /><br />The country's chief imam believes that preventing Muslims from praying will antagonise the Kazakh public.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Robin Forestier-Walker reports from Kazakhstan's western city of Aktobe.
