News:

On 30^th November 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to halt illegal immigration from Bangladesh into Assam, saying they were "destroying" the northeastern state. Modi, whose right-wing Hindu nationalist party stormed to power at May elections, said, "Bangladeshis are entering Assam every day and destroying the state... I will make an arrangement by way of which all the routes used by them to enter Assam are closed," he promised in the state's main city of Guwahati. Tensions have been high in recent years in Assam. More than 40 people including women and children were slaughtered in May this year by Indian tribal separatists called Bodos. Modi promised that his government would permanently resolve the illegal immigration issue by securing a long-pending land swap agreement with Bangladesh. "When we execute the land swap deal it might look like a loss for Assam, but in the long run Assam will gain by the deal," he said."We are not going to compromise the interests of Assam." India and Bangladesh have for years been trying to resolve their land border disputes, including settling the future of 162 enclaves - small pockets of one country's territory surrounded by that of the other. More than 50,000 people live in the enclaves, cut off from their respective governments and without access to many basic services.

Comment:

The land disputes between India and Bangladesh date back to the division of sub-continent by the British occupiers in August 1947 when parts of Bangladesh, then known as East Pakistan, were deliberately given to India or such enclaves were created to keep the tensions ripe between the two countries. Muslims in both India and Bangladesh are facing the brunt of the inhumane conditions of living in their areas. However, the severe poverty in Bangladesh has forced many Muslim families to migrate to India in search of a better future. Least they know that the same bloodsucking Capitalism is being implemented in India, which has caused the last piece of bread to be snatched from their mouths in Bangladesh. The fear of death and persecution is an added factor to their woes in India. Under the rotten ideology of Capitalism the concept of nation-state was built and propagated, which is based on its theory of national interest preceding over any other objective, be it security and well being of an ethnic or religious minority. Unless the immigrants have legally crossed into the borders of a nation state, they are not entitled to even basic human rights. They are either jailed, put in inhuman conditions or pushed back to their country of origin. In this process their death is considered an ordinary matter. Bangladesh and neighboring Pakistan also implement the Nation-State theory and consider the border to be sacred than human lives and the value of life is nothing in the eyes of their respective governments compared to their so-called ‘national interest'.

There can be no solution of this immigration problem under the Secular and Liberal Capitalism. This problem is resolved by Islam which ruled over the world under the state of Khilafah "Caliphate" for more than 1300 years. As Khilafah "Caliphate" state implemented the laws of Allah (swt) that ensure the provision of basic rights like food, clothing, shelter, health and education to all its citizens without discrimination of ethnicity and religion. No one ever even wished to leave the premises of Khilafah "Caliphate" State as it provided the best living conditions. Also Khilafah "Caliphate" is not a nation state, because Islam does not believe in borders being sacred which the Muslim armies can not cross. The Muslim Ummah being one body, Khilafah "Caliphate" is obliged to extend help and protection as much as possible to the Muslims living outside its frontiers. That is because Allah (swt) said:

((إِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ إِخْوَةٌ))

"The believers are nothing else than brothers" [TMQ 49:10].

The Messenger of Allah said:

«إِنَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْإِيمَانِ بِمَنْزِلَةِ الرَّأْسِ مِنْ الْجَسَدِ يَأْلَمُ الْمُؤْمِنُ لِأَهْلِ الْإِيمَانِ كَمَا يَأْلَمُ الْجَسَدُ لِمَا فِي الرَّأْسِ»

"Verily, the believer in relation to the people of faith is like the head of the body. The believer feels pain with the people of faith just as the body feels pain with its head." (Musnad Ahmad 22370)

Therefore, only the second Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashida will open its borders for the Muslims of the whole world and provide physical and armed help to the oppressed Muslims across the world under the foreign policy of Dawah and Jihad, removing the obstacles in the way of Islam and liberating the occupied Muslim territories like India. As according to the laws of Islam, it is an Islamic land that was ruled under Islam for 1000 years and still needs to be liberated and returned back to the fold of Islam. Only then the lives of Muslim men, women and children can be secured.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Umm Musab

Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir