Press Release
Democracy Does Not Sanctify Neither Lives Nor Properties

Once again Tanzania has been swept over with post- election violence for several days from October 29, 2025 causing loss of many lives and significant damage to both private properties and public infrastructures.

Since the first multi-party presidential election held in Tanzania in 1995, resurgence of post-election violence has been consecutive and incessant matter in every five years. However, this year's violence is massive and widespread even above the distressing ones in 2000 where more than 40 opposition adherents (CUF) in Zanzibar (semi-autonomous islands) were shot dead, more than 600 injured and estimated 2,000 fled to neighboring Kenya.

Violence is inherently in democracy and its elections from its very foundation as follows:

1. Democracy which is the ruling system of capitalism solely built on one criteria in actions, which is 'interests'. That is, a person acts or refrains from to obtain interest. It is not surprising for a adherent of democracy whether in government or opposition to act or encourage others to act in a way that would secures interests. Based on this principle, all democratic parties are not in place to serve welfare of the people, but are economic channel for politicians, either by consuming subsidies that belong to the public, expecting appointments, consuming aid from colonizers, indulging in contributions from benefactors, etc.

2. Democratic system upholds evil and demonic thought of Machiavelli, which preaches: ‘Means justify end, and end justify means”. This means that in democracy anything can be done, such as killing, create discord on the basis of religious and racial sentiments, lying or anything else regardless of its harm, provided required goals would be achieved. In principle in democracy they have no legal or illegal notion, what matter is anything that lead to achieves their goals.

3. Multiparty democracy was introduced by the West for their own interests, and not for the interests nor progress of our countries as perceived by many to an extent that some people became confused with high hopes dashed, lots of time lost, sweating profusely - even loss of lives anticipating for change. Instead it was brought by west as a plot and deception by changing the face of the regime, as they realized the people are fed up and there was growing discontents due to the ruthlessness of the single party system that was protected by them (West). It was brought as another tool of strengthening neo-colonialism by distracting people from seeing things in ideological angle. Instead of combating with evil capitalist ideology they engage their energies in false solution of changing faces of rulers. Furthermore, in many cases western nations via it and other pretexts instigates civil discords and violence to smooth the way of their resources exploitation. Good examples: Sudan, Congo, Yemen, Somali, etc.

It is evident that such system cannot avoid constant conflicts, disputes, and unending violence, fragile, but above all suffers an inability to serve humankind justly.

Time is up for every diligent and enlightened person who seeks real ideological change to refrain from participating in or supporting the corrupted democratic chauvinism. For Muslims, it is obligation to adhere to the correct Islamic methodology for change as taught by the Prophet (peace be upon him) to re-establish Khilafah (Caliphate) State, starting in Muslim world.

As for non-Muslims, the time has come for them to explore the alternative Islamic system and its approach for change, then embrace it and disassociate themselves from the corrupt and deception of democracy.

Masoud Msellem
Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Tanzania