In recent days, Copenhagen had been living the impact of shocking events that led to the deaths of three people and wounding of five others, and by the killing of the suspect who carried out the attack, an important part of the circumstances and motives for this operation is missing. But that did not stop the politicians and media to consider this act as an attack on the principles and foundations of democracy and freedoms upon which Western societies are built. Following these events there was a rush to launch a package of new laws and programs to combat the so-called extremism in several ways and means; the Danish government has allocated a billion Danish krone for this purpose.

This event received huge coverage in the media and political debate. Politicians were competing to put forward their views on the subject, some of whom demanded more pressure and spying on Muslims, depicting Islam as the source of violence and there is no way to deal with it except by forcing Muslims to embrace the Western principles, and some of them tried to shed light on what may be the reason behind this operation, considering Muslims as part of the Danish society as long as they are committed to secularism and respect the freedom of opinion. Here emerges a difference in the reactions on how to deal with Muslims, but in reality their goal is one, which is forcing Muslims to convert to Western secular principles forcibly through pressure and harassment, or through their assimilation and integration into the existing programs already in place or are planned to be implemented soon to strip them out of their religion.

The campaigns to pressurize and harass Muslims did not stop, but took many forms, sometimes the West wages bloody wars in the name propagating freedoms and democracy in the Muslim countries leaving death and destruction not seen before in the modern era, and the blood still stains the hands of Danish politicians, but it is the best evidence of their deception and lies of their claims, and thus they are not in a moral position that allows them to describe Islam and Muslims as violent. And at other times it is through enacting laws and legislation which are unfair and unjust within Europe, in conjunction with the surge of media campaigns that encourage hatred and portray Islam, through lies and slander, as a religion that promotes murder and that Muslims are terrorists and they are always in a position of suspicion, leading to the creation of big cracks in European societies and to physical attacks on Muslims in many places.

Despite all this internal and external pressure and oppression, the West has failed to remove Islam from the hearts of the Muslims, so it tries under the pretext of so-called conflict of values to show contempt for Muslims and force them to accept insults and violations of the most precious sanctities under the pretext of freedom of opinion. The recurrence of such abuses is but an attempt to tame them and kill the feelings of anger in them caused by the violation of the sanctity of their religion.

((وَيَمْكُرُونَ وَيَمْكُرُ اللَّهُ وَاللَّهُ خَيْرُ الْمَاكِرِينَ))

"But they plan, and Allah plans. And Allah is the best of planners" [Al-Anfal: 30]

The Danish politicians are the ones who must condemn their policies that led to the spread of the atmosphere of hatred and violence in the community and even murder in some cases, regardless of the identity of the victims of this atmosphere. Western values are the basis of the problem and Western politicians are aware that their values face enormous challenges, not because of the killing operation in Copenhagen. Bullets can not remove values and convictions an inch, the challenges faced by Western values lie in its intellectual contradictions and inability to find harmony and coexistence in societies. This has become clear for those of insight as well as it became clear that Western values have caused the disasters and the suffering of all humanity, and here lies their major predicament.

Ideas are confronted with ideas, and our trust is absolute that the Islamic creed and the ideas and rules emanating from it are the treatment for this miserable situation of mankind, and we insist on challenging Western ideas with strong arguments to expose its falsehood and lack of validity to provide solutions to humanity's problems. Islam is a mercy to the world and to bring people out of the injustice of people to the mercy and justice of the Lord of mankind.

In light of all this, we warn the Muslims in this country from being misled by the atmosphere of fallacies which is created by Western politicians, which considers all who uphold the Deen and reject their principles as a security risk to the society, and we do not expect the Muslims to accept that Islam to put in the accused cage and be satisfied with the position of the defendant defending his Deen. The correct position required of Muslims in this country is to remain steadfast on their Deen and be proud of it.

((بَلْ نَقْذِفُ بِالْحَقِّ عَلَى الْبَاطِلِ فَيَدْمَغُهُ فَإِذَا هُوَ زَاهِقٌ))

"Rather, We dash the truth upon falsehood, and it destroys it, and thereupon it departs" [Al-Anbiya: 18]

News

It has become nearly three weeks Kenyans are still living in TV blackout following the shutting down of four national TV channels by Communication Authority (CA). In early February, the CA raided NTV, QTV, KTN and Citizen TV transmission stations in Limuru and dismantled analogue equipment and carted them away. The move was taken to force the stations to hand over their content to the Government - owned firm Signet and Chinese Owned Pan Africa Group (Pang) for distribution along with moving from analogue to digital broadcasting. The Global migration deadline is June this year. The Government wants all the media outlets to hand over their content to a Chinese firm a position while the media houses want the Government to give them a digital license to air their own programmers, also allow them time to import and distribute set-top boxes to viewers. (Daily Nation)

Comment

The move to shut down the TV channels has sparked outrage both from the public and politicians especially from the opposition side. The Media owners, lawyers and the ordinary Kenyans have strongly accused the action describing it as a denial of economic and human rights to the institutions and individuals. The media houses maintain that the push has infringed the media freedom and that it is a government plan to silence and gag the media and putting it under its grip. On its side, the Government argues that the push is meant to advance the information technology along with respect to the international treaties.

The argument does not pertain to digital migration. For this is connected to technical advancement and no one disputes this. The greatest problem lies in the tussle between the government and the media companies concerning economic income of the broadcasting field. It is well known that there are only two companies that are in charge of providing signals which are Signet which is owned by the Kenya Broadcasting Company (KBC) which is a state owned property and, the other one is Pan Africa Networks Groups which is owned and run by the Chinese with some shareholders from amongst local and indigenous tycoons. Therefore, this signal providing merchandise is being run by a handful of individuals.This is real and pure monopoly. One of the greatest financial disasters emanating from the capitalist economic system, where the production and distribution of commodities and services is usually being monopolized by a few individuals who tend to control everything.

With regard to shutting down the TV channels a move seen by some politicians and the media as deprival of the citizen's right to access information to individuals, indeed even if it is true this claim, but not really for the modern media today which are turned by the politicians into platforms and machineries for imposing and pushing their evil agendas on ordinary citizens. The clearest example is how today the media is dragged by secular regimes in waging an intellectual war against Islam and Muslims.

This current circus witnessed between the Government and the Media revolves around the criteria of the benefit a capitalist measure which under Capitalism and its governments consider to be secular supreme. The measure has absolutely ruined the economy of the world by putting production and circulation of commodities under a control of few. Under Islamic state (Khilafah "Caliphate") this kind of drama will never be witnessed. All citizens will be free to establish a media house such as Radio, Television or Newspaper as long as does not infringe the unity of the Ummah.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrr by
Shabani Mwalimu
Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in East Africa

Today's Senate elections have once again exposed the fact that democracy is the slave of the powerful and the capitalists. Every participating party in this system has confirmed that candidates are spending hundreds of millions of rupees to secure a single seat in the Senate. So much so that the leader of the political party who is riding on the horse of change has said that

On this very day, the third of March 1924 CE, corresponding to the twenty-eighth of Rajab 1342 AH Mustafa Kamal perpetrated a heinous crime by officially announcing the abolition of the Khilafah "Caliphate" system and Turkey was declared a secular republic, and he forsook the rest of the Muslim countries that were part of the Khilafah "Caliphate". Truly it was the greatest calamity affecting the Ummah of Islam; the life of Muslims became darker as a result, and the sun of their pride and dignity became absent on the day they lost their Khaleefah, the one who looks after their affairs, and defender of their rights, whom the Prophet (saw) described as:

«إنما الإمام جُنة، يقاتل من ورائه، ويتقى به»

"Verily the Imam is but a shield, who is fought from behind, and is protected by."

Not only that, but Allah's laws, the basis of justice, were removed, and were replaced by Western unjust laws, and the Islamic doctrine was replaced by the that of the Kaffir West, the separation of religion from life. Muslim countries were exposed to the European Kaffir invaders, they ransacked the land through division and the looting of its resources, and humiliation of its people and sowed the division among them through claims of nationalism and patriotism and lifting injustice off ethnic minorities. And now the Muslim began killing his brother for an inch of land, we see the blood of Muslims being spilled morning and evening, without a rescuer, and a handful of agents rulers who control them, they do not exceed the number of their dead and their wounded, and not one of them dares to condemn anything for fear of the wrath of his masters!

O Muslims!

How is this compared to the past glory of Islam in the East and the West of the earth? The Muslim traveled earth from end to end fearing Allah alone and worried that the wolf will attack his sheep? How this is compared to the justice of Omar, and the determination of Haroon and the courage of Al Mutassim and the insistence of Suleiman the Magnificent who built edifices of Justice and made the Caesars and Chosroeses tastes bitter defeats and they liberated the countries and the people? They were in command of the world seas; no one could enter them without their permission.

Do you not see what has become of Muslims under democracy and secularism: the religion of their rulers, the guards of treacherous America of vice! Uncle Sam has become the sole ruler of the Muslims countries, he conducts treaties, deals, conferences, and even declares war and move armies whenever he wants and wills without anyone's objection, and all Muslim rulers do is foot the bills, and justify the American ransacking. Is there a worse fallen position than a Muslim ruler's Prophet (saw) is insulted and he goes to the land of the Kuffar to follow their way and declares that he stands side by side with them, in defiance of the Muslims' sentiments and under the eyes and ears of the so called Muslim Scholars?! It is By Allah a disaster, the saying of Allah (swt) truly depicts them:

﴿يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَتَّخِذُوا الْيَهُودَ وَالنَّصَارَى أَوْلِيَاءَ بَعْضُهُمْ أَوْلِيَاءُ بَعْضٍ وَمَنْ يَتَوَلَّهُمْ مِنْكُمْ فَإِنَّهُ مِنْهُمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الظَّالِمِينَ ` فَتَرَى الَّذِينَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ مَرَضٌ يُسَارِعُونَ فِيهِمْ يَقُولُونَ نَخْشَى أَنْ تُصِيبَنَا دَائِرَةٌ فَعَسَى اللَّهُ أَنْ يَأْتِيَ بِالْفَتْحِ أَوْ أَمْرٍ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ فَيُصْبِحُوا عَلَى مَا أَسَرُّوا فِي أَنْفُسِهِمْ نَادِمِينَ﴾

"O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you - then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people * So you see those in whose hearts is disease hastening into [association with] them, saying, "We are afraid a misfortune may strike us." But perhaps Allah will bring conquest or a decision from Him, and they will become, over what they have been concealing within themselves, regretful" [Al-Ma'ida: 51-52]

Yes O Muslims, we believe in our Lord (swt), and we are certain of the truth of His promise of the victory for the Ummah of Islam, and the domination of its Deen over all religions, and the signs of victory seem close by His (swt) might and strength, and that day no one who oppressed us or insulted our creed and our Prophet (saw), and snatched our rights will escape the punishment.

((وَسَيَعْلَمُ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا أَيَّ مُنْقَلَبٍ يَنْقَلِبُونَ))

"And those who have wronged are going to know to what [kind of] return they will be returned" [Ash-Shu'ara: 227]

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Iraq