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Press Statement: Cursory View on General Ogolla’s Death------------------Finally, the General Francis Ogolla has been bu...
25/04/2024

Press Statement: Cursory View on General Ogolla’s Death
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Finally, the General Francis Ogolla has been buried. After the death and burial there is a need to put into perspective the following:

Death is both a tragedy and a lesson. Tragedy in a sense that such high profile individuals when hit by a sudden death is prone to speculations and anxiety where politicians take advantage in achieving their political goals hence with a possibility leading to chaotic or compromised situation. Indeed it is also a lesson to all, regardless of your position, rank, status and class death is inevitable reality.

Since we live in a liberal-secular society, death is viewed as an end in itself. Secularism compels Man to detach worldly life from death hence pushing him to drown in material world as only means of escapism. Contrary, Islam views death as not the end in itself rather there is life after death, that we will be accounted for every action we performed and will be either sent to Jannah (Paradise) or Jahannam (Hellfire) according to our deeds.

Regardless of the different views on General Ogolla’s death, it is necessary to put into the limelight there is a vacuum of trust and a rift in democratic leadership. Democracy in essence deprives political class of being trustworthy, just and independent from colonial influence and henchmen. Hence the death of General Ogolla and as of any other high rank political figures will always remain a speculation.

Since politics is an integral part of life, Islam has defined politics as an act of worship that guarantees whoever occupies a political office carries a great responsibility before Allah swt. Thus whenever such death occurs it will not be open to speculation that may lead to instability but rather task all state apparatus to come with clear statement on the matter.

The quick and swift appointment of an acting Chief of Defense Forces (CDF) has clearly indicated the paramount importance of leadership in any society. It is very unfortunate for Muslim Ummah over hundred years today without a leader! No wonder Muslims are vulnerable to all kinds of humiliation, oppression, injustices and killings within the Muslim countries and across the globe. The live example being Gaza today where the Jewish entity’s IDF commit genocide with impunity. By its urgency, the Muslim Ummah is obliged to work towards reestablishment of a political entity (Caliphate) that will guarantee security and justice to whole humankind.

Shabani Mwalimu
Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in Kenya

H. 14 Shawwal 1445
M. Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Press Release: A Creature is Not to be Obeyed when it Involves Disobedience to the Creator!-------------------The Intell...
25/04/2024

Press Release: A Creature is Not to be Obeyed when it Involves Disobedience to the Creator!
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The Intelligence Directorate of Kandahar province has detained several Dawah carriers of Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Afghanistan for the last 12 months. This week, it has reached its one-year term. In addition to being tortured by the intelligence officers, they have been behind cells with no verdict from the court during this time. Besides, the intelligence officials of Kandahar have informed the Dawah carriers that they either quit the call for the Khilafah or they will suffer from misery and imprisonment without any limited time.

The Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Afghanistan considers brings following points to attention regarding this incident:

First, we have been shocked by such actions of Kandahar intelligence officials. According to which Mazhab (sect) or which Sharia is such an action/argument derived? The Islam that we have come to understand clearly rejects such measures. The claim that the Dawah carriers have been detained due to their violation of the instructions of the regime and the decree of Amir is a baseless argument. There is no written decree by Amir of the current regime regarding the prohibition of the Dawah of Hizb ut Tahrir. Besides, the Kandahar intelligence officials have been blatantly rejecting to execute clear decrees and/or orders declared by Amir of the regime such as “avoiding detention of innocent people", "avoiding punishment without a court verdict", "avoiding persecution or torture during investigation", and "handing-over the cases to the court after 10 days of investigation". If this is really a matter of disobedience and violation of Amir’s decree, then what is the difference between the prisoners and the intelligence officials who themselves have been violating the decree of their Amir? They detain people for allegedly disobeying their decrees and yet they themselves torture people, detain people without the lawful procedures, which are clearly against decrees issued by their highest instance.

Second, Khilafah is the crown of all obligations and the struggle to establish it is the duty of every Muslim. If anyone researches and studies the Holy Qur'an, the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (saw), the consensus of the Companions and even the sayings of the past Ulema, he will find that there is nothing more important than the establishment of Khilafah. For this reason, no ruler and/or military commander can prevent the Dawah carriers from undertaking this duty, contradicting the command of Allah (swt) and that of the Prophet (saw). Just as the ruler cannot forbid Muslims from praying, fasting, paying zakat (alms) and attending jihad; in the same way, he cannot forbid Muslims from the obligation of enjoining the virtue & forbidding the vice and the act of ensuring that the rulers are made accountable or from carrying the Islamic Dawah. As Allah (swt) and the Messenger of Allah (saw) mention:

[وَلْتَكُن مِّنكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى الْخَيْرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِالْمُنكَرِ وَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ]

“And from among you there must be a party who invite people to all that is good and enjoin the doing of all that is right and forbid the doing of all that is wrong. It is they who will attain true success.” [Aali-Imran:104]. «والَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ، لَتَأْمُرُنَّ بالْمَعْرُوفِ، ولَتَنْهَوُنَّ عَنِ المُنْكَرِ، أَوْ لَيُوشِكَنَّ اللَّه أَنْ يَبْعَثَ عَلَيْكُمْ جِعِقَابًا مِنْهُ، ثُمَّ تَدْعُونَهُ فَلا يُسْتَجابُ لَكُمْ»“By the One in Whose Hand is my soul! Either you command good and forbid evil, or Allah will soon send upon you a punishment from Him, then you will call upon Him, but He will not respond to you.”

Currently, when the Dawah carriers of Hizb ut Tahrir are undertaking the obligation of enjoining the virtue and forbidding the vice by calling for the establishment of Khilafah, does the ruling regime consider it an illegitimate act despite the above-mentioned texts? And does it consider the Dawah carriers to be deserving imprisonment, punishment and torture due to their disobedience to the regime?! Although, there is no clear decree regarding the prevention of the call for the restoration of the Khilafah by the Amir of the ruling regime; but even if there is, it should not be obeyed according to the following Hadith. «لاَ طَاعَةَ لِمَخْلُوقٍ فِي مَعْصِيَةِ الْخَالِقِ» “A creature is not to be obeyed when it involves disobedience to the Creator.”

Based on this sacred and blessed Hadith, throughout history, religious Ulema such as Imam Abu Hanifah, Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal, Imam Shafi’i (may Allah have mercy on them)and several other Ulema have not obeyed the illegitimate orders and/or decrees of the legitimate Khalifah of their time – even to the extent that the Khulafaa’ (caliphs) not only imprisoned them but also threatened them to death. But the fear of the rulers did not prevent them from speaking the words of truth. Just as the torture and imprisonment of Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal (may Allah have mercy on him) by Khalifah Moatasim due to his opposition to the ‘theory of creation of the Holy Quran’ is well known in history; likewise, it is not permissible to obey humans in actions that result in disobedience to Allah (swt).

The authorities of the current regime should not draw a linear analogy between Hizb ut Tahrir and that of other sectarian parties that have been solely based on ethnic, sectarian, linguistic and dynastic tendencies – those which have contributed to the internal crisis and division in Afghanistan. Hizb ut Tahrir is an intellectual and political party that has been striving to establish a Khilafah for the Muslim Ummah in which Islam will be implemented to ensure that all Islamic lands are united one again. Hizb ut Tahrir never wants the Khilafah to secure the party-oriented objectives; rather, it wants the return of honor and glory of all Muslims. Therefore, we warn the intelligence officials of Kandahar that the harassment and torture of the Dawah carriers of Khilafah will result in the wrath of Allah (swt), so stop committing such offensive and non-Islamic acts.

[وَسَيَعْلَمُ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا أَيَّ مُنقَلَبٍ يَنقَلِبُونَ]

“Those who do wrong will come to know by what a (great) reverse they will be overturned.” [Ash-Shuraa’: 227]

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Afghanistan

H. 14 Shawwal 1445
M. Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Press Release: The Jordanian Regime No Longer Have a Place to Hide Its Defense of the Jewish Entity Placing Actions in t...
24/04/2024

Press Release: The Jordanian Regime No Longer Have a Place to Hide Its Defense of the Jewish Entity Placing Actions in the Balance of Islam Directs Your Compass to the Shariah Solution
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News and information frequented in the official media and the social media platforms, satellite channels were full of local and international interviews to comment on the events taking place in the region since the war on Gaza. They were so contradictory and false that they astonished people following the issues of their Ummah and their countries. Viewpoints differed and multiplied in their search for the right action and setting the compass towards the Shariah path of truth, to come out with a position that will save them from the tampering of enemies and the conspiracy of the rulers, and to return to the pride and dignity of the Ummah that befits it as it was at the forefront of nations. This is only because the Islamic people adopted multiple standards in their judgment of events, thus differing in their outlook on solutions and practical steps to get out of their crises and the hardship in which they live, from the domination of the kaffir enemies and its control over its capabilities, and the empowerment of the lowest of people, the Jews, to control the great forces of the Ummah. People's distance from the rules and standards of Islam, and their adherence to patriotism and nationalism on the basis of which their country was divided, was the direct reason for the dispersion of their thoughts and the paralysis of their strength and political orientations in the search for an effective solution, and thus they lost their path to salvation.

Today, there is no regime or state that governs by Islam or implements Shariah rulings; which the majority of their people believe in and whose feelings are united around its belief, and aspire to put the rulings of Islam into practice in a single Islamic state. This is the opinion of the majority of Muslims in the world, but they deviate from the Shariah path that leads to the ultimate goal as stated by Islam!

Therefore, political understanding and the Islamic method of change are among the necessities that united the Ummah in its efforts towards liberation from those who shackle its authority and great powers, most notably the political doctrine of Islam, so it sets out to destroy whoever stands in the way of its great project of restoring its great state, the Khilafah (Caliphate) State, whether they are the Kaffir colonial powers or puppet regimes that have been suffocating the Ummah for more than a century.

Among the basics and references related to the Gaza war after the attack of October 7th, 2023, and Iran’s partial entry into the scene of events and the subsequent reactions, are:

- None of the regimes in Muslim countries came to power through the legitimate Shariah method, but rather they usurped the authority of the Ummah and the authority of its people, so they must not be obeyed. They all do not make Islam a criterion for their internal or external policies, but rather take the side of the enemies of the Ummah, the colonial kaffir West, in its subordination to it and enabling it to control Muslim countries.

- Iran has been in America’s orbit and has been able to achieve its interests in the region since it came to power, as happened in Afghanistan and Iraq with the recognition of their leaders, and the political games that are taking place in the countries of the region. Its criminal role in Syria is still continuing in defending the tyrant of Ash-Sham in the service of America, in exchange for achieving some of Iran's interests in military and political maneuvers for decades. The Iranian drones and missiles’ play against the Jewish entity under the eyes of America and its control of the rhythm between the Jewish entity and Iran is only one of them, it did not move a finger to support the people of Gaza.

- The regime in Jordan is a functional and puppet regime, the goal of its existence is to protect and empower the Jewish entity. It will remain in power as long as it is needed. Transjordan was founded as an entity for the sake of this mission, the people of Jordan have no interest in its existence, it is only there to harness the Jewish entity militarily and security-wise, and allows its land to be targeted with American, British, French, and German bases, from which it launches to carry out missions to protect their interests. The fact that the regime in Jordan confronted the Iranian drones and missiles directed at the Jewish entity reveals the role of the regime and the height of public betrayal in defending and protecting the Jewish entity, which no one with eyes and awareness can deny.

- On this occasion, social media platforms were filled with articles, interviews, and international news that expose the regime’s actions, such as David Hearst’s article in Middle East Eye, and George Galloway’s interview with Scott Ritter. In a precedent announced by the Jordanian regime publicly under the pretext of protecting its citizens and its skies, which were once an open target for all the enemy forces of the West, led by America and the Jewish entity, as stated in the Arab Post in a special investigation about the presence of two Jewish planes roaming the skies of Jordan at the moment of the Jewish entity’s response to Iran at dawn last Friday, from the north and the south.

- The actions of the Arab regimes, especially those surrounding Palestine and those closest to it, are no less in their failure and subordination to the kaffir West in their support of the Jewish entity, whether through normalization or the siege of the people of Gaza, and at the same time providing the Jewish entity with a trade corridor from the Emirates to Saudi Arabia via Jordan, to save it from a siege of the Red Sea.

- At a time when the reason for its repeated defeats has become clear to the Ummah, which is its ruling systems, it is not permissible for any of the people or the peoples of the region to line up alongside these regimes on the basis of national patriotism in its flags, the sanctification of its borders, and the glorification of its agent rulers, or to stand by them, and thus be one who aids the oppressive traitors. This is the patriotism that the rulers’ agents, including media professionals, scholars, ministers, and parliamentarians champion, and whose foundations were established by the kaffir West to perpetuate the fragmentation and division of the Ummah and to defend these regimes that were the means of demolishing Muslim countries, protecting and empowering the Jewish entity, behind it America and Europe, and failing to support the people of Palestine, and even failing to expel America, its allies and their bases from Muslim countries.

O People... O our People in Jordan:

Looking for solutions derived from the corrupt and bitter reality, which is the control of the colonialist kuffar and the Jewish entity, and the servile submission to them that your rulers have established, their loyalty in protecting the Jewish entity, the plundering of your wealth, failure to support the people of Palestine, and the solutions derived on the basis of national patriotisms that divide and disperse, surrendering of your country through establishing colonial kaffir bases by the invitation of your rulers and their consent, all of this will only increase your humiliation and slavery.

Your return to your Deen, Islam, and the implementation of its rules by establishing its state, is what achieves the great values of Islam. In the Islamic state is your pride and dignity, and through it you will be freed from the slavery of your puppet rulers, and through it your armies will be led to liberate the occupied Muslim lands in Palestine and elsewhere. The Jewish entity will be uprooted forever and the colonialist Kuffar will be expelled, and you will obtain the satisfaction of the Lord of the Worlds, and the world will be blessed with mercy and justice after injustice and evil have spread in it.

[مَن كَانَ يُرِيدُ الْعِزَّةَ فَلِلَّهِ الْعِزَّةُ جَمِيعاً إِلَيْهِ يَصْعَدُ الْكَلِمُ الطَّيِّبُ وَالْعَمَلُ الصَّالِحُ يَرْفَعُهُ وَالَّذِينَ يَمْكُرُونَ السَّيِّئَاتِ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ شَدِيدٌ وَمَكْرُ أُولَئِكَ هُوَ يَبُورُ]

“Whoever desires honor [through power] - then to Allah belongs all honor. To Him ascends good speech, and righteous work raises it. But they who plot evil deeds will have a severe punishment, and the plotting of those - it will perish” [Fatir: 10]

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Jordan

Hizb ut Tahrir  / Wilayah TurkeyAnnounces the Passing of One of the Righteous Sisters Sükîna Aslan - (Translated)-------...
24/04/2024

Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Turkey
Announces the Passing of One of the Righteous Sisters Sükîna Aslan - (Translated)
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Sükîna Aslan, who was among the first sisters in Turkey who carried the dawah and devoted her life to reviving Islamic life as a righteous and believing woman, surrendered her soul yesterday to the Merciful Allah.

[إنّا لله وإنّا إليهِ رَاجعُون]

“Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return.”[Surat Al-Baqara:156]

Sükîna had been receiving treatment for a serious illness for 17 years. We bear witness that she endured her illness and its tribulations with patience, and she was a devoted woman in her dawah work and towards her family. We pray that our dear sister may be enveloped in Allah's vast mercy and that her family may find patience. We offer our condolences to her relatives, loved ones, and sisters in the dawah. May Allah make the tribulations she endured an expiation for her sins and reward her with paradise.

[إِنَّمَا يُوَفَّى الصَّابِرُونَ أَجْرَهُمْ بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ]

“the patient will be given their reward without account.”[Surat Az-Zumar:10]

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Türkiye

H. 9 Shawwal 1445 No: 1445 / 12
M. Thursday, 18 April 2024

24/04/2024

Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Pakistan: O Muslims of the Armed Forces! Is there any greater military service than that of Saad ibn Muadh (ra)?!
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O Muslims of the Armed Forces! Is there any greater military service than that of Saad ibn Muadh (ra)? Sa’ad gave Nussrah for the establishing of ruling by all that Allah ﷻ has revealed. Sa’ad was victorious over the enemies. Angels were sent down to carry his body at his Janazah. Allah ﷻ smiled and His Throne shook upon receiving his soul. Embrace the words of Sa’d bin Mu’adh (ra) at the Battle of Badr, when he said to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in clear, resolute words, فوالذي بعثك، لو استعرضت بنا هذا البحر فخضته لخضناه معك، وما تخلَّف منا رجل واحد، وما نكره أن تلقى بنا عدونا غداً. إنا لصبر في الحرب، صدق في اللقاء. لعل الله يريك منا ما تَقَرُّ به عينك، فسر بنا على بركة الله “By He who sent you, if you were to ask us to cross this sea and you plunge into it, we would plunge into it with you. Not a man would stay behind. We do not dislike the idea of meeting our enemy tomorrow. We are experienced in war, capable of fighting. It may well be that Allah will let us show you something which will bring you joy, so take us along with Allah’s blessing.” Revive the spirit of Badr in your souls and mobilize.

Produced By The Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Pakistan

Sunday, 21 Ramadan 1445 AH corresponding to 31 March 2024 CE

News and Comment: When will we Stop Looking to the West and the UN for our Liberation?!-----------------News:“The United...
23/04/2024

News and Comment: When will we Stop Looking to the West and the UN for our Liberation?!
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News:

“The United States on Thursday effectively stopped the United Nations from recognizing a Palestinian state by casting a veto in the Security Council to deny Palestinians full membership of the world body:” (Reuters, April 19, 2024).

Comment:

Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Robert Wood explained the US position in the following words: "The United States continues to strongly support a two-state solution. This vote does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood, but instead is an acknowledgment that it will only come from direct negotiations between the parties," which means withholding the right of an oppressed and expelled people until the usurper agrees!

Three days earlier the House of Representatives resolved (377 votes for, and only 44 votes against) that the slogan, ‘‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’’ is antisemitic and its use must be condemned. This denial of Palestinian nationhood and construing calls for Palestinian nationhood as being fundamentally antisemitic is occurring while the US supports the Zionist State in its genocidal destruction of all forms of Palestinian life in Gaza. Superficially, full recognition of Palestinian statehood might seem essential, as that would place legal obstacles in the path of the Zionist State in its murderous campaigns of barbarity in Gaza and the West Bank. However, any legal protections of statehood would offer little protection to those in the West Bank and Gaza, as the Zionist State is very precious to the capitalist states, led by the US, and it will make the so-called international laws in their own image and consider themselves above the law whenever they choose.

As for the slogan, ‘‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free:’’ it should be rejected by Muslims also, because it is a deceitful fantasy and further entrenches a vicious violation committed by the colonial powers upon the Muslim world after the destruction of the Ottoman Caliphate.

The fantasy is that of freedom. Where is the freedom in the Muslim world today? The US, or its mercenaries, such as the Zionist State, have free reign to hit out militarily at any part of the Muslim world that they wish. They shape the educational curricula, the laws, the economic policies and the governments of the Muslim countries that are much larger and richer in resources than the heavily colonized land that is dreamed of being a Palestinian State. If there ever could be such a thing, it would be held hostage to the whims of the colonialists just as the failed states that surround it are.

The statehood that is being talked about in the UN is that within the framework of the Sykes-Picot agreement between the colonialists to serve their own purposes and to repress the concept of the Khilafah (Caliphate). If Muslims do not stand up to demand liberation from colonialism in all the Muslim lands and the erasure of the borders drawn up between Muslims by the colonialists, then none neither Palestine nor any other Muslim land will be free.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Dr. Abdullah Robin

Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Pakistan: News Commentary 17/04/2024-----------------News Commentary by the Media Office of Hiz...
23/04/2024

Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Pakistan: News Commentary 17/04/2024
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News Commentary by the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Pakistan.

For Real Change... Reject democracy... Establish Khilafah.

Oh Allah, restore our shield, the Khilafah Rashidah (righteous Caliphate)... Allahuma Ameen.

Wednesday, 08 Shawwal 1445 AH corresponding 17 April 2024 CE

Press Release: The UAE is Creating a Mercenary Corps, Part of which will Work in Yemen and Sudan! - (Translated)--------...
23/04/2024

Press Release: The UAE is Creating a Mercenary Corps, Part of which will Work in Yemen and Sudan! - (Translated)
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An investigation published by the German Deutsche Welle on 04/14/2024 described the UAE as a center for mercenaries in Africa and the Middle East, especially Yemen and Sudan. French newspaper, Online Intelligence revealed the advertisement, which was distributed to former soldiers in the French Special Forces. The newspaper stated that the investigation showed that the advertisement belonged to the Manar Military Consulting Company, which is run by a former officer in the French Special Forces, with ties to Abu Dhabi. The French periodical said that one can conclude from the announcement that the UAE wants to create its own elite foreign corps, perhaps numbering between 3,000 and 4,000 military personnel, by mid-2025. Abu Dhabi's first attempt was in 2009 to form a brigade inside the Emirates consisting of 800 members by Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater.

The UAE, a child of the British, whose army’s number is 65,000, began using foreign mercenaries in 2016 when it hired mercenaries from the American Spear Group to assassinate 160 people who did not obey its command, including imams, mosque preachers, politicians, soldiers, and jurists in Aden, after the UAE entered the country to expel the Houthis in August 2015. Cooperation continued between American officers and Emirati officials, as Reuters revealed in 2019 that the UAE was seeking to establish electronic warfare units. The Washington Post also reported in 2022 that the UAE continues to pay salaries to former American military officials in exchange for providing services and counsel. According to a report issued by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Sipri, in 2023, the phenomenon of private military security companies has increased since 2003, since the founding of Blackwater and its dirty role in the occupation of Iraq.

Today, Abu Dhabi appears in a more hideous light, as it is establishing a corps of mercenaries to serve Britain’s colonial projects in Yemen and Sudan. As for Yemen, to carry out more assassinations that began in 2016 to support British plans, to confront and curb American plans. And in Sudan to help the forces of freedom and change that were suffocated by the conflicts of the American military; Al-Burhan and Hamidati; as well as in Somalia, Libya and others.

The UAE is doing this to serve its master, Britain, and in line with American plans in the Middle East. It owes the British absolute loyalty and subordination, like the rest of the Gulf States, except for Saudi Arabia, which is following the rule of America during the era of Salman and his son...Thus, the apparent contradiction in its policy is the result of the broad lines drawn by Britain for it with the support secularists and opposing Islamists.In addition, the UAE implements special and profound policies for Britain, and it, the UAE, often works for Britain on the back lines of American agents in the region, and provides its services to Britain from those locations.

This is how the ruling regimes in Islamic countries wither and decay after moving away from ruling by Islam and carrying it to non-Muslims, and engaging in the plans of the enemies of Islam and Muslims, such as the Emirates that have become a refuge for non-Muslims whose number exceeds their population, and build churches, synagogues and Hindu temples of polytheism for them, and establish armies to serve disbelief (kufr) and its people, and against Islam and its people in the Arabian Peninsula! Allah (swt) says:

[الأَعْرَابُ أَشَدُّ كُفْراً وَنِفَاقاً وَأَجْدَرُ أَلاَّ يَعْلَمُواْ حُدُودَ مَا أَنزَلَ اللهُ عَلَى رَسُولِهِ وَاللهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ * وَمِنْ الأَعْرَابِ مَنْ يَتَّخِذُ مَا يُنفِقُ مَغْرَماً وَيَتَرَبَّصُ بِكُمُ الدَّوَائِرَ عَلَيْهِمْ دَائِرَةُ السَّوْءِ وَاللهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ]

“And among the nomads are those who consider what they donate to be a loss and await your misfortune. May ill-fortune befall them! And Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.” [At-Tawbah 9:98]. The work and hope of Muslims remains to establish the second Khilafah Rashidah (rightly guided Caliphate) on the method of the Prophethood for which Hizb ut Tahrir works and calls on Muslims to respond to this great call to achieve truth and sweep away evil plans against Islam and Muslims.

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Yemen

The Reauthorization of McCarthyism------------------The recent approval by the United States Senate to reauthorize Secti...
23/04/2024

The Reauthorization of McCarthyism
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The recent approval by the United States Senate to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has reignited debates surrounding civil liberties and national security. This controversial surveillance program, which enables US intelligence agencies to conduct electronic surveillance without judicial warrants, has long been a focal point for concerns among civil liberties organizations. The bill's passage, with a vote of 60-34, underscores the ongoing tension between security imperatives and American civil liberties.

Section 702 grants US intelligence agencies the authority to sweep up communications of non-Americans outside of US territory, including those involving US citizens communicating with foreigners. Essentially, this provision allows US intelligence agencies to intercept and collect communications between individuals who are US citizens and non-citizens, regardless of whether the US citizen is the target of the surveillance or not. This could include phone calls, emails, text messages, or any other form of communication.

Blanket surveillance, abuse, and infringement on privacy rights are not at all new to the US; in fact, it is the norm. The decision to reauthorize Section 702 is glaring evidence of the US undermining citizens’ liberties over what it deems are “security concerns.” The Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Christine Abizaid addressing the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, said, “as evidenced by the events of the past month, the terrorist threat landscape is highly dynamic and our country must preserve [counterterrorism] fundamentals to ensure constant vigilance.” She made repeated references to Hamas’s attack on ‘Israel’ and urged the Congress to “reauthorize this vital authority.”

Therefore, Section 702 will continue to provide the excuses needed to target specific groups based on their religion, ethnicity, or political grievances, unconcerned with the individual liberties it tramples upon. The push to extend the government’s surveillance powers comes as elected officials call for investigations into pro-Palestine groups. Already in Virginia, the attorney general has initiated an investigation into Palestine’s fundraising activities, including allegations that it supports Hamas. Clearly, behind the reauthorization are efforts to silence dissent and suppress opposition, specifically in regard to ongoing events in Gaza. The recent vote comes amidst growing frustration with the US administration and its role in the genocide in Gaza. The US needs to maintain unchecked government surveillance and will do it at any price. This is a means to subdue Muslims into accepting America’s policies and part of its ongoing war on Islam. As Muslims, we cannot allow these draconian measures to frighten us and we must continue to speak the Haq. Indeed the light of Islam will prevail.

[إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ يُنفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُمْ لِيَصُدُّواْ عَن سَبِيلِ اللّهِ فَسَيُنفِقُونَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِمْ حَسْرَةً ثُمَّ يُغْلَبُونَ وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ إِلَى جَهَنَّمَ يُحْشَرُونَ]

“Indeed, those who disbelieve spend their wealth to avert [people] from the way of Allah. So they will spend it; then it will be for them a [source of] regret; then they will be overcome. And those who have disbelieved - unto Hell they will be gathered.” [Al-Anfal 36]

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Haitham Ibn Thbait
Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in America

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