By: Dr. Muhammad Malkawi (Abu Talha)
Copenhagen, 30 January 2015
In the midst to strive the Ummah from the Colonial System which was built after the destruction of the Khilafah "Caliphate"; a system that divided the Muslim countries into tens of meager entities. The Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir/ Tunisia has organized a seminar, "Yes to Rayyat Rasulullah (saw)... No to Flags of Colonialism" to support the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir launching a global campaign entitled, "Yes to Rayyat Rasulullah (saw)... No to Flags of Colonialism."
Sunday, 30 Jumada II 1436 AH - 19 April 2015 CE
Question & Answer Panel
Why is the West Waging a War against the Rayyat Rasulullah (saw)?
What does the Rayah Assimilate & the Importance of it for Muslims?
The Rayah does not Represent a Group or Particular Party
These Flags will Collapse One after the Other because it has No Roots with Muslims
Does the Ummah Accept the Rayyah or does it Cling onto the Sykes-Picot Flags?
What is the Method to re-adopt the Ummah's Rayyah before the Establishment of the State?
Headlines
• ISIS comes to Afghanistan
• China showers Pakistan with Investment
• US Confers Human Rights to Animals
• Saudi declared false end to Yemen strikes
Details
ISIS comes to Afghanistan
35 people were murdered and over 100 wounded in a bombing outside a bank branch in Jalalabad in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday April 18. The deaths of so many people were due to many queueing up to collected their paychecks. Whilst suicide bombings were used as a tactic at the height of the insurgency against US occupation forces this bombing was different. A Taliban spokesman denied responsibly for the suicide attack, telling Reuters: "It was an evil act. We strongly condemn it." Soon after, a militant group linked to ISIS reportedly released a picture of the alleged suicide bomber who struck the bank branch in Jalalabad. This would be the first attack in Afghanistan that ISIS has claimed responsibility. ISIS has shown once again that its target is the Muslims rather than foreign occupation troops or targets. In Syria, ISIS have shown they are not on the side of the Ummah as the battle the rebel groups rather than Bashar al-Assad's forces. It looks as this will be the same strategy in Afghanistan.
China showers Pakistan with Investment
In a ceremony with great pomp and fanfare, Chinese premier Xi Jinping signed 51 agreements with Pakistan promising investment of $46 billion. This is 3 times more foreign investment that Pakistan has received in the past 7 years. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will connect the northwestern Chinese province of Xinjiang with the Pakistani port of Gwadar, some 3,000km, through a network of roads, and provide Pakistan with much-needed economic infrastructure, especially power-generation plants. $28 billion of the projects are expected to be completed by 2018, including numerous power generation projects. The Chinese-built power plants, if completed in time, would be enough to plug Pakistan's existing electricity shortfall ahead of its next election, due in 2018. The Chinese transport projects include a $1.6 billion elevated mass transit railway for Lahore, Nawaz Sharif's hometown. The plan calls for the completion of all the projects by 2030. Pakistan will establish a special security force of several thousand personnel to guard the Chinese projects against attacks by militants. Whilst Pakistani politicians are touting this as a major economic investment, China is not off-loading so much money for its concern for Pakistan but due to its own economic needs and alternative land based routes for its own national economy. What the Pakistani government didn't mention was the investment is not the typical investment or aid, Chinese companies will carry out the work, which will be financed through either Chinese investment or concessional loans. The fact that a foreign nation is investing more money than the national government is very revealing.
US Confers Human Rights to Animals
A judge in New York has issued a writ of habeas corpus in a case brought by animal rights activists on behalf of two chimpanzees. Habeas corpus, which is Latin for "you may have the body", is a writ which traditionally requires a person detained by the authorities to be brought before a court of law so that the legality of the detention may be examined. The case concerns two chimpanzees, Hercules and Leo, being held at a research facility at Stony Brook University in New York state. The Nonhuman Rights Project filed a lawsuit on behalf of the chimpanzees in 2013 with a view to having them transferred to a sanctuary in Florida, but in that instance the courts refused to issue a writ. The group argues that New York law does not limit legal personhood to human beings only, they also argue hundreds of organizations say they work for "animal rights." but the only animal with legal rights is the human animal. No other animal has any rights at all. The outcome of this case will have numerous implications as it could extend rights to animals, which in an extreme case could make slaughtering for consumption, technically murder. Common law, which is the mainstay of western legislation has already conferred legal rights on domestic animals who are the beneficiaries of trusts and corporations already have rights and are viewed as a personality.
Saudi declared false end to Yemen strikes
Fresh from killing scores of civilians in an airstrikes on the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa, Saudi Arabia has declared victory in its ongoing war against the Houthis, insisting the military objectives of "Operation Decisive Storm" have all been achieved. Initially Saudi stated the goal was to reinstall former President Hadi, who is still living in exile in Riyadh. In the three weeks of strikes, hundreds of Muslims have been killed, humanitarian resources are in short supply everywhere, Houthi forces are still contesting Aden with Hadi forces, and al-Qaeda has taken considerable territory in the east. The declaration of victory and an end to the war is not real as Saudi officials are announced "Operation Renewal of Hope," which will begin immediately, and will include military components. Saudi described it as an anti-terror operation, though all indications are that it will focus entirely on the Houthis, and not al-Qaeda. Saudi has been conducting attacks in order to clear the way for negotiations between all the different factions, Saudi faced no threat from Yemen, when it began attacks showing it has undertaken such action for other purposes, rather than its stated reasons.
Nussrah Magazine Issue 24
The successive authorities and governments of Lebanon and its people still prove, by all standards, day after day that they are a tax collection government and not governments that take care of the people. And the new traffic law is a confirmation of this. The authority issued a new traffic law that fines 450 thousand liras for violations such as not using a seat belt or not taking the vehicle for mechanical inspection on time.
According to the report of Dhaka Tribune, 15th April, 2015, several women, who joined the Bengali New Year celebrations on Tuesday, were sexually assaulted by a group of miscreants at Dhaka University's (DU) TSC and Suhrawardy Udyan gate areas. Witnesses said a group of at least 30 unruly youths swooped on a number of women and assaulted them on Tuesday evening, while a string of festivities were being held, celebrating the first day of the Bengali year,
The Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir Wilayah Sudan held its Ummah Issues Forum under the title: "The Manufacturing of poverty through price fixing" in which each of Br. Essam El-Din Ahmed Ateem and Br. Abdul Rahman Saad Hussein, a member of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in the Wilayah of Sudan.
Saturday, 03 Dhul Hijjah 1435 AH- April 27, 2014 CE
Br. Essam El-Din Ahmed Ateem
Member of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in the Wilayah of Sudan.
Br. Abdul Rahman Saad Hussein,
member of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in the Wilayah of Sudan
After 7 months of much fanfare Imran Khan, former Cricketer turned politician brought an end to his ‘Dharna' (protest) or ‘Azadi (Freedom) march,' and re-joined the Pakistan parliament. Speaking to reporters after emerging from a huddle with the party's core policy makers on April 6, Imran Khan said, "We have decided to attend the joint session of Parliament on Monday. The Yemen issue is very important... I will attend myself and present my party's point of view."
Imran had begun his protests against the government on Pakistan Independence Day back on August 14, 2014. Imran Khan's demands were the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif due to the allegation of vote rigging in the elections of May 2013, where Sharif won with a landslide victory. Re-elections in the alleged seats where vote rigging took place and eventually Imran Khan's demands evolved to include reform of the electoral system as a whole. As soon as Imran Khan announced his plans, Dr Tahir ul-Qadri announced his party the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) would also conduct a similar protest march to Islamabad on Pakistan's Independence Day. Both protests effectively merged together. Pakistan's media at the time gave complete coverage to the march which started from Lahore, a city which is 300 km from Islamabad. The media contributed to making the whole march much larger than it really was. When Imran Khan reached Islamabad on 16 August 2014, he announced to his supporters and the whole of Pakistan through the country's media that their sole demand was Nawaz Sharif must resign and new elections must be held.
These protests took place with very high anti-regime sentiment. A severe energy crisis continues today in Pakistan, with the basic price of fuel beyond the means of most people. Pakistan's economy is in such bad shape that inflation has made the poor even poorer. The IMF and World Bank as well as America's military and economic aid has been linked to economic reforms, which include more privatisation, whilst US aid has been directly linked to operations in Waziristan. The death and destruction due to the monsoon floods in Pakistan's provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa (KPK) added to the resentment of the people against the government and it was in this light Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri conducted their protests.
As the days turned into weeks and then months Nawaz Sharif's position was never really under threat, whilst allegations of vote rigging was a façade. Whilst there is every possibility that vote rigging in electoral polls took place, this is normal in Pakistan and not its departure from what has always been the case in the country. Imran Khan's claim of vote rigging could never be taken seriously. Of the 342 seats in Pakistan's parliament Sharif's party won 147 seats, after the results were announced a further 19 independent politicians joined his party giving the PML-N 166 seats. The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) won 42 seats whilst Imran Khan's PTI won a mere 35 seats. Imran Khan's demand of recounting, at most 10 constituencies (this number continues to change) in reality was an irrelevant demand. Sharif's electoral victory was so large that if he subsequently lost these 10 constituencies, it would not affect the overall result of the election. On 19 August 2014, the Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan addressed the nation and announced that the government was ready to recount votes of 20 constituencies, in his evening address in Islamabad to his supporters Imran Khan rejected this.
The demonstrations had all but fizzled out by October 2014, well before Tahrul Qadri called it a day at the end of October. When Imran Khan called for an end to the protests in December, when the Peshawar attack took place, the stark reality was everyone had seen though his Azadi charade. The announcement to re-join parliament was just the last act in the circus that was called the ‘Azadi' march, similar to the grand act in a circus that brings the event to a close.
Real change was never part of Imran Khan's agenda and never has it ever been the PTI vision. This can be seen from the demands of the march which have constantly evolved, but in origin were never for systemic change but merely change in personnel and some irrelevant processes. Despite Imran Khan's rhetoric of a 5th Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashida, underneath all this veneer there is nothing Imran Khan is really offering the People of Pakistan but false promises which have given life to the crippling system in Pakistan. Both Imran Khan and Tahrul Qadri constantly take to the streets when the people of Pakistan have lost complete confidence in Pakistan's politicians, parliament, judicial process and the system as a whole. Each time both lured the public back to the system that has failed them.
There can be no doubt now that Imran Khan and his party the PTI are now another aspect of Pakistan's corrupt system. Whilst he criticises Nawaz Sharif and the other corrupt politicians, Imran Khan merely called for replacing Nawaz Sharif (not the system) and his own party has seen a raft of Musharraf era politicians fill the ranks of PTI. Rather than (new) Pakistan Imran Khan is firmly old Pakistan. This begs the question of why he led the nation with a circus back to the parliament - which is another circus in its own right. All of this took place when the army was in full swing with its deeply unpopular Zarb-e-Azb operation in Waziristan. Imran Khan firmly distracted all attention from this with his circus - Dharna.
The media, Nawaz Sharif, Imran Khan, Tahrul Qadri and the army remain in cahoots to deflect attention from the real issues of the country and in their failure to resolve them, by consuming them with daily nonsense on politicians attacking each other and making grandiose promises to bring real change. In fact Imran Khan was the head of this strategy as he made the most grandiose promises.
Imran Khan's supporters need to understand that no matter what promises he or anyone else makes of tinkering with Pakistan's secular, corrupt parliament and sham system, this is a recipe for maintaining the system. As the corrupt politicians dominate parliament they will always legislate to maintain the status quo and their positions and democracy is the system that allows them to have this. Until this is not uprooted and replaced others will come like Imran Khan and make similar promises of just scratching the surface of Pakistan's rotten system, which will perpetuate the misery the people continue to suffer from.
Real change in Pakistan begins with eradicating the virus, the virus is democracy in this case. Eradicating this is where real change begins. The Ummah in Pakistan needs to take the example of their brothers and sisters in the Arab Spring who took to the streets to bring real change, anything less than this is just a false dream. Whilst Imran Khan's supporters coined the slogan ‘Go Nawaz Go,' should have always been ‘No Imran No.'
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Adnan Khan
