It was revealed last week that the Coalition, under the leadership of Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, if elected, would seek to ban Hizb ut Tahrir and prevent its members abroad from visiting Australia, one from among a range of proposed policies related to Islam and Muslims.
Approximately 150 Muslims were arrested in a large-scale raid in the Oxanov market in the city of Surjut-Siberia, where many of the residents of Central Asia and Northern Caucasus work. The raid began suddenly according to witnesses, when masked men armed with assault rifles broke into the building in broad daylight and surrounded it, and then under their threat of execution they ordered all those present in the building to exit the building and line up on the street.
Egyptian forces struck tunnels that connect Gaza and Egypt, according to local residents in Rafah. Reuters video showed explosions in the area followed by smoke clouds in Rafah on the border between Gaza and Egypt. The strike explosion took place at around sunset. About 80 percent of tunnels used to smuggle goods and arms into the Gaza Strip from Egypt are no longer functioning due to a crackdown by the Egyptian military after it ousted President Mohamed Morsi, a United Nations official said in July. Cairo moved to destroy the tunnels after militants in the Egyptian Sinai desert killed 16 of its soldiers a year ago. Egypt said some of the gunmen had slipped into Sinai from nearby Gaza, an accusation denied by Hamas, who controls the strip. Gaza relies on the network of tunnels for vital goods including fuel, cement and food. Hamas, which taxes much of the traffic through the underground passages, has been hit hard by the losses. Ordinary Palestinians, many of them dependent on U.N. aid handouts, have seen prices for staple goods skyrocket. Israel still maintains strict control of all imports into Gaza to prevent arms reaching Hamas, which refuses to recognize the Jewish state and has often clashed with it. Under international accords, merchandise cannot be imported via Egypt. [Source: Voice of America]
Pentagon Knew in 2012 that It would Take 75,000 GROUND TROOPS to Secure Syria's Chemical Weapons Facilities
Securing Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles and the facilities that produced them would likely require the U.S. to send more than 75,000 ground troops into the Middle Eastern country, MailOnline learned Wednesday. That estimate comes from a secret memorandum the U.S. Department of Defense prepared for President Obama in early 2012. U.S. Central Command arrived at the figure of 75,000 ground troops as part of a written series of military options for dealing with Bashar al-Assad more than 18 months ago, long before the U.S. confirmed internally that the Syrian dictator was using the weapons against rebel factions within his borders. ‘The report exists, and it was prepared at the request of the National Security Advisor's staff,' a Department of Defense official with knowledge of the inquiry told MailOnline Wednesday on condition of anonymity. [Source: UK Daily Mail]
The US Is Doing an Awful Lot of Spying on Pakistan
The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaeda, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan. No other nation draws as much scrutiny across so many categories of national security concern. A 178-page summary of the U.S. intelligence community's "black budget" shows that the United States has ramped up its surveillance of Pakistan's nuclear arms, cites previously undisclosed concerns about biological and chemical sites there, and details efforts to assess the loyalties of counterterrorism sources recruited by the CIA. Pakistan appears at the top of charts listing critical U.S. intelligence gaps. It is named as a target of newly formed analytic cells. And fears about the security of its nuclear program are so pervasive that a budget section on containing the spread of illicit weapons divides the world into two categories: Pakistan and everybody else. The disclosures - based on documents provided to the Washington Post by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden - expose broad new levels of U.S. distrust in an already unsteady security partnership with Pakistan, a politically unstable country that faces rising Islamist militancy. They also reveal a more expansive effort to gather intelligence on Pakistan than U.S. officials have disclosed. The United States has delivered nearly $26 billion in aid to Pakistan over the past 12 years, aimed at stabilizing the country and ensuring its cooperation in counterterrorism efforts. But with Osama bin Laden dead and al-Qaeda degraded, U.S. spy agencies appear to be shifting their attention to dangers that have emerged beyond the patch of Pakistani territory patrolled by CIA drones. "If the Americans are expanding their surveillance capabilities, it can only mean one thing," said Husain Haqqani, who until 2011 served as Pakistan's ambassador to the United States. "The mistrust now exceeds the trust." [Source: Washington Post]
Indonesian Muslim hard-liners staged a protest on Tuesday in the country's capital to try to stop the holding of the Miss World pageant this weekend on the resort island of Bali. More than 200 members of several Muslim hard-line groups organised by the Islamic Society Forum staged a rally and march to the MNC Tower, the building that houses the local organiser of the contest. They held up banners with "Reject Miss World that exploits women" and "Go to hell Miss World" on them, and shouted "Allah Akbar," outside the building, which was guarded by 300 police. "This is an insult and humiliation of women," Muhammad Al Khathath, an Islamic Society Forum leader, told the crowd. "Muslims should reject the Miss World contest," he said. The demonstration was peaceful and broke up after protest leaders met with the pageant organisers. Last week, the Indonesian Ulema Council, the country's most influential clerics group, urged the government to cancel the event, saying the exposure of skin by women in such a competition violates Islamic teachings, even after organisers agreed to cut the bikini competition and instead outfit contestants in more conservative sarongs. The chairwoman of the Miss World Organisation, Julia Morley, earlier confirmed that none of the contestants would wear a bikini. [Source: South China Morning Post]
News:
More than a thousand of MPs, members of Provincial Councils, tribal leaders and influential people gathered yesterday (03/09/13) in Kabul. They asked Afghan government to consider the security situation of the country and postpone the Provincial and Presidential Elections of April 2014. They were consisted of elders, leaders and youths, who claimed that their movement is not backed by any party and it is purely from among the people.
Comment:
Democracy had no value in the Afghan society, from the very first day it stepped onto the Afghan soil. What is ironic is this movement is arranged by those who claimed the slogans of democratic freedoms and elections during 12 years of invasion. Meanwhile, during implementation of the so called democracy in the country, Afghans had only seen bloodshed and disrespect towards their Aqeedah. This is why, MPs and PC members, or those who oath to implement and support Western and Capitalist democracy and non-Islamic constitution, now turned against it.
Particular facts behind this scenario that explains why they are trying to throw away democratic values are as under:
The people who denied communism and fought against it for a long time in the past, could not ignore the political advantages and vast amount of money poured into the country by the West. So at first they started to implement the Western imported system that brought nothing except poverty, unemployment, adultery, corruption and "Fitnah" to the Muslims of Afghanistan. Thus, after a long time this spectrum of people awakened and turned against democracy.
During past two presidential and parliamentary elections, the Elections Commission and Western Advisors proved that elections in the presence of colonialism means nothing. By considering the huge corruption and fraud in the elections, only those become president, Member of Parliament or Member of Provincial Councils, who are most committed to the Western and Democratic values. Therefore, people don't have belief in the process, its value and its significance in their lives...
As a result of political and intellectual struggle by Hizb ut Tahrir particularly in the provinces with low level of war, has paved the way for the people to understand the Shari'ah Law and differentiate it from democracy, elections, Western concepts and that the current government is a puppet of the US and is implementing western agenda in the country. This struggle, nevertheless, will continue with its energy and significance towards the Islamic awakening in this part of the Islamic land.
A hard and strong resistance against US and NATO occupation in major parts of the country, turned these areas into "no election zones". The vote boxes are filled in the provincial capitals in the favor of those candidates who pays more than the others, who consequently win the so-called elections.
In the meantime, the lack of an industrial and economic progress and as well as the lack of a real, ideological and people backed party, only paved the way for those who accept western values and concepts and stand before any foreign embassy for political support, thus the successful candidates become real puppets.
In another scene, the Kafir West before elections has raised many issues to preserve its occupation and colonialism in the country.
The West tried to bring forward those distinguished individuals and parties before elections under one umbrella which is called National Ijma'a (National Consensus), so specific candidates will have the chance to announce their commitment to the western ideology. This concept is portrayed and carried by Zalmay Khalilzad, an American politician who is natively an Afghan. On the other hand, this concept is further developed by western technocrats like Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, Ali Ahmad Jalali and Anwarul Haq Ahadi.
As it is mentioned in the news above, another western agenda is to create an alternative through Karzai's team. And that will be an interim government in case if the Elections are faced with a boycott by the people that will be expressed either via Loya Jirga or other means. And this can be achieved through insecurity. So, this is another possible mean that will finally lead to an emergency situation that will result to an interim government.
Another issue that is pursued in both cases, is the peace process with armed anti-government forces. Attempts will be made on a permanent base in order to make peace with them based on American conditions and also the way for any changes in the constitution will be open. This is an issue that seems to be followed in both cases.
Therefore, such electoral coalitions which are made of former Mujahidin and some criminals, has zero influence among ordinary people and they are perceived as stock companies trying to play with the fate of Muslims in Afghanistan. They only try to gain political and financial advantages, therefore no one believes them. In the meantime, Western technocrats also have nearly zero level of influence among ordinary people, as they have shown their full capacity in the ministries. Furthermore, they only try to retain the interests of the West and don't care about people's standard of living.
Despite the above mentioned points, Afghan government claims that it sense no security threats in 3435 polling centers from total of seven thousand. Remaining centers are completely under control of the armed anti-government elements.
In conclusion, the US led invasion in the past 12 years, made Afghanistan a hell to Afghans. This is achieved by their manmade laws, plans and concepts which are implemented through brutal bombardments and direct occupation. But the time has come that Democracy gives its last breaths in itself mad hell, and no Muslim will desire to live under Democracy in the future.
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Saifullah Mustanir
Kabul- Wilayah Afghanistan
Mukhtarat from The Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir Issue No. 22 Dhul Qiddah 1434 AH
Interview that was conducted by Hizb ut Tahrir Media Office in Syria with Sheikh Abu Musab al-Shami; whom is a member of Hizb ut Tahrir who sacrificed himself only for Allah swt. He is a role model who stood for justice towards the Ummah's suffering. Among the blood and the destruction, praise Allah for his victory towards the revolutionary and its people, and may Allah continue to do so. Ameen
Shawwal 1434 AH - September / 2013
On Sunday, the 1st of September, the President of the National Coaltition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, Ahmad Jarba, called for the Arab League to support the military operation against Bashar's regime. In the opening session of an emergency session of Arab foreign ministers, Jarba said:
Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, in his speech at the Arab ministerial meeting held in Cairo on Sunday evening 09/01/2013, confirmed that any move to the rescue of the Syrian people is not considered a foreign interference, demanding that the international community uses its efforts to stop this aggression against the Syrian people before this people perish.
