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The Turkish Government in cooperation with Gendarmerie has launched a project about combating domestic violence against women, which is jointly financed by the European Union and Turkey. A total of 10,000 community police will receive training on gender equality and combating violence against women in families. Human rights organizations' statistics show an increase of violence against women over a period of 8 years of AKP ruling by 1400%. Over the last 5 years, about 6,000 women were murdered. While the number of women murders was 66 in 2002, in the first 9 months of 2013 alone, 842 women were killed. Female gendarmerie Major Songül Yakut stated that 25 thousand women were subject to violence in 2012 and that 76 of them died in Gendarmerie protected areas. The number increased to 28 thousand, with 95 murders in 2013. Turkey's European Union Delegation Vice President Béla Szombati underlined that they were launching this project just one week before the international day of "Eliminating violence against women" that will be on 25th November.

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These numbers leave no doubt that ruling according to the capitalist secular view of life, which includes the liberal principle of personal freedoms, has never brought an improvement to any society in the world and especially not to the lives of Muslim women. Such values simply encourage men to act upon their own whims and desires, eroding the concept of accountability, responsibility, and respect in the manner by which they should treat women. Considering that Liberal Western countries themselves are fighting against increasing violence against women, such projects in Muslim countries including in Turkey are unlikely to stem the rising tide of this problem. Rather in truth, they only have one outcome, namely upholding and enforcing their corrupt values of democracy and personal freedoms upon the Muslim society that fuel such crimes. According to UK statistics almost 30 women a day try to kill themselves to escape physical and mental abuse, and every week three succeed. In the USA, the Pentagon alone has grappled with increasing sexual assaults within the US military, which increased by 46% to 3,553 during the last year alone. Can you then imagine the level of violence against women within their general society?

It is time now for the Muslims in Turkey to accept the failure of this capitalist liberal system, and not to lay their hopes in projects and solutions shaped upon its flawed ideas. It is time now to remember and to find our way back to the tranquil times under the protecting laws of Allah (swt), because real success for the women of this Muslim country and all over the world will never come by adopting any system that is based upon anything other than Islam. Islam alone has secured women's rights through a perfect system, and all these attempts of the defenders of this secular capitalist ideology are doomed to end in vain. The Khilafah "Caliphate" is the only system that can guarantee a life of dignity and safety for both women and men, through its Qur'an and Sunnah based constitution. Having a look to the history of Islam, for example the Judicial Records of the Anatolian Shariah Courts, will sweep away any doubts on the effectiveness of this system.

And Allah (swt) taught us in Surah al-Baqara,

(وَلَا تَلۡبِسُواْ ٱلۡحَقَّ بِٱلۡبَـٰطِلِ وَتَكۡتُمُواْ ٱلۡحَقَّ وَأَنتُمۡ تَعۡلَمُونَ)

"And do not mix the truth with the falsehood, nor conceal the truth while you know what it is" [TMQ Al-Baqara: 42]

And He (swt) also says in Surah Tauba,

فَمَنۡ أَسَّسَ بُنۡيَـٰنَهُ ۥ عَلَىٰ تَقۡوَىٰ مِنَ ٱللَّهِ وَرِضۡوَٲنٍ خَيۡرٌ أَم مَّنۡ أَسَّسَ بُنۡيَـٰنَهُ ۥ عَلَىٰ شَفَا جُرُفٍ هَارٍ۬ فَٱنۡہَارَ بِهِۦ فِى نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ‌ۗ

"Which then is best? - He who laid the foundation of his building on piety to Allah and His good Pleasure? Or he who laid the foundation of his building on the edge of a bank ready to crumble to pieces....."[TMQ At-Tauba: 109]

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Umm Khalid
Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir