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• Yemen Calls for Intervention with Ground Troops

• US Arms Pakistan with 14 Combat Aircrafts, 59 Trainer Jets, 374 Armoured Carriers

• China is Forcing Muslim Shop Owners to Sell Alcohol and Cigarettes to Weaken Islam

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Yemen Calls for Intervention with Ground Troops

Yemen's mission to the United Nations has called for a ground intervention to push back a Houthi rebel offensive in the south of a country where conditions are deteriorating after weeks of war. "We urge the international community to quickly intervene by land forces to save Yemen, especially Aden and Taiz," Khaled Alyemany, Yemen's Ambassador to the UN, said in a letter to the Security Council on Wednesday. The letter obtained by Al Jazeera also called on the international human rights organisations to document "barbaric violations against a defenceless population". The letter was addressed to the ambassador of Lithuania, which is holding the presidency of the Security Council for May, but was not yet released publicly. "Clearly this letter is reverberating through the halls of the UN," Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo, who is reporting from New York, said. "This letter leaves nothing to doubt about what according to the Yemeni government needs to be done." Yemen's Foreign Minister Riyadh Yaseen accused the Houthis of committing "genocide" and called on the international community to file charges against the armed group. The Arab Coalition began air strikes in Yemen on March 26 against Iran-allied Houthi fighters, backed by forces loyal to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who seized control of parts of the country, including the capital Sanaa. Meanwhile, US Secretary of State John Kerry has called for the lull in the fighting, while expressing his concern about the worsening humanitarian situation in Yemen." The situation is getting more dire by the day and we are concerned about that," Kerry told a news conference during a visit to Djibouti, the first secretary of state to visit the Horn of Africa nation. [Source: Al-Jazeera]

The Yemeni government in exile is setting the stage for a ground invasion, after the strikes led by Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries have failed to halt the Houthis and their allies. The situation is rapidly moving in the direction where Muslim blood will be spilt to protect the interest of the colonial powers like America and the EU.

US Arms Pakistan with 14 Combat Aircrafts, 59 Trainer Jets, 374 Armoured Carriers

The US has handed over to Pakistan 14 combat aircraft, 59 military trainer jets and 374 armoured personnel carriers, which were earlier used by American forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. As the US withdraws its forces from neighbouring Afghanistan, the major defence articles have been transferred to Pakistan under its 'Excessive Defence Article' category, an internal Congressional report has said. According to the internal report prepared by Congressional Research Service (CRS)-- an independent research wing of the Congress-- Pakistan has either made full payment or will make payments from its national funds towards the purchase of 18 new F-16C/D Block 52 Fighting Falcon BSE -5.00 % combat aircraft worth $ 1.43 billion. This include F-16 armaments including 500 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles; 1,450 2,000-pound bombs; 500 JDAM Tail Kits for gravity bombs; and 1,600 Enhanced Paveway laser-guided kits. Pakistan has also paid $ 298 million for 100 harpoon anti-ship missiles, 500 sidewinder air-to-air missiles ($ 95 million); and seven Phalanx Close-In Weapons System naval guns ($80 million). Under Coalition Support Funds (in the Pentagon budget), Pakistan received 26 Bell 412EP utility helicopters, along with related parts and maintenance, valued at $ 235 million. Pakistan is also receiving military equipment with a mix of its national funds and America's foreign military funding. These include 60 Mid-Life Update kits for F-16A/B combat aircraft (valued at $ 891 million, with $477 million of this in FMF). Pakistan has purchased 45 such kits, with all upgrades completed to date. This include 115 M-109 self-propelled howitzers ($87 million, with $ 53 million in FMF). Under Frontier Corps, and Pakistan Counterinsurgency Fund authorities, US has provided 4 Mi-17 multirole helicopters (another 6 were provided temporarily at no cost), four King Air 350 surveillance aircraft, and 450 vehicles. [Source: Economic Times]

Despite the overwhelming evidence that America is Pakistan's chief nemesis, the Pakistani military continues to increase its dependency on American arms and money. This is the same army leadership that has vehemently complained to the Americans about the failure of the coalition forces to stop cross border attacks against Pakistani targets, unauthorized US drone strikes, repeated violation of Pakistani territory such as the Abbottabad operation, only to receive more weapons and money from the American war machine. Has the Pakistani military leadership gone mad? Cannot it no longer distinguish between enemy and friend?

China is Forcing Muslim Shop Owners to Sell Alcohol and Cigarettes to Weaken Islam

Chinese authorities have ordered Muslim shopkeepers and restaurant owners in a village in its troubled Xinjiang region to sell alcohol and cigarettes, and promote them in "eye-catching displays," in an attempt to undermine Islam's hold on local residents, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported. Establishments that failed to comply were threatened with closure and their owners with prosecution. Facing widespread discontent over its repressive rule in the mainly Muslim province of Xinjiang, and mounting violence in the past two years, China has launched a series of "strike hard" campaigns to weaken the hold of Islam in the western region. Government employees and children have been barred from attending mosques or observing the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. In many places, women have been barred from wearing face-covering veils, and men discouraged from growing long beards. In the village of Aktash in southern Xinjiang, Communist Party official Adil Sulayman, told RFA that many local shopkeepers had stopped selling alcohol and cigarettes from 2012 "because they fear public scorn," while many locals had decided to abstain from drinking and smoking. The Quran calls the use of "intoxicants" sinful, while some Muslim religious leaders have also forbidden smoking. Sulayman said authorities in Xinjiang viewed ethnic Uighurs who did not smoke as adhering to "a form of religious extremism." They issued the order to counter growing religious sentiment that was "affecting stability," he said.James Leibold, an expert on China's ethnic policies at Melbourne's La Trobe University, said Chinese officials were "often flailing around in the dark" when tackling extremism. An acute lack of understanding leads them to focus on visible, but imprecise, perceptions of radicalism such as long beards, veils and sobriety, he said. The result is often "crude forms of ethno-cultural profiling," Leibold said. "These sorts of mechanistic and reactive policies only serve to inflame ethno-national tension without addressing the root causes of religious extremism, while further alienating the mainstream Uighur community, making them feel increasingly unwelcome within a hostile, Han-dominated society," he wrote in an e-mail. [Source: The Independent].

Undeterred by the lack of criticism from Islamic countries, the Chinese government continues to introduce harsh measures to suppress its Muslim population. What makes the matter worse is that Islamic countries like Pakistan and the GCC are eager to do business with China, and do not say anything about the treatment of Uighurs. The irony is that for Muslims seeking to do business with China, the Chinese government goes out of its way to ensure that halal food, prayer facilities, and alcohol free meetings are provided; whereas its own Muslim population are routinely subjected to non-Islamic measures.

On 3rd May 2015, in the district of Urengoy, the authorities demolished the largest house of Allah - Masjid Noor Islam - which is visited by more than 1500 Muslims in the city of Yamal of Siberia. We share the anger and pain with our brothers and sisters that afflicted them as a result of this brutal barbaric act, and we supplicate to Allah to take revenge on all who participated in this criminal act, for there is no barrier between the supplication of the oppressed and Allah.

On Monday 4/5/2015, a delegation from Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Jordan headed by the member of the Central Communications Committee in the Hizb, Mr. Mohammad Al-Amoush, went to the Consulate of the spiteful and criminal regime in Uzbekistan by appointment. However, the Consulate refused meeting with the delegation which intended to say to them and their regime harsh and significant words, proclaiming the truth, revealing the horror of the criminality and malice of Karimov and his regime against Islam, the Muslims and the Da'wah Carriers, in a letter that read:

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Uzbekistan's Regime Is Spiteful of Islam

And Hence It Harbours Malice Against Hizb ut Tahrir

(Translated)

The ruler of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, is spiteful of Islam and spiteful to all who call for it. His hatred is not new but it is an old hatred; we have witnessed it since the early nineties of the last century, i.e. since the emergence of the work of Hizb ut Tahrir in the country, where the tyrant Karimov carried out mass arrests of the party members. He continued from that time with the arrests and the fight against the party until the number of detainees exceeded eight thousand. With the fact that the party is a political party; it does not undertake acts of violence and material work. The dictator Karimov knows this, but his hatred of Islam made him spiteful and hostile and fight all who call to Islam, especially if the call is political.

Karimov was not sufficed with the arrests and imprisonments, but he ordered the courts to toughen sentences on the ones who call for Islam; there are sentences of 15 years, 10 years, 7 years, and 5 years. Those who serve their time are not released, but they are negotiated with to work with the regime against the party, if refused, it will result in an extended prison sentence. They did not find any one who was willing to cooperate with them, thus they started to negotiate with the one who completed his prison term for a written pledge that he will not return to work with the party, but rarely did they find anyone who is prepared to take such a pledge. Therefore, they have not released except a fraction, and the vast majority have extended sentences and not once.

Karimov was not sufficed with the long prison sentences and with their extension whenever they ended, but he ordered his henchmen, the jailers to torture the prisoners and prevent them from praying. Not only that, but he recommended the elimination of some prisoners with different types of torture, including administering drugs that cause incurable diseases. Hundreds of Hizb ut Tahrir members were assassinated.

Karimov still detains a large group of Muslims. Recently he arrested 70 Muslims; we will mention those who have been detained on charges associated to Hizb ut Tahrir:

-        Deputy Governor of Quvasoy City, a resident in the city of Margilan - Nadir - born in 1981 -sentenced for three years

-        Director General of the Treasury for the Almalyk area - Mirza Aleem Bin Imiyamin Khaidarov - born in 1979 - sentenced for 6 years

-        Inspector (KRV) Azizbek Aargachev - born in 1983 - 6 years

-        Teacher at the School of Economics in the region Almalyk- Ahrar Bin Muhammad Jan Abdalrahmanov - born in 1986 - 6 years

-        Pharmacist in Kizelitiba Hospital- Almalyk- Ilham - born in 1975 - 10 years

-        Craftsman family member Azizbek Muminov - born in 1989 - 10 years

-        Services worker - Atheem Jan Rahmanov - born in 1992 - 6 years

-        Trader Abdul Jabbar Abdul Hamid Mirza Rahmanov - born in 1991 - 5 years

-        Services worker - Abdomu'min Muhammad Jan Mu'ammar Zaiev - born in 1985 - 6 years

-        Services worker - Ali Sher Muhammad Jan Mu'ammar Zaiev - born in 1991 - 10 years

-        Craftsman Bahrudin Babayev - born in 1985 - 14 years ...tried in separate trial.

-        Mother of three children - Zumurrud Bint Issa Jan Omarkolova - born in 1974- 6 years

-        Ni'matullah Bin Hatim - born in 1991 - sentenced for a year and a half plus a large fine

-        Driver of the Deputy Governor mentioned above from Quvasoy City - a huge fine

O Muslims: There is a large number of world leaders now like Karimov who detest Islam and consider it the source of terrorism, and consider all who call to Islam and for the establishment of the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" and the implementation of Shariah as a terrorist and a threat to the whole world, and they establish alliances to fight all of this. Allah Almighty the truthful says:

يُرِيدُونَ أَن يُطْفِؤُواْ نُورَ اللّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَيَأْبَى اللّهُ إِلاَّ أَن يُتِمَّ نُورَهُ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكَافِرُونَ * هُوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ رَسُولَهُ بِالْهُدَى وَدِينِ الْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُلِّهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ

"They want to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah refuses except to perfect His light, although the disbelievers dislike it. It is He who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to manifest it over all religion, although they who associate others with Allah dislike it" [At-Tawba: 32-33]

Therefore do not be afraid, O Muslims in Uzbekistan or anywhere in the world, Allah is with you, and the light of Islam will prevail in spite of all the unbelievers, the light of Islam will prevail over all the ideologies and all religions, including the capitalist ideology that most countries in the world follow, and we pray to Allah that it will be soon.

If these leaders of the world who are spiteful of Islam understand that the message of Islam is a mercy to mankind as Allah Almighty says:

((وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ إِلَّا رَحْمَةً لِّلْعَالَمِينَ))

"And We have not sent you, [O Muhammad], except as a mercy to the worlds" [Al-Anbiya: 107]

They would have not harbor hate against it nor tried to extinguish its light. This verse by the Almighty applies to them:

((قُلْ هَلْ نُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِالْأَخْسَرِينَ أَعْمَالًا * الَّذِينَ ضَلَّ سَعْيُهُمْ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَهُمْ يَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّهُمْ يُحْسِنُونَ صُنْعًا))

"Say, [O Muhammad], "Shall we [believers] inform you of the greatest losers as to [their] deeds? [They are] those whose effort is lost in worldly life, while they think that they are doing well in work." [Al-Kahf: 103-104]

There are many of the sensible people in the West and the East who have studied Islam intellectually and did not follow blindly what they inherited from their forefathers and their societies, they served justice to Islam and embraced it because they were truthful with themselves. There will come a time when many of those who are fighting Islam now will admit to the blessing and mercy of Islam and will embrace it, once they live under its shade when Islam is victorious.

Karimov felt that the love of Muslims around him in Uzbekistan and in the world to Islam is increasing and their Islamic sentiments are growing stronger, which infuriated him and scared him, but he hid his anger and fear and started to show closeness and fondness to some Muslim scholars hypocritically, to keep these scholars on his side. And those who are not deceived by his hypocrisy, he accuses them with fake charges, detains, and punishes them. He does not stop the brutality of his actions towards them unless they submit to him and follow his way according to his wishes. But will detention, torture and murder change people's concepts and convictions? No it will not. That might silence some of them reluctantly, but it fuels in their hearts the determination to change oppression and the oppressors, this insistence is infectious and is kindled in the hearts of the relatives, neighbors, and acquaintances, and spreads across the country and all over the Muslim lands. We see members of Hizb ut Tahrir and the members of most of the sincere Islamic movements exercise beautiful patience and challenge the injustice of the oppressors, and they will continue to be part of the caravan of the struggling believers who are certain of Allah's victory.

Allah (swt) says:

((إِنَّا لَنَنصُرُ رُسُلَنَا وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَيَوْمَ يَقُومُ الْأَشْهَادُ))

"Indeed, We will support Our messengers and those who believe during the life of this world and on the Day when the witnesses will stand" [Ghafir: 51]

The Messenger of Allah (saw) said:

"إِنَّ اللَّهَ زَوَى لِي الأَرْضَ، فَرَأَيْتُ مَشَارِقَهَا وَمَغَارِبَهَا، وَإِنَّ أُمَّتِي سَيَبْلُغُ مُلْكُهَا مَا زُوِيَ لِي مِنْهَا''

"Allah Has shown me the earth: I saw its Easts and its Wests, the authority of my Ummah will prevail over all what I was shown." Narrated by Muslim and others.

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