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UNICEF UK has just released a report in which it states that a child is killed by violence every five minutes in the world, saying that most of those deaths occur outside war zone. This report's aim is to call for new targets to end all forms of abuse, which it calls a global "epidemic" - by 2030.

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Listing up all kinds of facts has always been a way of secular capitalist institutions of presenting themselves important and philanthropic, as their reports only serve the capitalist politicians to find new statements for their political aims.

The injustice, murder and torture that Muslim children across the world have to endure is due to the capitalist imperialists who support the despot regimes in Syria, occupied Palestine, Myanmar, CAR and furthermore through their self-serving policies. At the same time, more and more children in the Western countries face similar atrocities due to the liberal capitalist system which propagates all kinds of freedom and grants free-hand to the primitive lust and desires. The dilemma here is, that the capitalist system neither has higher values that could provide a change of the lower-instincts-led human being into a clean and dignified intellectual personality on the one hand, nor does the system itself allow clear prohibitions or limits, i.e. laws and heavy penalties, which would discourage any animalistic behaviour strictly. As any clear restriction or heavy penalty would constitute an inconsistency to its own basic values.

More than 15,000 children have been killed in almost 4 years by the Assad regime in Syria. More than 490 children were killed in Gaza this summer. Over the last few days more than 3 Palestinian children were killed by Israeli settlers, and not to mention what the children of these regions had and still have to witness. Also in the West children are suffering, not from war, but from trafficking, rape, bullying, domestic abuse, violent crime, and more. The report shows that children around the world, of every race, religion, class, and nation face violence in their daily lives. It also blames rapid urbanisation, youth unemployment and rising inequality for creating greater risks. But more striking is the statement that no nation is currently able to provide children with the full protection they need. This statement is only topped by the demand to end all forms of violence against children by the year 2030.

At first glance, the year 2030 seems to be very far away. Fact is however, that the West and its institutions have never been able to solve any of the problems of mankind throughout their history, neither for the lands they occupied nor for themselves. More than 100 years of democracy were not able to remove the oppression from any part of any society. In contrary the situation for the most vulnerable among mankind has even get worse.

A clear solution to all human problems can only be provided by the One and Only Creator of the Worlds, Allah (swt). Islam has proven to be the key for mankind out of misery into true peace and tranquillity from the very first moment it has been implemented by Muhammed (saw), the Messenger of Allah (swt). This peace and tranquillity was tasted in every part of the world were Islam had entered for more than 1300 years.

It is time for mankind to re-evaluate the values, methods, aims and achievements that capitalism provides and to compare those sincerely and honestly to what Islam is and promises.

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