Today, Friday 10 July 2009, marks the sixth day of brutal hostilities against the Muslims of East Turkestan by Chinese government forces, together with Han Chinese gangs supported by these forces,
American Church posts derogatory sign against Islam
The sign reads "Islam is of the Devil" and was placed Sunday in the church's front lawn reports The Independent Florida Alligator. It was vandalized and torn down that evening but was re-erected on Monday, said Terry Jones, the pastor at the church. Jones said that the church, located at 5805 NW 37th St., does not plan on taking down the sign, and that more messages will be displayed in the future. "We think we are losing our heritage as a Christian nation," Jones said as one of the reasons the church put up the sign. Jones said Islam's growing popularity in the United States needs to be addressed because Christians are not standing up for what they believe in."To be a Christian, you would have to agree with that sign," Jones said.He said the sign is not meant to attack individuals but to attack the religion of Islam because it is oppressive and violent.
Britain's far rights group to plot a spectacular attack against Muslims?
Neo-Nazis are plotting a 'spectacular' terrorist attack on Britain to fuel racial tension, Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism officers fear. Senior officers have increased their surveillance of suspects to monitor their ability to carry out a deadly attack aimed at causing a 'breakdown in community cohesion'. The chilling warning comes after last month's startling gains by the BNP in the local and European elections which many fear may 'embolden' violent Far-Right extremists. Commander Shaun Sawyer, from the Met's specialist operations wing told a meeting of British Muslims last night: 'I fear that they will have a spectacular ... 'They will carry out an attack that will lead to a loss of life or injury to a community somewhere. They're not choosy about which community.' His comments came after Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson asked officers to examine what effect the recession could have on far-right violence. Till now far right organizations have been allowed to freely operate, publish literature and contest elections in Britain. However, the same privileges are in many cases denied to those Muslims who wish to practice Islam.
The racist killing of a Muslim women draws a muted response from the German government
Thousands of Egyptian mourners marched behind the coffin of the "martyr of the head scarf" - a pregnant Muslim woman who was stabbed to death in a Dresden courtroom on Wednesday in front of her young son. Many in her homeland were outraged by the attack and saw the low-key response in Germany as an example of racism and anti-Muslim sentiment. The woman's husband was critically wounded in the attack, after he tried to intervene and was stabbed by the attacker and accidentally shot by court security. "There is no God but God and the Germans are the enemies of God," chanted mourners for 32-year-old Marwa el-Sherbini in Alexandria, where her body was buried. "We will avenge her killing," her brother Tarek el-Sherbini told the Associated Press by telephone from the mosque where prayers were being recited in front of his sister's coffin. "In the west, they don't recognise us. There is racism." Indeed the German government is not even sure that it was a racist attack. A German government spokesman, Thomas Steg, said that if the attack was racist, the government "naturally condemns this in the strongest terms".
France begins legal process to ban the veil
French lawmakers opened hearings Wednesday on whether to ban the burka, calling in experts who said France should act to discourage Muslim women from wearing the head-to-toe veil. President Nicolas Sarkozy has already proclaimed the burka "not welcome" in secular France. Home to Europe's biggest Muslim minority, France has set up a special panel of 32 lawmakers to consider whether a law should be enacted to bar Muslim women from wearing the full veil, known as a burka or niqab. At the first hearing, two academics described wearing the burka as a throwback to a form of archaic Islam and a type of cult-like behaviour, incompatible with modern France. Islam expert Abdennour Bidar called the full veil a "pathology of Islam" embraced by hardline Salafists who tell Muslim women to cover themselves as a way to "get back to their roots.""It's up to the republic to help Islam in our country choose its destiny and help French Muslims resist this pressure," said Bidar."We must find ways to prevent the burka from spreading. Whether that would be a law or something else is not for me to say."
China continues to suppress its Muslim population
China's leaders vowed on Thursday to severely punish those responsible for bloodshed in the nation's far northwest that left at least 156 people dead and exposed deep ethnic tensions. The warning came as riot police and soldiers maintained a firm grip on Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang region, where Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese faced off this week in China's worst ethnic conflict for decades."The planners of the incident, the organisers, key members and the serious violent criminals must be severely punished," President Hu Jintao and the other eight members of the ruling Communist Party's elite Politburo said. Hu was forced to abandon a visit to Italy for the Group of Eight summit and return to China to deal with the situation, in what observers said was an unprecedented move that illustrated the severity of the crisis. Xinjiang's eight million Uighurs have long complained about discrimination and repression under Chinese rule, and exiled leaders said those pent-up feelings of persecution led to Sunday's protests.
In a press release issued today in response to the cabinet's approval of the new law providing for life long security arrangements to the family of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Fahmida Farhana Khanam, the Official Spokeswoman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Bangladesh said when looting, extortion, terrorism, theft, robbery, mugging, killing, rape have alarmingly increased in the country and the people are suffering from complete insecurity, the grand alliance government is busy to secure the life of the rulers instead of the people's lives.
She also said in the democratic system, man has the supreme authority to make law. So rulers in this system make laws according to their benefit to secure their interests. But in the Islamic system, the supreme and only authority to make law belongs to Allah (‘azza wa jalla) only. Nobody has the right to make law according to his own whims and desires. The main objective of capitalist politics is to gain benefit. So the ruling regime secures the members of their own party, workers and family. On the other hand the main objective of Islamic politics is to secure people's rights. That is how, the Khilafah "Caliphate" system had produced just rulers like Umar (ra), Haroon ar Rashid, Sulaiman al-Kanuni, who were righteous, Allah fearing and responsible to people. They dedicated their life to secure and serve the people and overcame any ego or self-interest while ruling. The khulafah like Umar (ra) were concerned even about the security of the lives of animals during their rule, but our rulers are not at all worried about the increasing suffering of the 140 million people in the country.
Fahmida Farhana Khanam said every single regime after independence has been doing the dirty politics of securing their self interests. In the same way the grand alliance government came in power by making false promises of change but have indulged in the same dirty politics after ascending to the throne. This government has not yet succeeded to provide two meals a day to more than half of the population. Even in the capital city, Dhaka, millions of people are homeless and living a substandard life, people are suffering from lack of water and electricity but the ministers of the government have completely forgotten the need and sufferings of the people of the country. They are obsessed with providing life time security to their party leaders and their families with the expense of people's money.
Fahmida Farhana Khanam reminded the regime that the rulers of this country should not forget that no one's life can be guaranteed through security arrangements. They should obey and fear Allah (‘azza wa jalla) Who has the power to give life and take it away when and howsoever He wishes.
Finally she said capitalism has completely failed not only in this country but all over the world. Except securing the benefit of few capitalists and the ruling classes it has failed to secure the life, wealth and honour of people. She called the people to reject this failed and corrupt system and throw it in the dustbin of history and come forward to establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" state which will protect people's rights and will bring them out from their sufferings and misery.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir/ America announces Khilafah Conference 2009
Hizb ut-Tahrir/ Britain announces London and Birmingham global conferences
Dr Nazreen Nawaz, Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain's women's media representative rebutts French President Sarkozy's many assertions about Muslim women and the burqa in his now infamous 22nd June 2009 speech where he described the burqa as an unacceptable symbol of women's enslavement "not be welcome on our territory."
"The KHILAFAH state is the most important obligation from your Lord. It is the source of your glory; it will defeat your enemy and liberate your lands. It will be the beacon of goodness and justice throughout the world."
Hizb ut-Tahrir has announced that it will convene a Khilafah "Caliphate" Conference in Dar as-Salaam, Tanzania on the 19th of July 2009
Further information about the conference will follow...
by Peter Kenyon/NPR
All Things Considered, July 7, 2009 · Residents of the West Bank city of Ramallah say life these days is relatively good for a city surrounded by Israeli troops. With Israeli checkpoints relaxed, the drive from Jerusalem can take as little as 15 minutes, as opposed to the hours it often took just a few years ago.
But last Saturday, downtown Ramallah regained some of the air of tension that marked the Israeli-Palestinian violence of the recent past - only this time, Israeli soldiers had nothing to do with it.
In the West Bank and Gaza Strip, most people are familiar with the Palestinian Authority, led by the Fatah movement and President Mahmoud Abbas, and with Hamas, the fundamentalist Islamic movement that controls Gaza. But in the past two years a third movement has been making appearances: a shadowy group that officially rejects violence but whose Islamist ideology makes Hamas' pale in comparison.
Hizb ut Tahrir, a pan-Islamist movement founded in the 1950s in Jerusalem, has since spread to dozens of countries, with significant outposts in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia.
The group had planned a rally in Ramallah on Saturday to celebrate the movement's message that neither Fatah nor Hamas holds the answer for Palestinians. The group believes in restoring the Islamic caliphate, the religious government that dates back to the early years of the Muslim faith, and thereby spreading the influence of Islamic law around the world.
A Radical Ideology
Hustling through the crowded downtown streets Saturday, a nervous, well-dressed young man ducked into the Palestine Cafe to avoid being arrested by Palestinian security forces loyal to Abbas. He gave his name as Osama al-Ansari, a supporter of Hizb ut Tahrir from the West Bank city of Hebron.
Ansari, in town for the rally, said he was not surprised that the Palestinian Authority security forces turned out in force to derail it.
"The coming of the caliphate threatens the Palestinian Authority regime," he says, "and threatens the American interests in the area, and therefore they are harassing us because a caliphate will not provide for the existence of the Palestinian Authority."
In short, Hizb ut Tahrir does not recognize the authority of the Palestinian Authority or Hamas. The group also does not accept democracy or the very concept of the modern nation-state. In contrast to al-Qaida, the group officially rejects violence, and it condemned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But various counterterrorism agencies have argued that Hizb ut Tahrir's radical ideology can be linked to a number of coup attempts and terrorist attacks.
Analysts note that while Hizb ut Tahrir is tolerated in Western countries, it has been banned by several Mideast regimes, and they wonder what the group's future is in the Palestinian territories.
Khalil Shaheen, senior editor at Al-Ayyam newspaper in Ramallah, says the Palestinian Authority originally ignored the growth of Hizb ut Tahrir because it wanted to divide the support of religious Palestinians who were flocking to Hamas. But now, he says, the Palestinian Authority is suffering a case of unintended consequences.
"It seems that everything is going out of control for the Palestinian Authority," he says. "The Tahrir party is getting more popular in the West Bank and is trying to fill the vacuum that took place after the weakness of Fatah itself."
Security Crackdown
At the schoolyard where Hizb ut Tahrir's celebration was supposed to take place, curious Palestinians lined the sidewalks, watching the show of force put on by the Palestinian Authority. Row after row of men in full riot gear stood at attention, while senior officers posed for pictures in front of them.
Akram Rijoub, head of preventive security for Ramallah, said the rally was prevented because Hizb ut Tahrir refused to hold it indoors. "The people that are holding such a celebration might not control their members, and might face confrontations from the other side," he said.
But Hizb ut Tahrir supporter al-Ansari said security crackdowns can't stop his movement's momentum.
"We are huge and we are found everywhere. We are an international party that ... spreads all the way to Malaysia and Jakarta. Banning of a celebration like today will only make us even more powerful," he said before slipping out of the cafe and back to Hebron.
