Press Release
Don’t Mislead the People... Preventing Hizb ut Tahrir from Convening its Conference was a Political Decision
(Translated)

The Interior Minister Al-Hadi Magdoub, when being questioned by a number of parliamentary representatives about the prevention of Hizb ut Tahrir from holding its latest conference, stated that the decision to prevent came to avoid serious risks that could have resulted from the convening of this conference whilst taking into regard the slogans that Hizb ut Tahrir raises and the societal project that it calls to, and particularly at a time when the country is in a state of emergency, as he put it... By that the minister has exposed himself and openly expresses without confusion that the decision to prevent was blatantly political and that it sprung from the rejection of his colonial masters for the civilizational project emanating from the great Islamic Aqeedah. That project which Hizb ut Tahrir has adopted and presented as the alternative to the uncivilised capitalism that has impoverished our people in Tunisia and made their resources a source of plunder for the colonialist disbelievers.

It would have been more appropriate for the interior minister if he had wanted to engage in the political midst to have engaged it (directly) from its main doors. That is because the ideas and opinions of Hizb ut Tahrir are well-known and not unknown. It engages in accordance to them in the intellectual clash and political struggle across the length and breadth of the country. Despite that the interior minister refused except to employ and utilise the sons of the Muslims from those in the security sectors to oppose the project of the Muslims which seeks to apply the flawless Shar’a of Allah and which represents the one and hope for the Ummah for a dignified life and escape from the clutches of colonialism. That is in addition to the insistence of the minister to go beyond the role of his ministry, as an executive body, to become a department in the hands of some of the politicians who conceal vile hostility towards every Islamic breath that takes place within this honourable land.

These statements have revealed the ugly face of their defunct democratic system that cannot stand up to resist the slogan “Upcoming Khilafah "Caliphate" is the Rescuer of the world” and so it contends from behind its repressive mechanisms and the bring up of the emergency law whilst ignoring the decision of the judge of the administrative court who cancelled the preventative order issued from the interior ministry and gave permission for Hizb ut Tahrir to convene its conference. And the excuses of the interior minister in respect to the court order being issued late and that it did not reach him in an official manner, represents no more than a sweet wrapper that he wishes to cover up the evilness of his frail regime just as it guides to the extent of confusion and tension that his departments are living through. That is to the point that he directly contradicts himself and that was when he indicated, in his own words, that there wasn’t enough time to prepare the security for the conference, which indicates that the decision of the court had indeed reached him. And that is whilst he forgot on the same day he put his security departments to work across the length and breadth of the land to prevent the supporters of the Hizb and its Shabab from reaching the conference venue, instead of securing their arrival. On top of that, why are two standards or measuring being applied? Is providing security for the pilgrimage of 50 Jews from the Jewish entity in the Island of Jarbah and providing security for the company Petrofac to plunder our natural resources in Qarqana more worthy and valuable to them than to the point that they mobilise the officers of Tunisia and its security to stay alert and awake to their wellbeing and comfort. That is whilst they prevent the sincere and honest people of the land from holding a conference “Upcoming Khilafah "Caliphate" Rescuer of the World”?! Indeed, it is from the great calamities.

Verily, Hizb ut Tahrir took a covenant with Allah, His Messenger and the believers that it will always continue to expend its effort and capability, and to engage in the serious and painstaking work, alongside the Ummah and through her, for the resumption of the Islamic life via the establishment of the rightly guided Khilafah "Caliphate" (Caliphate) upon the methodology of the Prophethood, until Allah makes His Deen prevail and the sun of the Khilafah "Caliphate" shines brightly once again, the Haqq will be verified and the Baatil will be falsified, and none of that is difficult for Allah.

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Tunisia