Hizb ut Tahrir Tunisia organized a seminar in the Attadamun neighborhood "Tunisian Elections: Another failed attempt to contain the nation's movement toward Islam" presented by Mr. Fathi bin Saleh.
Sunday, 08 Safar 1436 AH corresponding to November 30, 2014 CE
Yesterday, Friday 5 December, the regime's intelligence, accompanied by uniformed police, arrested several at a dars for the study of Islam in Lahore's Gulberg area. Hizb ut Tahrir condemns this lowly act and asks what pains the regime so much regarding the study and propagation of Islam? Why does the regime earn the anger of Allah (swt) by undertaking such oppression
Democracy is a Dead Horse and it is Pointless to Keep Flogging it
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan addressed supports assembled at D-Chowk to hear him reveal the next move of the party on 30 November. "It has been 109 days and Naya Pakistan is waking up every day. We can all see it," Imran said. Criticising the government and Pakistan People's Party, Khan said they colluded to rig the 2013 election.
It is time for the opposition to wake up. The dream of a Naya (New) Pakistan will never occur, in another 109 days, months or years, as long as Democracy exists. Even if elections in Democracy became fair, Democracy will always secures the rulers exploit the wealth of the country, whilst the masses are plunged into hardship. As for America, the global standard bearer for Democracy and the master of Pakistan's regime, the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few under Democracy is glaringly evident. On 9 January 2014, the New York Times reported that, "The median net worth for lawmakers in the House and Senate was $1,008,767 - up 4.4 percent ... according to the analysis, conducted by the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics, which examines the influence of money on politics in Washington." As for Pakistan, a survey carried out by Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT), that was subsequently covered in many newspapers, exposed how the average total wealth of Members of Pakistan's National Assembly tripled in only six years.
Democracy, which US Ambassador Olson described as "our horse in Pakistan" is dead. There is no point flogging it any more. Abolish Democracy. Establish Khilafah "Caliphate".
Abolish Democracy, Establish Khilafah "Caliphate" for Real Change
On 30 December 2014, Imran Khan announced a plan to "shut down the country." Today, Imran Khan is to Pakistan in 2014 what Iftikhar Chaudhary was to Pakistan in 2007 and what Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was to Sindh in 1967. All of the above three men led their nation to believe that revolution is a man or an individual and not new ideas and new laws. That what ills the nation is the fallacies of corruptible men and not the fallacies of corrupt ideas and a corrupt governing system. That revival of a society is based on its blind trust in a man not a deep conviction about ideas which should govern society and whether those ideas are correct or not.
What is rotten in Pakistan is not just an elite political class which looks out for itself at the expense of the nation. Neither is a political gladiator required to wage war upon the incumbent elites. What is rotten in Pakistan is the ideas on which ruling is done in Pakistan. The idea of democracy and the economy of capitalism.
We know the fate of two of the three men. And we know what would happen to the third. Because revolution is not a man but an idea. And like the other two men before him Imran Khan's focus is on individuals not ideas or system. Khilafah "Caliphate" for Pakistan and the Muslim World.
Regime Plays Lip-Service to Self-Reliance
Speaking at the inaugural session of the International Defence Exhibition and Seminar (Ideas 2014) at Expo Centre in Karachi on 2 December, Nawaz Sharif said, "This self-reliance holds its multi-dimensional benefits, inclusive of economic empowerment and adequate protection of the country's sovereignty."
Of what self-reliance, economic empowerment and protection of sovereignty is the regime speaking of? In economy, it implements the colonialist plan to deny Pakistan full benefit of its immense mineral and energy resources through privatization. It has strangulated what little industry Pakistan has, with taxation and power cuts, compelling frustrated manufacturers to trading in foreign made goods. Regarding protection, the regime allows a vast network of American intelligence and private military to supervise attacks on our armed forces, to herd them into the tribal areas, to grant the cowardly American troops in Afghanistan relief from the fierce resistance of Muslims. The regime betrays the Muslims, wasting their blessings and turning their abode into an abode of destruction.
Only the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" will provide these Muslim lands security and prosperity. The Khilafah "Caliphate" will manage energy and mineral resources as Islam mandates, a public property for the benefit of the Muslims. It will establish a substantial heavy industry of the country, including manufacture of engines and machinery. It will establish a foreign policy upon Dawah and Jihad, liberating occupied lands, inviting the nations to embrace Islam and obliterating the hegemony of the belligerent hostile states. This is how the Muslims will be honored in this life and rewarded in the next, upon abolishing the oppressive rule and establishing the Khilafah "Caliphate" on the methodology of the Prophethood.
Neither Opposition nor Regime Have Vision Outside Foreign Ideas
After the government signaled that it could be open to talks with the protesting Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), the latter cautiously reciprocated on 2 December, saying that if both sides could sit across the table, the party would consider deferring its call for shutdowns in major urban centres. It was inevitable that the two sides would grow closer, as neither has ideas that would change the status quo.
Societies are built based on ideas about political organization of society. The organization of society without ideas is not possible. Absolutely not possible. It doesn't happen. So what happens when a country's politicians insist that corruption exists in individuals and not ideas? What if the politicians ignore ideas altogether? Well if you don't focus on ideas, or are not interested in ideas this doesn't mean that you will not adopt them. For societies need ideas. What will happen is that you will adopt them unknowingly. Can this happen? Can you really adopt ideas about your own life and your own society without knowing? Yes. It can happen, if you are focused on individuals.
You simply adopt the ideas of your previous generation, or the ideas of the dominant power and civilization of the world, or the ideas prevalent or in vogue at the time you were alive and politically active. So what's wrong with that? Adopting foreign ideas unknowingly ? Well if you adopt foreign ideas jihad becomes terrorism, interest on loans becomes finance, Palestine becomes a nation state instead of holy land, international law stops you from liberating your occupied lands, mixing between men and women becomes fashion and hudood become violations of human rights. If you are fine with that then there is nothing wrong with adopting foreign ideas. But if you are not fine with that then work for a new political system not just a new leadership. Work for Khilafah "Caliphate", not democracy.
General Raheel Endorses America's False Claim that America's Crusade is Pakistan's War
On 4 December 2014, General Raheel declared that Pakistan's current enemy "lives within us and looks like us", referring to the military operations in the tribal regions, from where Muslims have launched devastating attacks against the American occupying forces in Afghanistan. Thus, General Raheel confirmed the false American claim that the war in the tribal areas is Pakistan's war.
America first made this false claim because it knows the great capability of Pakistan's armed forces in ending foreign occupation of Muslim Land. It observed that when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, the highly capable intelligence of Pakistan's armed forces, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), organized and enabled the tribal fighters against the Russian occupation, bloodying Russia's nose such that she withdrew completely and never dared to return since. So, now that America itself invaded Afghanistan, Pakistan's armed forces have the ability to drive her out of the region forever. America also knows that North Waziristan is the key to Pakistan's strategic depth in the region, protecting its lands and people from harm.
So, in order to simultaneously divide the Muslims, sink the armed forces into a quagmire of civil war and amputate Pakistan's strategic depth, America specifically claimed that the war against the tribals is Pakistan's war. Accompanying its claim, America used its own intelligence and private military, the Raymond Davis network, to orchestrate attacks against Pakistan's armed forces and civilians, in order to blacken the reputation of the tribal resistance and create divisions within Pakistan. It is through these false flag attacks, organized by America's terrorist network and blamed on the sincere tribal resistance, that America aims to malign the pure Jihad against the Kuffar occupiers, so that its agents in Pakistan's leadership are able to execute its plan.
With the thronging of the Kaffir colonists upon the Muslims in the proud Ash-Sham, the Abode of Dar Al-Islam, led by America, the main backer for the tyrant Assad regime (the Nero of Sham), supported by Russia through its direct military support to Assad and his mercenaries; killing children, women and elderly, even their aggression reached trees and stone since the year 2011, where the pure blood of our cherished Ummah in Ash-Sham has been spilled...
If the international conference for fighting terrorism which the honorable Al Azhar to be held on the 3rd and 4th days of the upcoming month of December in order to fighting the terrorism of America and its arrogance, oppression, and shedding the blood of the Muslims in Iraq and Ash-Sham,
Headlines
• UK Politician Lord Hodgson Blames Muslims for Decline of Pub Industry
• British Muslims Face Worst Job Discrimination of Any Group, Research Finds
• Pakistan Trench along Afghan Border Enrages Kabul
• Enemy Lives Within us and Looks like us, Says Pakistani Army Chief
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UK Politician Lord Hodgson Blames Muslims for Decline of Pub Industry
A Conservative peer - also a former brewery boss - has been labelled "ridiculous" for blaming Britain's Muslim community for the collapse in pub numbers. During a House of Lords debate, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, who was a director of Marston's Brewery in Burton Upon Trent for 12 years, said that "socio-economic factors", including a growing number of teetotal Muslims, were more responsible for dwindling pub number than "rapacious" pub chains. Speaking in defense of the major pub chains, the former MP said: "In areas of Nottingham, Leicester, Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham the increase in the Muslim population who don't drink leads to many pub closures. It is exceptionally hard for a publican who has put 10 years of his life into trying to build up a business to accept the inevitability of these tides of history. Lord Hodgson told the Independent that his critics were being "slightly over sensitive" and that his speech listed many different reasons why British pubs were in decline, including issues over business rates, the "de-industrialization of Britain", tougher licensing laws and the influx of cheap alcohol from supermarkets. He said, "This is not a criticism of Muslims. I thought nearly all Muslims don't drink, but maybe some do. And my speech referred to many serious problems for pubs." [Source: The Independent]
Muslims only number 3 million, while the population of Britain is circa 60 million. So the decline in public drinking houses has got nothing to do with Muslims, but government laws which have made alcohol accessible to everyone through supermarkets and similar shops - even kids can buy cheap alcohol. Rather than address the alcohol fuelled debauchery which is on the increase, UK politicians have nothing better to do than blame Muslims for all the ills in British society.
British Muslims Face Worst Job Discrimination of Any Group, Research Finds
Muslims experience the worst discrimination of any other minority group in the UK when it comes to job prospects, new research has found. The research, revealed by The Independent, found that Muslims are seen by employers as "disloyal and threatening" which results in followers of Islam being far less likely to be employed than Christians. Muslim men are up to 76% less likely to have jobs than white British Christian men of the same age, with the same qualifications. Muslim women were also up to 65 per cent less likely to be employed than their white Christian counterparts, according to the report from Dr Nabil Khattab and Professor Ron Johnston from the University of Bristol. Muslim men and women were also less likely to have a role at managerial level. The research drew on data from the Office for National Statistics' Labour Force Survey, which covered more than half a million people. Studying 14 ethnic and religious groups, it concluded that while skin colour made little difference to whether people were hired or not, Muslims were the most disadvantaged group. White British Christians suffered the least employment discrimination, according to the report, except for British Jews, who appeared to fare best in the job market. Jewish women were 29% more likely to be in work than their British while Christian peers, and men 15% more likely than white Christian counterparts. White atheists British men and women were 20 and 25 per cent less likely respectively to have a job than Christians. [Source: Huffington Post]
Allah (swt) says in the Quran:
((قَدْ بَدَتِ الْبَغْضَاء مِنْ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَمَا تُخْفِي صُدُورُهُمْ أَكْبَرُ قَدْ بَيَّنَّا لَكُمُ الآيَاتِ إِن كُنتُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ))
"Hatred has already appeared from their mouths, and what their breasts conceal is greater. We have certainly made clear to you the signs, if you will use reason." [TMQ Ali- Imran: 118]
Pakistan Trench along Afghan Border Enrages Kabul
In the dusty badlands along its disputed border with Afghanistan, Pakistan is carving out a massive trench to keep out separatists, smugglers and militants in an attempt to bring order to a lawless, tribal region. But like the Berlin Wall or Israel's West Bank barrier, the planned 485-kilometer (300-mile) trench is giving physical form to a border that locals have long seen as artificial, dividing families and crippling trade. And it is adding to simmering tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, US allies which have long accused each other of turning a blind eye to insurgents. The trench runs along part of the 2,640-kilometer (2,640-mile) Durand Line, named for British diplomat Mortimer Durand, who drew the now internationally recognized border in an agreement with Afghan ruler Abdur Raham Khan in 1893. But the modern Afghan government has never accepted the border, and neither have the mainly tribal communities that straddle it. They are accustomed to moving back and forth freely and in some cases own land on both sides. The trench is being built in Pakistan's Baluchistan province, where Baluch rebels have been battling Islamabad for decades, demanding greater autonomy and a larger share of the region's oil, gas, copper and gold. It's an eye-sore of construction; a massive furrow 10 feet (three meters) wide and 8 feet (2.4 meters) deep that already snakes 180 kilometers (110 miles) across the desert landscape. Pakistan's Frontier Corps said in a recent statement that the trench would "not only help in effectively controlling the movement of drug and arms and ammunition smugglers, but also will help in stopping the intrusion of terrorists and illegal immigrants." Pakistan fears that arms could make their way to any number of insurgent groups, including the Taliban. But Kabul sees the trench as the latest move in a new incarnation of the colonial-era Great Game, in which Pakistan hopes to destabilize its neighbor to extend its regional influence. It already considers Pakistan as the source of the Taliban insurgency it has been battling with US and NATO support for the past 13 years. "The people here have never accepted the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in the first place," said Gen. Abdul Raziq, the police chief of Afghanistan's Kandahar province, which borders Baluchistan. "Pakistan is not doing anything to stop terrorism. If they want to stop it, they should stop producing it," said Raziq, who has long had a reputation for ruthlessness in battling the Taliban. "This trench is simply to draw a border with Afghanistan and claim our land as their own," he said. Pakistan insists it is committed to fighting extremist groups and points to a massive offensive it launched in the tribal region of North Waziristan along the Afghan border over the summer. [Source: ABC News]
The border is a source of perpetual misery for both Afghans and Pakistanis. Rather than waste valuable resources quarrelling each other, the correct thing to do is shed the cloak of nationalism left by the British by breaking down the artificial border and living as brothers side by side. Allah (swt) says:
وَاعْتَصِمُواْ بِحَبْلِ اللّهِ جَمِيعًا وَلاَ تَفَرَّقُواْ وَاذْكُرُواْ نِعْمَةَ اللّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ كُنتُمْ أَعْدَاء فَأَلَّفَ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُم بِنِعْمَتِهِ إِخْوَانًا وَكُنتُمْ عَلَىَ شَفَا حُفْرَةٍ مِّنَ النَّارِ فَأَنقَذَكُم مِّنْهَا كَذَلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ اللّهُ لَكُمْ آيَاتِهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ
"And hold firmly to the rope of Allah all together and do not become divided. And remember the favor of Allah upon you - when you were enemies and He brought your hearts together and you became, by His favor, brothers. And you were on the edge of a pit of the Fire, and He saved you from it. Thus does Allah make clear to you His verses that you may be guided." [Ali-Imran: 103]
Enemy Lives Within us and Looks like us, says Pakistani Army Chief
Chief of the Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif has said that security does not refer only to external threats but is a concern in terms of politics, human rights, economy, water security, terrorism and insurgency. Gen Sharif, who was the chief guest at a conference (Industry Summit) organized by the South Asian Strategic Stability Institute in a hotel in Karachi on Thursday. He said Pakistan's current enemy "lives within us and looks like us", adding that the definition of security had changed with the passage of time.
He said that because of increased polarisation, governments were unable to protect their people and national security. "In contemporary geopolitics, the battles are no longer between state and non-state actors but are with supra-individuals, those individuals who exploit both the national and international space for their desired objectives. These supra-individuals have the capacity to manipulate networks, organizations and state institutions to create waves of instability and create discord at the centre of the state institutions. Explosions are still a viable tool of war, but implosions are the new defeat mechanisms," he said. [Source: Dawn News]
General Sharif is wasting no time in hammering home the point that Pakistan must focus on internal security threats. Sharif's stance is in line with Kayani's doctrine or more accurately put; America's new doctrine for Pakistan, which stipulates that Pakistan must focus on internal issues and make peace with India. America sole focus is to make India its principal agent in the region. This means that Pakistan's military capability must be reduced and her armed forces redeployed from the border with India to maintaining internal peace. This is indeed dangerous, and if Sharif is not stopped, he will soon advocate a substantial reduction in Pakistani troops.
He prolonged confrontation between the opposition and the regime intensified in the build up to a rally on 30 November 2014, bringing renewed motion to a pointless struggle. On the one hand, the government claims to stand by Democracy, which was expected as Democracy always ensures that rulers can exploit a country and its people for their personal benefit.
News:
On 30th November 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to halt illegal immigration from Bangladesh into Assam, saying they were "destroying" the northeastern state. Modi, whose right-wing Hindu nationalist party stormed to power at May elections, said, "Bangladeshis are entering Assam every day and destroying the state... I will make an arrangement by way of which all the routes used by them to enter Assam are closed," he promised in the state's main city of Guwahati. Tensions have been high in recent years in Assam. More than 40 people including women and children were slaughtered in May this year by Indian tribal separatists called Bodos. Modi promised that his government would permanently resolve the illegal immigration issue by securing a long-pending land swap agreement with Bangladesh. "When we execute the land swap deal it might look like a loss for Assam, but in the long run Assam will gain by the deal," he said."We are not going to compromise the interests of Assam." India and Bangladesh have for years been trying to resolve their land border disputes, including settling the future of 162 enclaves - small pockets of one country's territory surrounded by that of the other. More than 50,000 people live in the enclaves, cut off from their respective governments and without access to many basic services.
Comment:
The land disputes between India and Bangladesh date back to the division of sub-continent by the British occupiers in August 1947 when parts of Bangladesh, then known as East Pakistan, were deliberately given to India or such enclaves were created to keep the tensions ripe between the two countries. Muslims in both India and Bangladesh are facing the brunt of the inhumane conditions of living in their areas. However, the severe poverty in Bangladesh has forced many Muslim families to migrate to India in search of a better future. Least they know that the same bloodsucking Capitalism is being implemented in India, which has caused the last piece of bread to be snatched from their mouths in Bangladesh. The fear of death and persecution is an added factor to their woes in India. Under the rotten ideology of Capitalism the concept of nation-state was built and propagated, which is based on its theory of national interest preceding over any other objective, be it security and well being of an ethnic or religious minority. Unless the immigrants have legally crossed into the borders of a nation state, they are not entitled to even basic human rights. They are either jailed, put in inhuman conditions or pushed back to their country of origin. In this process their death is considered an ordinary matter. Bangladesh and neighboring Pakistan also implement the Nation-State theory and consider the border to be sacred than human lives and the value of life is nothing in the eyes of their respective governments compared to their so-called ‘national interest'.
There can be no solution of this immigration problem under the Secular and Liberal Capitalism. This problem is resolved by Islam which ruled over the world under the state of Khilafah "Caliphate" for more than 1300 years. As Khilafah "Caliphate" state implemented the laws of Allah (swt) that ensure the provision of basic rights like food, clothing, shelter, health and education to all its citizens without discrimination of ethnicity and religion. No one ever even wished to leave the premises of Khilafah "Caliphate" State as it provided the best living conditions. Also Khilafah "Caliphate" is not a nation state, because Islam does not believe in borders being sacred which the Muslim armies can not cross. The Muslim Ummah being one body, Khilafah "Caliphate" is obliged to extend help and protection as much as possible to the Muslims living outside its frontiers. That is because Allah (swt) said:
((إِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ إِخْوَةٌ))
"The believers are nothing else than brothers" [TMQ 49:10].
The Messenger of Allah said:
«إِنَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْإِيمَانِ بِمَنْزِلَةِ الرَّأْسِ مِنْ الْجَسَدِ يَأْلَمُ الْمُؤْمِنُ لِأَهْلِ الْإِيمَانِ كَمَا يَأْلَمُ الْجَسَدُ لِمَا فِي الرَّأْسِ»
"Verily, the believer in relation to the people of faith is like the head of the body. The believer feels pain with the people of faith just as the body feels pain with its head." (Musnad Ahmad 22370)
Therefore, only the second Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashida will open its borders for the Muslims of the whole world and provide physical and armed help to the oppressed Muslims across the world under the foreign policy of Dawah and Jihad, removing the obstacles in the way of Islam and liberating the occupied Muslim territories like India. As according to the laws of Islam, it is an Islamic land that was ruled under Islam for 1000 years and still needs to be liberated and returned back to the fold of Islam. Only then the lives of Muslim men, women and children can be secured.
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Umm Musab
Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
