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News Headlines 18/04/2015

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  • Let's Face Reality, Greece is Bankrupt: Marc Faber
  • Christianity on Course to be Minority Religion in UK
  • In France, Lessons in Secularism to Confront Radical Islam


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Let's Face Reality, Greece is Bankrupt: Marc Faber

Greece is bankrupt and should default, well-known investor Marc Faber told CNBC Friday, arguing that a "geopolitical game of chess" was being played out in the region. The comments by Faber, the editor of the "Gloom, Boom & Doom Report," came at a time of heightened tensions between Greece and its international creditors. The organizations overseeing the country's two international bailouts -- worth a combined 240 billion euros ($259 billion) -- have said the country will not receive a last tranche of aid, worth 7.2 billion euros, until it makes far-reaching reforms. But Faber, a bearish investor known as "Dr. Doom," said the country's fiscal situation was unsalvageable. "Even if Greece grows at 10 percent per annum for the next ten years, it will not be able to pay its debts back," he told CNBC. "It's bankrupt. We better face the reality and not kick the can the can down the road. Greece should default." Faber said that while Greece could leave the euro zone and adopt a parallel currency, there that geopolitics were coming in to play and there was no appetite in Europe to let the country exit from the single currency bloc. "I personally think it's not so much of an economic issue as a political issue," he told CNBC Europe's "Squawk Box." "Europe, and in particular NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization military alliance), and the U.S. do not want Greece to leave (the euro zone) because if they do, other people are going to knock on Greece's door -- like the Russians or the Chinese maybe. It's very much a geopolitical game of chess that's being played." Greece and its creditors disagree on which reforms should be implemented, however, and as such the much-needed aid remains under lock and key. This has prompted speculation that the country could soon run out of money and default on its forthcoming debt repayments to the IMF and ECB, which could, in turn, result in the country leaving the euro zone. [Source: CNBC].

Since 2008, the European Union (EU) has been a political failure, as the union is unable to show unity in economic policies required to stabilize the EU. With Greece on the verge of exiting the union the question arises, which country will follow Greece and end the EU experiment.


Christianity on Course to be Minority Religion in UK

Christians will be a minority in the UK by the middle of this century amid surging growth in atheism and Islam, an authoritative new study charting the future of the world's religions predicts. According to projections by the US-based Pew Research Centre, the proportion of the British population identifying themselves as Christian will reduce by almost a third by 2050 to stand at just 45.4 per cent, compared with almost two thirds in 2010. The number of Muslims in Britain is predicted to more than double to 11.3 per cent, or one in nine of the total population during that time. But the reports predicts that biggest change in the religious make-up of Britain in the next three and a half decades will be a major expansion in the number of non-religious people. They would account for just under 39 per cent, challenging Christians as the biggest faith community in the UK. The predictions mirror analysis from the most recent UK census which saw the number of children growing up as Muslims in the UK almost double in a decade while the number of people describing themselves as non-religious also jumped dramatically. If the projections, which are based on official population figures, birth rates and immigration estimates from around the world, are borne out, it could amount to the most significant religious realignment in Britain since the arrival of Christianity. It would mean that by 2050 Britain would have the third largest Muslim community, as a share of the population, in Europe, overtaking France, Germany, Belgium and a handful of other countries. [Source Daily Telegraph]

It does not matter how much the British government dislikes Islam and works towards undermining it, Islam will prevail. Allah (swt) says:

((هُوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ رَسُولَهُ بِالْهُدَى وَدِينِ الْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُلِّهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ))

"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." [TMQ: at-Tawba: 33]


In France, Lessons in Secularism to Confront Radical Islam

The French government wants to send imams to classes in secularism and religious freedom as a measure to prevent home-grown extremism. Elizabeth Bryant reports from Lyon on a program that is paving the way. All are enrolled in a program on secularism and religious freedom that is jointly run by two Lyon Universities and the city's Grand Mosque. They're the unlikely foot soldiers of a national campaign for greater religious tolerance and to help shape a moderate, Western-oriented "Islam a la Francaise." The drive has taken on new urgency since January's terrorist attacks in Paris and the departure of hundreds of French youths to join jihadist movements in the Middle East. The Socialist government has responded with a raft of new measures to fight home-grown extremism. Among them: plans to enroll hundreds of imams and other key Muslim figures in civics training programs - and to make them mandatory for chaplains working in prisons and the military. But Lyon's program has broader ambitions, as it reaches out to include government officials in the training. "If things are going to change, they need to change in all directions," says Michel Younes, co-director of the initiative at Lyon's Catholic University. "That means not only training imams about secularity, but also civil servants - because the subject of religion in public spaces has almost become a taboo." "Living together has to be more than an idea," he adds. "It's being able to be together, think together, exchange ideas together." France has always had an uneasy relationship with Islam, the country's second biggest religion. Clashes over issues like wearing headscarves in public schools - now banned - to Halal butchering practices and religious burial grounds have deepened divisions and misunderstandings between the state and the five million-strong Muslim community. [Source: Deutsche Welle]

For several years now, the French government is trying to change Islam into version of Islam that is acceptable to the authorities. However, it does not matter how hard the government tries, the French public's interest in Islam is at an all-time high. That must be worrying for the authorities.

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Central Media Office Yes to Rayyat Rasulullah (saw) No to Flags of Colonialism

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 In the midst of the Ummah's pursuit to break the colonial regime which was built on the ruins of Khilafah "Caliphate" State, a regime that carved out tens of meager entities from the Muslim countries, and the installed a flag over each entity is in fact a symbol of its colonization, civilization and domination of the Muslims' country. The Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir announces the launch of the campaign:

"Yes to Rayyat Rasulullah (saw)... No to Flags of Colonialism"

 


 

Promo for Campaign:

"Yes to Rayyat Rasulullah (saw)... No to Flags of Colonialism"

 

    Press Release | Victory to the Rayah of Rasulullah (saw)

 
 
Engineer Osman Bakash Support for the Rayyat Rasulullah (saw)

Message from Engineer Osman Bakash Director of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir at the start of the campaign launched by the Central Media Office titled, "Yes to Rayyat Rasulullah (saw)... No to Flags of Colonialism"

Jumada II 1436 AH - April 2015 CE

 

 
Engineer Hisham al Baba Support for the Rayyat Rasulullah (saw)

Message by Brother Hisham al Baba, Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb Ut Tahrir, at the start of the campaign launched by the Central Media Office titled, "Yes to Rayyat Rasulullah (saw)... No to Flags of Colonialism"

 Jumada II 1436 AH - April 2015 CE

 

 

  Liwaa and Rayah of the Messenger (peace and blessings upon him)

 

 

  


 

A special coverage of the activities organized by Hizb ut Tahrir/ Wilayah Syria

 

"Yes to Rayyat Rasulullah (saw)... No to Flags of Colonialism"

 

 


 

 

To Follow the Compaign in other Languages

 

 

 

 


 

Popular Facebook & Twitter that Adopt our Campaign

 

Ansar of the Ummah's Revolution in the Sham

Damascus Land of the Major Massacres-Fustaat al-Munineen Khair of the Muslim Abodes

Tahrir Ash-Sham Revolution

Ansar Hizb ut Tahrir in Daraa and its Areas

 

 

# JOIN OUR HASHTAG CAMPAIGN #

#YES_to_Rayyat_Rasulullah_NO_to_Colonialism_Flags
#Yes_to_Rayyat_Rasulullah
#No_to_Colonial_Flags
#نعم_لراية_رسول_الله_لا_لأعلام_الاستعمار
#لا_لأعلام_الاستعمار‬
‫#‏نعم_لراية_رسول_الله‬

 

 

 

Is there a Specific Banner Regarding Color or Shape that the People of al-Sham Should Abide?

Usage of the Banner and the Flag of Islam by the Khulafa' al-Rashidun

 

 

 

 

Wilayah Syria:
O Muslims: The Prophet (saw) has Approved the Type of the Flag and the Banner in Islam; Follow Him you will Succeed
Wilayah Lebanon:
Secularists in Lebanon Declare War on the Banner of the Messenger of Allah (saw)

Hizb ut Tahrir
O Muslims! Do not accept a substituent to the Islamic banner and flag;
Even though that kills the infidels' colonists in their rage!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The flags and banners of the Khilafah "Caliphate"

 

THE FLAGS AND BANNERS OF THE ARMY
[Source: The Ruling System in Islam, p. 174-176]

 

The flags and banners of the State

[Source: The Institutions of State in the Khilafah "Caliphate" by Hizb ut Tahrir, p. 163-167]

 

  

 

 Palestine: Processions of Cars Parading the Gaza Strip to publicize the banner and flag of the Prophet, peace be upon him

 

 

 Malaysia: Rayah and Liwaa Convoy for the Call for Khilafah "Caliphate"

 

 

 

 Russia
Greeting to Shab of Hizb ut Tahrir after 7 Years Imprisonment in the Tyrant's Prison

 

 


Conflict of Banners or Clash of Civilizations

Talk by Brother Ismail Al-Wahwah
Media Representative for Hizb ut Tahrir in Australia

 

 

 
Wilayah Pakistan Demands to Raise Banner of Al Uqab

Jumada II 1436 AH - April 2015 CE

 

 

 Wilayah Sudan Demands to Raise Banner of Al Uqab

Jumada II 1436 AH - April 2015 CE

 

 

Wilayah Turkey Demands to Raise Banner of Al Uqab
Jumada II 1436 AH - April 2015 CE

 - First Recording -

Banner of RasuAllah (saw) Unifies the Muslim Ummah

 

 

  - Second Recording -

 National Flags Represent Segregation & Colonialism

 

 

Palestine A Tale Abbreviating Flag History

Presented by: Dr. Abu Musab Arqoub
Member of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in the Blessed Land (Palestine)


Jumada II 1436 AH - April 2015 CE

 

 

  Burn the flags of the Sykes-Picot and Raise the Rayah banner of the Messenger of Allah (PBUH)

Wonderful clip of Sharia and Life program (Shariah wal Hayaat) on Al-Jazeera, who was presented by Brother Maher Abdullah, may Allah have mercy on him, episode titled "Renewal claims" with Mr. Ali Said Taha (Abu Hassan), may Allah have mercy on him, former official spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah of Sudan.

August 2003 CE

 


   Banner of RasuAllah (saw)...Banner of Al Uqab...

Our Religion, Our Aqeedah, Our Dignity, Our Glory, Our History, Our Present & Future

 

 

Town of Killi Raises the Rayah banner of the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) & Calls for the Khilafah 

 

 

 

ADDITIONAL SLIDESHOWS

 

  

 

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Pakistan Headlines 18/04/2015

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Regime Seeks Only the Pleasure of Colonialist Masters in War and Peace

Prime Minis¬ter Nawaz Sharif tried on 13 April to soothe frayed nerves by reassuring Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies over a parliamentary resolution that had called for neutrality in the Yemen conflict. In a short statement made in the evening, the prime minister reiterated his commitment to security of Saudi Arabia, calling it a strategic ally, but without committing to any military engagement in the Gulf region. Mr Sharif, who stood in front of the cameras while some of his ministers and advisers were lined up behind him to provide moral support or endorsement, said, "Pakistan does not abandon friends and strategic partners, especially at a time when their security is under threat."

The people of Pakistan know well that the regime will only act or abstain upon American commands. Or it will act secretly to fulfil the American plan, hiding as much as it can from the people. Pakistan has been plagued by colonialist agents which have exploited Pakistan's immense resources for colonialists ends. So when America ordered the agent rulers to fight its superpower competitor Russia during the time of the Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan, the rulers exploited the Ummah's love for Jihad and Martyrdom and fully supported the mujahideen. When America itself occupied Afghanistan, the agent rulers were mobilized to curb the Ummah's love for Jihad and Martyrdom and fight the mujahideen. Now America needs to consolidate its position in a restless Middle East again it is the one that is deciding Pakistan's role, whether openly military role, or covertly military role or political negotiator.

Islam and the Ummah do not enter the calculation of the agents. They only care for their masters, the colonialists. It is high time that they were removed and replaced by a sincere leadership, implementing Islam as a Khilafah "Caliphate" state.

Regime Created Electricity Crisis Through Privatization

With electricity shortfall rising to 33 per cent, power sector managers are left with no choice but to violate the prime minister's directive of restricting loadshedding in urban areas to six hours. According to sources in the National Transmission and Dispatch Company, power generation stood at 9,000MW against a demand of 13,500MW on Monday. With around 1,500MW going to the ‘exempted feeders', the managers had to increase loadshedding hours in urban centres; otherwise rural areas would have literally gone without power. The suffering of the Muslims under this rotten system of Kufr is endless. As temperatures rise, people suffer particularly at night when they try to sleep. The worst is for those who have succumbed to dehydration or aliments effecting breathing, who sweat or choke through long hot and humid nights. Hospitals are bursting with such cases in these days.

The regime itself is wholly responsible for this crisis and its suffering. It and the puppet regimes proceeding it has consistently privatized the electricity sector, from generation to distribution. Despite installed capacity being greater than the demand, private companies are unable to operate at full capacity as they must secure profits in the face of rising fuel prices, large taxation and huge debt that the government owes them as part of a huge circular debt.

Islam alone can end this misery. It does not leave energy to the hands of private companies who must operate on a profit basis. Islam stipulates that electricity is a public property whose benefit is for the Ummah. The Khilafah "Caliphate" state will supervise the power sector upon its impending return soon inshaaAllah. Any profit is ploughed back into looking after the Ummah's affairs, including increasing efficiency of units and preventing line distribution loss. May Allah (swt) answer the dua of the oppressed soon and end the criminal regime and restore Islam as a complete way of life, a second Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashida on the methodology of RasulAllah (saw).

Regime Fails to Cut the Head of the Snake of Bloodshed in Pakistan

During a trip to Balochistan on 15 April 2015, where he visited Frontier Corps headquarters and met Balo¬chistan Governor Mohammad Khan Achakzai, Chief Minister Abdul Malik Baloch and Commander Southern Com¬mand Lt Gen Mohammad Naseer Khan Janjua and discussed the security situation with them, General Raheel Sharif said, "We will unearth terrorists, abettors, sympathisers and financiers. None will find place in the country to hide. We will go to any length to restore the writ of the state." "The army chief warned foreign states, intelligence agencies against trying to destabilise Pakistan," the military spokesman Maj Gen Asim Bajwa quoted the army chief as saying.

It is well-known to the Muslims in general and the armed forces in particular that America and India are working to organize and support the acts of violence against our armed forces and our citizens of different ethnicities, schools of thoughts and religions. However, what is clear from the beginning of the National Action Plan, is that the regime has done nothing to cut the head of the snake of these brutal acts. The regime has done nothing about the diplomatic missions of the hostile foreigners which are used as bases to meet and groom agents. In fact the Indian High Commission in Islamabad remains fully operational and the US Embassy is undergoing a huge expansion such that it will be the world's second largest US embassy in the world, second only to the US embassy in Iraq, which is a country under occupation! As for the American private military and intelligence, the Raymond Davis, network its operatives remain free to live and work throughout Pakistan.
Only the Khilafah "Caliphate" will secure Pakistan by acting decisively to eradicate the head of the snake in Pakistan, closing all hostile foreign diplomatic missions and expelling all hostile operatives.

Regime Proceeds Further Along American Plan for Yemen

The government said on 16 April 2015 it had assured Saudi Arabia of its support in enforcing the United Nations Security Council's arms embargo on Houthi militia and forces loyal to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, which could entail a role for the Pakistan Navy. The commitment was conveyed to the Saudi leadership by Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif who visited the kingdom on 15 April as special envoy of the prime minister, along with Adviser on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz, Chief of General Staff Lt Gen Ashfaq Nadeem and Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry. Speaking to Dawn on the background, a key government figure said a separate announcement would be made by the government about committing its naval vessels for the purpose. UNSC resolution provides Islamabad an opportunity to contribute to action against Yemeni rebels "We are looking at how many ships can be spared," he said, adding that two Pakistan Navy vessels were already in the region conducting anti-piracy operations as part of the Combined Task Force 151.

Thus the regime has created two pretexts for military intervention, one is protection of Saudi Arabia and the second is enforcement of the UN embargo. This is exactly according to the American plan. America has supported the Houthis through its proxy Iran but later realized that the Houthis found themselves in a shambles. They had extended themselves across Yemen, but were unable to either successfully dominate or to return to their stronghold in the north. America therefore decided to save them through limited military action, by which she seeks to hit two birds with one stone: to show them as victims, after the people had begun to see them as aggressors; and to create the atmosphere for emergency negotiations, to come thereby to a compromise solution. This is America's well-trodden path, with respect to what she is unable to take alone.

For too long have the Muslims seen the regimes slumber when Muslims need their help in Kashmir, Palestine and other places, but awaken and become active when the colonialists need help. InshaaAllah the Khilafah "Caliphate" will end this treachery decisively soon.

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Hizb ut Tahrir Work

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Why Doesn't Hizb ut Tahrir Build Institutions or Engage in Jihad?

Many Muslim ideologues and activists have criticized Hizb ut Tahrir for its adopting of a politico-intellectual methodology of change in contradistinction to movements which have adopted a more institutional approach and/or insurrectionist armed methods. What they fail to understand is: (1) the nature of the Prophet method (2) the nature of tughyan i.e. [political] tyranny and (3) the power-mechanisms of the hegemonic world-system. To better understand the Party's methodology, it is important to understand that it is based on an Islamic anti-systemic and decolonial methodology, as we will explain below:

The Nature of the Prophetic Methodology

The Prophetic methodology is based on the formation of a critical consciousness which eviscerates all temporal entities (be it men, systems, ideas, etc.) from falsely acquired properties of Absoluteness. It is, in other words, based on the first axiom of La ilaha ila Allah: the critical process of negation. It goes without saying, that these Absolute properties are not intrinsic to temporal entities but rather they are falsely acquired through a false consciousness and sedimented practices (the religion of the forefathers, institutions i.e. the systemization of social relations and ideas, and so forth). In short, idol-formation is an intellectual process and thus idol-deconstruction requires a counter-intellectual process. Bullets cannot deconstruct an ‘idea' - only ideas can subvert other ideas.

The Nature of Tughyan

Coercion and material subordination, if not complemented with a false consciousness which attributes god-like attributes to the coercer, is not tugyan but rather one form of oppression. Meaning that, if the oppressed recognize that the oppressor is indeed an illegitimate oppressor - that oppressor is not a taghout/false-god. Furthermore, from a Qur'anic perspective, the origins of tughyan and its concomitant forms of material and/or ideological subordination is not the product of the taghi's material capabilities but rather it is a product of the taghi's transgression of the Islamic tareeqah, more specifically, the limits of rulership in Islam. It begins with epistemic hubris i.e. the taghi's claim to be the ultimate referent of knowledge, legitimacy and or power. It is, once again, an intellectual process. Power has multiple forms, the most insidious of which is epistemic-tyranny:

((كَلَّا إِنَّ الْإِنسَانَ لَيَطْغَى * أَن رَّآهُ اسْتَغْنَى))

"No! [But] indeed, man transgresses because he sees himself self-sufficient" [Surat al ‘Alaq: 6-7]

The Nature of the Capitalist World-System

The colonial hegemon - the United States - cannot rely solely on its military and economic mechanisms of power. These forms of "hard power" are only disciplinary mechanisms which are used when the colonized question the colonizers "rationality" and the prevailing neo-liberal and Westphalian logic (that of the nation-state). The fundamental source of the colonizers power is: identity construction i.e. consciousness formation - a process through which the colonized's political horizons are limited by the prevailing ideology and through which we construct our identity strictly in relation to the colonial center (this has often been referred to as Coloniality as opposed to mere Colonization).

How is this form of subordination and master/slave dialect preserved? Bertrand Badie, in his seminal text ‘The Imported State: the Westernization of the World Order' explains that colonization is a two-way process: it is both exported (by the colonial center) and imported by the colonized elites. In short, our subordination is inextricably linked to the "ideological state apparatus" - i.e. the modernizing secular nation-state. Accordingly, we must engage in an ideological struggle (as-sira' al-fikri) against the ideology underlying the "ideological state apparatus" and a political confrontation (al-kifah as-siyassi) against the importing elite. Both ideological struggle (as-sira' al-fikri) and political confrontation (al-kifah as-siyassi) are central to the methodology of Hizb ut Tahrir.

Methodologies which reduce ‘action' to that of armed insurrections and institution-building are inadequate in that they do not recognize the necessity of intellectual liberation and concomitant institutional transformation (as opposed to institutional-building - and thus not anti-systemic) and institutional transformation must be preceded by a de-centering of the hegemonic narratives which legitimize the Jahili institutions. Furthermore, the Party does not infer its methodology from the episteme of the colonizer (as is the case with reformist "Islamist") nor has it developed its methodology in reaction to the materiality of the colonizer (as is the case with the Salafi Jihadi method) - but rather, it draws on an alternative episteme: revelation. It is for this reason, that the founder of Hizb ut Tahrir, Imam Taqi ad-Din an-Nabahani aptly named the Party: the Liberation Party.

 

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Ali Harfouch

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15,000 Signatures Gathered Against the Forcible Removal of Children Because of "Fear of Radicalization"

The Muslims in Denmark have spoken with one clear voice! In reaction to the Danish government and other politicians encouraging forcible removal of Muslim children under the pretext of the risk of radicalization, a number of Muslim organizations and representatives came together and signed a joint statement on 14 March 2015, with the following conclusion:

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Wilayah Sudan: Dialogue Point in Omdurman

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Hizb ut Tahrir/ Wilayah Sudan continues to restore faith into the sons of our Ummah by the ruling of Islam and working with them to restore the Islamic State (Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashida upon the method of the Prophethood). Hizb ut Tahrir/Wilayah Sudan organized a dialogue point on Thursday, 27 Jumada II 1436 AH - 16 April 2015 CE in the city of Omdurman. The interaction with the crowd was positive and fruitful. All praise to Allah (swt) it reached hundreds of visitors.

 

Delegate of Central Media Office

Hizb ut Tahrir/Wilayah Sudan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A Reply to What was Published in Het Parool Newspaper: "Moroccan Boys Do Not Need Protection"

On the Het Parool web page, one of the columns featured an article entitled: "Moroccan Boys Do Not Need protection". It is well known that the title has nothing to do with the statements of the mayor of Amsterdam, Eberhard van der Laan, in October last year regarding the debate that was organized between Yassin Al-Furqani and me in the center called Arjan. Excerpts of the mayor's statements included,

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