News:

The UK is presently in the midst of a heated political debate initiated by the Home Office Minister Jeremy Browne who is encouraging the government to consider the banning  the Niqab. On the 16^th of September Minister Browne stated; ".....there is genuine debate about whether girls should feel a compulsion to wear a veil". The debate over banning of the veil was initiated after Birmingham Metropolitan College reversed its previous 8 years ban on Niqabs.

Comment:

The Liberal Democrat MP's staunch anti-Islamic position is echoed by fellow MP's with Tory backbencher Dr Sarah Wollaston, writing in the Telegraph Newspaper a day earlier that veils were "deeply offensive" and were "making women invisible". The widely asserted assumption that Muslim women need rescuing from being forced to practice Islam is one of the cheap political tactics often employed by desperate politicians internationally in order to create Islamophobic hysteria and distract the internal population from their own political failures or win cheap votes. The fact is Muslim women are fully aware that the western nations they live in give allot of assistance in turning their back on the Islamic points of view and yet statistics show that it is the younger well educated Muslim women who see through the black cloud of popular liberal culture that covers every part of the world and reject the fanatical pressure to conform to a viewpoint of success that is driven by company profits feeding off women's unhappiness and insecurities. The idea that Muslim women are forced to cover is one that represents the exact opposite of the reality It is western values that Muslim women are being forced to accept when divisive discussions on Hijab bans, Halal meat or any other Islamic policy is placed in the firing line. This trend represents a continuation of the Orientalist tradition, which automatically discredits any non-Eurocentric political entity, in order to elevate its own substandard position. The fact that Muslim women in France, Tunisia, across Europe, Africa and beyond, prefer Islamic politics over liberal secular values is proven when we see Muslim women taking their cases to European Courts of Human rights and other legal bodies and how they suffer great consequences, even death, in order to defend their Islamic identity.

The recent example in Birmingham Metropolitan College is a case in point when a 17-year-old girl started an online protest against the Niqab ban. She stated at the time that the veil ban was embarrassing and that it "upsets me that we are being discriminated against. I don't think my Niqab prevents me from studying or communicating with anyone...." The online petition against the ban was signed by 9,000 in 48 hours showing the immense solidarity and sympathy Muslim women have for the struggle to defy the negative consequences of being Muslim women in liberal democracies as these statistics reflect a powerful message that Muslim women refuse to submit to the will of Secular fanaticism with its oppressive laws that criminalize, marginalize and punish Muslim women for exercising their own free-will when they see no hope for real success under the double standards and false promises of liberal-secularism and Capitalism. When faced with such debates like the banning of Niqab, Muslim women are reminded that Islam is the only truly stable viewpoint in life, free from contradictions in policy. It is a political system that provides women with social and economic security unprecedented in the world's history. Women were not forced to abandon their public roles due to the pressure of exposing more of their physical attributes. In the Islamic social system, women are valued for their inherent qualities of womanhood, that of being a mother, wife and daughter. Their success is defined by the content of their character not the cutting edge of a plastic surgeons knife. In an Islamic system a women is encouraged to fill her mind not her wardrobe and her happiness is not measured by the approval of other people but by the approval of her creator. In this way we can see that the real danger and obstacle Muslim women's progress has its origins not in Islam, but western political systems that are enforced globally. It is the removal of these alien viewpoints in our lands, not the removal of the Niqab that should be the critical point of debate internationally. Allah (swt) speaks of the struggle for Islam in Suran As-Saff verse 8;

يُرِيدُونَ لِيُطْفِئُوا نُورَ اللَّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَاللَّهُ مُتِمُّ نُورِهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكَافِرُونَ

"Their intention is to extinguish God's Light (by blowing) with their mouths: But God will complete (the revelation of) His Light, even though the Unbelievers may detest (it)."

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Imrana Mohammad

Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir

Washing the Martyr, Bi'idhnillah, Gappaev     Abdullah Muhammad Rasool in Dagestan

On 15 September 2013 at about 11 pm in the city of Kizlyar, Dagestan, Gappaev Abdullah, a member of Hizb ut Tahrir party, was killed. He was fatally shot not far from his house. Gappaev received several explosive wounds as confirmed by the examination.

As a result of this brutal murder of one of our Hizb activists, we would want to highlight some important points:

1. Gappaev Abdullah was an active member of Hizb ut Tahrir. He was sincere in dawah on the path of his Lord and was active in many community affairs aimed at the dissemination and protection of Islam, whether the activities of Eid ul-Adha and Eid ul-Fitr holidays or public protests organized against the authorities' regime, abductions and killings of Muslims in Dagestan. He also often met with many imams and community leaders to explain to them the true state of affairs of the Islamic Ummah. Being a member of the Islamic political party Hizb ut Tahrir and having much knowledge in many Islamic sciences he always made it clear to people that Islam was a system for life and called to work hard for the restoration of the Khilafah "Caliphate", because only in this system, it could be realized.

2. Muslims living in Russia have begun to awaken, returned to their roots, began to study their religion more deeply and also to study the history of the great Islamic Ummah. All this certainly leads Muslims to an understanding of the need to follow Islamic rules as well as to recognize them as part of a single Islamic Ummah. It should be noted that this awakening of Muslims is occurring worldwide and this makes the enemies of Allah and Muslims hinder the development of the Islamic Ummah. In Dagestan lately there had been public protests against the harassment of Muslims not only in Caucasus but also in Russia and also against the murders of Muslims in ash-Sham. All of this demonstrates the awakening of the Ummah and its returning to political activity.

3. Lately we have seen that Russia actively fights and assists the tyrant Assad's regime in every possible way; and despite obvious differences with the United States, Russia remains the main ally in the preservation of the secular regime in Syria. This Russian foreign policy activity is not associated in order to compete with the U.S. in geopolitics, and is directly related to the fear of the prospect of the establishing of an Islamic State in ash-Sham. Since Russia itself has more than 20 million Muslims, the authorities are afraid of their political activity, especially in the context of global changes in the Islamic world.

All these facts as well as many explosive bullet wounds to the noble body of our beloved brother prove that he was intentionally killed! His authority among the Muslims because of a deep knowledge and noble disposition, his practicing of sincere dawah to Islam and also his   unwavering stance in protecting the interests of the Islamic Ummah became the cause for him being cowardly shot. In this regard, to all thugs who were involved in the murder of our brother Abalova we want to say the following:

Firstly: You will never stop Islamic dawah carriers even though you may gather all your helpers from the people and jinn!  All your attempts to stop the dawah of Hizb ut Tahrir are doomed to failure, do you still do not realize this! If you want to scare other sincere Muslims among the members of Hizb ut Tahrir by this cowardly murder, you should know that we fear Allah only and death on His path is dearer to us than life for you with all its pleasures.

Secondly: Today you kill Muslims and violate their rights. So beware that the day when you will have to answer in full for all your evil deeds is closer than you think! At first you will see the sword of Khaleefah and then you will go to where unending torments in a fiery abode that awaits you.

Thirdly: A dog will never be compared to a lion, for when the lion dies, he leaves behind the glory, heroism and courage ... and a dog leaves cowardice and dishonor! Our brother Abalova Abdullah was a lion! We ask Allah that you meet a Khaleefah soon in which you will answer in full for the death of our brother as well as for all the crimes against all Muslims living in Russia.

The Shabab and its supporters of Hizb ut Tahrir/Wilayah Yemen took a stand demanding to be ruled by Shar'ia Allah (swt) by establishing the Khilafah "Caliphate" State.

Saturday, 29 Rajab 1434 AH corresponding to 8 June 2013 CE

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