Under the presence of heavy security personnel outside the ceremony's tent and around it, the concluding ceremony for the campaign

((وَمَنْ أَعْرَ‌ضَ عَن ذِكْرِ‌ي فَإِنَّ لَهُ مَعِيشَةً ضَنكًا)) "And whoever turns away from My remembrance - indeed, he will have a depressed life." This was called for by Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Jordan in Nazzal District, opposite to Al-Haya Public Hospital; on the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of the abolition of the Khilafah "Caliphate" State, according to the Gregorian Calendar, and for the third anniversary for the start of the blessed revolution in Al-Sham.

The ceremony opened with the recitation of Verses from the Qur'an, then the Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in Jordan, Mr. Mamdouh Quteishat, spoke: "Ninety years have passed since the demolition of the Khilafah "Caliphate", ninety years, and the conspiracy against its return is continuous, ninety years and the Muslim Ummah lives a life of depression upon depression and oppression upon oppression, ninety years and more and the blood of the Muslims continues to be spilled.

Ninety years and the trumpets of Kufr and its allies comprising of leaders, thinkers, politicians and journalists are misleading the Muslim Ummah regarding the source of its dignity and the producer of its glory, the Khilafah "Caliphate" State. And indeed, this conspiracy against the Al-Sham revolution is only an episode of this big conspiracy series against the Muslim Ummah, in order to defeat, restrain, and prevent it from resuming its authority."

He also said, "We hereby say to the Colonialist Kuffar: You are the enemies of Allah (swt) and the Shaytan's men. And we are the servants of the Compassionate and the soldiers of Muhammad (saw). Despite the extent of your oppression and killing of the sons of the Ummah and the callers of Khilafah "Caliphate", we will not despair, surrender, or waiver, but we will use our utmost energy to achieve the goal and we will offer our souls and money in the cause of our Lord, aspiring for Paradise and refuge from Hellfire."

Various talks were also delivered addressing the suffering of the Muslims in Central Africa, Tataristan, Burma and Crimea; and called upon Muslims to give support and victory to their brothers. Also demanded from Muslim armies to move in supporting them and fulfill their Sharii obligation towards their brothers, while the loud Takbeers and chants for the Khilafah "Caliphate" filled the entire place.

Various media interviews were conducted with the Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in Jordan and its members by local and international media.

Some of the chants called out at the ceremony were:

Khilafah "Caliphate" is Fardh upon us ... with Khilafah "Caliphate" we will prevail on earth

La ilaha illa Allah ... Khilafah "Caliphate" is a promise from Allah

O free people of Alsham ... we will never forget you no matter what happens

A revolution that lasted three years .... giving victory to the Lord of the Worlds

Our Ummah why the humiliation ... Khilafah "Caliphate" is the solution

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Jordan

The corruption and bribery cases that took place on 17/12/2013 saw the return of the judicial trials relating to litigation, investigations and prosecutions in Turkey to the arena once again. 

News

On March 21, the BBC reported on "Jordan's 'forgotten' urban refugees from Syria". The article covers the growing crisis of urban refugees in Jordan that have escaped Syria and even left the official refugee camps but are still living in danger due to the substandard housing and lack of financial security that has become the daily struggle for thousands of Syrian families.

"After escaping the horrors of war at home, hundreds of thousands of Syrians who have fled the violence and deprivation are facing a second crisis in their place of refuge," said Andrew Harper, the UNHCR representative in Jordan. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says it is concerned that many Syrians living in urban areas have "reached the limits of their ability to cope", finding it hard to pay rents, while facing inadequate housing and educational challenges for children.

Comment

Contrary to what many may think, Jordan's 600,000 Syrian refugees do not actually live in UN camps, they are dispersed in many urban areas and cities where they suffer from unemployment, malnutrition, poor medical attention and low living standards as there are little resources organized to meet their needs. The BBC report describes the reality of how most of these ‘family' units are comprised of women and children who have lost male relatives at the hands of Assad's regime and any surviving guardians are often wounded or too elderly making them physically incapable of working. The gross injustice of Jordan's social laws forbid Syrian refugees to work, even if there are men willing and capable to do so, this means that charity donations from non-governmental organizations and local citizens are often the soul means by which people are able to eat and pay rent thus forcing Syrian refugees to live a hand-to-mouth existence that often forces men, women and children into the humiliating position of begging assistance and relying on the kindness of strangers as normal family structure have been fragmented by the war.

The Women of the Central Media Office have investigated from our own sources that, although Jordan had allowed Syrian children to enter the government schooling system, the abject poverty has created a generation of Syrian youth that is disadvantaged as they often attend classes hungry and sick due to the inability of parents to feed and clothe them appropriately, let alone afford the basic equipment most school children take for granted such as school bags, pens, books, etc. Our sources on the ground have reported that often teachers themselves pay for snacks and meals for the particularly vulnerable or needy Syrian students. The recent cold weather has meant that children have even died due to lack of heating and furniture to keep children safe and warm as most Syrian's in urban areas inhabit the cheapest, most run down properties and are unable to maintain basic living standards such as beds, heaters and carpets. The Jordanian government deserves nothing less than the harshest of criticism and accounting for the engineering of social poverty and depravation that is rife in the Syrian population. It is a shame of the highest order that it allows Syrian children to live in squalor and life threatening poverty after they have, by the mercy of Allah (swt), been taken out of the warzone that targeted them with bombs, poison gas and starvation, only to face an equally harrowing ordeal of daily survival under s system that treats them with the same contempt and inhumanity that Assad himself would be proud of! The Women of the Central Media Office deem the UN stipend of $140 (£85) per month for each Syrian family as an measure that adds insult to the great injury suffered by our beloved Syrian brothers and sisters and we, unlike our selfish and crippled leaders of the surrounding Muslim nations will not accept that this matter of their hardships continues without condemnation of those that have the power to raise the Syrians out of their insecurity, humiliation and misery. We call for all Muslims globally to work for the reestablishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate", the Islamic ruling system that will not throw crusts of bread to its needy Ummah, so as to watch them die slowly. We call for the system that, like Umar Ibn al Khattab (RA), would realise the call of Allah (swt) in the hadith of the Prophet (saw) when he said as narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar:

كُلُّكُمْ رَاعٍ وَكُلُّكُمْ مَسْؤول عَنْ رَعِيَّتِهِ، الإِمَامُ رَاعٍ وَمَسْؤولٌ عَنْ رَعِيَّتِهِ، وَالرَّجُلُ رَاعٍ فِي أَهْلِهِ وَهُوَ مَسْؤولٌ عَنْ رَعِيَّتِهِ، وَالْمَرْأَةُ رَاعِيَةٌ فِي بَيْتِ زَوْجِهَا وَمَسْؤولَةٌ عَنْ رَعِيَّتِهَا، وَالْخَادِمُ رَاعٍ فِي مَالِ سَيِّدِهِ ومَسْؤولٌ عَنْ رَعِيَّتِهِ، -قَالَ: وَحَسِبْتُ أَنْ قَدْ قَالَ: وَالرَّجُلُ رَاعٍ فِي مَالِ أَبِيهِ وَمَسْؤولٌ عَنْ رَعِيَّتِهِ- وَكُلُّكُمْ رَاعٍ وَمَسْؤولٌ عَنْ رَعِيَّتِهِ

"Each of you is a guardian, and each is responsible for those under his care. A ruler is a guardian; a man is the guardian of his family; a woman is the guardian of her husband's house and children. For each of you is a guardian and each of you is responsible for those under his care."

The Amir of the Muslims in the Khilafah "Caliphate" would, like the Khalif's before his, never accept to sleep at night knowing that one of his citizens were hungry or homeless, Umar Ibn Al Khattab (ra) was concerned about the animals not having their needs such was his understanding of his accountability of leadership. He was the founder of the first Social security system that other western nations partially copy today. In this manner, such unprecedented levels of hardship and suffering of the Ummah of Mohammad (saw) and indeed humanity as a whole would be unthinkable!

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Imrana Mohammed
Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir