Hizb ut Tahrir in the blessed land of Palestine held a conference in Jenin on Monday, May 26, 2014 CE to mark the 93rd anniversary of the destruction of the Khilafah "Caliphate". Dignitaries, intellectuals and supporters and advocates of Hizb ut Tahrir attended the conference.

The conference was part of the events announced by the Hizb to be held throughout most cities in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Aqsa Mosque, under the slogan "Al-Aqsa Mosque Cries out for the Ummah and its Armies to Establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" and Liberate the Blessed Land".

One of the speakers to speak was Sheikh Abu Islam al Fahmawey, which touched on the subject of the Nakba and how Palestine was lost due to the destruction of the Khilafah "Caliphate" and that soon, Inshallah, the Khilafah "Caliphate" will return. Abu Anas also gave a speech entitled, "Why the Khilafah "Caliphate"?"

Brother Saleh also mentioned how the West is hostile to the fact of the Khilafah "Caliphate" and how the West is fighting the idea of the Khilafah "Caliphate". The conference also included Sheikh Taher Abu Mustafa, one of the first generations of the Hizb. His speech entitled, "My Advice to You."

Dr. Mohammed Afif Shadeed concluded the conference with a duaa.

Palestine: Press Report regarding the Khilafah "Caliphate" Comference in Jenin

Monday, 27 Rajab 1435 AH corresponding to 26 May 2014 CE

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Against the backdrop of the judicial decision of execution and a hundred lashes released against a woman who apostatized from Islam and fell pregnant illegitimately, the Kaffir West, its institutions and instruments rose up to prevent the implementation of the judgment. Marie Harff, assistant of the spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department said: "We are very concerned about the death sentence by hanging issued against Mariam for apostasy and the lashing for adultery." (Elaph website, 16/05/2014) The embassies of America, Britain, Canada and the Netherlands in Khartoum have issued a joint statement expressing their concern about the verdict. As for Italy, it announced on behalf of its Minister of Foreign Affairs, "The country is working to save the life of a pregnant Sudanese woman." (Al-Arabiyya website, 17/05/2014). On Monday 19/05/2014, the British Foreign Ministry summoned the charge d'affaires of Sudan, describing the court ruling as barbaric!! It also called upon Sudan to respect its international obligations on freedom of religion (Al-Jareeda, 20/05/2014). The Head of the Sudanese Parliament in his speech to the Sudanese Radio on Friday, 17/05/2014, described the ruling as primitive and said that Parliament was reviewing forty laws. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Karti, in his interview with the Sudanese newspaper on 20/05/2014 said, "The verdict has damaged our foreign relations"!!!

We in Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Sudan clarify the following:

First: The ruling of the Legislator, Allah the Almighty, for apostasy is death, due to the Messenger's (saw) saying:

«مَنْ بَدَّلَ دِينَهُ فَاقْتُلُوهُ» "Whoever changes his religion, kill him."

And the Almighty's ruling against an unmarried adulterer is one hundred lashes and banishment for one year, due to His (swt) saying:

الزَّانِيَةُ وَالزَّانِي فَاجْلِدُوا كُلَّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا مِائَةَ جَلْدَةٍ وَلا تَأْخُذْكُمْ بِهِمَا رَأْفَةٌ فِي دِينِ اللَّهِ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الآخِرِ وَلْيَشْهَدْ عَذَابَهُمَا طَائِفَةٌ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ

"The [unmarried] woman or [unmarried] man found guilty of sexual intercourse - lash each one of them with a hundred lashes, and do not be taken by pity for them in the religion of Allah, if you should believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a group of the believers witness their punishment." [An-Nur: 2]

Second: The Muslim is proud of his Aqeedah and the provisions of his Shari'a, he finds no embarrassment for that within himself. Allah Almighty says:

((فَلا وَرَبِّكَ لا يُؤْمِنُونَ حَتَّى يُحَكِّمُوكَ فِيمَا شَجَرَ بَيْنَهُمْ ثُمَّ لا يَجِدُوا فِي أَنْفُسِهِمْ حَرَجًا مِمَّا قَضَيْتَ وَيُسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيمًا))

"But no, by your Lord, they will not [truly] believe until they make you, [O Muhammad], judge concerning that over which they dispute among themselves and then find within themselves no discomfort from what you have judged and submit in [full, willing] submission." [An-Nisa: 65]

The Muslim does not seek the satisfaction of the hostile Kaffir West upon the descent of the Shar'i provision.

Allah (swt) says:

((إِنَّ الْكَافِرِينَ كَانُوا لَكُمْ عَدُوًّا مُبِينًا))

"Indeed, the disbelievers are ever to you a clear enemy." [An-Nisa: 101]

And He (swt) says:

وَلَنْ تَرْضَى عَنْكَ الْيَهُودُ وَلا النَّصَارَى حَتَّى تَتَّبِعَ مِلَّتَهُمْ قُلْ إِنَّ هُدَى اللَّهِ هُوَ الْهُدَى وَلَئِنِ اتَّبَعْتَ أَهْوَاءَهُمْ بَعْدَ الَّذِي جَاءَكَ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ مَا لَكَ مِنَ اللَّهِ مِنْ وَلِيٍّ وَلا نَصِيرٍ

"And never will the Jews or the Christians approve of you until you follow their religion. Say, "Indeed, the guidance of Allah is the [only] guidance." If you were to follow their desires after what has come to you of knowledge, you would have against Allah no protector or helper." [Al-Baqarah: 120]

Third: The application of the Hukm Shar'i intends to achieve a spiritual value, confirming the service to Allah Almighty, the Creator, the Sustainer, the Strong and the Solid. Hence it does not accommodate what might result of harm from the application of the Hukm Shar'i, in accordance with the calculations of Shaytan and the fabrications of the defeated rulers.

Fourth: The government seeks to cause doubt within people against the provisions of Islam when it describes them as primitive provisions, excelled by other provisions!!

Through the process of adjusting 40 laws, it wants to empty them from Shar'i provisions, so that they conform to the secular constitution and the Kaffir's legislation, embodied in the international obligations. It does so to draw close to the Kaffir West, which stands in harmony with the government's quest for the concentration of secularism in the country through the so-called "National Dialogue" which is meant to lead to a constitution of compromise, based on other than Islam.

Fifth: To the decrepit Britain that described the Shari'a as barbaric, to the ambassadors opposing Islam and its provisions, who attack the Deen of Allah, the Great Islam...we say to all of these: You will receive the answer soon, with the permission of Allah, when the Islamic Ummah establishes the second rightly guided Khilafah "Caliphate"!

Then the wrongdoers will know what kind of fate awaits them! The Islamic Ummah, through the favor of Allah (swt), has recovered from the psychological defeat, and became not only looking forward to the application of the Islamic Penal System, but looks forward to the resumption of the Islamic way of life by applying all regulations and rulings of Islam. This will take place in the near future under the Khilafah "Caliphate", insha'Allah!

Oh Muslims: Walk along on the path with the frontrunner that does not lie to its people, Hizb ut Tahrir, which is working day and night for the establishment of the rightly guided Khilafah "Caliphate" to implement the Shari'a, under the leadership of its Ameer, the honorable Scholar Ata Bin Khalil Abu Al-Rashtah.

((يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اسْتَجِيبُوا لِلَّهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ إِذَا دَعَاكُمْ لِمَا يُحْيِيكُمْ))

"Oh you who have believed, respond to Allah and to the Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life." [Al-Anfal: 24]

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