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News and Comment Instead of Commemorating International Women's Day, Let's Make Feminism History!

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On the 8th of March, The Independent paper in the UK ran the headline, "International Women's Day 2014: The shocking statistics that show why it is still so important." The piece presented sobering figures regarding women's lives 103 years after the first International Women's Day in 1911. It stated: globally 1 in 3 women will be beaten or raped during their lifetime; 70% of the 1.2 billion people living in poverty are women and children; 700 million women are without adequate food, water, sanitation, healthcare, or education; 85 million girls worldwide are unable to attend school; and it is estimated that 1.2 million children are trafficked into slavery each year, 80% of whom are girls.

Comment

International Women's Day is a time when thousands of events are held across the world to draw attention to the ongoing problems that women face - problems incidentally that have remained unresolved or even worsened despite centuries of feminist struggle for gender equality. It's a time when politicians present flowery speeches and deliver shiny promises about their plans to secure women's rights - only to be broken but repeated yet again the following year. And it's a time where new campaigns regarding violence against women or stripping of their rights are announced - to add to the thousands of similar campaigns organised in previous years which have failed to even dent the scale of such abuses. In short, it's an annual reminder of the ceaseless dilemmas of feminism and how generations of feminists and feminist movements have proved incapable of solving women's problems. It should therefore give cause for reflection of how feminism and its host of flawed theories and ideas, shaped upon gender equality has had its day.

This is hardly surprising. Firstly, feminism has defined the problems that women face, both in cause and solution, from a gender perspective, distracting attention from the dominant role that the capitalist, secular, liberal system (that has held the reigns of global political power over the last 9 decades) has had in creating those problems. It's this system that has caused gross inequalities in wealth, crippled economies, and allowed Western colonial states to prop up corrupt dictatorial regimes that serve their economic interests - all of which has impoverished millions of women and led to crumbling education, healthcare and other public services in their lands. Additionally, its materialistic viewpoint in life has allowed women to be worked like economic slaves and their bodies exploited for profit, devaluing their status and creating an environment ripe for trafficking, while liberal values that sanctify the pursuit of individualistic desires has contributed greatly to the epidemic of violence against women today. Secondly, as a result of trying to create change from within this flawed system rather than through a radical overhaul of it, the efforts of feminists have proved negligible in improving the lives of women globally. Nor does feminism offer clear strategies or serious solutions to women's problems. Actions are primarily limited to awareness campaigns, calls for changes to a few policies and laws, or demanding more gender equality which can be aptly described as ‘flogging a dead horse'. Women in the West are up to their necks in gender equality acts. The UK has enshrined in law, the Sex Discrimination Act of 1975, the Equality Acts of 2006 and 2010; it has an Equality and Human Rights Commission and a Ministry for Equality. Yet discrimination, exploitation, and violence against women are rife within the society. Its feminists are still reeling from the recent European Agency for Fundamental Rights survey that found that 44% of women in the country have faced physical or sexual violence since the age of 15. Thirdly, the creation of a plethora of feminist theories and philosophies (liberal, radical, militant, black, socialist, and conservative feminism to mention only a few) as well as the metamorphoses of feminism through 1st, 2nd and 3rd waves over the decades points to eternal confusion as to what the roles and rights of women should be in life and society. As one Guardian writer put it, "There is no template for making a difference". And finally, feminist ideas have served as the cause of many injustices that women have suffered over the years. Its narrative of women's empowerment through employment has placed unjust burdens upon women, forcing them to be both breadwinner and homemaker for their families resulting in stress and a rise in depression. Alongside this, many feminist movements have been complicit in the propping up of dictatorships who serve their secular causes as has been the history of various feminist groups in Tunisia and Egypt, either through silence to massacres or unjust imprisonment, or actively working alongside them to strength their rule. Such has been the case of the secular National Council for Women in Egypt which is an active supporter of the country's brutal anti-Islam military regime.

One writer, discussing the many struggles ahead for women to secure respect and rights wrote, "Winning justice for women will be a work in progress for a long time." However, if the ideas of feminism, such as gender equality are the tools being used to achieve this vision, this is a picture that will remain perpetually unfinished. It is only through the implementation of Islam under the Khilafah "Caliphate" system that views the honour and rights of women as sacred and to be protected always, as well as enjoying sound systems that create prosperity and security under a just ruler that will remove the root causes of the multitude of problems that women face today in the Muslim world and that give rise to many women's rights movements. Indeed it is a state that enjoyed an unrivalled legacy of safeguarding the dignity and rights of women, leading one 18th century European female traveller, Lady Craven to say regarding the Uthmani Khilafah "Caliphate", "The Turks in their conduct towards our sex are an example to all nations."

 

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Dr. Nazreen Nawaz
Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir

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Imprisonment, Torture, and Harsh Sentences against the Sons of the Ummah... Is this What You Proclaim?!

British newspaper Telegraph, on Sunday March 9 2014 CE, presented videos leaked from inside Egyptian prisons, describing them as uncovering the dire situation in these prisons, as well as uncovering the systematic torture of detainees inside the prisons due to the similarity of its means and methods.

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Question and Answer Obama's Visit to Saudi Arabia and its Repercussions on Syria

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These events have coincided with leaked news about Turkey's closure of the coalition's offices and the possibility of moving these to Cairo. The question is: Do these changes and the leaked news have a relationship to Obama's visit, particularly to Saudi Arabia later this month for the Saudi Arabia's role in the fighting fronts in Syria, in particular the southern front? And what is intended by the closure of offices?

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Tafseer Al-Baqarah 2: 104-105 From the Book, Introduction to the Tafseer of the Quran, by the Ameer of Hizb ut Tahrir , the eminent jurist and statesman, Sheikh Ata Bin Khalil Abu Al-Rashtah

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لاَ تَقُولُوا رَاعِنَا وَقُولُوا انظُرْنَا وَاسْمَعُوا وَلِلْكَافِرِينَ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ * مَا يَوَدُّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ وَلاَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ أَنْ يُنَزَّلَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْ خَيْرٍ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ وَاللَّهُ يَخْتَصُّ بِرَحْمَتِهِ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَاللَّهُ ذُو الْفَضْلِ الْعَظِيمِ

"O you who believe! Say not (to the Messenger) Ra`ina رَاعِنَا an insult in Hebrew which in Arabic means hear us) but say Unzurna (انظُرْنَا) (make us understand) and hear. And for the disbelievers there is a painful torment. * Neither those who disbelieve among the People of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) nor Al-Mushrikeen (the idolaters) like that there should be sent down unto you any good from your Lord. But Allah chooses for His mercy whom He wills. And Allah is the Owner of great bounty." [Surah al-Baqarah 2: 104-105]

Allah (swt) shows in these Ayahs the following:

1. If the term takes Idiomatic (IsTilaaHee) meaning, i.e. common meaning; and it became used in that meaning then the focus of understanding the Legal Ruling (Hukm Shar'i) will be the meaning of Idiomatic and it is not a Linguistic (Lughawi) meaning. The word راعنا is an Arabic word which means wait for us and give us a break; and this meaning is the same meaning of the word AnZarnaa (انظرنا). However, the Jews use the word Ra'ina (راعنا) in the sense of insults and verbal abuse. They exploited the use by the Muslims in the appeal of the Prophet (saw) with the intention of insults. Therefore, the Aayah (Verse) was revealed for the purpose of the Muslims not to use this word because it has become idiomatic - common meaning - with a new meaning, and the Legal Ruling for such words are projected on the Idiomatic meaning and not on the Linguistic meaning.

2. Allah revealed in the Aayah, (وَاسْمَعُوا) which means listen well from the Messenger of Allah (saw) and be near him, so the Prophet (saw) is not re-questioned about what he (saw) said, so as to obey the Messenger of Allah (saw).

Allah (swt) concludes the Ayah (وَلِلْكَافِرِينَ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ) "And a painful torment for the Kafireen" and the ال "The" is to identify the Kafireen (Disbelievers) and warn those who used to say that word راعنا to insult the Messenger of Allah (saw); the Jews, of a painful torment.

3. Allah (swt) tells us those who disbelieved from the People of the Book and the Mushrikeen (Polytheists) did not like the Revelation to descend upon them and they saw that they deserved the Revelation more than any other Ummah. Therefore, they will be jealous of you and became your enemy because Allah (swt) chose you with His Mercy and Revelation. This is a sign that they were expecting the Prophet to be from them- the Jews - and when it was from others, they objected to him; and were envious and became hostile against him.

Allah (swt) concludes the Aayah that Allah (swt) renders the Prophethood to whomever He wishes, and granting of Prophethood is of great virtue.

(الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ وَلاَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ) "Neither those who disbelieve among the People of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) nor Al-Mushrikin." From (من Min) is from Identification (زائدة Bayaan). The People of the Book and the Mushreks are Kafireen.

(مِنْ خَيْرٍ)"From good", Min is of Redundancy (بيان Zaa'ida) to signify the goodness i.e. that it is a great good.

(مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ) "From your Lord" Min denotes the beginning of the objective, which means that Allah (swt) begins sending the revelation in you.

Benefit from the Idiomatic (IsTilaaHee) meaning:

For example, if we were to ask about the Hukm on socialism, we should not look into the Linguistic meaning of socialism which means; subscribe or partners or company and extract the Hukm from them. Instead, we must focus on the Islamic ruling of the Idiomatic meaning of the word "socialism." Then, we will find that its people call it by that name to refer to a distinct ideology which denies that there is a Creator to the material ...etc, and in this sense, we say that the socialist system is a Kufr (Disbelief) system due to the Idiomatic (IsTilaaHee) meaning for it.

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Press Release Proposal of the Terrorism Prevention Act Terrorizing and Fighting against the Ummah's Project of Unity and Revival (Translated)

At a time of plotting against the blessed revolution of ash-Sham to abort it, and at a time that Western projects have begun to dissolve the Palestinian cause and its jewel, Jerusalem, as well as its blessed Al-Aqsa, and at a time that the Ummah has started to recognize its path towards dignity, unity and revival with the return of its Islam and the return of the Khilafah "Caliphate", the Jordanian government presented its draft of what it calls "Prevention of Terrorism Act" to the Jordanian Parliament. Within this act it redefined terrorism and expanded the crimes legally punishable under this name, to include the enrollment or even the attempt to join any armed group or terrorist organizations, or recruiting or trying to recruit people to join them, and training them for this purpose, both inside or outside Jordan.

Actions classified as terrorist acts by this law are: the use of an information system, the Internet database or any means of publication or media or the establishment of a website to facilitate terrorist acts; the support of groups, organizations or associations that commit acts of terrorism; the promotion of their ideas; their financing. Even the attempt to (illegally) change the constitution and further points were added to the list. In consequence, anyone striving to change this bitter reality from whose fire people and land suffer is criminalized, and the mouths enjoining good and forbidding evil are forcefully silenced.

This law is only an episode in the series prepared and planned to stand between the Ummah and its cultural project, represented in the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate", feared by the West and all enemies of the Ummah. It is the attempt to return the Ummah to the house of humiliation, from which it exited against oppression, corruption and tyranny without return, Inshallah. They plan for the country and its people to remain under the dominance of the Kaffir West and its international institutions, led by the United Nations, the IMF and the World Bank, which made the people of Jordan taste woes, from hardship of living, expensive prices, fighting in the livelihoods, stealing money and forcefully silencing them. It is to the extent that the proposed act will hold people accountable for their ideas and opinions, and even their demand to support the people of ash-Sham and the liberation of usurped Palestine and its holy sites. It is a criminalization of the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, which Allah has enjoined upon the Ummah and to which He has linked the Ummah's goodness:

((كُنتُمْ خَيْرَ‌ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِ‌جَتْ لِلنَّاسِ تَأْمُرُ‌ونَ بِالْمَعْرُ‌وفِ وَتَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ‌))

"You are the best nation produced [as an example] for mankind. You enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong" [Ali-Imran: 110]

The Ummah is eager for the day of honor, after having lived under the yoke of capitalism for a long time, which submitted it to peril. The Ummah has begun to regain confidence in itself and its capabilities, to return to be the best Ummah. After America and the West realized that the time of their eradication and the eradication of their dominance has come, they bared their teeth and ordered their agents brutality against anyone who works or even speaks to himself of resistance against the Western powers and resistance against their project in and view of the region. It is impossible for them or their agents to turn back time, because the lion has awakened from his slumber and will return to be a just, merciful master to a world which America and the West filled with injustice and oppression.

Accordingly, we in Hizb ut Tahrir call upon Muslims in general and the people in effective positions in particular, to work to prevent passing this law, which was prepared to fight all those calling for resistance against the occupation and the expulsion of the Jews from the blessed land, and to fight those struggling to establish the Islamic State, even through peaceful means.

Oh Muslims in Jordan:

We invite you to work with Hizb ut Tahrir for the re-establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" State, the state that obeys the orders of your Lord, which will return to you the power to terrorize your enemy, which will take care of your affairs according to the provisions of the Deen that has been favored for you by Allah. It will achieve your honor in this world and great reward in the Hereafter. Therefore, answer the order of your Lord!
Allah (swt) said:

وَلْتَكُن مِّنكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى الْخَيْرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَأُوْلَـئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ وَلاَ تَكُونُواْ كَالَّذِينَ تَفَرَّقُواْ وَاخْتَلَفُواْ مِن بَعْدِ مَا جَاءهُمُ الْبَيِّنَاتُ وَأُوْلَـئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ

"And let there be [arising] from you a nation inviting to [all that is] good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and those will be the successful. And do not be like the ones who became divided and differed after the clear proofs had come to them. And those will have a great punishment." [Ali-Imran: 104]

 

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Jordan

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Hizb ut Tahrir Posted Banners at Prominent Places in Karachi

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Hizb ut Tahrir Wilayah / Pakistan displayed huge banners in Pakistan's biggest city, Karachi, home to over twenty million people. The banners proclaimed that peace will only be achieved once America's Raymond Davis network is eradicated from Pakistan. Indeed, Khilafah "Caliphate" will end the American presence which is the cause of bombings and chaos in Pakistan.

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Hasina renewed her vow to treat the sincere Muslims in Bangladesh harshly while Khaleda is silent; complying with her master America's command!

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2013 is marked as a horrific year in the hearts of the common Bangladeshi people. Arson, atrocity and killing reached such levels that people were even panicked to leave their residence. All economic activities were about to shut! All people, including day laborers, farmers, service holders and businessmen, suffered due to the evil of Hasina and Khaleda. Hasina's desire to be in power once again and Khaleda's hunger for power led to the ultimate clash between the British-Indian block and the American block. Nearly 4,400 people were killed countrywide only in 2013 either between the clash of ruling party supporters and the opposition supporters or between the clash of security forces and the opposition supporters. And finally, Hasina secured her position as Prime Minister once again and formed a morally weak government after America's noticeable diplomatic failure.

In her last term Hasina showed her brutality towards the Muslims in Bangladesh to please America and passed "Anti Terror Act-2009" to stub out the rise of political Islam. She showed her stance against so called terrorism throughout her reign and tried to convince America that, to tackle the extremists in Bangladesh Hasina should be her first and obvious choice. She worked tirelessly, literally, and abducted, imprisoned and tortured the activists of the different Islamic groups, specially the sincere Shabab of Hizb ut Tahrir. She used the "Anti Terror Act-2009" against the Shabab of Hizb ut Tahrir and threw them behind bars. She amended the Act in 2012 and again in 2013 to make sure that there should be no voice against her. And America was pleased with Hasina for this reason and praised her. In a letter to Hasina, sent in April, 2013, Peter T King, chairman of the Subcommittee on Terrorism of the Committee on Homeland Security of the US House of Representatives, expressed his satisfaction on Hasina government's initiatives to combat terrorism. He stated, "We are highly pleased for the Anti-Terrorism Act passed last year and your continued zero tolerance to terrorism."

So, it was not a matter of confusion that Hasina will continue her stance against political Islam and try to keep America in her favor. After forming government in the present term, in various public talks she uttered her "zero tolerance" against terrorism. She kept the vital Home Ministry directly in her control till now to ensure the persecution of the sincere Shababs and now after attending the National Police Week-2014 in the heart of the Capital city she renewed her vow to root out the so called terrorists. After showing gratitude to the police department for being used as her henchmen in the recent past she told them, "I will provide you whatever you want. I will give you all necessary equipments and stuffs. You just fight the "terrorists" without mercy. And you must root them out."

Hasina focused on persecuting the Islamists and opposition to secure her throne when the prices of the necessary commodities are in a rise, living standards of the common people are worsening and the vital energy sector, which is the key to the industries to be in motion, is destroying gradually. On the other hand, Khaleda became astonishingly silent after the 5th January national election, as her master America commanded her to keep quiet for the time being and wait for her next command. When in the opposition she and her party ignored enormous issues related to national interest and only stuck to the issue of caretaker government which she believed would take her to power. And now she is complying with the command of her master America and hallucinating herself with the dream of enjoying the power of Bangladesh in the near future and serving the interest of her master with a grateful manner.

Now, it is clear like the dazzling sun, to the people of Bangladesh that, these two evil ladies are the agents of the Kuffar. The people of Bangladesh want to discard them in the dustbin of history which they never wanted as much as now. This is the ideal time for the sincere officers of the Bangladesh Army to move and cast Hasina and Khaleda in the shadow of darkness and makes them lost.

And Allah wills, it will happen soon and disgrace these oppressor agents in this dunya. And in the Hereafter, Allah the Exalted will punish them along with their ultimate master Ash-Shaitan, the Cursed. Allah (swt) says in the Glorious Qur'an,

وَقَالَ الشَّيْطَانُ لَمَّا قُضِيَ الْأَمْرُ‌ إِنَّ اللَّـهَ وَعَدَكُمْ وَعْدَ الْحَقِّ وَوَعَدتُّكُمْ فَأَخْلَفْتُكُمْ ۖ وَمَا كَانَ لِيَ عَلَيْكُم مِّن سُلْطَانٍ إِلَّا أَن دَعَوْتُكُمْ فَاسْتَجَبْتُمْ لِي ۖ فَلَا تَلُومُونِي وَلُومُوا أَنفُسَكُم ۖ مَّا أَنَا بِمُصْرِ‌خِكُمْ وَمَا أَنتُم بِمُصْرِ‌خِيَّ ۖ إِنِّي كَفَرْ‌تُ بِمَا أَشْرَ‌كْتُمُونِ مِن قَبْلُ ۗ إِنَّ الظَّالِمِينَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ

"And Satan will say when the matter has been concluded, "Indeed, Allah had promised you the promise of truth. And I promised you, but I betrayed you. But I had no authority over you except that I invited you, and you responded to me. So do not blame me; but blame yourselves. I cannot be called to your aid, nor can you be called to my aid. Indeed, I deny your association of me [with Allah] before. Indeed, for the wrongdoers is a painful punishment." [Ibrahim: 22]

 

Written for The Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Muhammad Abdul Hye / Dhaka - Bangladesh

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