The Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Turkey held an interview with the family (father, mother, daughter) of  Brother Muhammad Hanafi Ergan.  He is one of the Shabab who was arrested by the corrupt and repressive Justice and Development Party in Erzurum, Turkey on 4/9/2013 because they are the sincere and wholesome Shabab that work night and day to resume an Islamic life through the re-establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashidah through its political thoughts with the Hizb who follow the path of the Messenger (saw) to establish the Islamic State.

Rajab 1434 AH/ May 2013

News:

Dodoma: The government will soon table the Information Bill in Parliament which will enable MPs to discuss and legislate a new law on the media industry in the country. Mr. Amos Makala, Deputy Minister for Information, Youths, Culture and Sports, told the Parliament yesterday that the draft had already landed at the ministry and would be sent to the cabinet for discussion. He said the bill was getting final touches and would be tabled anytime from now. Mr. Makala said, "We have taken the matter to the cabinet for discussion and we will table it in the House anytime from now." [The Citizen 15/05/2013]

Comment:

Unfortunately, in spite of this bill being the most awaited by the media industry, in the real sense it is not going to offer any freedom to media outlets as some might think.  Since the concept of freedom of speech is nothing but an empty slogan that does not conform whatsoever to reality.

Falsely, the democratic system boasts itself as dedicated to protect freedom of speech but every day we witness many media outlets being banned and many hindrances imposed to restrict performing their daily function. The most common pretext to control media industry is the so-called breaching News Papers Act or National Security Act.

While democracy proclaims to safeguard and protect freedom, the truth is that it only entails freedom that is not contrary with its ideological principles or interests.

The system of Islam does not play this sort of democratic double standard. Not only because the concept of freedom does not fit with reality, but there is no such notion since human beings are given this life with the specific objective of worshipping the Creator Who is the sole Master and humans are His Slaves.

Masoud Msellem

Deputy Media Representative

Hizb ut Tahrir / East Africa

Headlines:

• New Spectre of Cloned Babies: Scientists Create Embryos in Lab that Could Grow to Full Term
• France Struggles to Fight Radical Islam in its Jails
• Jewish State Hints at New Strikes, Warning Syria Not to Hit Back
• Karzai Asks Taliban to Support Kabul on Border Spat
• US Sees China Missile Launch as Test of Muscle

Details:

New Spectre of Cloned Babies: Scientists Create Embryos in Lab that Could Grow to Full Term:

The breakthrough could lead to customised cells to help treat and even cure a range of diseases, from Alzheimer's to multiple sclerosis. However, it also raises the spectre of babies being cloned in laboratories. This could allow couples who lose a child to pay for the creation of a ‘duplicate'. While human embryos have been cloned before, none have had healthy stem cells extracted from them. The latest advance means scientists are now even closer to being able to clone children. The US team behind the work stress that they want to find treatments for incurable diseases - but critics fear there is little to stop a rogue scientist from copying their work to try to clone humans. Dr David King, founder of the campaign group Human Genetics Alert, called for an international ban on human cloning and said it was ‘irresponsible in the extreme' to have published details of the stem-cell technique. The world first was achieved at Oregon Health and Science University, with a technique similar to the one used to clone Dolly the sheep.

France Struggles to Fight Radical Islam in its Jails:

In France, the path to radical Islam often begins with a minor offence that throws a young man into an overcrowded, violent jail and produces a hardened convert ready for jihad. With the country on heightened security alert since January when French troops began fighting al Qaeda-linked Islamists in Mali, authorities are increasingly worried about home-grown militants emerging from France's own jails. But despite government efforts to tackle the problem, conditions behind bars are still turning young Muslims into easy prey for jihadist recruiters, according to guards, prison directors, ex-inmates, chaplains and crime experts interviewed over the last few months by Reuters. "I have parents who come to me and say: ‘My son went in a dealer and came out a fundamentalist'," said Hassen Chalghoumi, Imam of the mosque in Drancy, a gritty suburb north of Paris. Malian Islamists have warned France it is a target for attacks, most recently in a video that came to light on Tuesday. This has added to concern in a country which, according to the Europol police agency, arrested 91 people in 2012 on suspicion of what it categorized as religiously-inspired terrorism. These numbers are by far the highest for any European Union country, although tiny when compared with France's estimated 5 to 6 million Muslims, the overwhelming majority of whom are peaceful, law-abiding citizens. France, which has Europe's biggest Muslim population, is not alone. International studies show that prison radicalization is a problem in countries ranging from Britain and the United States to Afghanistan. However, France stands out because over half its inmates are estimated to be Muslim, many from communities blighted by poverty and unemployment.

Jewish State Hints at New Strikes, Warning Syria Not to Hit Back:

In a clear warning to Syria to stop the transfer of advanced weapons to Islamic militants in the region, a senior Israeli official signalled on Wednesday that Israel was considering additional military strikes to prevent that from happening and that the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, would face crippling consequences if he retaliated. "Israel is determined to continue to prevent the transfer of advanced weapons to Hezbollah," the Israeli official said. "The transfer of such weapons to Hezbollah will destabilize and endanger the entire region." "If Syrian President Assad reacts by attacking Israel, or tries to strike Israel through his terrorist proxies," the official said, "he will risk forfeiting his regime, for Israel will retaliate."

Karzai Asks Taliban to Support Kabul on Border Spat:

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has called on Taliban insurgents to drop their weapons against the Afghan people and turn them against enemies of the war-ravaged country. The statement is widely seen as directed at neighbouring Pakistan and it comes just days after one of the worst border clashes between the two uneasy neighbours. Construction of a controversial border post along the Durand Line - the two countries' porous, 2,600-kilometer border - is at the centre of the latest bilateral tensions. Kabul alleges that Islamabad is building the installation on Afghan territory in violation of bilateral and international agreements. Pakistan has repeatedly denied those charges. President Karzai ordered his top officials last month to take all necessary steps to get the border post removed. He did not elaborate, but his directive was soon followed by one of the worst recent border skirmishes between Afghan and Pakistani forces. One Afghan died and two Pakistani soldiers were wounded.

US Sees China Missile Launch as Test of Muscle:

The U.S. government believes a Chinese missile launch this week was the first test of a new interceptor that could be used to destroy a satellite in orbit, a U.S. defence official told Reuters on Wednesday. China launched a rocket into space on Monday, but no objects were placed into orbit, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. The object re-entered Earth's atmosphere above the Indian Ocean. "We tracked several objects during the flight but did not observe the insertion of any objects into orbit and no objects associated with this launch remain in space," said Lieutenant Colonel Monica Matoush, a Pentagon spokeswoman. The rocket reached 10,000 km (6,250 miles) above Earth, the highest suborbital launch seen worldwide since 1976, according to Jonathan McDowell at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics. China has said the rocket, launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in western China, carried a science payload to study the earth's magnetosphere. "I want to emphasize that China has consistently advocated for the peaceful use of outer space and opposes the weaponization of outer space as well as an arms race in outer space," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters in Beijing.

Abu Hashim

At a press briefing yesterday (13-05-2013), the Bangladesh Army announced the official end of the Rana Plaza rescue operation and stated that the final death toll from the collapse was 1,127. Hizb ut Tahrir/ Wilayah Bangladesh, conveys its condolences to the families of the deceased; and prays to Allah, the Merciful, to shower them with peace and accept them as martyrs of the Hereafter. The Messenger of Allah (saw) stated that if one dies the death from such collapses, he will be of the martyrs. We also pray that Allah (swt) cures the injured soon.

This tragic incident and other similar incidents such as the Tazreen Fashion factory fire in November last year reveal the extent of the corruption of the existing system in Bangladesh, the ruling coalition government of Hasina, which includes the following:

1. The absolute failure and negligence of the government to care for the affairs of the people, to monitor the owners of factories and maintain the standards of engineering in construction, and its cronyism and nepotism in issuing building permits without a commitment to standards of engineering. It is simply enough that if the factory owner is a member of the ruling party he can build an additional three floors above the permitted five floors, with faulty design. This is in sharp contrast to what Muhammad (saw) stated:

"كُلُّكُمْ رَاعٍ، وَكُلُّكُمْ مَسْئُولٌ عَنْ رَعِيَّتِهِ "

"Each of you is a shepherd and each of you is responsible for his flock."

2. Hasina and the regime ruling the people of Bangladesh have turned its people into slaves for global capitalist companies. They have marketed the labour force of the country as cheap slaves which made the global capitalist corporations greedy to switch from using prisoners in Chinese prisons to Bangladesh because of the low wages of the workers in Bangladesh, where the wages of those working in the garment factories for more than 12 hours a day is a meagre 30 Euros a month, although their work is for international companies; it has been shown that the workers in Rana Plaza were working for European companies such as Mango, Primark, and Benetton.

In addition to the bondage in the local factories, the secular governments have forced the people - who are desperate to escape from poverty and destitution resulting from the current system - to seek employment in the so-called overseas labour market until they became known as slaves in the world under the name of workers, especially in the Gulf states, where they are exploited in the most heinous ways, including physical abuse, humiliation and low wages which are no better than the wages of workers in the garment factories in Bangladesh.

What is worse is Hasina and the ruling regime's transformation of the Bangladesh Army into mercenaries for the United Nations, through sending them to combat missions, for implementing the schemes of the Kafir imperialists in various regions of the world, instead of using them to protect the people in the border or defending the Muslims in Myanmar, or sending them to support their brothers in Syria from America's agent, the tyrant of Al-Sham, Bashar al-Assad! The hadith of RasulAllah (saw) will apply to Hasina and this ruling regime for their crimes against the people:

«مَا مِنْ وَالٍ يَلِي رَعِيَّةً مِنْ الْمُسْلِمِينَ فَيَمُوتُ وَهُوَ غَاشٌّ لَهُمْ إِلَّا حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ الْجَنَّةَ»

"There is no wali (governor) who takes charge of Muslims and dies cheating them, except that Allah prohibits him paradise."

3. Such incidents also clearly reveal Hasina and the ruling regime's disregard for people's lives, when they invent lies and make irresponsible statements such as "the building collapsed due to the shaking of the gates" or "the cause of the collapse was due to the vibrations of electricity generators" as if the government is not responsible for the timed blackouts, forcing factory owners to use generators, not to mention their corruption and failure to monitor the owner's commitment to engineering standards.

O Muslims!

Enough is enough; enough of the corrupt regime's enslavement of yourselves and your children. They treat you even less than a slave. You are the best Ummah produced from the people; you have in your hands Islam, the great Deen which if you implemented in your lives by establishing the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" rather than the current corrupt system, you shall satisfy Allah (swt) and He will liberate you from oppression.

((...وَمَنْ يَتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَجْعَلْ لَهُ مَخْرَجًا (2) وَيَرْزُقْهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُ وَمَنْ يَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى اللَّهِ فَهُوَ حَسْبُهُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بَالِغُ أَمْرِهِ قَدْ جَعَلَ اللَّهُ لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدْرًا)).

"...and whosoever fear Allah, He makes a way out for him (from every difficulty). And He provides for him from (sources) he never could imagine. And whosoever puts his trust in Allah, then sufficient is Allah for him. Verily Allah will accomplish His purpose: Verily, for all things Allah has appointed a due proportion." [Surah At-Talaq: 2-3]

The Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir

Wilayah Bangladesh