Rustam Minnekhanov's congratulations reflect the priorities of the secular society where Islam is artificially isolated from life. In such a society, one can celebrate as much as he wants over the fact that once Islam was a state religion of Volga Bulgaria and then of the Golden Horde - it does not change the position of Tatarstan's inhabitants. The worldview of the present generation follows steadily degrading Western society, with its vile values that are measured with the image created in their culture. An example of this rapid degradation is the recent Eurovision song contest.

When two Muslims travelled recently from the UK to Europe, they had a strange conversation before going to the airport. If one of them gets stopped by UK authorities at the airport, should the other proceed and board the flight anyway? They were not drug dealers, criminals or anything of that nature and their trip was on a British passport for a legitimate visit to another European country. Actually, the worry was more about being stopped at the UK end because this has happened several times. And they knew that other non-Muslim British passport holders were unlikely to suffer the same fate.

While the UK government tries to tell the world that people here are treated equally, it is clear that Muslims are now regarded by some as second-class citizens. While many in the Muslim community know this through experience, it was brought to light when an award winning Muslim Somali journalist wrote an article about his constant harassment over the last ten years. Jamal Osman wrote:

"I joined Channel 4 News as a reporter, largely covering Africa - a role that required frequent travelling. And that is when my nightmare at the hands of Britain's security services began. I have been detained, questioned and harassed almost every time I have passed through Heathrow Airport. In 10 years, only one of my colleagues has been stopped.

During the past five years I have also been repeatedly approached by security services trying to "recruit" me."

"If there is one thing I've learned from such encounters, it is that carrying a British passport doesn't necessarily make you feel British. I came to this country to seek sanctuary. I am a multi-award winning journalist. I am an immigrant and a refugee - but I am still made to feel like an asylum seeker. I am a Muslim, an African and a Somali. And should the security services be reading this: I am a British citizen. Please treat me like one."

Many Muslims would read that and wonder that if a prominent Muslim journalist gets treated like that, how can they be expected to be treated any differently. So whatever the claims of the UK government, the experience at airports leads many Muslims to conclude that they are treated as second class citizens - though they carry a British passport.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Taji Mustafa

Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in Britain

Large crowds gathered outside the Aqsa Mosque after the Friday prayer, 24 Rajab 1435 AH corresponding to 23 May 2014 CE, to call onto the Muslim Ummah and the armies to establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" and liberate Palestine from the Jewish occupation. People from the West Bank who were able to reach the Aqsa Mosque participated as well.

The estimated number that attended was in the thousands, which was in response to an invitation by Hizb ut Tahrir in Palestine. It was a part of a series of public events that Hizb ut tahrir organized in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to mark the ninety-third anniversary for the demolition of the Khilafah "Caliphate" , under the slogan, "Al-Aqsa Mosque Cries out for the Ummah and its Armies to Establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" and Liberate the Blessed Land."

The talks that were given were about the crimes of the Jews towards the Aqsa Mosque and it called upon the Ummah and the Muslim Armies to liberate the blessed lands of al sham returning it back under the shade of the Khilafah "Caliphate".

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The Blessed Land of Palestine

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An Urgent Call from Al-Aqsa Mosque to the Islamic Ummah and the Muslim Armies

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Maghreb Channel: Dr. Yousef Haj "The theatrics of the presidential elections in Syria and the overall political events and its arena."
Interview Dr. Yousef Haj Yousif, Deputy of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in the Wilayah of Syria on the Maghreb satelite channel, on the program "Events and Echoes" speaking about the theatrics of the presidential elections in Syria and the overall political events and its arena.

Saturday, 25 Rajab 1435 AH corresponding to the 24  May 2014 CE

Hizb ut Tahrir Invite to the Aqsa Mosque Event

The city of Dhahiriah - the city of the Commander Muzaffar al-Zahir Baybars the conqueror of the  Mongols in the famous Battle of Ayn, held a conference by Hizb ut Tahrir. As part of its activities marking 93rd anniversary of the demolition of the Khilafah "Caliphate" under the slogan "Al-Aqsa Mosque Cries out for the Ummah and its Armies to Establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" and Liberate the Blessed Land." It was attended by people of the city and neighboring areas, calls for the demand of the Khilafah "Caliphate" and for the armies to liberate Al-Aqsa Mosque and the rest of Palestine and its people from the occupation, and they raised the banners of Islam and flag of the Prophet (saw).The conference took place on 27 Rajab 1435 AH corresponding to May 26, 2014

Member of the Media Office of the Hizb, Dr. Musab Abu Arqoub spoke of the tragedies of the Muslims in Palestine and the Muslim lands and the crimes committed against Muslims and people of Palestine and Al-Aqsa after the demolition of the Khilafah "Caliphate" State. He told the audience, "in spite of all that we are gathered and sow terror in the enemies' hearts of the Ummah before the announcement of the Khilafah "Caliphate" ... because despair fills their chests from your defeat ... after all their crimes against the Ummah of Islam ... Here is the Ummah of Islam has resuscitated once again and raises their voices in the squares to declare "the Ummah wants Khilafah "Caliphate" Islamiyya."

Brother Khaleel Abu Musab addressed the Muslim armies in the second speech that Al Aqsa cries out to you waiting to be rescued and that Hizb ut Tahrir calls from the Holy Land to the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" to be the full rescuer of the Aqsa and its people in Palestine from the occupation.

A poem was recited by the young Moayed Khudhairat to the Shabab of the Ummah of the their value in the face of the enemy whose weapons are their words of truth.

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In the Blessed Land of Palestine

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