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The Media Office of Australia: Victory for Hizb Detainees in Pakistan

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On Thursday, 11 Rabii II 1434 AH, 21 February 2013; Hizb ut Tahrir Australia organized a wide campaign for the victory of the Hizb detainees in Pakistan. The thugs of the unjust Pakistani regime persist in being the enemy of Allah, His Messenger and the Believers in arresting, abducting and torturing the Muslim Shabab who took it upon themselves to carry the Islamic call to resume the Islamic way of life through the establishment of a caliphate state. A delegation from Hizb ut Tahrir in Australia organized a protest before the Embassy of the unjust Pakistani regime in the city of Sydney, and a delegation of the Hizb entered into the Consulate to deliver the message condemning the hostilities by the Pakistani regime toward Shabab Hizb ut Tahrir.  A serious and frank discussion took place between the Hizb delegation and the representative of the embassy, who received the letter.  The delegation exposed that the Pakistani state is an illegal state and the Hizb works to demolish it to reinstitute on its ruins the Khilafah "Caliphate" state which will unite the country and the people. The Khilafah "Caliphate" will hold accountable all rulers and all those who align themselves with the crimes against Islam and Muslims.

 

 

Message of Condemnation by Brother Ismail Alwahwah (Abu Anas)
Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir Australia
Commentary about the events organized before the Pakistani Consulate
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Message of Condemnation by Brother Ismail Alwahwah (Abu Anas)
Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir Australia
Commentary about the Delegation's Meeting with the Pakistani Consulate
(Arabic)

 

 

 

 

Brother Hamza Qureishi

Commentary about the events organized before the Pakistani Consulate

(English)

 

 

 

 

Brother Haroon Buksh

Commentary about the events organized before the Pakistani Consulate

(Urdu)

 

 

 

 

 

Brother Owais Rezvi

Commentary about the Delegation's Meeting with the Pakistani Consulate

(Urdu)

 

 

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NATO Airstrike Killings of Women and Children in Afghanistan Re-iterates the Urgent Need for the Re-establishment of the Khilafah State

On Thursday 14th February 2013, the BBC, CNN and other media outlets reported that NATO airstrikes killed 10 civilians, including 4 women and 5 children during a joint Afghan-NATO operation in the Shigal district of the northeastern Kunar province of Afghanistan. Last October, at least four children were killed in a U.S. missile attack on a residential area in Afghanistan's eastern province of Logar, and an airstrike by US forces in Helmand province killed three children.

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Headline News 21/02/2013

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Headlines:

  • Currency Crisis Hits Egypt's Wheat Supply
  • Iran to Set Up $4bn Oil Refinery in Gwadar
  • $500 Billions Wasted? Why America Is the Afghan ATM
  • US Senator Says 4,700 Killed in US Drone Strikes

 

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Currency Crisis Hits Egypt's Wheat Supply:

Egypt, the world's largest wheat importer, is struggling to buy the staple in the international market because of the impact of a currency crisis, creating a fresh challenge to the government of Mohamed Morsi, the Islamist president. Grain traders shipping wheat to Egypt said Cairo had cut back on its overseas purchases as the Egyptian pound plunged against the US dollar. The slowdown has depleted the country's grain stocks to unusually low levels, traders added.  Cairo on Wednesday said that government inventory levels of wheat, usually at enough to cover six months' worth of consumption, had almost halved to just 101 days. "They are living hand-to-mouth," said one Swiss-based international grain trader. The Egyptian cabinet added that wheat reserves would stretch by another month with the arrival of supplies tendered for delivery in March and April. With more than 40 per cent of Egyptians living below the poverty line, subsidised bread is an important part of the Egyptian government's strategy for maintaining social peace. Lower inventories made it vulnerable to any supply disruptions, analysts and traders said, "The two things [the government] can't lose control of are bread and fuel," said Firas Abi Ali at Exclusive Analysis, the political consultancy, in London. The Egyptian authorities have been wary of touching food subsidies since rioting swept Egyptian cities in 1977 after the government decided to raise the prices of a range of staples. The authorities were forced to rescind their decision to restore order. During the food crisis of 2007-08, which pushed the cost of wheat to an all-time high, many families became reliant on subsidised bread, with long queues forming in front of bakeries and frequent scuffles breaking out. Army bakeries were drafted in to augment the supply.

 

Iran to set up $4bn oil refinery in Gwadar:

In a major move to boost bilateral cooperation with Pakistan, Iran has agreed to set up a $4 billion oil refinery in Gwadar with an estimated capacity of about 400,000 barrels per day. Pakistani Prime Minister's Adviser on Petroleum and Natural Resources Dr. Asim Hussain told Dawn on Wednesday that an understanding to this effect had been reached during a meeting between Iranian delegation led by Oil Minister Rostam Ghasemi and Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf. An official said a memorandum of understanding for setting up the refinery was expected to be signed during President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to Tehran on February 27. He said land for the project would be provided to Iran near Gwadar Port. Dr. Asim said Pakistan was expected to pay the price of gas to be delivered to it through the Pak-Iran gas pipeline and petroleum products purchased from the proposed refinery in the form of food products, particularly wheat, rice and meat. He said a technical team would visit Tehran on Thursday to finalise parameters of the MoU on the refinery and settle issues relating to the Pak-Iran gas pipeline. Earlier, a company owned by the UAE government had committed to set up a refinery at Khalifa Point in Balochistan but backed out for unknown reasons.

 

$500 Billions Wasted? Why America Is the Afghan ATM:

President Obama is set to announce the withdrawal of 34,000 American troops from Afghanistan by 2014, cutting the number of U.S. military personnel by half. But if the White House does not want to undermine the progress made in the last 12 years, the Government Accountability Office says the United States is going to have to shell out billions of dollars to Afghanistan well beyond the end of the war. The GAO report released Monday says Afghanistan would essentially collapse without U.S. financial support since it does not have enough money to pay for its own security forces. It doesn't generate nearly enough revenue to maintain a viable government. And the tens of billions of development dollars meant to revive the Afghan economy and create strong government institutions have largely been wasted or stolen.  According to GAO, the country's government infrastructure is also likely to collapse without broader international support since it, too, is almost entirely dependent on international donors for revenue. For instance, from 2006 to 2011, Afghanistan only accounted for 10 percent of total public expenditures. Even as domestic revenues have grown from just $600 million in 2006 to $2 billion in 2011, public expenditures increased over that time from $5.8 billion to $17.4 billion. The shortfall was covered largely by the United States, with Washington springing for 37 percent of all non-security expenditures. The main problem is that Afghanistan has no way to generate its own revenue. It doesn't have a functioning infrastructure or national economy, has no formal tax collection system, and the entire country is riddled with corruption. In other words, if the United States does not develop a plan to pay to maintain and develop the Afghan military, any gains made since the start of the war would be lost, and more than $500 billion would have been wasted.

 

US Senator Says 4,700 Killed in US Drone Strikes:

A US senator has said an estimated 4,700 people, including some civilians, have been killed in the contentious bombing raids of America's secretive drone war, local media reported on Wednesday. It was the first time a lawmaker or any government representative had referred to a total number of fatalities in the drone strikes, which have been condemned by rights groups as extrajudicial assassinations. The toll from hundreds of drone-launched missile strikes against suspected al Qaeda militants in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere has remained a mystery, as US officials refuse to publicly discuss any details of the covert campaign. But Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a staunch supporter of the drone raids, openly cited a number that exceeds some independent estimates of the death toll. "We've killed 4,700," Graham was quoted as saying by the Easley Patch, a local website covering the small town of Easley in South Carolina. "Sometimes you hit innocent people, and I hate that, but we're at war, and we've taken out some very senior members of al Qaeda," Graham told the Easley Rotary Club. Graham's office did not dispute his reported remarks but suggested that he had not divulged any official, classified government figure. A spokesman told AFP that the senator "quoted the figure that has been publicly reported and disseminated on cable news." His remark was unprecedented, as US officials have sometimes hinted at estimates of civilian casualties but never referred to a total body count. "Now this is the first time a US official has put a total number on it," said Micah Zenko, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

 

Abu Hashim

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Bitter Lessons from Mtwara

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News:

The Citizen Newspaper reported on recent spate of violence in Mtwara, the southern part of Tanzania, against the gas pipeline project to Dar es Salaam. The paper said this is a sign of growing public distrust in the government. Also it showed a concern that investments are no longer safe in Tanzania, since people are fed up with empty promises, rising anger against a lopsided development map as well as shocking inequitable distribution of national wealth.   [Source: The Citizen, 08 February 2013]


Comment:

The conflict (protest) of the public against the taking of natural gas from the Mtwara area started in the last part of 2012. This is one of the shameful indicators of the failure of Capitalism in serving the public with justice to the extent that the public has lost hope in the political and economic system of Capitalism. Furthermore, it is an explicit demonstration of a lack of justice in the system. The lack of justice is now a time-bomb waiting to explode anytime leaving the country in pieces.

This conflict is a result of neglecting this strip which is a historical and continuous issue since colonial times by the Germans. Later on, the British in their strategy deliberately neglected the area to make it a factory for cheap labor. Contempt and neglect of the area was inherited and continued even after independence under Capitalism with religious feelings and discrimination of the area by making favors to ‘Christian north' against ‘Muslim south'.

Islam takes natural gas as a resource among public property whereby its benefits are for all and not for specific people or area where it is located. Abi Kharasha narrated from some Sahabas that the Prophet (saw) said, "Muslims are partners in three things; water, pasture and fire."

In another narration, the Prophet (saw) said, "People are partners in three things: water pasture and fire" and in another narration from Abu Hurairah, the Prophet (saw) said: "Three are not withheld: water, pasture and fire."

Natural gas resource and anything that generates fire as stated in the Hadiths like petrol and others enters the category of ‘fire'. The Prophet (saw) has clearly stated that those are things owned by the public. It is Haram to be owned by an individual, a state or private companies as we see western companies struggling over the matter. Instead, the benefits from such public property are supposed to be used for public services e.g. provision of water, electricity, health, etc. Never should such property be owned by an individual or a local or foreign company.

Capitalism under its economic policy of ‘free market' naturally can never manage such property and make it available to the owners. It is only when the Khilafah "Caliphate" state that has the qualities, ability and motivation to act accordingly. Only then will human beings taste justice and good life.

 

 

Masoud Msellem

Deputy Media Representative, Hizb ut Tahrir/ East Africa

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Delegation to Pakistani Consulate Demands Immediate Release of Members of Hizb ut Tahrir in Pakistan

On the 17th of February, the head of Hizb ut Tahrir Pakistan's Central Contact Committee Saad Jagranvi was arrested, along with four others, for the second time in a matter of weeks. He was addressing a seminar organised by Hizb ut Tahrir in Rawalpindi on the matter of the Kiyani military doctrine, exposing it as a doctrine of submission, humiliation and capitulation before a hostile force - America.

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The Rise of ‘Bride Snatching' in Kazakhstan

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A prominent international policy group, the Wilson Centre has reported on the rise of forced marriages in Kazakhstan. There are specific historical and cultural attitudes that distinguish the abuse of women's rights in this region that set it apart from other nations. In the southern areas of Kazakhstan, many men who want to get married will simply ‘hunt' out a possible bride through social links or personal investigation and bypass the normal Islamic discussion process of seeking permission from the woman's male guardians and the potential bride herself. They will then arrange to kidnap the unsuspecting woman or girl and organise other unscrupulous accomplices to perform a marriage ceremony with or without the consent of the unfortunate bride to be. It is known as kelisimsiz alyp qashu ("to take and run without agreement"). The dangerous state of affairs is not helped by the fact that consensual kidnapping known as kelissimmen alyp qashu ("to take and run with agreement"),  is at present widely practiced and socially acceptable. This occurs when a girl may explicitly or even implicitly indicate interest in a relationship and may even agree to get married and as a consequence she may be suddenly taken from her home and placed immediately into a marriage setting with formal consent gained in symbolic items of clothing worn by the new ‘bride' and a letter written to her family indicating her change of circumstances.

The phenomenon has come to be known as ‘bride snatching' and often ends up with women and girls permanently trapped in often violent and abusive relationships with no recourse for justice available to them. The problem has existed unchallenged for so long by the Kazakh government and international community such that incidents have risen sharply in recent years. Victims of this crime not only suffer the violation of their rights in terms of being married without their consent, but they often stay in the undesired relationship due to the social stigma of leaving the marital home and the shame divorce brings upon the family as well as the fact that they have a clear understanding that there are no authorities that will aid them in their plight.

Organisations such as the Wilson Centre have attributed the underlying causes of this illegitimate means of marriage as being linked to the post-Soviet transition period where access to women employment and education as well as social policies that facilitated child care were more available to women, as shown by the following Wilson centre quote; "Kidnap marriages, as well as arranged marriages, became illegal shortly after the Soviet state incorporated Central Asia in the early 1920s.....Marxist ideals that promoted gender equality are being replaced with new nationalist ideals that emphasize more "traditional" gender roles." The implication here, is that with the ending of communist influence, the predominantly Muslim population of Kazakhstan, have reverted back to the values of the Ottoman Khilafah "Caliphate" that ended in 1924 and as such, have been placed in a social time warp where Shariah influence is setting the women of the region back in terms of their political rights and public service mobilisation.

Other significant reasons for men preferring to kidnap a bride include speeding up the costly process of marriage that can overburden the average man who is of low income. In some cases the potential bride may already be expecting the prospective groom's child or it may simply be that the man did not respect the family's right to refuse a proposal of marriage.

In light of the perceived reasons for the alarming increase in bride snatching, which some NGO's estimate to be as high as 60-75% of all marriages, secular institutions such as the Wilson Centre have put forward a number of proposed solutions to address the problem. Unsurprisingly, the promotion of gender equality policies and selective legal reforms are considered top of the agenda. Social support centres for victims and greater means for women to enter the workplace and earn an independent income are also highlighted as proposed strategies as indicated in a report by the Wilson Centre; "Kazakh nationalism is stressed more than gender equality......Encourage changes in the legal process......Local NGOs could establish local crises centres.......young men are more likely to kidnap women against their will if they feel insecure about their own economic situation...."

With all of these oft repeated options given to the Kazakh government, there is a blinding oversight in the political appraisal of the problem of bride snatching that will make any attempt to solve it completely futile.

Firstly, all of the reasons given to explain the phenomenon of bride snatching are symptomatic of an underlying social culture that devalues and objectifies women. This is something that existed under the Soviet political ideology that dominated the region and also exists in the current secular political culture of Kazakhstan. The only difference that one should acknowledge is that under the iron control of Marxist policies, people may have found it more difficult to practice bride snatching at levels that we see today. However gross violations and abuse of women's rights were a regular part of Soviet life as slavery, imprisonment, execution and poverty are well documented. Economic independence does not and has not ever changed the status of women or given them greater respect in any society that has adopted this policy. This is proven in the high rates of harassment, unequal pay practices and limited promotional prospects that exist in all established democratic nations.

Secondly, fundamental flaws in the analysis also exist in the way the Kazakh national identity is dealt with. Whilst it cannot be denied that cultural practices can be a great obstacle to women's rights, such as the un-Islamic and unnecessary high costs involved in getting married, it should not be assumed that it is the Islamic culture that is the great threat here. In fact the exact opposite is true. In Islam, women are regarded in the highest terms of respect and are guarded from being used, abused and objectified in any social or political context, be it in the advertising industry or in the work that is allowed for women who may want to use their physical attributes to earn money. This includes the invalidity of any marriage without the woman or girl giving her explicit consent to marry. In addition, Islam bestows great respect for the role of women as mothers and wives, a role traditionally undermined and punished by the social and economic structure of Capitalism. Under the Islamic social system of the Khilafah "Caliphate", taken from the Quran and the teachings of the Prophet Mohammad (saw), specified policies exist to regulate the relationship between males and females both in public and private. Islam forbids the liberal culture of men and women mixing freely and as such, misunderstandings of the intent to marry or women giving birth outside of consensual marriage would be very difficult to arise.

Sayyiduna Abd Allah ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) said:

" لا تُسَافِر المرأة إلا مع ذي محرم ، ولا يدخل عليها رجل إلا ومعها محرم"

"A woman must not travel except with a Mahram and a man must not enter upon her except if she has a Mahram." (Sahih al-Bukhari, no. 1763).

The Islamic judicial system of the Khilafah "Caliphate" creates a society where women feel safe to engage on their social roles knowing that there are strict and enforceable laws that severely punish anyone that denies them their rights. These rights do not only encompass issues linked to kidnap or physical assault, but even extend as far as to punish anyone who dares slander or circulate false rumours about women, which, as we know, can clearly harm the lives of women directly and indirectly. Allah (swt) says,

((إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَرْمُونَ الْمُحْصَنَاتِ الْغَافِلَاتِ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ لُعِنُوا فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ))

"Verily, those who accuse chaste women, who never even think of anything touching their chastity, and are good believers - are cursed in this life and in the Hereafter, and for them will be a great torment" [TMQ al-Noor 23].

The importance of God consciousness (Taqwa) or the keen awareness Muslims have for the accountability they have - not to the State but to the Creator Himself - is a factor that would be deeply rooted in a personality educated and raised in the Islamic society of the Khilafah "Caliphate". As such self-discipline and respect for women are considered to be the social norms for citizens under this Islamic System.

In light of these clear Islamic principles and laws, which are only a hint of the great state of protection that Islam affords women, we can now understand how the Khilafah "Caliphate" of the past did not share the sordid reality that exists for all women today, be it the global proliferation of domestic violence, bride snatching in Kazakhstan, forced marriages in Africa or Asia, infanticide of female foetuses in India or the sickening international slave trade in women who are exploited by individuals or groups affected by the capitalist mentality of maximising profits regardless of the consequences.  Islam never had a women's rights movement as women had their rights under its rule. Under the Khilafah "Caliphate", women knew that they were not obliged to work as the male members of their family or the State were responsible for their economic maintenance and they also knew that they were entitled to free education and could engage in paid work or political activities in a manner that agreed with Islam and in a manner where they never felt guilty or degraded if they chose to pursue the noble task of nurturing their families and teaching the next generation the high Islamic values that breeds personalities that see no benefit in harming or abusing others. It is only the Khilafah "Caliphate" State that can secure human rights in a manner that is not merely theoretical but in a manner that exists in reality. The debate over a modern Kazakh national identity versus a traditional Kazakh identity should be abandoned and replaced by a clear Islamic agenda reflected in this quote from the Quran.

(( وَاَنۡزَلۡنَاۤ اِلَيۡكَ الۡكِتٰبَ بِالۡحَـقِّ مُصَدِّقًا لِّمَا بَيۡنَ يَدَيۡهِ مِنَ الۡكِتٰبِ وَمُهَيۡمِنًا عَلَيۡهِ‌ فَاحۡكُمۡ بَيۡنَهُمۡ بِمَاۤ اَنۡزَلَ اللّٰهُ وَلَا تَتَّبِعۡ اَهۡوَآءَهُمۡ عَمَّا جَآءَكَ مِنَ الۡحَـقِّ‌* لِكُلٍّ جَعَلۡنَا مِنۡكُمۡ شِرۡعَةً وَّمِنۡهَاجًا ‌ * وَلَوۡ شَآءَ اللّٰهُ لَجَـعَلَـكُمۡ اُمَّةً وَّاحِدَةً وَّلٰـكِنۡ لِّيَبۡلُوَكُمۡ فِىۡ مَاۤ اٰتٰٮكُمۡ فَاسۡتَبِقُوا الۡخَـيۡـرٰتِ‌* اِلَى اللّٰهِ مَرۡجِعُكُمۡ جَمِيۡعًا فَيُنَبِّئُكُمۡ بِمَا كُنۡتُمۡ فِيۡهِ تَخۡتَلِفُوۡنَۙ ‏))

"Then We revealed the Book to you (O Muhammad!) with Truth, confirming whatever of the Book was revealed before, and protecting and guarding over it. Judge, then, in the affairs of men in accordance with the Law that Allah has revealed, and do not follow their desires in disregard of the Truth which has come to you. For each of you We have appointed a Law and a way of life. And had Allah so willed, He would surely have made you one single community; instead, (He gave each of you a Law and a way of life) in order to test you by what He gave you. Vie, then, one with another in good works. Unto Allah is the return of all of you; and He will then make you understand the truth concerning the matters on which you disagreed." [Al-Maidah: 48]

It is not only Kazakh men that should be accounted for the correct implementation of these noble verses, but the leadership and entire government of Kazakhstan itself.

 

 

Imrana Mohammed

Member of The Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir

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