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Press Release American States Prepare Themselves for Insulting Our Noble Prophet (saw) And the Jordanian Regime Announces Strengthening its Strategic Alliance with America!! (Translated)

While preparations for abusing our Prophet Muhammad (saw) are underway in several American states, the regime in Jordan announces to strengthen its strategic relations with the United States in all fields, though it is the possessor of a claim of lineage to the Prophet Muhammad, prayers and peace of Allah be upon him.


The 2015 Eager Lion exercise events kicked off on Tuesday for the fifth season, they will take place in operation arenas at nine locations in different areas of Jordan. The spokesman of the military exercise, Brigadier General Fahad al-Damen, said, "The exercises will be carried out by aerial, ground and naval forces with nearly 10,000 participants representing 18 countries", explaining that the General Command of the Jordanian Armed Forces aims, in its training and security strategies under the direct guidance from the Supreme Commander of the King Abdullah II, "to strengthen military relations with all the partners, led by the United States of America, which is a strategic partner to Jordan in all fields."


O Muslims:

It is noted through the activities of the so-called Eager Lion, the participation of a Jordanian Rapid-Reaction Force - as a spearhead - to accomplish the tasks for the sake of American interests, a bogeyman here or there or what America classifies as terrorism - made by its own hands as a justification for it and for our rulers to kill Muslims and to push them to kill each other, in preparation for their projects by the hands of the Muslims.


O Muslims:

It has become clear to those of insight that the regime in Jordan, in addition to the Muslim rulers, have taken America, Europe, and the Jews as their strategic allies. Trivializing the Islamic Ummah and its peoples, despising the provisions of Islam and the sentiments of the Ummah, persisting in their treasons and their overwhelming evil, they are alienated from the Ummah and barricaded at their enemies' camp. This is because the establishment of the Ummah's strategic and vital project (Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashidah on the method of the Prophethood) requires the inevitable demise of their thrones, and even more importantly, the inevitable exit of the colonial West headed by America, a humiliated departure from our country forever. Hence the strategic alliance between these worn-out regimes and America that operates in its full capacity to maintain its presence in the region, to extend the life of the Ash-Sham tyrant regime and harness the countries of the world and their armies, and some Muslim armed factions in order to prevent the triumph of the sincere Ash-Sham revolutionaries who made it purely to Allah, heeding and asking the help of Allah Alone, and did not surrender the project of the Ummah.


O Muslims, O Honorable Ones

The regime in Jordan continues in its wrongdoing and outrageousness for the fifth consecutive year by subjugating itself a servant and spearhead of the Kaffir forces and the leading nation of terrorism, America, through opening its country to do whatever it wants, compliant in the so-called fight against terrorism. As if America and the Jewish entity are blameless of the blood of Muslims and their lives!! The extremist is that who excludes Islam from the governance and the reality of life and apply the provisions of the laws of Kufr, the one who plunges mesmerized into the arms of America and the Jews. He is the one who signed the Wadi Araba Agreement of humiliation and the Convention on the stolen gas with the Jews, and the one who the villainy of his men and his gang brazenly transgress the provisions of Allah, calling for the promotion of cultivating grapes and exporting wine as a profit-generating economic project tracing the regime and its government in their corruption.


The criminal terrorist is but the one who silences voices and suppresses preachers to Allah and opens his country to the terrorist American destruction machine that kills Muslims at random with drone jets in seven Muslim countries for several years, doing this service in order to preserve its survival to remain in power, even at the expense of the Islamic Ummah and its destruction, targeting its Deen, its resources and its revival project.

O Muslims:

The submission to America in the Strategic Alliance is not to combat terrorism, rather for the American hegemony over the region to achieve two goals: to ensure the looting of the region's black gold, and facilitating its flow to the American warehouses. And the second is to intervene in the Muslim countries and the return of the Khilafah "Caliphate" on the method of the Prophethood; assuming America and its agents, that they are capable of so by their deceit and cunning

((وَمَكْرُ أُولَئِكَ هُوَ يَبُورُ))

"And the plotting of those - it will perish."[Fatir: 10]

 

O Muslims:

Hizb ut Tahrir adheres to the command of Allah (swt) Alone; to be on the side of the Islamic Ummah, in which and with which it operates, with all sincerity, honesty and devotion; to achieve its project of establishing the Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashidah on the method of the Prophethood. And to reveal the plots that are weaved by the Kaffir colonizers and rulers of the Muslims together with some leaders of the armed factions who are sponsored and enticed by whoever possible in the hotbeds and corridors of intelligence and secret services in the Muslim countries, through various means of persuasion, intimidation and deception. Therefore, Hizb ut Tahrir exposes them to keep the compass of the Ummah moving in the right direction towards achieving the great project.

O Muslims:

Whoever accepts the American plans for a settlement at the expense of the Ummah's project of revival, and whoever makes his regime and his army a spearhead for the Kaffir colonist, and makes his territory a starting point for his troops in order to enable the dwarfs, who advocates to keep the secular regime in Damascus without Bashar. If the issue is to change the faces and not regime change, all those who agree to this is a traitor to Allah, His Prophet, the Muslim Ummah and the blood of the victims of the people of Ash-Sham.


The persistence of Ruwaibidah rulers in their tyranny and oppression of the Muslims, and their loyalty and subservience to the disbelievers, is a sedition (Fitnah), calamity and catastrophe that will not only strike the rulers of darkness but also those who are silent to their injustice. Allah (swt) says:

((وَاتَّقُوا فِتْنَةً لَا تُصِيبَنَّ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا مِنْكُمْ خَاصَّةً))

"And fear the Fitnah (affliction and trial) which affects not in particular (only) those of you who oppress (but it will afflict everyone)." [Al-Anfaal: 25].

Also RasulAllah (saw) said,

«إنَّ النَّاسَ إَذا رَأوُا الظَّالِمَ فَلمْ يَأْخُذُوا عَلى يَدَيْهِ أوْشَكَ أن يَعُمَّهُمُ اللَّهُ بعِقَاب»

"If the people witness an oppressor and they do not take him by his hands (to prevent him) then they are close to Allah covering them all with punishment." (Extracted by Othman Abu Amr Ad-Dani in Al-Fitan on the authority of Abu Bakr (ra)).

 

O Muslims, O Honorable Ones

Hizb ut Tahrir awakens your resolve, and prompts your determination to stand the stance that Allah and His Messenger love, to cut off this empowerment of the enemies of the Ummah, the colonists, led by America, Europe and the Jews, before you find yourselves surrounded by our enemies like the encirclement of the wrist bracelet, then you will regret but it will be too late for regret. So answer the call of goodness and glory by working with Hizb ut Tahrir to resume the Islamic way of life by the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" state on the method of the Prophethood; through which we eliminate the unbelievers, the hypocrites and the traitor agents.

 


Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Jordan

 

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Press Release Response to What was Published on the Arab Quds and Other Websites (Translated)

The Arab Quds website and other websites published on their webpages on 10/4/2015, as reported by Al Anadol News Station, an article titled "Conflict between Flags in the Areas of the Opposition in Aleppo". Misinformation and inaccuracies have been mentioned in this article and can be spotted easily by all those who know Hizb ut Tahrir, and it has underestimated the minds of the readers without holding any sort of legitimacy or objectivity. The article has pictured the conflict in Aleppo to be a conflict over flags, but in reality it is a conflict between the project of the Khilafah "Caliphate" which the Prophet (saw) has given glad tidings and the project of the Kufr West which is a civil democratic state that separates religion from life, and this is the main reason for having the whole world standing behind the current tyrant Bashar and remaining silent over his crimes against the Muslims in the land of Ash-Sham. The writer mentioned that: "The tension which the city of Aleppo has witnessed is between Hizb ut Tahrir and the activists of the Syrian Revolution, after Hizb ut Tahrir removed and ripped the "Revolutionary flags" with the help of several Islamic factions". The website also adds, "After the increased tension, the activists raised a lawsuit against members of Hizb ut Tahrir to the House of Judiciary, which apprehended two members who belong to the party..."

The website has indicated to what has happened on 4/4/2015 in Aleppo where a group of people were celebrating the Syrian flag of Sykes-Picot, so the Islamic factions confronted them and took down the Sykes-Picot flag and raised instead the flag of the Prophet (saw). For some evil desire in the news reporter, he pushed Hizb ut Tahrir into this matter, and every person with sight and insight, except those whom Allah (swt) has blinded their hearts, knows that Hizb ut Tahrir does not carry out material actions. It rather works diligently and with full determination and perseverance to resume the Islamic lifestyle by establishing a Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashidah upon the method of Prophethood, and in the same manner as the Prophet (saw) took without resorting to material actions.

It is strange that the news reporter or publisher did not mention the Muslim masses which marched on 27/3/2015 CE in that area and around it while raising the flag of Al-Uqab, the Rayah of the Prophet (saw), the banner of La ilah illa Allah Mohammad RasulAllah. Instead, this website referred to a small group movement celebrating the flag of Sykes-Picot and focused the spotlight on it stating it was successful! It actually doesn't even account for tenth of the Muslim masses on 27/3/2015 which was cheering loudly while raising the banner of the Prophet (saw)! The website paid attention to a small group but ignored huge masses!

As for arresting two members from the Hizb, those who have arrested them know that these men have done not any material action, since the Hizb does not carry out material actions. They have arrested these men for the word of truth which they proclaim openly, and this word is sharper than any sword on the oppressors. It is very strange that those who arrested the members of the Hizb act as if they have any sort of power, even though they don't! So let them fear Allah (swt) in their religion and let them fear Allah (swt) in treating the Da'wah carriers.

The Hizb has been subjected to pursuits and arrests from those who are underpowered yet over numbered, but the Hizb did not weaken in strength or its determination. The time is near, so whoever sees himself today able to oppress people and arrest them, he will see himself tomorrow weaker than the web of the spider ((وَلَتَعْلَمُنَّ نَبَأَهُ بَعْدَ حِينٍ)) "And you shall certainly know the truth of it after a while." [Sad: 88]

As for what the news reporter or the publisher claimed from a statement made by the Head of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Syria Ustadh Ahmad Abdul Wahab, that he "excludes the involvement of any member of the Hizb in the events that have occurred, and refers this matter to a personal behavior, and that the Hizb is not responsible for it", we do not know how he made that up! It is an exposed shameful lie! However, the Prophet (saw) said: «... إِذَا لَمْ تَسْتَحْيِ فَاصْنَعْ مَا شِئْتَ» "... If you have no shame, do whatever you like" (Narrated by Bukhari).

It would have been better for the website owner to verify the authenticity of the news which arrives to him so that he doesn't become regretful for what he accuses the people of Haqq and their families.

Allah (swt) says:

((يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِيْنَ آمَنُوا إِنْ جَاءَكُمْ فَاسِقٌ بِنَبَأٍ فَتَبَيَّنُوا أَنْ تُصِيْبُواْ قَوْماً بِجَهَالَةٍ فَتُصْبِحُوا عَلَى مَا فَعَلْتُمْ نَادِمِيْن))

"O you who believe! If a rebellious evil person comes to you with a news, verify it, lest you harm people in ignorance, and afterwards you become regretful to what you have done." [Al-Hujurat: 6]

 

 

Ahmad Abdul Wahab
Head of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
Wilayah of Syria

 

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In Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Destruction of the Khilafah Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Sudan Mobilizes the Muslims to Re-establish the Rightly Guided Khilafah on the Method of Prophethood

Today, Sunday, 21 Rajab 1436 AH corresponding to 10 May 2015 CE, marks the launch of a week of events to commemorate the destruction of the Khilafah "Caliphate" organized by Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Sudan, in the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, including other cities. It serves as a reminder to the Ummah that since the 28th of Rajab 1342 AH i.e. ninety-four Hijri years ago and until today it is living without a head, without the "shield"...

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News and Comment The Andijan Massacre and the Absence of Justice

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Tomorrow, May 13th 2015 marks 10 years since the horrific massacre in the city of Andijan where thousands of unarmed men, women and children who had gathered for a protest against the repressive policies of the Uzbek regime were slaughtered in cold blood by security forces on the order of the butcher of Tashkent, President Karimov. Government gunmen fired indiscriminately and mercilessly that day at the demonstrators, making no distinction between men and women, nor young and old, even executing wounded people where they lay. Muqaddus, an eye-witness to the massacre told the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, "...they shot and killed the wounded....In my presence, they shot down a woman with two small children." In the aftermath of this bloodbath, Karimov not only blocked any inquiry into this murderous crime but in the months and years that followed, pursued a campaign of harassment, detention, and torture of any protestors or witnesses to the massacre to elicit false testimonies of what they had witnessed that day. There was also a crackdown on human rights defenders, political activists, and independent journalists in the country, to prevent investigation and reporting on this brutal crime.

 

Comment:


Last week, Human Rights Watch published a new video entitled, "Uzbekistan: Decade of Impunity for Massacre" addressing how over the last 10 years, neither Karimov or any of his henchmen have faced justice for the crime they executed in Andijan, nor for their continuing brutal and ceaseless repression of the Muslims of Uzbekistan. It discussed how Western governments for over a decade now have failed to use their political leverage to hold the Uzbek regime to account, echoing the words contained in its 2005 report, "Burying the Truth: Uzbekistan Rewrites the Story of the Andijan Massacre" in which it stated, "... it is becoming increasingly unlikely that government forces will ever be held accountable for any of the killings of May 13.... In fact, in the face of utter defiance by the Uzbek government, both the U.S. and the European Union appear to have backed off entirely rather than implement a more robust strategy to hold the Uzbek government accountable for the loss of life."


How can it be that for 10 years now, those whose hands are dripping with the blood of thousands of innocent Muslim men, women and children have never been brought to justice? How can it be that the murderer Karimov was sworn back into office last month to continue unabated and with impunity his venomous campaign of persecution and torture of the survivors of this massacre and the families of those who died, as well as others who oppose his oppressive rule? Indeed, under today's world order where justice is all too often subject to the vested political and economic interests of the dominant Western and Eastern capitalist states, this is not surprising. Despite having full knowledge of Karimov's crimes, both the US and the European Union (EU) have deepened their relationship with this butcher for the sake of financial benefits and because the regime played a crucial role as a strategic partner in their ‘War on Terror' against Muslims and Islam. In 2007, the EU dropped its call for an international investigation into the Andijan massacre from the sanctions criteria on the country and in 2009 lifted its sanctions all together, including removing its arms embargo. This March, Germany signed a 2.8 billion euro trade package with the Uzbek regime. The Kremlin has been providing billions in military aid to Karimov and other Central Asian states for years. And this January, the US announced that Uzbekistan would receive over 300 mine-resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles and 20 armoured recovery vehicles.


Indeed, under the current capitalism dominated world order, ‘Justice' is a term that fills the speeches of politicians but remains elusive to the Muslim victims of mass-murder as proven by the blood-baths in Srebrenica, Gaza, Rabaa al-Adawiya, Burma, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Central African Republic - whose perpetrators, whether individuals or governments, have still not faced punishment for their crimes. Dependence upon Western governments and the international community (whose conscience reaches only as far as the dollar does) to ensure accountability for such acts of murder will eternally prove futile. Indeed, the International Criminal Court has become a graveyard for cases of those seeking justice for the war crimes committed against them and their families. Hence, under the current capitalist world order, where principle stances are absent, and justice and the sanctity of human life is traded between states like a commodity in exchange for favours and benefits, bringing those rulers and regimes who execute mass-murder and repression to account will remain a distant dream for the victims of these crimes. This is regardless of the extensive efforts and good will of human rights organisations.


Justice will only be served and perpetrators of the Andijan massacre and other blood-baths against Muslims will only be brought to account through the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" based upon the method of the Prophethood. It is this state that truly values justice and the sanctity of human life. Furthermore, its principles cannot be bought by the highest bidder. This is because it is a system based upon the Laws of Allah (swt) and hence truly looks after the dignity, wellbeing and needs of humanity as well as the interests of Islam and the Muslims. Therefore, it is upon the establishment of this state that Karimov and all those tyrant rulers who have oppressed and shed the pure blood of the believers will face the severest punishment for all their brutal crimes.


((إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يُحَآدُّونَ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ ۥۤ أُوْلَـٰٓٮِٕكَ فِى ٱلۡأَذَلِّينَ * ڪَتَبَ ٱللَّهُ لَأَغۡلِبَنَّ أَنَا۟ وَرُسُلِىٓ‌ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ قَوِىٌّ عَزِيزٌ۬))


"Those who oppose Allah and His Prophets will be amongst those most humiliated. Allah has decreed: "My Prophets and I will be victorious": for Allah is All-Powerful, All-Mighty.
" [Al-Mujadilah: 20-21]

 

 

Written for The Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Dr. Nazreen Nawaz
Director of the Women's Section in the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir

 

 

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Indonesia: The First Round of "Big Rally and Mass Meetings" Calling for Khilafah Participated by Tens of Thousands of Ummah

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Praise be to Allah (swt) the first round "Big Rally and Mass Meetings" (RPA) organized by Hizb ut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) on Saturday-Sunday (9-10 of May 2005), was attended by tens of thousands of Muslims. The participants of RPA are Muslims from various circles, who enthusiastically attended places of events in various cities spreading in many provinces such as Jayapura, Batam, Baubau, Lampung, Bengkulu, Mamuju, Mataram, Medan, Padang, Palangkaraya, Palembang, Palu, Pekanbaru, Samarinda, Sorong, and Surabaya. This event is a series of Big Rally and Mass Meetings (RPA) held in 36 cities across Indonesia. The highlight of the event is on Saturday, 30th of May in Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium, followed by a march along Thamrin Street, in Jakarta. This climax of the event in the capital city of Indonesia, Insya Allah, will be participated by around 150.000 participants. The event, with the theme ‘Together with the Ummah, Establish Khilafah "Caliphate"' is held as a medium to strengthen the vision and mission of the people's struggle for the reestablishment of Islamic life in the shade of Khilafah "Caliphate". (Maktab I'lami HTI)

 

 

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((يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آَمَنُوا خُذُوا حِذْرَكُمْ)) "O you who have believed, take your precaution and [either] go forth in companies or go forth all together" [An-Nisa: 71] (Translated)

The President of the National Coalition Khaled Khoja said in his interview with the Middle East Newspaper on 02/05/2015 CE: "The veto that was imposed on the Free Syrian Army to receive anti-aircraft missiles will end," revealing US efforts "to find a mechanism for the establishment of safe areas", attributing the reason for the political and military improvement is the result of closer links between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, Jordan, and of course with the monitoring and follow-up of America. He pointed out that the Assad regime could fall in an uncalculated moment.

The recent victories achieved by some factions over the forces of Bashar the criminal must be placed in the context of the Geneva 3 Conference, which was announced to take place on 04/05/2015 CE. This conference, which both the regime and the opposition with all its differing parties believe that it will take the decisions of the Geneva I Conference as the basis of the solution that will be discuss in it, this conference aims to achieve progress to fulfill those decisions. The victories achieved were to create a state of balance of power between the regime and the opposition, to form the justification for the coalition in front of the people, to sit at the negotiating table and to show that it is negotiating from a position of strength, and if the people accept this, it means that the train of the American solution has begun to move, no doubt that there will be many stops for the train that would be called: Geneva (3) and Geneva (4) and Geneva (5)... ; so that in each stop a part of this solution will be reached, and so on until it reaches the last stop, in which the American solution would be ready, by finding the alternative agent ruler to Bashar, so that he will be the worst successor of the worst predecessor.

These victories Khoja attributes to Washington lifting of the veto that prevents countries from supplying militant factions with "anti-aircraft missiles" and he reveals that ", Turkey, Qatar, Jordan and Saudi Arabia" are following the US commands. Unfortunately, instead of Khoja attacking America for causing Muslims tragedies in Syria because it has imposed upon the international community to prevent supplying them with weapons, and keeping silent over Russia and Iran supplying Bashar the butcher with weapons, and instead of attacking the Muslim rulers for surrendering to the American will; we see him proud of this studied permission to provide fighters with quality weapons and this temporary lifting of the veto. Khoja is naive for believing the American position and considered it a change, and this is when he went on to say, "The Assad regime could fall in an uncalculated moment," unless he thinks he is the alternative.

As for the talk about finding safe areas to allow the coalition that was created by America from entering Muslim areas and manage them and to contain this blessed revolution, and to prepare the internal fighting on the ground. And the talk about the approaching of the decisive storm from the land of Ash- Sham, and the talk about the blessing of America to it, is a clear signal of its intention to use an effective international forces that includes Arab forces to impose its solution on the ground, and they may be added to the international-led coalition that it is leading in Syria and Iraq to fight what it calls terrorism.

O Muslims stationed in Syria of Ash-Sham, the abode of Islam: There is no doubt that the recent victories achieved by the blessed revolution of Ash-Sham showed the extent of the criminal Bashar system's inability to stand in its way, and showed that without the American support for the butcher Bashar he would have been buried by now next to his brother Gaddafi. What is permitted from the victories and what takes place of conferences; Geneva, 3, 4...only falls within the US interest. What is intended to be achieved in Geneva 3 is the creation of an atmosphere to convert militant factions' guns away from its objective, which is fighting the regime, to the strife of factional fighting among themselves on the pretext that there are moderate factions and other extremist terrorist; so the focus is on taking the loyalty of factions in this period. The United States is fully aware that the only obstacle in front of its project in Syria is the Khilafah "Caliphate" project; it is aiming to strike it with Muslims themselves under the pretext of fighting terrorism.

O Muslims stationed in the land of Ash- Sham, the abode of Islam: the leader does not deceive his people. As we follow all the moves by the United States through its agents in the region, we present you with the following facts:

- The United States is working to keep control of the land of Ash-Sham by imposing its project of the civil democratic state that separates religion from life; and fights every attempt of liberation from its hegemony by establishing the rightly guided Khilafah "Caliphate" on the method of Prophethood and that is under the name of fighting terrorism.

- The American project will be imposed on two fronts; the first is by finding a political entity (a new agent) for it to negotiate with its old agent the criminal Bashar, and thus it would have secured the transfer of power to and from it. The second front shall be through the creation of a military force that is able to be in control on the ground for the imposition of the civil state project by force, and to prevent any serious work for the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" under the pretext of fighting against terrorism and extremism.

- All the actions that America took and will take from the protection of the criminal Bashar in the beginning, and preventing quality weapons from Muslims, and putting the requirement to protect the military and security institutions, and the attempt to impose a safe area, and giving the green light to a decisive storm in the land of the Ash-Sham, and the creation of a national army, and the establishment of the coalition and attempt to introduce it to the liberated areas, and attempt to create a negotiating body, and the Geneva conferences... all of this military and political actions fall under in these two fronts.

Hizb ut Tahrir in Syria warns the revolutionaries who came out sincerely, to be patient and steadfast and hold onto the rope of Allah (swt). You did not come out for a worldly matter exclusively, but you came out to make the word of Allah the highest, you sacrificed your blood in the way of Allah, and you abandoned the world and its pleasures, and you declared from the onset that this revolution is for Allah, and that its leader is Muhammad the Messenger of Allah (saw), and you faced the bigotry of the West and its agents, so proceed with the blessing of Allah and join your hands with the hands of the sincere of your brothers and you will win in both worlds the first and the Hereafter and that is easy to Allah (swt). Allah (swt) says:

((إِنَّ اللَّهَ بَالِغُ أَمْرِهِ قَدْ جَعَلَ اللَّهُ لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدْرًا))

"Indeed, Allah will accomplish His purpose. Allah has already set for everything a [decreed] extent" [At-Talaq: 3]

Oh Allah have we not conveyed, Oh Allah be our witness.

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News Headlines 11/05/2015

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• East Turkestan: Shop Owners Forced to Sell Alcohol to Weaken Islam

• "Israeli" Soldiers Call ‘Breaking the Silence' Report on Gaza War a ‘Total Lie'

• Yemen's Five-day Ceasefire Backed


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East Turkestan: Shop Owners Forced to Sell Alcohol to Weaken Islam

Authorities in northwestern China's Xinjiang region have ordered shop owners and restaurateurs in a mainly Muslim Uyghur village to sell alcohol and cigarettes or face closure of their establishments, despite a public backlash against the products discouraged by followers of Islam, an official source said.

Last week, authorities in Laskuy township, in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture's Hotan county, issued an announcement in the town seat of Aktash village that "all restaurants and supermarkets in our village should place five different brands of alcohol and cigarettes in their shops before [May 1, 2015]."

In addition to directing owners to create "eye-catching displays" to promote the products, the April 29 announcement stated that "anybody who neglects this notice and fails to act will see their shops sealed off, their business suspended, and legal action pursued against them."
Perhat Rozi, chairman of the Political Law Committee of Laskuy township's party leadership, refused to comment on the announcement, but Aktash village party committee secretary Adil Sulayman told RFA's Uyghur Service that the new policy was part of an effort to undermine Islam in the area.

"We have a campaign to weaken religion here and this is part of that campaign," he said.
Sulayman said that abstention from alcohol and cigarettes had become common in Aktash and other parts of Laskuy, with some 70-80 percent of people between the ages of 16 and 45 refraining from drinking and smoking, and while there is no official rule within the Muslim Uyghur community against selling the products, doing so was considered "taboo" for religious reasons.

‘Weaken Religion' campaign: Sulayman said authorities in Xinjiang-where China has launched a series of "strike hard" campaigns in the name of fighting separatism and terrorism-viewed non-smoking Muslim Uyghurs as adhering to "a form of religious extremism."

He said that as the seat of Laskuy, Aktash was meant to serve as an example to all residents of the township, and his village party committee did not raise the issue of a potential public backlash against the decree when it was first proposed by party leadership.
"We have more than 60 restaurants and stores in our township and I was told that all of them began stocking alcohol and cigarettes within three days of the announcement, but I didn't inspect the businesses myself," Sulayman said.

"Our village is the key village-we have to implement the ‘Weaken Religion' campaign effectively ... Religious sentiment is increasing and this is affecting stability."

As the targets of "strike hard" campaigns, Uyghurs complain of pervasive ethnic discrimination, religious repression, and cultural suppression by China's communist government. [Source: Radio Free Asia]

Those who think they can weaken the rise of Islam are blind. Despite the severe crackdown on the Uyghur Muslims, these measures will not diminish their love for Islam and their perseverance in adhering to the Shariah rulings.

"Israeli" Soldiers Call ‘Breaking the Silence' Report on Gaza War a ‘Total Lie'

IDF soldiers from various units who fought in last summer's war between the Jewish entity and Hamas in the Gaza Strip called a recent report by NGO Breaking the Silence a "total lie."

The soldiers spoke to the Jewish entity's Channel 2 to tell their side of the story, and to counter the testimonies compiled by Breaking the Silence.

Another soldier, Lt. Oren (a pseudonym), was a platoon commander in the 7th Brigade during the previous Operation Cast Lead, which began in late 2008. The Breaking the Silence report claimed that one of the tank commanders in Oren's platoon carried out a "revenge attack" by targeting civilian houses in Gaza.

Oren refuted the claim, saying "this nonsense about ‘fire on the house that you want for revenge' is simply a total lie." He said that any "revenge" incident might have occurred after Armored Core Capt. Dmitri Levitas (26) was killed in battle, but that the Breaking the Silence testimony "simply is not true."

"While it's true there was heavy [IDF] fire, this fire was directed at positions from which we were being fired upon, or suspicious locations," he recalled.

Oren said, "They knew where the majority of the tunnels were located and where there were no civilians ... Every shell was fired only after going through the proper procedure in which we had been trained long before the Operation."

Channel 2 said many more soldiers and high ranking officers stepped forward to present a very different story from the one conveyed in the Breaking the Silence report, emphasizing the IDF's strict adherence to international law - which sometimes goes beyond the requirements of the Law of Armed Conflict - and the caution the army exercised to prevent Palestinian civilian deaths.

Breaking the Silence offered a response to the interviews, saying, "In the book that was published this week, testimonies of dozens of soldiers and officers who served in Protective Edge are presented... Among all of the testimonies that have been published in the last few days by those other than us, not a single one of them disproved the central point related to the policy of indiscriminate fire which led to the harm of innocent civilians," the statement read, even though the Channel 2 testimonies seemed to indicate otherwise. [Source: The Algemeiner]

The Jewish entity recognizes no rule against Muslims. The usurper enemy takes advantage of their media to spin their narrative without being held to account by an international court.

Yemen's Five-day Ceasefire Backed

Yemen's Shiite rebels and their allies in the country's armed forces have said they would accept a five-day humanitarian ceasefire to allow aid to reach civilians after more than a month of daily Saudi-led airstrikes. The ceasefire, scheduled to begin Tuesday, would help ease the suffering of civilians who increasingly lack food, fuel and medicine since the bombing campaign began on March 26.

However, all sides in a conflict that has seen the exile of president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi have warned they will retaliate if the ceasefire is broken.

Col Sharaf Ghalib Luqman was quoted as saying rebels in the armed forces agreed with the ceasefire, warning against any violation of the truce. The Houthis earlier issued their own statement saying they will cooperate with the ceasefire.

On Saturday, the Saudi-led coalition's spokesman, Ahmed Ali Asiri, also warned that the ceasefire will be cancelled if the rebels violated it.

The conflict in Yemen has killed more than 1,400 people since March 19, according to the United Nations. [Source: Irish Independent]

They are trying to start a war between Sunnis and Shiites, but the consciousness of the Ummah will break the game soon.

 

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