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‘Gay Marriage': Muslim MPs will Never Secure the Values of Islam and the Muslim Community

On 05 February 2013, the House of Commons voted - by 400 votes to 175 - to legalise Gay Marriage in Britain. "Muslim MPs" - such as Sadiq Khan, Rushanara Ali, Sajid Javid, Shabana Mahmood and Anas Sarwar - as well as other politicians who make a play for the support of the Muslim community - voted FOR ‘Gay Marriage'.

Some of these politicians visit the Muslim community and give Islamic greetings, or parade their Muslim names and heritage. Yet when they are in the company of their fellow politicians and the media, they compete with each other to prove who is the most Westernised! Some people hold up these MPs as examples for young Muslims to follow. Yet nothing could be further from the truth.

 

The Problem Lies in the System:

Britain, like other countries in the West, is a country whose laws and morals are based upon secular liberal values. Their system is one where it is the will of men, not the will of God, which decides what is right and wrong. Their democratic system means the People - through their elected members of Parliament - chose what is good or bad, moral or immoral - based on a majority vote. There are no principles or criteria to decide what is right and wrong - it depends upon the mood within society at any particular time. A few decades ago homosexuality was illegal in Britain. Now, not only is this legal, but it is also legal for homosexuals to marry in full ceremony like any heterosexual couple!

This is because this is a political system where man makes the law. It is a system that Allah and His Messenger warned us about when He (swt) said:

((اتخذوا أحبارهم ورهبانهم أرباباً من دون الله))

"They took their rabbis and priests to be their lords besides Allah" [Al-Tawbah: 31]

 

Once, whilst Allah's Messenger (saw) was reciting this ayah, ‘Adi bin Hatim remarked

"يا رسول الله! إنهم لم يعبدوا أحبارهم ورهبانهم. قال أما إنهم لم يكونوا يعبدونهم، ولكنهم كانوا إذا أحلّوا لهم شيئاً استحلّوه وإذا حرّموا عليهم شيئاً حرّموه"

"O Allah's Messenger! They do not worship their rabbis and the priests." The Messenger of Allah (saw) replied - "They certainly do. They [the rabbis and priests] make the halal things as haram, and haram things as halal - and they followed them, and so by doing so they really worshipped them." [Narrated by Ahmad and Al-Tirmidhi]

 

In any democratic country, it is the parliament that has taken this role to make halal things as haram, and haram things as halal - hence it is these MP's who are legislators as opposed to Allah (swt) being the Supreme Legislator.

 

Misguided: Using a Tainted System to Uphold Islam:

Some in the Muslim community, quite remarkably, promote the idea that Muslims need to use this system - which has made all manner of haram things halal - to try to defend or uphold Islamic values or the interests of the Muslim community.

It is truly amazing they can be convinced of this when one sees the example of these so-called ‘Muslim politicians'. Some of them claimed while campaigning for Muslim votes that they had entered the system to promote Islam and the interests of Muslims. But (if that was truly the case) it is now glaringly obvious how their values have changed while in the system, to the extent they now endorse homosexual relationships, which Allah made from amongst the gravest of sins, and for which He (swt) destroyed the Qawm of Lut (as). We, in Hizb ut Tahrir, have always maintained that a Muslim MP has to revoke his Islam if he/she is to stay in this system and hence it can never be a path for the Muslim community to engage in.

 

The Serious Challenge for Muslims in the UK:

Dear Brothers and Sisters - We must realise that this political system based on secularism and democracy can never defend Islam or bring any goodness for Islam or the Muslim community. This latest example has clearly exposed this.

The challenge for us is how to secure our Islamic values in our families, our children and our community whilst living in this society. This clearly cannot happen by voting in Muslim MPs who by entering the system are bound by the values of this system and loyalties to their secular Kufr parties.

Instead the Muslim community needs to undertake several clear steps:

1.       To know clearly that in Islam it is Allah (swt) who is Sovereign and decides what is halal and haram.

This is our Aqeedah. No matter what laws are passed, this cannot change for a Muslim; and the Muslim community must adhere to the halal and haram as the criteria for right and wrong. Our Deen is not like Christianity, which has changed beyond recognition with the times. What Allah has decreed are halal and haram will remain so till the Day of Judgement.

((اليوم أكملت لكم دينكم وأتممت عليكم نعمتي ورضيت لكم الإسلام ديناً))

"Today I have completed your Deen for you, encompassed My blessings upon you and have accepted Islam to you as a Deen" [Al-Maidah: 3]

2.       To secure these Islamic values in our mosques, madrasahs and Muslim schools.

We would be naive to believe the promises of politicians to protect mosques and churches from having to conduct ‘gay weddings'. Catholic adoption agencies have had to close because they refused to endorse adoption to homosexual parents based on equalities laws. The most recent laws being passed in parliament will no doubt come to affect our institutions.

The Muslim community needs to be educated about such laws and the effect of the Kufr society around us so that all parents, community leaders, Imams and mosque committees can ensure that no such un-Islamic practices are allowed to be normalised in our institutions and communities. Burying one's head in the sand will do more than allow the normalisation of such un-Islamic practices, Allah (swt) forbid.

3.         Not only do we ensure our communities are protected from such un-Islamic thoughts, values and practices but we must also carry the Dawah of Islam to the wider non-Muslim society around us. Muslims should have the confidence to explain Islam to non-Muslims and invite them to Islam. There are two reasons for this.

Firstly, this society itself is crying for a solution to its ever-growing problems. Family breakdown, divorce, domestic and sexual abuse, depression, ‘pornification' of society are all the fruits of a way of life that is based upon ‘freedom' to do whatever one wants and the desire for unlimited fun and material pleasure. The material progress the West has made shouldn't make one blind to the social disorder that is endemic in society. Islam has answers to this social meltdown in society and we as a community are obliged to carry this Dawah of Islam, following the example of the Messenger of Allah (saw).

Secondly, doing nothing means allowing our community to be changed by the values of the society around us. There is no security in isolating ourselves. The only protection is in interacting with this society on a basis of Islam. If we fail to do this, our community will be affected ever more with the values of Western society. What starts with gay marriage, zina, alcohol and drugs will end with abandoning our parents and leaving the Deen of Islam as the vast majority of Christians have done with Christianity.

The Messenger of Allah (saw) said,

"لتنقضن عرى الإسلام عروة عروة، فكلما انتقضت عروة تشبث الناس بالتي تليها، وأولهن نقضاً الحكم وآخرهن الصلاة "

"The knots of Islam will be undone one by one, each time a knot is undone the next one will be grasped, the first to be undone will be the Ruling and the last will be Prayer." [Hakim/Ahmed]

The knot of ruling by Islam has now been undone for decades - now the struggle to undo the knot of the basics of the Deen is taking place. Muslims across the world are trying to reestablish the knot of ruling by Islam - the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate". It is time for us living in the West to realize the struggle that is taking place here to change Islam and take an active part to prevent this. This can only be done, brothers and sisters, by building a strong conviction that Islam is a complete Deen that can address all our affairs in the 21st century and, moreover, it is Islam that has the solutions to the problems facing the whole of humanity today.

Thus we call on our community to abandon the wasted efforts of sending Muslims to parliament and engage in the much-needed effort to build the fortress of Islamic thoughts and values in our communities.

((قد تبين الرشد من الغيّ، فمن يكفر بالطاغوت ويؤمن بالله فقد استمسك بالعروة الوثقى، لا انفصام لها. والله سميع عليم))

"...True Guidance has become distinct from error, so whoever reject Taghut and believes in Allah has grasped the firmest handhold - one that will never break. And Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing" [al-Baqarah: 256]

 

 

www.hizb.org.uk

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Head of Hizb ut Tahrir's Central Contact Committee, Saad Jegranvi, Conducted Public Bayyans and Side Meetings, and Addressed Seminars in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Only the Khilafah will End the American Hegemony and Uproot the Current Colo

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Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Pakistan has issued the following Publicized Policy Position (PPP) which clearly demonstrates how Islam's revenue and expenditure policies can lead to economic strength and prosperity by adopting Hizb ut Tahrir's Introduction to the Constitution for the Khilafah "Caliphate".

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Ailing Saudi Regime Desperately Arrests Women and Children for Throne

Sunday 10 February 2013, CNN and other news agencies reported that Saudi authorities arrested tens of women and five children after a protest occurred in Riyadh and Buraida. The women were demanding the release of relatives held as political prisoners for years without access to lawyers or trial, their charges were criticizing or opposing the Saudi regime. 

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Egypt's President Morsi is the New American Stalwart in the Region

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Ever since assuming the office of the Presidency, Morsi has worked resolutely to portray himself as a moderate Islamist working independent of American influence for the betterment of Egypt and the region. But beneath the veneer of Islamic rhetoric surrounding his domestic and foreign policy actions, Morsi is no better than his predecessor Mubarak- the former gatekeeper of American interests in the region.

On the domestic front, Morsi can claim that the opposition has not allowed his government enough time to push through reforms that will address the Egypt's battered economy, restore law and order, and improve the lives of the ordinary Egyptian people. This is despite the fact that such reforms are formulated under the auspices of IMF stipulations for Egypt's government to revise its economic agenda in order to qualify for the $4.8 billion loan. IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said, "We understand the Egyptian authorities have been working on revising their economic program. And once this step is completed, we will discuss the timing of a possible mission to Cairo to assess the revised program."  The delay has prompted America's rating agency Moody to downgrade Egypt's credit worthiness.  Thus America's economic enslavement of Egypt continues via the IMF and Moody regardless of the claims made by Morsi's government of following an independent economic policy.

On the foreign policy front Morsi cannot conceal his pro-American credentials behind the wall of protestors, which include people from all walks of life. Morsi's foreign policy is distinctively American and in many ways is more brutal than Mubarak's era. On February 13th 2013, Egypt without warning flooded Gaza tunnels that are a life blood to the Palestinians living in concentration camp-like conditions in Gaza, which for all intents and purposes is controlled by the cowardly Jewish state. The tunnels bring in everything from food and medicine to cement and iron, providing up to 75 percent of the goods to a population of 1.6 million people.

An Egyptian security official in the Sinai told Reuters the campaign started five days ago. He said, "We are using water to close the tunnels by raising water from one of the wells." Hamas has been reluctant to criticise Morsi in public, but Gazans are more outspoken about the Hamas's naivety and Morsi's brutality. "Egyptian measures against tunnels have worsened since the election of Morsi. Our Hamas brothers thought he would open up Gaza. I guess they were wrong," said a tunnel owner, who identified himself only as Ayed, fearing reprisal. "Perhaps 150 or 200 tunnels have been shut since the Sinai attack. This is the Morsi era," he added.

So Morsi's government has used the attacks on Egyptian forces in Sinai in August 2012 to spearhead a ruthless campaign to close as many tunnels as possible and bolster the security of the Jewish state ahead of the much anticipated resumption of the dormant peace process.  With Palestinian unity talks planned in the days ahead, Netanyahu weakened by the recent elections and Obama scheduled to visit the Jewish state in March 2013, Washington is keen to create the right atmosphere to give a vital push for peace between the Arabs and the Jewish state. Central to the commencement of peace talks is the security of the Jewish state, and Morsi like his predecessor is doing his utmost to meet American and Jewish expectations. Nonetheless, the timing of the recent operation is intended to mollify Jewish criticism of America's delivery of four F16 aircraft to the Egyptian air force.

Likewise, Morsi's close ties with Iran to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria that preserves remnants of Assad's regime bears the hallmark of America's intended solution. America has been working tirelessly with Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Gulf countries as well as with the EU and Russia to protect Assad's regime in some form through a variety of initiatives the latest being the Brahimi Plan This will ensure the continuation of its hegemony over the Levant. Within this context Morsi visited Tehran in September 2012 and spoke of Iran as a pivotal stakeholder in finding a solution to the Syrian crisis. He said, "[Iran] a main player in the region that could have an active and supportive role in solving the Syrian problem... I don't see the presence of Iran in this quartet (Turkey, Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia) as a problem, but is a part of solving the problem." This also explains why Morsi a few days ago warmly greeted Ahmadinejad the butcher of Syria. His treatment of the Iranian president attracted the ire of some of Morsi's close supporters such as Daawa Salafiyya which issued a statement: "Egypt is committed to the protection of all Sunni nations." Hence within a space of a few months Morsi has managed to surpass Mubarak and do what his predecessor failed to do i.e. forge a working relationship with Iran to safeguard America's interests in the Levant.

America is mightily pleased with the domestic and foreign policy actions undertaken by Morsi's government. On February 3rd 2013, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson said, "We look to Egypt to continue to serve as a force for peace, security and leadership as the Middle East proceeds with its challenging yet essential journey towards democracy."

There are important lessons for Egyptians to learn from Morsi's rule. First, by simply calling for the ouster of a brutal dictator only to be replaced by someone who overtly expresses his faith in Islam is a folly of enormous proportions and will not change the plight of the people. Second, the real cause of misery for Egyptians is the current system through which America continues to colonise the country. Unless the system is eradicated from its roots people will continue to suffer under America's colonial policies implemented by its loyalists in the present regime-be they Islamists or liberals. Third, the only alternative to the present decadent system is the Islamic Shariah, and not Western liberal democracy as advocated by the short-sighted liberals. Western liberal democracy along with capitalism is dying and even people in the West are eagerly looking for an alternative system. But for Islamic Shariah to succeed, it has to be implemented holistically not in a piece meal fashion as championed by Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters. Fourthly, the only practical way to realise the implementation of the Shariah in domestic and foreign policy areas is through the re-establishment of the Caliphate. Only the Caliphate can guarantee an independent economic and foreign policy free from Western interference.

 

 

 

Abed Mostapha

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Pakistan National Women's Day Conference Fails to Offer the Solutions to Women's Economic Hardship and Political Disempowerment

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On Tuesday 12th February, many Pakistani newspapers including The News, Dawn, The Nation and Daily Times reported a conference held on Monday 11th February at Pakistan National Council of the Arts to commemorate National Women Day. It was attended by different human rights and women rights NGOs and was arranged by the Aurat Foundation, South Asia Partnership-Pakistan (SAP-PK), Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO), Sungi Development Foundation and Sustainable Development Policy Initiative. Its objectives were to pressurize the government to enhance the role of women in politics and improve their participation in the economic life of the country. The speakers also urged the authorities to "repeal discriminatory laws against women and take more steps for protecting their human rights, ensuring a congenial atmosphere for becoming respectable members of society". I.A. Rahman, a human rights activist in Pakistan, remarked that the political situation was not encouraging especially for women and that women were not allowed to represent their constituency but only given a space to sit in legislative buildings. He said, "Political participation means to play a role and unfortunately political parties are not allowed to play a political role" and also, "that without economic empowerment women would not be able to play a political role."

 

It is most regrettable that this conference failed to offer the real solutions to the problems faced by women of economic hardship and having little influence in the political process of the country. Infact these problems are faced by women all over the subcontinent including in Bangladesh, India and Afghanistan, because the same capitalist system along with its secular and liberal values is being implemented there. Based on these values and system, the law makers within these countries decide the fate of millions of men and women by making such economic policies that serve their own vested interests and  safeguard  the interests of their masters - the IMF, World Bank, and Western states. How can the women or men for that matter, be provided a secure economic life or their standard of living be improved when we are the economic slaves of such institutions and foreign governments and our countries are run on debt, fuelled by the capitalist interest-based financial model of economics that has crippled ordinary women and men with severe poverty? During the last fiscal year, Pakistan's  public debt grew by 493.6% as a percentage of its revenues, while the country consumed roughly 40% of its revenues for servicing such debts according to  the Debt Policy Statement 2012-13 from the Ministry of Finance. Under flawed capitalist policies, inflation  has increased to such a level that one dollar is now equivalent to more than a hundred Pakistani Rupees because the government is printing more money to pay back the loans without the paper currency being backed by the relevant amount of gold or silver. This has resulted in the spiraling of food and commodity prices. Being a net importer country with a weak manufacturing base, Pakistan's capitalist government oversees the devaluation of the Rupee, in accordance to IMF orders. The economic condition of women will only deteriorate if these policies according to the Capitalist mindset continue.

 

It is ludicrous to believe that under this rotten system that has caused the economy of Pakistan and the Muslim world to sink under a mountain of debt, imposed policies that have destroyed domestic markets, robbed states of their wealth and resources, and placed an economic stranglehold on the people by subjecting them to high taxes and extortionate prices for basic necessities including gas and electricity, that simply pushing women into employment will alleviate their economic woes. Also  pushing women to do jobs and earn for themselves under the Capitalist sytem simply creates other problems as they are then exposed to the exploitative capitalist environment of the state, where individuals, businesses, and corporations are allowed to exploit cheap labour for huge profits, subjecting women to dangerous and back-breaking working conditions.

 

Secondly, the idea that increasing female MP's will increase women's influence in the political process of the state is false. Pakistan has a higher percentage of women parliamentarians in the lower house (23%) than the USA which has only 17% women but this has meant nothing to the political rights or voice of ordinary women in Pakistan. How useful have these seats in parliament been when the whole system favors only the elite class - the daughters and nieces of the feudal lords and wealthy businessmen to run in elections, who then like all the other politicians make laws for their own benefit and not for the masses?

 

So the real solution lies in rejecting these liberal and secular capitalist values and system. The solutions promoted by Capitalism causes more problems for women. The real solution lies in the implementation of the laws made by the Creator(swt) who knows his creation better than we know ourselves due to our limited intellect. Allah (swt) says:

((أَلَا يَعۡلَمُ مَنۡ خَلَقَ وَهُوَ ٱللَّطِيفُ ٱلۡخَبِيرُ))

"Should not He Who has created know? And He is the Most Kind and Courteous (to His slaves), the Well-Acquainted (with everything)." [TMQ al-Mulk: 14]

 

The real solution lies in implementing a system wherein the men and women will not be able to make laws according to their own whims and desires to save their seats, or folllow the orders of the IMF and World Bank and implement harmful trade agreements, or run an economy upon the exploitative and detrimental principle of interest. Rather it will be a system, where Allah (swt)'s laws - like the  currency being based on gold and silver, the prohibition of interest, the economy being founded on wealth creation rather than debt, and the local currency being delinked from foreign currencies like the dollar - are implemented. Only a sound economic system  that provides the basic necessities of life to every citizen by way of being an obligation and not only as a "good thing to do" can secure the economic rights of women. It is a system that is obliged to create good employment opportunities for men for they are obliged to provide for their families, and where women have the choice to work or not to work as their basic necessities of life are fulfilled by their menfolk or the state. It is a system that will not accept any exploitative environment within the society, ensuring that women in employment enjoy safe and just working conditions. All this will only be achieved by  the Khilafah "Caliphate" state.

 

It is also a system where the women as well as men have a full say in the political affairs of the country, i.e in accounting the ruler and making him implement the laws of Allah (swt) completely and comprehensively. It is a state where a common woman can account the ruler like at the time of Khalifah Umar (ra), where an ordinary woman fearlessly challenged Umar (ra) who was the leader of the state on his order to limit the mahr (dowry), saying to him, "Umar! You have no right to intervene in a matter which Allah the All-Mighty has already decreed in the Qur'an" mentioning the ayah in Surah An-Nisa, verse 20.  Umar changed his decision based on the evidence from Islam, saying, "I am in the wrong and she is correct" - reflecting the fact that under the Khilafah "Caliphate", the reference for resolving disputes is the Islamic texts and not the whims of the ruler who cannot legislate laws according to his own interests or to favour his family and friends.

 

And it is a system where ordinary women and men both have the same political rights to elect their ruler and  become members of the Majlis al Ummah to represent their  respective provinces and to account the rulers but they do not legislate as this is the right of the Creator alone. I call upon the women's rights and human rights activists of Pakistan and the Muslim world to reject these flawed and harmful capitalist values and system and call towards the implementation of the Khilafah "Caliphate" state which is the only savior of women from their current plight. Allah (swt) says:

((أَفَمَنْ أَسَّسَ بُنْيَانَهُ عَلَىٰ تَقْوَىٰ مِنَ اللَّـهِ وَرِضْوَانٍ خَيْرٌ أَم مَّنْ أَسَّسَ بُنْيَانَهُ عَلَىٰ شَفَا جُرُفٍ هَارٍ فَانْهَارَ بِهِ فِي نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ ۗ وَاللَّـهُ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الظَّالِمِينَ))

"Is he, therefore, better who lays his foundation on fear of Allah and (His) good pleasure, or he who lays his foundation on the edge of a cracking hollowed bank, so it broke down with him into the fire of hell; and Allah does not guide the unjust people." [TMQ al-Taubah: 109]

 

Umm Musab

Member of The Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir

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