By: Dr. Muhammad Malkawi (Abu Talha)
Copenhagen, 30 January 2015
By: Dr. Muhammad Malkawi (Abu Talha)
Copenhagen, 30 January 2015
By: Dr. Muhammad Malkawi (Abu Talha)
Copenhagen, 30 January 2015
Scandinavia: How do you see that Hizb ut-Tahrir have developed since 1970s?
By: Dr. Muhammad Malkawi (Abu Talha)
Copenhagen, 30 January 2015
Ahmed bin Hussein, member of the Central Contacts Committee of Hizb ut Tahrir Tunisia, gave a masjid talk at Ghufran Mosque in Republic neighborhood, a talk about the international conspiracy hatched against the people in Yemen in which he also addressed what should be of the Muslim Ummah.
Friday 12 Jumada II 1436 AH corresponding to April 3, 2015 CE
Headlines
• Power outage still being investigated: Energy Minister Yildiz
• Turkey: Training for Syrian fighters expected in May
• Prosecutor dies after Turkey hostage siege; 2 gunmen killed
Details
Power outage still being investigated: Energy Minister Yıldız
Turkey's energy minister has ruled out electricity scarcity as a factor behind the country's massive power outage on Tuesday, as the investigation into its cause continues.
"We have no clear data yet. It is still being investigated," said Taner Yıldız, answering questions at the Anadolu Agency's Energy Desk on Friday morning.
He ruled out scarcity as a factor and confirmed that Turkey, on the contrary, has an abundance of power.
In the morning of Tuesday, March 31, an unprecedented power outage hit the country, including in the biggest province Istanbul and capital Ankara, leaving almost the entire nation without power, disrupting transportation and daily life.
A group of some 60 experts and engineers are currently carrying out an investigation into the extraordinary incident, Yıldız said.
The minister also ridiculed the conspiracy theories suggesting the government had planned the blackout to manipulate the public on the need for a nuclear power facility.
He said the AK Party rule has been transparent on the nuclear program and has no need to play any tricks.
On Wednesday, the Turkish Parliament ratified an international agreement with Japan on the construction of Turkey's first nuclear plant in the Black Sea region province of Sinop. [Source: Daily Sabah]
With its overall energy sources linked 72% to external states, it is impossible for a state to be independent.
((وَلَن يَجْعَلَ اللّهُ لِلْكَافِرِينَ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ سَبِيلاً))
"And never will Allah give the disbelievers over the believers a way." [TMQ: 4:141]
Turkey: Training for Syrian fighters expected in May
The train-and-equip program for vetted Syrian fighters can begin in May in Turkey, Turkish defense minister said Tuesday.
Addressing the media before attending the ruling Justice and Development or AK Party's weekly meeting in Anakra, Ismet Yilmaz said that Turkish delegations were continuing their negotiations with the U.S. over selection of Syrian fighters for the program.
When asked about how Syrian fighters were being selected, Yilmaz said it was being done "jointly" with partner countries.
"We think that the train-and-equip program for 'vetted members' of Syrian opposition forces can start in May," he said.
He also reiterated that the exact place for training Syrian fighters in Turkey had been decided. On March 2, the defense minister had announced that the program for Syrian fighters would be held in Turkey's central Anatolia province of Kirikkale.
The minister also said that the U.K. might also participate in the program as one of the countries providing trainers.
On Feb. 19, Turkey and the U.S. inked a deal to train-and-equip Syrian fighters in an effort to achieve an actual political transformation in the war-torn country on the basis of the Geneva Communique. The fighters are expected to fight both Daesh and the Bashar al-Assad-led Syrian regime. [Source: Anadolu Agency]
It is very sad to see how a Muslim country's rulers can be so eager to serve colonialists.
Prosecutor dies after Turkey hostage siege; 2 gunmen killed
A prosecutor involved in a controversial case died Tuesday after he was shot during a hostage siege in an Istanbul courthouse.
Prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz died in the hospital from injuries he suffered during the attack, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, speaking to reporters on Turkish television.
The two gunmen who took the prosecutor hostage were killed in a shootout with police after a standoff that lasted for hours.
Kiraz was assigned to the controversial case of Berkin Elvan, a 15-year-old boy who was injured during the anti-government Gezi Park protests in June 2013.
The teen died the following March after having spent nine months in a coma. The case, with its overtones of possible police overreaction, has been politically contentious, just as the protests themselves were.
In an online post widely cited in Turkish media, the left-wing Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front claimed responsibility for the attack. The post said the gunmen were seeking to avenge Elvan's death.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described the gunmen as terrorists and said they were disguised as lawyers when they entered the courthouse.
"This is not to be taken lightly," he said.
The gunmen took the prosecutor hostage around 12:30 p.m. in his office on the sixth floor of the Caglayan district courthouse, the semiofficial Anadolu Agency reported.
Police evacuated that floor of the building, the agency reported, and snipers were deployed.
An explosion, followed by sounds of more gunshots, could be heard coming from the courthouse Tuesday evening, hours after the siege began.
Istanbul Police Chief Selami Altinok said Kiraz had been shot before Turkish security teams entered the room where the hostage crisis was unfolding.
"There is nothing else to do but to pray at this moment," Erdogan said.
The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, known as the DHKP-C, is viscerally hostile to the Turkish state, the United States and NATO, and has had links with the far left in Europe.
The Marxist-Leninist group claimed responsibility for a 2013 suicide bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara.
Among other attacks attributed to the DHKP-C was the assassination of a former justice minister, Mehmet Topac, in 1994, as well as the murders of a number of senior police and military officials and, 1996, a prominent businessman, Ozdemir Sabanci. . [Source: CNN]
While discussions about presidential system continue in the country, a prosecutor is killed inside probably the most protected building of Turkey. Without Khilafah "Caliphate" nowhere is safe enough.
"The strengthening of brotherly ties with the Islamic countries will be a central pillar of our foreign policy." --General Musharraf 1999
Lately, two decisions have come to characterize all that is wrong with Pakistan's foreign policy, especially when it comes to relations with the Muslim world. The first is Pakistan's decision to send troops at the behest of Saudi Arabia to guarantee the country's territorial integrity and to deploy soldiers in a possible ground invasion of Yemen. A statement from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's office said, "Pakistan remains firmly committed to supporting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Saudi Arabia in accordance with the aspirations of the people of Pakistan." It is more likely, Pakistan along with other Arab nations will attempt to restore the rule of Hadi and proceed to implement the 2011 GCC plan for Yemen that was prepared under the tutelage of America and Britain.
The scope of Pakistan's involvement is the subject of much debate and appears to be open-ended encompassing the whole of the Middle East. The same statement read: "Pakistan stands committed to playing a meaningful role in arresting the deteriorating situation in the Middle East." This potentially opens up the possibility of Pakistan intervening in other conflict zones, where rebels mostly of Islamic flavor are fighting Assad's government in Syria as well as the government in Iraq. The West along with the GCC views Islamic rebels as a threat to the current political order and they do not distinguish between the despotic ISIS group and the genuine Islamic opposition fighting Assad or peaceful Islamists opposed to tyrannical regimes in the region. All must fought and eliminated.
Further, afield, it is not difficult to see Pakistan being dragged into other military encounters, where Islamic rebels opposed to the secular political order imposed by the West have taken up arms against their governments such as in Libya and Somalia.
What is common in all of these conflicts are the autocratic governments supported by Western money and arms that for years have not only usurped the rights of the people but have also brutally oppressed them. America and Europe after suffering humiliating defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan are in no mood to send further troops to quell Islamic led insurrections against the political order they fashioned, which is swiftly unravelling now. Subsequently, the West has exploited the ferocity of the Islamic rebellion in these countries -in particular the obnoxious tactics of ISIS and other affiliates-to cajole Arab nations and other Islamic countries to commit troops to defend the existing political order and by proxy western interests. The Pakistani leadership unable to fathom West's latest plan has taken the grave step of being part of the Saudi led coalition that will work under western auspices to safeguard western interests.
In this way, those Arab populations that had hitherto respected Pakistan will see the Pakistani army and state as legitimate targets. Yemen's population is the first to turn against Pakistan. Who's next?
The second decision that is bound to have lasting repercussions against Pakistan is the recent announcement that Pakistan will sell fighter jets to Myanmar that no doubt will be used to exterminate the country's Rohingyan Muslim population. The government of Myanmar is complicit in the genocide of Rohingyan Muslims, but that does not matter to the political and military rulers of Pakistan. On the contrary, Pakistan's long history of supporting non-Muslim countries brutally suppressing their Muslim citizens runs counter to the brotherly ties professed by Pakistani officials in public. For instance, Russia's suppression of Chechens, China's vicious oppression of Xinjiang Muslims and the heavy-handedness of Philippines against Muslims is repeatedly met with silence in official circles. Even the venom of the Indian security forces towards Kashmiri Muslims no longer generates any meaningful response from Pakistan's rulers who now covet peace with Pakistan's arch enemy. Again, all of this underscores that Muslims living in these lands at the very least will hold an unfavorable opinion of the Pakistani state. But the worst- as every Pakistani know all too well- is that many militants from these countries are now fighting the Pakistani army in the tribal areas.
Finally yet importantly, Pakistan will also alienate circa 30 million of its Shia citizens thereby causing further schisms between already a fructuous relationship between the country's Sunnis and Shias. This clearly violates the oft-repeated mantra of the Pakistani army of staying clear of firqa wariat (sectarian divisions).
Musharraf the chief architect of Pakistan's present foreign policy successfully laid the basis for a divisive policy that for over a decade has pitted fellow Pakistani brothers against each other, and now is about to turn Muslim masses living in Islamic lands against Pakistan.
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Abdul Majeed Bhatti
