Four Pakistani soldiers have been killed by Indian forces in the last two days on the Line of Control and the International Border. Since last July several Pakistani civilians and soldiers including officers have been killed because of Indian aggression.
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Sweden suffered its third arson attack on a mosque in a week amid an intensifying debate about immigration in the Nordic country. Police in Uppsala, a university town north of Stockholm, said they were hunting one person suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the mosque as well as writing racist phrases on the building. It follows an attack on Christmas Day on a mosque in Eskilstuna, to the west of Stockholm, and another on Monday in Eslöv, in the southern Swedish region of Skane. Nobody was injured in the Uppsala and Eslöv attacks but five were hurt in Eskilstuna. Stefan Löfven, the centre-left prime minister, said that the attacks were not representative of Sweden. "No-one in Sweden should be afraid of practising their religion," he added on Thursday while on an official trip to Brazil. Samir Muric, the imam in Eslöv, told a Swedish news agency: "Unfortunately this is probably something to do with Islamophobia. I live nearby, and it's beginning to feel unsafe." The attacks come against a backdrop of rising political tension over Sweden's status as the leading destination in the EU for asylum seekers relative to the size of its population. The Nordic country of about 10m people is expecting about 100,000 refugees this year, a record number in modern times. The Sweden Democrats, an anti-immigration party that shocked the establishment by finishing third in September's elections with 13 per cent of the vote, campaigned on reducing immigration to the country by 90 per cent. Party leaders have compared Islamism to Nazism. [Source: Financial Times]
Support for America's war against Islam has finally come to the shores of Sweden to cause havoc. Sweden a bastion of neutrality and tolerance must now choose between supporting America's war against Islam or damaging its brand image. However, the failure of the Swedish authorities to curb the attacks demonstrate quite clearly where Sweden's loyalty lie and a torrid time awaits its Muslim populace.
Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Germany in recent weeks to protest the "Islamisation of the West", shocking the country and drawing condemnation from Chancellor Angela Merkel. Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) started weekly protests in the eastern city of Dresden in October, and the movement has been growing steadily ever since with regular Monday demonstrations. On December 22, 17,500 took to the streets of Dresden chanting "We are the people", a slogan borrowed from 1989 protests in the same city that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Worryingly for Germany's leaders, a Forsa opinion for Stern Magazine last week revealed that one in eight Germans would join an anti-Muslim march if PEGIDA organised one in their home town. In an unusually strong-worded New Year's Day address, Merkel said, "Today many people are again shouting on Mondays: 'We are the people'. But in fact they mean: You do not belong - because of the colour of your skin or your religion." "So I say to everyone who goes to such demonstrations: Do not follow those who are appealing to you! Because too often there is prejudice, coldness, even hatred, in their hearts." PEGIDA is supported by a motley array of extreme right and neo-Nazi groups, football hooligans and notably the anti-euro (although not anti-EU) Alternative for Germany (AfD) movement.
PEDIGA is led by Lutz Bachmann, a 41-year-old photographer and graphic designer who said in October he was appalled to see TV reports of Kurds and Muslim groups fighting on the streets of Hamburg. Bachmann used his network of far-right contacts to organise anti-Islam protests in response. The first of these took place in Dresden on October 20, a relatively small demonstration that attracted around 500 protesters. OECD figures published in December demonstrate that Germany received 400,000 immigrants in 2012, a figure that makes Germany Europe's biggest immigrant destination. All this feeds into the hands of PEGIDA, and the protest movement has spread rapidly to other German cities. [Source: France24]
There are 2 main reasons that have fuelled the rise of Islamaphobia in Germany. First, is the daily diet of Islamaphobia fed to the German public via the German media. Second, the wave of refugees coming to Europe is a consequence of Western intervention in Muslim lands. However, no German leader is willing to discuss these reasons, and this only confirms that domestic Islamaphobia in Germany is party of Merkel's domestic agenda.
Police in the western Indian state of Gujarat have come under fire for conducting anti-terror drills using people who posed as militants with white skullcaps and shouted pro-Islamic slogans, according to local media reports. Muslim leaders reportedly criticized the incident as "atrocious and highly condemnable" after videos showing two separate police drills surfaced over the last two days. According to local media reports, the videos released Wednesday showed police personnel in the city of Surat capturing three people posing as militants while dressed in white skullcaps and long white tunics, which are traditionally worn by Muslims. Another video that surfaced on Thursday reportedly showed a similar drill in the Narmada district, where people posing as militants were also heard shouting pro-Islamic slogans such as "Islam zindabad (long live Islam)." After the videos were shown by several local television networks, Gujarat's Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, who belongs to the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), reportedly admitted that it was a "mistake" to link religion with terrorism. "The mistake has been rectified. The issue has been resolved and the matter should be put to rest now," Patel said, according to local media reports. However, Kamal Farooqui, a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, reportedly demanded that the state government take legal action against those responsible. "It is profiling the Muslim community which is very bad. They (police) should apologize, otherwise they should be taken to the court," Farooqui reportedly said. Meanwhile, Gujarat police, which had initially tried to brush off criticism and had asked the media not to sensationalize the incident, has eventually apologized and said that it was an "avoidable situation," according to local media reports. [Source: International Business Times]
This comes as no surprise, considering that under Modi's tenure in Gujarat Muslims were brutally massacred by Hindu bigots. But what is difficult to comprehend are the apologist Muslims who continue to support Modi and his allies in Gujarat, despite the anti-Islamic policies of Modi's government.
The Islamic face veil is to be banned in public in the capital of China's restive Xinjiang region, home to its Uighur Muslim minority. The ban was backed by local authorities in Urumqi, state media reported. The move is the latest in a campaign against Islamic clothing and symbols in the mainly Muslim region. China's government has blamed Uighur militants for several recent attacks - but activists say the violence has been fuelled by Chinese repression. The Uighurs traditionally practice a moderate form of Islam. Recently, though, the influence of stricter forms of the faith from the Gulf and Pakistan has led to more women covering their faces. According to the BBC's Asia Pacific editor, Charles Scanlon, the Chinese authorities regard wearing an Islamic face veil as an act of defiance at a time of growing violence in the region. In August this year, the northern city of Karamay banned men with long beards from boarding buses. Some experts believe such restrictions could backfire at a time when many Uighurs believe their culture is under attack. James Leibold, an expert on China's ethnic policy at Melbourne's La Trobe University, told Reuters news agency that the ban on the veils would make them "more popular as a symbol of resistance and assertion of ethno-national identity". He is quoted as saying that China's Communist party had made a direct link between certain Islamic dress styles and religious extremism. The law passed in Urumqi is set to come into force after it has been approved by a regional body. [Source: The BBC]
Chinese enmity towards Islam knows no bounds. The continued oppression of Muslims at the hand of the Chinese government is an eye opener for those who claim that the 21st Century belongs to China. China, like the West and India fear the return of the Caliphate; for they know that the Caliphate is the only true state where tolerance of other people is practiced both in word and in deed, irrespective of creed, colour, ethnicity and religion.
Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, has threatened to take important steps starting tonight in response to the Security Council's rejection for the Palestinian draft resolution "to end the occupation." Abu Mazen said in a speech tonight before his followers in the district headquarters on the occasion of the launch of the Fatah movement, "Rights are not given; they are extracted, we have something to do about this as of tonight".
Militarizing the Judiciary Reveals the Regime Lacks Authority in the Eyes of the People
The Supreme Court has been asked to reconsider its 1999 verdict in the Sheikh Liaquat Hussain case which declared military courts unconstitutional. In a petition filed before the apex court on 28 December, asking the court to empower the government to make laws or promulgate ordinances to establish military courts in order to help civil authorities curb terrorism and militancy. This petition comes in the wake of the regime's decision to establish military courts as part of its National Action Plan.
The regime has resorted to military force to establish its authority because the regime realizes it does not have popular support. In origin, authority is derived from the people or from the dominant faction within the people. This is because ruling includes the search for truth, the restriction to the law and fulfillment of justice. Authority pays no attention to material power.
Authority's strength should be derived its popular acceptance in discharging of the affairs of the people. However, when any authority becomes increasingly dependent on military force, it exposes the fact that it could not win the people over. The authority is transformed from an entity of justice and truthfulness into one of domination and coercion. Might is right. Thus, any role for the military within authority, however little, makes it a police state like the role of the police officers in relation to prisoners, not an authority which people respect and co-operate with.
As to why the regime has lost the support of the people, it is due to its alignment with a state whose values and objectives are foreign to the people. The people believe in Islam and its commands, including ruling by Islam and Jihad against occupying forces. This belief is embedded within the people deeply through their belief in Allah (swt) and His Messenger and deepened through hundreds of years of striving for Islam. It is this basis from which any authority within Pakistan should establish its strength. However, the Americans reject ruling by Islam and Jihad, and so have mobilized traitors within the regime to militarize the authority.
This state of affairs also reveals the end of American influence within Muslim Lands. America accepts its agents to resort to military force because it has failed the battle to win hearts and minds. All that remains for the armed forces in Pakistan to fulfill their role as protectors of the authority, by ejecting the traitors and restore the ruling by Islam.
Fuel Must Be Public Property to Prevent Collapse of Economy
With crude price falling below $57 a barrel in the Middle East, as of 29 December, the government announced increased taxation on 30 December to offset a shortfall in revenue, instead of passing on full benefit to consumers. Besides Rs6 to Rs14 per litre petroleum levy, the government used to charge 17pc GST on prices of all petroleum products. At present the petroleum levy is at its maximum permissible limit under the law. Now, in addition, the government raised the general sales tax on petroleum products by five per cent, above the normal 17 per cent, on Tuesday. The decision will take effect on Thursday (Jan 1). It is the highest GST rate ever imposed by the government.
The colonialists through their agents greatly increase taxation, in the form of levies, surcharges and General Sales Tax, on the population, further strangling the economy. This is done in order to raise revenues to pay back foreign interest based loans, even though Pakistan has paid back the principle sums of such colonialist loans many times over. It is this colonialist trap, which is designed to prevent Pakistan from ever escaping and rising as a power. In addition, through decades of privatization of the fuel sector, foreign and local private companies are continuously securing great profits, whilst local industry and agriculture falters and collapses with ever increasing costs of petrol, kerosene oil and diesel.
The cure to Pakistan's economic illness does not lie in privatization, foreign investment or colonialist loans for they are the disease itself. Islam has declared that energy is neither a private nor a state property but a public property for all the Muslims. RasulAllah (saw) said,
«المسلمون شرکاء فی ثلاث الماء والکلاء والنار»
"Muslims are partners in three things: water, pastures and fire (energy)" [Abu Dawood.].
Thus, although the Khilafah "Caliphate" state takes charge of managing the public property and state property, it is not permitted for the Khalifah to grant the ownership of the public property to any private party, whether an individual or group, as it is a property for all Muslims. Revenues are for the public, looking after its affairs and securing its interests, and not for the state.
America Reaffirms Continuity of its Occupation in Afghanistan
On 29 January America confirmed that the occupiers of Afghanistan are staying, under the excuse of assisting Afghan forces. "The United States ... NATO and the international community have renewed their commitment to a sovereign and stable and unified Afghanistan, a democratic Afghanistan," State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke told reporters in Washington. On 21 January, the United States and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) ended their combat mission in Afghanistan and launched a new mission aimed at assisting the official Afghan forces in combat.
As for the regime commanding the largest Muslim forces nearest the occupation, it is engaged in treachery against the sanctity of the Muslims' lands. It is undertaking measures to prevent Jihad against the occupying American forces in Afghanistan, under the banner of preventing "terrorism." Previously the regime claimed to distinguish between those who attacked Pakistan and those that attacked the American occupation.
However, now, the regime has declared them all as one and has ordered them all to be stopped, no longer distinguishing between the lowly murderer of children and the noble Mujahid fighting in the way of Allah against the Western crusaders. On 17 December 2014, Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, declared, "There will be no distinction between good and bad Taliban. The nation will continue this war with full resolve till the elimination of the last terrorist." This is despite the severe condemnation from Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw) for abandoning the duty of Jihad in the path of Allah (swt). Allah (swt) said,
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَا لَكُمْ إِذَا قِيلَ لَكُمُ انْفِرُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ اثَّاقَلْتُمْ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ أَرَضِيتُمْ بِالْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا مِنَ الْآخِرَةِ فَمَا مَتَاعُ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا فِي الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا قَلِيلٌ
"O you who have believed, what is [the matter] with you that, when you are told to go forth in the Path of Allah (Jihad), you adhere heavily to the earth? Are you satisfied with the life of this world rather than the Hereafter? But what is the enjoyment of worldly life compared to the Hereafter except a [very] little." [Surah At-Tawba 9: 38]
And RasuAllah (saw) said,
«مَا تَرَكَ قَوْمٌ الْجِهَادَ إِلا عَمَّهُمُ اللَّهُ بِالْعَذَابِ»
"No people that abandoned Jihad except that Allah encompassed them with punishment." [Tabaraani]
Indian Hostility Will Only Be Effectively Dealt with By the Khilafah "Caliphate"
Exchange of fire took place in the Shakargarh sector of Narowal district late on Wednesday and continued until the early hours of Thursday 1 Jan, official sources said. Wednesday's incident in which four Pakistani troopers died on the border in Jammu and Kashmir followed the killing earlier in the day of an Indian border guard, Rakesh Sharma. The latest round of incidents began when Indian border guards killed two Chenab Rangers' personnel in Shakargarh sector on Wednesday after calling them for a flag meeting on the Working Boundary. Naik Riaz Shakir and Lance Naik Mohammad Safdar, who were deputed for the meeting sought by the BSF, died amid a hail of bullets.
Muslim blood is shed by the lowly mushrik Hindus and the regime merely resorts to verbal condemnation. This is because the regime is following the American plan for Pakistan to act submissively before India, so that it can rise as the dominant regional power to curb challenges to America from China and the Muslims. Islam did not allow the bending and prostrating of the Muslim before aggression from the lowly mushrik, whether Hindu or other than the Hindu. It did not allow submission to the Kuffar in our affairs. Rather Islam demands that Muslims counter the enemy with all that the Muslims possess, whether great means or little. Anas narrated that RasulAllah (saw) said,
«جَاهِدُوا الْمُشْرِكِينَ بِأَمْوَالِكُمْ وَأَنْفُسِكُمْ وَأَلْسِنَتِكُمْ» أخرجه أبو داود
"Fight the mushrikeen with your wealth, yourselves and your tongues." [Abu Daud]
Yet, rather than mobilizing our considerable strength against the enemy, the regime is using it all to strengthen India as part of America's larger strategy for the region. It is upon us all to join our nights and days to overturn this harm by working with Hizb ut Tahrir to re-establish the Khilafah "Caliphate", the shield of the Muslims.
End the Alliance with America, the Cause of Bloodshed and Fitna
The United States and the Raheel-Nawaz regime would hold a ministerial meeting of their bilateral Strategic Dialogue in Islamabad on 14 January 2015. US Secretary of State John Kerry would visit Islamabad for the meeting. This would be the second ministerial-level meeting since the dialogue resumed in 2013. Three editions were held in quick succession in 2010 before the dialogue was suspended due to events in 2011. "The US Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting Pakistan this month for Pakistan-US Strategic Dialogue. The arrangements are being finalised," FO spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said at the weekly media briefing on 1 January. The discussions would focus on how to advance bilateral engagement, Pakistan's Ambassador to US Jalil Abbas Jilani told Dawn by phone.
It is the alliance with American which is the source of insecurity in Pakistan. On the basis of this alliance America established a large intelligence and private military network within our walls which masterminds acts of brutality by the ignorant against our armed forces and civilians. It is this alliance which is used to prevent the Muslims of the armed forces and the tribals unifying to expel the American occupation of Afghanistan. And it is this alliance which is burning Pakistan in the fires of chaos, bloodshed and a war of Fitna in the tribal regions.
The solution is to end the alliance with America. As Hizb ut Tahrir has adopted in its Introduction to the Constitution, in Article 189, "States with whom we do not have treaties, and the actual imperialist states, such as Britain, America and France, and those states that have designs on the State, such as Russia, are legally considered to be belligerent states. All precautions must be taken towards them and it would be wrong to establish diplomatic relations with them." And in the same Article's Clause 4 it has stated, "States that are actually belligerent states, such as Israel for example, a state of war must be taken as the basis for all dealings with them. They must be dealt with as if a real war existed between us - irrespective of whether an armistice exists between us or not - and all their subjects are prevented from entering the State."
On the directives of the US, the Raheel-Nawaz regime announced a "Nation Action Plan." This plan is not for eliminating destabilization and improving the law and order situation, as the regime claims. In fact it is to suppress both the concept of Jihad and the fighters waging Jihad against the US occupation in Afghanistan. Yes, the regime claims that the Nation Action Plan
News:
Just days after all parliamentary political parties in Pakistan reached a consensus over the establishment of military courts to try terrorists, voices of concern rang out in the Senate over the proposal.
PPP leader Mian Raza Rabbani said military courts had different standards of proof, offered fewer protections to the accused and when its relatively abrupt systems are applied to the civilian environment, they could lead to great miscarriages of justice. "The country has already seen this in the case of missing persons," he remarked.
Another politician suggested there should be a definition of terrorists, pointing out that any ambiguous law could lead to people who used arms for celebratory firing at wedding parties being hauled up for terrorism. (Dawn Newspaper 30/12/14)
Comment:
With tensions and emotions still running high in Pakistan after the brutal killings of children and school staff at Army Public School Peshawar on 16th December, the announcement of setting up military courts to try terrorists is one of the many knee jerk responses put forward to deal with terrorism. For those who are questioning this plan, the areas of concern range from constitutional validity, to the misuse of powers, to the fear of politicians finding they could be targeted by the military. Other suggestions have been forwarded to look at the current legal system and why existing Anti Terrorism Courts (ATC) have failed.
Without a doubt, anti terror laws, courts and convictions can be used by the traitors in the government and military to silence anyone who questions the USA-led war on terror; whether these are politicians, army leaders, journalists or sincere dawah carriers who have no link to material struggle (fighting) but just speak out and question the status quo. The CIA torture report released December 9th, just weeks before the Peshawar incident but hardly heard of in the Pakistan media, paints a harrowing picture of how the self styled liberal democratic savior of the world, America and its allies have treated alleged and not proven terrorists in their war on terror. How can we expect military courts to serve justice when all forms of law and normal judicial conduct (according to their own rules) is set aside in the name of fighting terrorism? Even after the revelations, America continues in her arrogance undeterred!
Whether it was General Musharaf's own admission of handing over people to America for millions of dollars after 9/11, the government issuing visas like cheap flyers to Americans without army security clearances as reported in 2011 or the now setting up of military courts to fight terrorism; all acts reveal the actual terrorism of many innocent citizens by the military and government who are not shy in assisting the biggest terrorist of the world-America!
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Nazia Rehman - Pakistan
The Central Communications Committee of Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Turkey has conducted a series of visits within the context of the campaign "Say STOP to the Judicial Persecutions against Hizb ut Tahrir!" launched by Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Turkey on 18 September 2014 which is still ongoing. During these visits, the injustice of the Turkish judiciary and its infringement of the rights has been shown; to a wide array of people, ranging from politicians to civil society organizations
Media sources loyal to the regime published minute details about the newly issued decision on the compulsion of young men to obtain approvals for travel from the "Recruitment Division", ahead of their travel. The new resolution includes all Syrians from age 18 to age 42 years. It is incumbent upon those who wish to obtain such approval a payment of US $300 or the equivalent of the Syrian pound. The Department of Immigration and Passport had circulated an instant telegram requesting not to grant approvals to travel for those who finished the compulsory service, unless after obtaining the approval of the recruitment division.
O Muslims in Ash-Sham the Abode of Dar Al-Islam: After nearly four years of the start of the blessed Ash-Sham's revolution against Bashar, the tyrant of this era, and the steadfastness of this revolution in face of the American-led international conspiracy against it. And in spite of all the material, military and human support the criminal regime received from Russia and Iran, and despite the international community standing behind the Pharaoh of this time for fear of falling and to prevent the crowning of this revolution by the Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashidah on the method of the Prophethood... However, this revolution has exhausted his physical, military and human resources, forcing him to demand from those who did not perform military service or finished it (aged 18 - 42 years) to report to the recruitment division; so as to prevent them from traveling outside the country, and even arrest them in order to forcibly involving them to support him not to fall and to counter their people of Muslims at home. If anything, this proves the extent of the weakness that such a regime has reached, and signals its imminent end, Allah willing. The regime by this step unwillingly reveals the extent of its lie that it is strong enough to besiege Aleppo, for it is too weak to even protect itself.
O Mujahideen in the blessed land of Ash- Sham: What is being plotted in Syria Ash-Sham today will be not resolved except by consistency in front of it on the basis of Iman in Allah (swt) and glorifying His Deen. So for as long as you came out in order to remove this tyranny then stand firm on the right, do not weaken in front of the oppressive tyrants, and be as the Almighty says:
الَّذِينَ قَالَ لَهُمُ النَّاسُ إِنَّ النَّاسَ قَدْ جَمَعُوا لَكُمْ فَاخْشَوْهُمْ فَزَادَهُمْ إِيمَانًا وَقَالُوا حَسْبُنَا اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيل فَانْقَلَبُوا بِنِعْمَةٍ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَفَضْلٍ لَمْ يَمْسَسْهُمْ سُوءٌ وَاتَّبَعُوا رِضْوَانَ اللَّهِ وَاللَّهُ ذُو فَضْلٍ عَظِيمٍ إِنَّمَا ذَلِكُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ يُخَوِّفُ أَوْلِيَاءَهُ فَلَا تَخَافُوهُمْ وَخَافُونِ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ مُؤْمِنِينَ
"So they returned with favor from Allah and bounty, no harm having touched them. And they pursued the pleasure of Allah, and Allah is the possessor of great bounty." [Al-i-Imran: 174]
In which the Almighty promised them success, He (swt) says:
((يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اصْبِرُوا وَصَابِرُوا وَرَابِطُوا وَاتَّقُوا اللهَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ))
"O you who have believed, persevere and endure and remain stationed and fear Allah that you may be successful." [Al-i-Imran: 200]
So stand fast and be patient and endure, and fear Allah, that you may be successful.
Ahmad Abdul Wahab
Head of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
Wilayah Syria
