Press Release
A Decade after America's War on Iraq: The Lives of Iraq's Women Have Turned into a Nightmare!

20th March 2013 marks the 10th anniversary of America's war on Iraq, a war waged by America under the pretext of disarming Iraq from weapons of mass destruction and to liberate the Iraqi people from injustice, persecution and oppression they faced. Yet a decade later, Iraqi women are still far from liberation and in fact, their life has turned into a nightmare. Over the past ten years, Iraqi women have suffered - and still suffer - from killing, destruction, displacement, rape and insecurity ... in addition to the presence of thousands of widows who have no breadwinner for them and their children, forcing many to beg in order to provide a living for them and their children.

The war on Iraq was never for the purpose of liberating people and providing for them a descent life, but it was for the purpose of taking control of the oil that Capitalist states like America dribble for. Capitalism has indeed turned America into a beast which does not care about people's lives but is only concerned about achieving economic gains through taking control over Iraq's oil wealth, even if killing the entire Iraqi nation was the price paid.

Dear Muslim sisters in the land of Al-Rasheed:

Indeed, the series of misery will not end until the foreign forces and their allies, including the Iraqi regime, are permanently removed, establishing on the ruins of their thrones the Khilafah "Caliphate" state; for it is only the Khilafah "Caliphate" that is able to provide security and care for you and your children. It is only through the Khilafah "Caliphate" that armies such as the armies of Al-Mu'tassim are simmered to take revenge from whoever violated the honour of a Muslim woman or insulted her. It is only through the Khilafah "Caliphate" are the provisions of basic and luxurious needs ensured for you and for your children, if you had no breadwinner, or if your breadwinner was unable to fulfil his duty. And it is only through the Khilafah "Caliphate" that your honour will be raised and you will be given the rights of political participation and economic development.

For this, we call upon you dear sisters in Iraq and in all parts of the world to work with those working for the re-establishment of the righteous Khilafah "Caliphate" state, which will rescue you from the life of misery you live in the shade of the rotten Capitalism and the contemporary man-made systems, and thereby allow you to enjoy a dignified and honoured life in this life, and a Jannah that is as wide as the heavens and the earth in the hereafter, by the will of Allah (swt).

(وَيَوْمَئِذٍ يَفْرَحُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ * بِنَصْرِ اللَّهِ)

(And on that day will the believers [too, have cause to] rejoice * in Allah's victory)

Dr. Nazreen Nawaz
Member of the Central Media Office
of Hizb ut Tahrir