Despite the fact that Kyrgyzstan has changed many presidents, the authorities sometimes enforce the fight against Islam and had never made it weaker. If previous presidents, particularly Bakiyev, were openly against Islam, even prohibiting holding public Muslim celebrations for Eid ul Fitr and Eid ul Adha

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On 7 August 2014, the US President Barack Obama authorized military strikes in Iraq. He said, "When we face a situation like we do on that mountain, with innocent people facing the prospect of violence on a horrific scale and we have a mandate to help - in this case a request from the Iraqi government - and when we have unique capabilities to act to avoid a massacre, I believe the United States cannot turn a blind eye." He added, "Earlier this week, one Iraqi said no-one is coming to help. Well, today America is coming to help."

Comment:

Once again America is eager to intervene in the Muslim world to carry out military operations. This time it is Iraq and the justification is again humanitarian assistance. The delivery of humanitarian relief, in the form of air drops by US jets represents the first aerial mission over Iraq since 2011. This marks the start of the deepest American engagement in Iraq since US troops withdrew in late 2011 after nearly a decade of war.

However, what is interesting to note is that there is no coherent strategy or moral compass guiding American foreign policy interventions where domestic population are being pulverized to smithereens and gross human rights violations occur on a daily basis. The actions of the Jewish State in Gaza clearly constitutes genocide, but there is no American intervention. Likewise, the barbaric acts of Assad against his people does not justify American intervention. In both cases, war crimes are being perpetrated by the likes of Netanyahu and Assad, yet America chooses to turn a blind eye. Beyond the Middle East, Muslim minorities are being merciless wiped out in Burma and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but there is no talk of humanitarian intervention. The persecution of Muslim minorities in the latter two countries far exceeds both in scale and magnitude to what is happening to minorities in Iraq, but America chooses to intervene in Iraq and ignore the plight of Muslims elsewhere-so where is the moral equivalence?

Over the past twenty years or so, America and its western allies have slowly eroded the concept of the nation state as enshrined by the Westphalia Treaty. The treaty explicitly forbids the interference in the internal affairs of nations by other nations. But through the pretext of humanitarian intervention, the West has grossly undermined the nation state concept. Moreover, the selective application of humanitarian intervention has further eroded the credibility of the nation state model, and weakened the West's claim of any moral superiority in their foreign interventions.

This is not limited to the Muslim world, and can easily applied to the suppression of minorities in Russia and China. However, America and the West choose not to intervene here, as they do not have the stomach for an all-out war with countries that have the ability to significantly damage Western interests.

What may look like a bleak period in the history of the Muslim world-demonstrated through repeated Western interventions and wars-should not be interpreted as American or Western superiority. Yes, America and the West are militarily superior, but this has not helped them shape political outcomes as demonstrated by both the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In fact, it can be argued, the biggest weapon against America and the West are their ideological inconsistencies in foreign policy matters. The damage wrought by such glaring contradictions far overshadow what any adversary of the West could hope to achieve.

In this lies the silver lining for the Muslim world. For when the real Khilafah "Caliphate" returns, it would be relatively easily for the Khilafah "Caliphate" in the current international climate to not only unify the Muslims world, but also to expand its frontiers to other continents based upon humanitarian intervention fused with its invitation to Islam. The persecution of Muslim minorities in Europe, and the oppression of the Muslim population together with the suppression of Latinos and Black populations in America would be more than enough reason for the Khilafah "Caliphate" to intervene to liberate such people from the tyranny of the West to the justice of Islam. Allah (swt) says:

((وَمَكَرُوا وَمَكَرَ اللَّـهُ ۖ وَاللَّـهُ خَيْرُ الْمَاكِرِينَ))

"And they planned, and Allah also planned; and Allah is the Best of planners." [Ali-Imran: 54]

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Abu Hashim

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A recent report in the Makkah Daily Newspaper published quotes from Makkah's Police Chief, Major General Assaf Al-Qurshi regarding the tightening of marriage regulations by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) between Saudi men and non-Saudi nationals. Al-Qurshi stated that from now on Saudi men applying to marry those from other countries should be over 25 and require consent from the government. He also said that divorced men seeking such marriages would not be allowed to apply within six months of their divorce. Most notably the Police Chief stated that the KSA has banned its citizens from marrying expats from four specific countries - Pakistan, Bangladesh, Chad, and Burma. The move is clearly aimed at discouraging Saudi men from marrying those of different nationalities.

Comment:

The Kufr Saudi regime has once again displayed its flagrant disregard for the tenets of Islam, sanctifying its corrupt national interests over the Commands of Allah (swt). Through announcing these new racist, absurd marriage regulations which blatantly contradict the Shariah, the Saudi government has further exposed its lie of being a representative voice for Islam and its charade of implementing Islamic law. Since when did Islam place a minimum age limit for marriage of 25? Since when did the Shariah state that the government is the ‘Wali Amr' for Muslim men whose consent must be sought for their marriage? Since when did the Qur'an and Sunnah prescribe an ‘Iddah period' of 6 months for divorced men? And since when did our Deen prohibit marriage to specific nationalities?!!

This is a state that has destroyed many Islamic historical sites within its land upon the basis of what it terms - preventing bid'ah (or innovation) in the Deen. Yet it bears no qualms about legislating laws which are flagrant violations of Islam, or basing its entire rule on Kufr. Indeed the very existence of this oppressive monarchical system is an act of ‘bid'ah'!

These corrupt marriage restrictions stem from the rotten concept of ‘Nationalism' that Islam sought to eradicate from the minds and hearts of the Muslims, calling them rather to unite as one brotherhood, under one system and one ruler. However the Saudi regime was born upon the premise of this rotten ideal and since its inception has been trying to instill and strengthen it within its citizens, in an attempt to try and take them back to the times of Jahilyyah. The Prophet (saw) said regarding ‘Assabiya' (tribalism or nationalism), «دعوها فإنها منتنة » "Leave it. It is Rotten."

He (saw) also said,

«يا أيها الناس إن الله قد أذهب عنكم عبية الجاهلية وتعاظمها بآبائها، فالناس رجلان بر تقي كريم على الله وفاجر شقي هين على الله أنتم بنو آدم وآدم من تراب من تراب، ليدعن رجال فخرهم بأقوامٍ إنما هم فحم من فحم جهنم أو ليكونن أهون على الله من الجعلان التي تدفع بأنفها النتن»

"Undoubtedly Allah has removed from you the pride of arrogance of the age of Jahilliyah (ignorance) and the glorification of ancestors. Now people are of two kinds. Either believers who are aware or transgressors who do wrong. You are all the children of Adam and Adam was made of clay. People should give up their pride in nations because that is a coal from the coals of Hell-fire. If they do not give this up Allah (swt) will consider them lower than the lowly worm which pushes itself through dung."

This is the same divisive and poisonous nationalism that causes the governments of Saudi, Egypt, Turkey, Jordan and others across the Muslim world to stand idle, immobilizing their armies while Muslims in Palestine, Syria, Myanmar, Central Africa and other lands are massacred by the enemies of Islam. It's the same rotten concept that drives statements and fatwas from government scholars of the likes of Saudi's Grand Mufti, Abdul Aziz Al Ash-Sheikh, who said that demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinians, "are just useless demagogic actions." Therefore, if the KSA wants to reject that which is truly ‘foreign', it needs to start by rejecting the ‘foreign' Western imposed concept of the ‘Nation-state' that is alien to Islam and has no place within our Muslim lands. And if King Abdullah wants to ban marriages with true ‘foreigners', it's the one that he and his regime has with their Western masters that should be the first to go!

These latest Saudi marriage regulations simply provide further proof that the rule of this regime does not hold a speck of resemblance to true Islamic governance. Hence it urgently needs to be uprooted along with all the current governments in the Muslim world and replaced with the Khilafah "Caliphate" system that alone will implement the Islamic laws comprehensively and correctly upon our lands, including eradicating the concept of nationalism that has poisoned our lands for too long.

Written for The Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Dr. Nazreen Nawaz

Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir

The large losses suffered by the Party of Iran in Syria, its drowning in the blood of Muslims in the blessed revolution of Ash-Sham, and its defeat in Kalamoon in the past few days, made ​​it in an awkward situation in front of its popular support. This led it to commit its atrocious massacre against Muslims in the village of Arsal adjacent to the Syrian border, which constitutes a shelter for the displaced people who were forced to flee drums of death and resort to it due to its proximity to the Syrian-Lebanese border. It has been clearly revealed that the lackeys of the so-called countries of opposition, the likes of the party of Iran, do not differ in their crimes against Muslims from the way of their masters, the agents of America, the likes of Iran and Bashar along with the Jewish criminal entity, in the killing of children, women and the elderly; all under the pretext of fighting terrorism! The party of Iran has implicated the Lebanese army more and more in its war against the Muslims, our people in Arsal.

O Muslims in the land of Ash-Sham: It has become clear that as soon as you came out to overthrow the regime, and called for the implementation of Allah's law, the east and west assembled upon you, and the Kaffir countries, led by America, threw a single bow at all of you; for one reason that Allah (swt) mentioned it for us in His All-Mighty Book, ((وَمَا نَقَمُوا مِنْهُمْ إِلَّا أَنْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ الْعَزِيزِ الْحَمِيدِ)) "And they resented them only because they believed in Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Praiseworthy." [Al-Buruj: 8]

Therefore, the issue is a vital issue for them, and so it must be for you as well. They will not remain silent on the demise of their kingship, the extinction of their civilization and the loss of their interests in the face of the establishment of Allah's rule, and putting Islam into practice in ruling, economy, judiciary and social life. Nevertheless, Allah is our protector, and they have no protector. We have only to adhere to what our honorable Prophet (saw) adhered to, despite all of what he and his companions, may Allah be pleased with them, suffered from of killings, torture, siege and starvation; when he (saw) said: «والله لو وضعوا الشمس في يميني والقمر في يساري على أن أترك هذا الأمر ما تركته حتى يظهره الله أو أهلك دونه» "By Allah, if they put the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left hand on condition that I abandon this matter (Islam), until Allah has made it victorious or I perish, I will not abandon it". So his vital issue was to work to proclaim Islam or die for the sake of Allah. So, be patient and steadfast until the command of Allah and His Promise to grant us succession to authority and empowerment, and the attainment of the glad tidings of our honorable Prophet of the return of the Khilafah "Caliphate" on method of the Prophethood. And then those who have wronged will know of the return to which they shall return.

O Muslims throughout the entire world: The situation where we are of killing, displacement, prosecution, starvation and propaganda ... all this is caused by the absence of the Sultan (authority) of Islam by the absence of the Imam whom people fight behind and by whom they are protected. We will be asked before Allah, of what is happening to our people in Ash-Sham, and of our silence and inaction from bringing them victory and work to eliminate this injustice and misery. Work to eradicate those rulers who the Kaffir West installed them as lookouts guarding their interests and fighting against Allah and His Messenger, and to appoint a Khaleefah to the Muslims who mobilizes the armies for the victory of the Muslims, and who protects their glory, and avenges them from all those who harmed them.

((لِلَّهِ الْأَمْرُ مِنْ قَبْلُ وَمِنْ بَعْدُ وَيَوْمَئِذٍ يَفْرَحُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ * بِنَصْرِ اللَّهِ يَنْصُرُ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الرَّحِيمُ)) "To Allah belongs the command before and after. And that day the believers will rejoice; In the victory of Allah. He gives victory to whom He wills, and He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful." ]Ar-Rum: 4-6].

Ahmad Abdul Wahab

Head of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir

wilayah of Syria