News and Comment Only the Khilafah Can Stop Starvation of Somali Muslims and Others
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
News:
On 30th January 2015 Press TV reported on starvation of more than 200,000 Somali children. While more than 38,000 children are at "high risk" of dying due to severe malnutrition. Similarly a great proportion of the population is still experiencing grave food insecurity after over two decades of war.
UN Special Representative for Somalia Nicholas Kay argued that the international community has lost its focus on the country. Somalia was the hardest hit by a severe drought in 2011 that affected more than 13 million people across the Horn of Africa. More than 250,000 Somalis died in a famine caused by the drought.
Comment:
Somali conflict is one among many calamities facing Muslim Ummah. This conflict has been created by the western superpowers in order to reach their interests. Apart from the western objective to tap Somalis' natural resources, Somali is also located at strategic position on the corridor of the Indian Ocean. The power which takes control of the area will undoubtedly take the entire leadership of the east and central Africa region. This struggle had brought many calamities for the Muslims of the region and its surroundings.
Muslims in Somali and the surrounding regions should treat the failure of the international community to bring peace and stability in the region as the failure of capitalist model of government.
It is absurd to notice that while the world filled with abundant food reserves yet thousands are dying from starvation. It is the capitalist system which starves the Muslims in Somalia as a means to subjugate them. This similar means is used against Muslims in Syria, Burma, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
The Muslims in Somalia desire an Islamic system which will take them out of starvation and caters their welfares and of the entire Ummah. History reminds us how previous caliphs used to give high concern for the affairs of the Islamic Ummah to the extent that many non-Muslims sought refuge in the Muslims land due to its justice and prosperity under the Islamic system. During the reign of the Ottoman Khilafah "Caliphate" in the 1850's the caliph sent several ships loaded with tons of food to relieve starving Irish population. How will be the concern of the Khilafah "Caliphate" should be for the starving population if they are Muslim?
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Kaema Juma
Member of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in East Africa