The British Government has re-written the legal dictionary to say that the word ‘wife' - "will include a woman married to another woman or a man married to a man" according to the Telegraph Newspaper (28/6/2013), and the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that there is no impediment to the state of California "issuing same-sex marriage licenses", thereby opening the door to 13 other U.S. states to approve same-sex marriages according to CNN-Washington (30/6/2013).  U.S. President Barack Obama was so proud of developments in the Supreme Court that he declared: "When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free."

This depraved cult of unrestrained freedom and equality has seduced the world with its madness this year: France and New Zealand approved same-sex marriage in April, and the freshly returned Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, declared that he "sought to make his personal conversion to supporting gay marriage a central election issue and pitch to young voters, proudly declaring that he was Australia's first marriage-equality prime minister and was committed to marriage law reform", according to the Australian newspaper last week.

Hizb ut Tahrir says: "Marriage is sacred in Islam, and it is a fundamental pillar of human society and has been so throughout human history, and yet the world's democracies have dared to redefine not only the language of marriage, wife and husband, but also the nature of human society at an organic level."

Democracy has certainly taken its devotees a long way down the same road to destruction that the people of Lut travelled before them, and their enmity towards Islam is the same as that of those people, to whom Allah (swt) sent His noble Prophet, Lut, to warn them against the practice of homosexuality:

وَلُوطًا إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِ أَتَأْتُونَ الْفَاحِشَةَ مَا سَبَقَكُم بِهَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ مِّنَ الْعَالَمِينَ ﴿٨٠﴾ إِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ الرِّجَالَ شَهْوَةً مِّن دُونِ النِّسَاءِ ۚ بَلْ أَنتُمْ قَوْمٌ مُّسْرِفُونَ ٨١﴾ وَمَا كَانَ جَوَابَ قَوْمِهِ إِلَّا أَن قَالُوا أَخْرِجُوهُم مِّن قَرْيَتِكُمْ ۖ إِنَّهُمْ أُنَاسٌ يَتَطَهَّرُونَ

"Do ye commit lewdness such as no people in creation (ever) committed before you? For ye practice your lusts on men in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds, And his people gave no answer but this: they said, "Drive them out of your city: these are indeed men who want to be clean and pure!"" [Qur'an 7:80-82]

Oh Muslims, beware of the rulers, and enslaved mentalities from amongst you, who are careless about the danger of submitting to the leadership and guidance of nations who have aligned their whole legal systems with the lusts of deviant people. The mad procession of democracy and equality attacks you, and attacks your pure men and women and attacks all that you hold sacred every day. The path of moral decay is an inevitable fruit of the false ideology of democracy, and can lead only to Allah's wrath and destruction in this life and the next.

Abdullah Robin