News:

The last US president to visit Malaysia was Lyndon Johnson back in 1966. Now, Malaysia is again opening its arms to the president of the US, this time in the guise of Barack Hussein Obama. This 44^th president of America is coming to Kuala Lumpur on the 11^th of October 2013 to participate in the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, an initiative that the US leader designed as a way to reach out to the Islamic world. There are mixed responses concerning his visit here to Malaysia. Naturally, the government is instrumental in denying that Obama's visit is related to the signing of the TPPA (Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement) which is claimed to be beneficial to Malaysia. On the other hand various local NGOs have already begun issuing statements rejecting Obama's visit. Most of these disagreements are connected to Obama's instrumental role in marketing the idea of TPPA which is seen to be an American imperialist move to dominate countries like Malaysia.

Comment:

As Muslims, our rejection of Obama should not just arise from economic reasons. We should reject Obama because he is the personification of the American imperialist policy. In fact, rejecting him is a matter of Aqeedah. As the president of the US, he is responsible for all the crimes being carried out by this Kuffar state all over the Islamic world. It is unfortunate that there are Muslims who have been deceived with Obama's ‘non aggressive' nature and statements such as ‘America is not and will never be at war with Islam'. Nevertheless, in reality, his actions only manifest the extension of American imperialist policies as had been executed by his predecessors. Since the very first day Obama held the presidential post, until today, in his second term as the president of US, Obama has consistently implemented US's colonialist policies and has perpetually waged war on Muslims in the name of ‘war on terrorism'. These are among the policies that he implemented to the detriment of Muslims and Islam as an ideology:

• Despite knowing Islam's position on Israel and the occupation of Palestine, Obama has continually supported the state of Israel. America never made the move to account Israel even though the world has repeatedly witnessed the atrocities perpetrated by this illegal state. Worse, he continued the American policy of financially supporting the Israeli military.

• It is the American imperialist policy that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of Muslims being killed during the American invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama, continuing this policy, has incessantly been waging war on Islam in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. Despite the apparent withdrawal of US military from Iraq and Afghanistan, a considerable number of military personnel are still left behind to guard American interests there. In Pakistan, Obama has been using drones to carry out attacks on Muslims with the justification of waging war on terrorists. And he continuously carries out these attacks unilaterally in Pakistan and Afghanistan. To date, the Obama administration used drones 5 times more compared to what the Bush administration had used in three years.

• Obama personifies American policies on Syria where the US has been giving all the time and opportunity for Bashar to slaughter Muslims and until now, with all the fuss on chemical weapons, while buying time to find Bashar's replacement, Muslims are still killed on a daily basis. America under Obama will never let Syria, one of the pillars of American hegemony in the Middle East, to be handed over to sincere Muslims fighting to establish Islam.

• Egypt, the base from which America began to extend its influence all over the Middle East is too valuable to be handed over even to the ‘Islamists'. The Obama administration has been instrumental in the spilling of Muslim blood in Egypt and in consolidating the secular military regime of Egypt.

These are just the tip of the iceberg as far as the perpetration by the Obama administration against Islam and Muslims are concerned. Any effort to extend American hegemony over Muslims must be rejected outright, including any of Obama's visit to any Muslim countries. It is the responsibility of Muslims to express this rejection as a matter of Aqeedah and as a matter of honour for Islam and the Muslim Ummah.

Written for The Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Dr. Muhammad / Malaysia