Press Release

Western Governments Honour the Tyrant Hasina - their Loyal Agent and Torturer of Innocent Muslim Women - for Pursuing their War Against Islam

Sheikh Hasina - the dictator and killer of Muslims – was requested to co-chair a high-level summit on the 28^th September in New York alongside President Obama and the UN Secretary General on “peace operations”. In her speech, she talked about the need for international peace and security. She also delivered a talk at the UN’s Global Leader’s conference on Sunday 27^th September, on ‘Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment’, where this torturer of innocent Muslim women deceptively claimed that she sought greater women’s participation in politics and other walks of life and farcically emphasized the need to end all forms of violence against women and create a safer environment for women and girls to “thrive as agents of change”. While in New York, she was also invited to speak at Columbia University on, “Girl’s Lead the Way” and will also receive the UN’s highest environment honour, “Champions of the Earth”.

The fact that Hasina’s entire rule has been marked with repression, violence, ‘enforced disappearance’ of opposition activists, extra-judicial killings, mass murder, and the imprisonment and brutal torture of dozens of the pious dawah carriers of Islam, seems irrelevant to these Western governments and bodies who wish to honour their loyal servant for pursing their colonial interests in Bangladesh. This includes waging their imperial war against Islam and against the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" based upon the method of the Prophethood in the country. This is a crusade which includes the recent detention and severe torture of 2 female members of Hizb ut Tahrir who continue to languish in the dungeons of Hasina a month after their arrest. Their only crime was to call for justice to be established for the Muslims of Bangladesh under the rule of Islam. It is utterly farcical that a despot and ruthless mass-murderer whose hands are dripping with the blood of thousands of innocent Muslims would be asked to chair a summit on peace and security! However, these Western-governments and their compliant tool, the UN have shown their eagerness to shower this perpetrator of blood-thirsty crimes with praise and awards for her services in their war against Islam. It is yet further proof of their utter disregard for the sanctity of human life; their lie of supporting global peace and security; and the vacuum of moral principles existent within their secular system of rule. We ask the tyrant Hasina - in her speech about peace and security why did she not mention her notorious legacy of ordering her security forces to open fire on peaceful Islamic protests; OR her collusion with the Indian government in the assassination of dozens of her own army officers at BDR headquarters in Feb 2009 for denouncing her allegiance to this enemy state of Bangladesh; OR the massacre executed upon her command on the 6^th May 2013 of thousands of unarmed God-fearing Muslims and Ulema who had gathered at Motijheel Shapla Chattar, Dhaka, to protest against the vilification of our dear Prophet (saw)? We ask this enemy of Islam – in her empty lecture about ‘women’s empowerment’, why did she not mention the two young innocent Muslim women who her prison thugs brutalised and who remain in her dungeons simply because they called for credible solutions based on Islam to the myriad of problems afflicting Bangladesh and the Muslim world today?

O Dear, Beloved Muslims of Bangladesh! Is it not time to uproot this treacherous Hasina and her criminal regime who colluded with the colonial powers and collaborated with those powers in the war against Allah (swt) that includes persecuting the devout daughters of Islam. We call you to support with urgency Hizb ut Tahrir in seeking to establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" based upon the method of the Prophethood which will liberate the politics in Bangladesh and its economy and the rest of the Muslim world from the colonial grip, and whose Islamic laws alone hold the key to a new chapter of dignity, justice and security for the Muslims of Bangladesh and this whole Ummah.

﴿فَمَنِ اتَّبَعَ هُدَايَ فَلَا يَضِلُّ وَلَا يَشْقَى * وَمَنْ أَعْرَضَ عَنْ ذِكْرِي فَإِنَّ لَهُ مَعِيشَةً ضَنْكًا ۚ﴾

“then whoever follows My guidance will neither go astray [in the world] nor suffer [in the Hereafter]. And whoever turns away from My remembrance - indeed, he will have a depressed life [TaHa: 123-124]

Dr. Nazreen Nawaz
Director of the Women’s Section in the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir