A delegation from Hizb ut Tahrir / Indonesia to the Pakistani Embassy in Jakarta. The second Secretary was given a communiqué from the Hizb to condemn the acts of repression and abduction practiced by the unjust Pakistani regime towards Muslims working for the implementation of the Allah's Laws, especially towards the Engineer Naveed Butt, official spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah of Pakistan, who still remains abducted for more than a year and his whereabouts are still unknown. During the reception, the second Secretary at the Embassy of the delegation was met by hundreds of Hizb members and supporters demonstrating outside the embassy building.
Monday, 15 Shaban 1434 AH, corresponding to 24 June 2013
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Hizb ut Tahrir / Indonesia organized the protest before the presidential palace in Jakarta to protest the rise of fuel prices titled:
"Reject the Increase of Oil Price, the Neo-Liberal Policy"
Thursday, 11 Shaban 1434 AH, corresponding to 20 June 2013
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Primary and Secondary school teachers in Kenya have started another strike which is the seventh since 2007. They are complaining about the move by the government to deny them their allowances totaling to Kshs. 40 billion as promised in the Gazette Notice Number 534 of 1997.
News:
Prime Minister Erdogan said that the events occurring in Taksim Square are changing in its purpose and style. In the past two weeks, Turkey, especially in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, the different demonstrations occurred in different dimensions... I would like to repeat an important and useful point; we, as AK Party, were always sensitive in reading, analyzing and understanding the events. We have reached these days by accurately reading the results of the polls and elections. I would like take your attention that when we saw from those results that we'll successful, we put ourselves in place of losers, not in place of victorious. [Aksam Newspaper, aksam.com.tr / 11.06.2013]
Comment:
As it is known, recently Turkey is busy with Gezi Park demonstrations. A group of people has started a demonstration to protest government's decision on removing Gezi Park in Taksim Square in Istanbul, then it has increased after harsh intervention of security forces, then it has become a known issue all over the world. It is clear that the colonialist powers do not desire any uproot in Turkey similar to Arab Spring which is going on as a dreadful crisis in Syria. Especially America does not want any crisis in Turkey. As Erdogan was saying at the beginning of the demonstrations: "We have taken our decision and we will not give up implementing it." But after a while he has softened his attitude and tried to calm down the anger after increasing its impact. Because the colonialist Kuffar and their agent Erdogan have become afraid of these events happening while they couldn't be able to solve the crisis in Syria and implement their deceptive projects for Arab Spring as they hope. We know very well that the demands of demonstrations are not real and revolutional demands which will solve the problem in Turkey in the perfect sense. But Colonialist Kuffar, especially USA and Turkish government are fearing from the sincere opposition in Syria who are resisting against Assad's cruel regime for more than two years and showing great successes, and they are going forward step by step towards Khilafah "Caliphate" project, by rejection any other projection. So they are fearful from any uprising in Turkey parallel to this Islamic project and any demands to account rulers' treachery against Islam and Muslims, especially those in Syria.
For this reason, they are always trying to comment on any events as a democratic right or freedoms or any other toxic capitalist thoughts via their classical media and social media. Erdogan is fearful from the participation of conservative Muslim social groups into the demonstrations, but when he became aware that the demonstrations consist of secular tendencies, and then he calmed down. Even though most of the protesters are members of secular groups, it shows that parts of the people in Turkey want the change, they are concerned about their life and they have demands to meet. We hope Turkey's Muslim people will analyze those demonstrations in a proper way and they will understand no ruler can stand in front of their will, and then they will demand from their rulers to accept Islamic ruling by accounting them because of their deliberate or non-deliberate war against Islam and Muslim, by supporting Western projects, until they will reach their demands under shade of Islamic ruling.
Ramadan Tosun
Wilayah of Turkey
On the 20th of June 2013 CE Russian Inter Fax agency reported, quoting the press center of the Russian Interior Ministry, "that security agents belonging to the Directorate of Home Ministry of the Interior in Michtschklei in Russia and the Caspian Sea have arrested three members of the international terrorist organization, the Islamic Hizb ut Tahrir." And that they are being prosecuted under the Criminal Code: Article 278: Seize or maintain power by force, and Article 282/2: Organization of extremist activities.
Event:
Today's article in the Guardian Newspaper, 25th June, 2013, entitled: "Force-feeding Guantánamo detainees is unethical and inhumane" is one of a string of recent reports and commentaries about the brutal mistreatment and torture of Muslim prisoners in the notorious Guantánamo prison camp. The majority of the prison population are on hunger strike, 104 out of 166 prisoners as of Monday 24th June, according to an article by Charlie Savage in the New York Times who argues for transferring the prisoners to the U.S. mainland as a possible solution.
The New England Journal of Medicine published a perspective piece on the 13th June with the title: ‘Guantánamo Bay: A Medical Ethics-Free Zone?" that opposed the current "violation of medical ethics" by medical professionals under military jurisdiction and argued that a hunger striker's goal is "not to die but to have perceived injustices addressed". Likewise, a major British medical journal, The Lancet, launched a petition against the abuses in Guantánamo prison.
The Guardian Newspaper from Britain has been following the case of Shaker Aamer who is the last British remaining resident of the camp who has described the use of "freezing cold" conditions in cells and the use of "metal tipped" feeding tubes to make life as painful as possible for the prisoners. Other articles have focused on the use of psychological torture as well as degrading practices to make prisoners stop their protest.
Comment:
The media have clearly exposed the inhumane conditions, the torture, the degradation and the moral and legal ambiguities of the U.S. run prison in Guantánamo Bay, but two additional points are worth adding.
First, this ongoing story is not only about a single prison or a single government policy, rather it says something fundamental about the U.S. culture and the democracy that it sings about to the world. Situated on a military base in Cuba to quietly insulate it from legal intervention or ethical norms, Guantánamo has become a moral black hole for the U.S. whose democratically elected governments, headed first by Bush and now by Obama, have each demonstrated a defining weakness of democracy. In the face of an ideological challenge from a morally assertive opponent, democracy cannot uphold or adhere to its own values in a distinguished manner. Democracy surrenders to ‘dictatorship' and ‘demagoguery', today, as it did in ancient Rome and Athens, when faced with a challenge.
Despite its military might the U.S. has felt weak and unable to protect its interests and its democracy without grossly violating all the fundamental principles and rights of man that it hypocritically claims are ‘universal'. Hence, the systematic torture and abuse, despite the fact that these have been exposed for all the world to see.
Second, ethics and law are fragmented: there is military law and civil law, medical ethics and general morality. This is another weakness of the West and its patchwork culture, and this has left medical practitioners serving in the U.S. military torn between two masters.
It comes as no surprise then that the Muslims who are suffering abuse in Guantánamo Bay were such an inspiration of moral ascendancy that one of the former U.S. prison guards, Terry Holdbrooks, embraced Islam himself when he saw the certainty and dignity of their faith.
Dr. Abdullah Robin
Now, nearly every day, there is a new attack on a Mosque, Islamic school or Muslim individual as a result of the killing in Woolwich, London. This has generated a lot of anxiety amongst Muslims and is stoking tension between communities.
The Muswell Hill Islamic Centre was burnt down and many Mosques have been attacked because some people are falling for the lie that Mosques, Madrasahs and Islamic societies are somehow responsible for the Woolwich killing.
After Woolwich, there is heightened tension, anger and questions. Instead of genuinely addressing the causes of that event - some hate preachers saw it as an opportunity to further their agenda.
Prime Minster Cameron spoke in parliament and told the country that Mosques and some Islamic institutions are somehow responsible. He failed to bring one example of a Mosque that says it is OK to kill someone on the streets of Britain. Tony Blair - dripping with the blood of countless Iraqis - came out and said, "There is a problem within Islam," and Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, wrote in the Telegraph that believing in basic Islamic concepts; Shariah, Khilafah "Caliphate", Jihad and Ummah are what lead to Woolwich.
The anti-Muslim group, the English Defence League (EDL) has also organised demonstrations in various parts of the country chanting anti-Muslims slogans. This has lead to Muslims feeling intimidated in various areas. While the EDL's anti-Muslim rants may be dismissed by some - because many of them are seen as thugs - the statements of Blair, Cameron and Johnson are far more potent in poisoning the minds of our non-Muslim neighbours and colleagues. Some of the politicians and the EDL are united in preaching the same message that ‘Islam is the problem' that lead to the Woolwich killing.
Weeks before the July 2005 London bombings, the government's Joint Terrorism Analysis Committee warned it that its invasion of Iraq would serve "... as motivation and a focus of a range of terrorist related activity in the U.K." Yet this government, and the one before it try to hide the uncomfortable fact that its occupations and use of drones are fundamental factors generating the anger that someone then reacted to. Despite that fact, the government seeks to put the blame and focus for Woolwich - solely on the Muslim community. This allows it to shut down debate about its colonial foreign policy. This allows it to state that the subsequent measures must be directed at Islamic institutions.
((أَحَسِبَ النَّاسُ أَن يُتْرَكُوا أَن يَقُولُوا آمَنَّا وَهُمْ لَا يُفْتَنُونَ))
"Do people think that they will be left alone because they say: "We believe," and will not be tested." [Al-Ankabut 29:2]
In Surah Ankabut, Allah (swt) reminds us that life is a test. In these testing times, we have to be the responsible ones. We have to act Islamically. That means we do not go out stoking tension. That means making sure that Muslims know how to channel the anger generated by the UK government's foreign policy. That means constantly challenging the government's lies the Islamic institutions are somehow responsible for Woolwich.
Our neighbours, colleagues and co-workers are not the government. They are the people whose minds the government is attempting to poison - so we must challenge the poisonous narrative they are being fed. How?
1) In discussions, point out the fallacy of the government's arguments that its Islam, not its foreign policy
2) Call in to radio stations like BBC 5 Live or LBC when they discuss Islam and Woolwich
3) Write to newspapers and comment on articles peddling the government's false narrative
4) Invite non-Muslims to Mosque Open days so they see what really goes on in such places
We have to challenge the government's narrative. We have to challenge the preachers of hate. We have to engage with the wider public and explain Islam to them.
Taji Mustafa
Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in Britain
