Press Release
O Muslims: Restrain Your Foolish Rulers!
(Translated)

U.S. President Donald Trump has concluded his Gulf tour, which included Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. During this tour, he signed deals worth trillions of dollars and met with the new Syrian president, Ahmad Al-Shara'. He also announced the lifting of U.S. sanctions imposed on Syria and made several statements—some related to Gaza, others to the Iranian nuclear file, to Russia, and others...

During his tour, he announced that he is “thinking about Gaza,” and that “many people are starving in Gaza,” while, at the same time, rulers are handing him trillions of dollars and flattering him with lavish gifts, even though he supplies the Jewish entity with tools of killing, siege, starvation, and displacement. Yet they do not pay a single dollar to the people of Gaza, nor offer them a morsel of food or a sip of water, nor move a single soldier or military machine to support them! All this while the Jewish entity continues killing, destroying, besieging, starving, and displacing people during that very tour!

So, O judges and lawyers, O jurists and scholars: The rulers, during this tour, have revealed their foolishness and triviality in front of everyone. They have behaved more shamefully than children and the ignorant. They paraded your daughters, heads uncovered, swaying before the enemy of Allah and the enemy of the Muslims. They squandered the wealth of the Ummah and handed it to your enemies. They have made you a laughingstock among nations and peoples, waiting from the reckless Trump for a few words of praise or flattery, while their own people are the last thing on their minds, if they even think of them at all! Do you not see, after all this, that they meet the definition of the foolish squanderer of wealth? Do you not see that they should be dragged in chains to the courts to have their wealth restrained?

And O officers and soldiers in the Muslim armies: Do you not see the foolishness and triviality of the rulers, and their disdain for you and the Ummah? Do you not see their conspiracy and collusion with the enemies of the Ummah?

You have seen, and still see, their abandonment of the people of Gaza and the West Bank, and you also see their squandering of wealth for the benefit of the Ummah’s enemies, only for that money to return as bombs, missiles, and explosives with which Muslims are killed, displaced, besieged, and starved! So come forth and hasten to topple them and their thrones.

And O Muslims: Urge your armies, scholars, judges, and lawyers to renounce these foolish rulers. By Allah, they have made you a mockery among the nations. The time has come to put an end to their foolishness and triviality.

O Muslims: This is Hizb ut Tahrir among you. It is the sincere guide who does not lie to you. It carries your revival project: the Khilafah Rashidah (rightly guided Caliphate), a Caliphate upon the method of Prophethood. It is the sincere and aware guardian of your causes. Entrust it with your leadership so it may rule you by what Allah has revealed, unify you in a single political entity, and deliver you from the clutches of these foolish rulers and their masters, from the domination of the monstrous Jewish entity, and restore to you your wealth, honor, dignity, and status among nations.

The Central Media Office
of Hizb ut Tahrir