بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Dangerous Concepts to Strike at Islam
and Consolidate Western Culture
Prepared by
Hizb ut Tahrir
Amman, 07 Shawwal 1399 AH - August 30, 1979 CE
Reviewed Rabi al-Awwal 1448 AH – August 2026 CE
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Contents
Introduction.............................................................. 1
Terrorism.................................................................. 6
Interfaith Dialogue................................................. 14
Compromise........................................................... 39
Fundamentalism..................................................... 47
Globalisation........................................................... 56
Introduction
The struggle between good and evil, between truth and falsehood, is one of the laws amongst the laws that Allah ﷻ determined for creation. The Wisdom of Allah ﷻ mandates that struggle and conflict are a factor within the prevailing of truth and good, over falsehood and evil. Allah ﷻ said,
[وَلَوْلَا دَفْعُ ٱللَّهِ ٱلنَّاسَ بَعْضَهُم بِبَعْضٍ لَّفَسَدَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ]
“And if Allah did not check one set of people, by means of another, the earth would indeed be full of mischief.”[TMQ Surah Al-Baqarah:251].
And He ﷻ said,
[وَلَوْلَا دَفْعُ ٱللَّهِ ٱلنَّاسَ بَعْضَهُم بِبَعْضٍ لَّهُدِّمَتْ صَوَٰمِعُ وَبِيَعٌ وَصَلَوَٰتٌ وَمَسَـٰجِدُ يُذْكَرُ فِيهَا ٱسْمُ ٱللَّهِ كَثِيرًا ۗ وَلَيَنصُرَنَّ ٱللَّهُ مَن يَنصُرُهُۥٓ ۗ]
“For had it not been that Allah checks one set of people by means of another, many of the monasteries, churches, synagogues and masajid, wherein the Name of Allah is mentioned, would surely have been pulled down.”[TMQ Surah Al-Hajj:40].
So, the Messenger ﷺ and his noble Companions (ra) plunged into an intellectual conflict and political struggle with the mushrikeen and the Kuffar to establish the Islamic state. Then, there was a bloody conflict, in addition to the intellectual struggle, after the establishment of the state, carrying Islam as the Risaalah message of good and guidance, to the whole of humankind. The kuffar throughout the ages used to plot against this state, sometimes by material actions of war, such as the Mongols, the Crusaders, the kafirs of Spain, and sometimes by cultural and intellectual actions like those of heretics, missionaries and the orientalists in order to destroy the Khilafah (Caliphate) State, as an executive body, at the head of which is the Khaleefah (Caliph).
By the First World War that was achieved. The kuffar (disbelievers) destroyed the Khilafah state, expelled the Khaleefah, and tore up the Muslim lands into weak, tiny states, in which they applied the rules of kufr (disbelief), thinking that, by this action of theirs, they had banished Islam from the hearts of the Muslims.
However, at the hands of its believing, sincere, and aware, sons and daughters, the Islamic Ummah now manifests the portents of revival, which have streamed back within the Muslims. Thus, the kufr states realised that the strength of Islam is not confined to its executive body alone. They realize that winning over certain weak Muslim souls, by polluting their thoughts with the Western culture, will not achieve what they had hoped for.
After research and study, they came to the conclusion that the power of Islam, and the Muslims, lies in the Islamic ‘aqeedah (creed) and the thoughts that emanate from it. This led them to review their plans, and to develop them, so that the people of kufr, with their established systemic order, and their agents from amongst the rulers and thinkers within Muslims, can take up the task of striking at Islam by destroying its ‘aqeedah as a political ‘aqeedah. This is so that the ‘aqeedah of separating religion from life can take its place. Thus, they began by presenting, for adoption, thoughts that lead on to what they believe, such as nationalism, socialism, democracy, pluralism, human rights, freedoms and free market policies, whose fallacy and danger we have already explained. (Refer to the booklet, “The American Campaign to Suppress Islam”).
Then, they presented other thoughts, accompanied by actions, like those of interfaith and intercultural dialogue, and the stance that the Arabs and Jews are all the progeny of Ibraheem (as). Then, they tarnished Islam with terrorism, fundamentalism and extremism. Therefore, we have to clarify these opinions, and their danger for the Islamic Ummah, so that the Muslims may be aware of them and take the legitimate Shariah stance towards them. This is especially when the return of Islam to life as a global ideology and political system, conveyed to humanity by the Khilafah state, is an inevitable matter, not just for the Muslims working for Islam alone, but also for the Islamic Ummah, and also for the enemies of Islam, who have not stopped conspiring against this Deen and this Ummah.We will discuss these thoughts in order to demonstrate their danger and fallacy, not as thoughts that are intended to be understood, or doubts that have to be repelled, but as actions of the disbelieving West, at the head of which are America, Britain and France, which are intended to strike Islam, and strike those working for the re-establishment of the Khilafah, and even to strike the Khilafah State, when Allah ﷻ permits it to be established.
Therefore, we must expose these thoughts and actions, so that Muslims are clear as to what is intended by them. This is so that they work earnestly to re-establish the Khilafah (Caliphate) on the Method of the Prophethood by, emulating the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, so that the re-establishment of the Khilafah and the ruling by all that Allah ﷻ has revealed is realised, at their hands. Allah ﷻ said,[يُرِيدُونَ أَن يُطْفِـُٔوا۟ نُورَ ٱللَّهِ بِأَفْوَٰهِهِمْ وَيَأْبَى ٱللَّهُ إِلَّآ أَن يُتِمَّ نُورَهُۥ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ ٱلْكَـٰفِرُونَ * هُوَ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَرْسَلَ رَسُولَهُۥ بِٱلْهُدَىٰ وَدِينِ ٱلْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَهُۥ عَلَى ٱلدِّينِ كُلِّهِۦ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ ٱلْمُشْرِكُونَ]
“The disbelievers want to extinguish Allah’s Light with their mouths. However, Allah ﷻ will only permit that His Light is perfected, even though the disbelievers may hate that. It is He ﷻ Who has sent His Messenger ﷻ with guidance and the Deen of truth, to make it superior over all other ways of life even though those who associate partners with Allah ﷻ hate that.” [TMQ Surah At-Tawbah 9:32-33].
If we were to do what Allah ﷻ has obligated upon us, then we are certain that the hopes of the Kuffar, who plot against Islam and the Muslims, will be dashed. They will waste their wealth, and their fires will be put out. He ﷻ said,
[إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ يُنفِقُونَ أَمْوَٰلَهُمْ لِيَصُدُّوا۟ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ فَسَيُنفِقُونَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِمْ حَسْرَةً ثُمَّ يُغْلَبُونَ ۗ]
“Certainly, those who disbelieve spend their wealth to hinder men from the Path of Allah ﷻ. So they will continue to spend it. However, in the end it will become an anguish for them. Then they will be overcome.”[TMQ Surah Al-Anfal:36]



