Syria Will Cede To Islamic Caliphate

Hizb ut-Tahrir in Syria: The Regime Will Cede to the Islamic Caliphate

Saturday, 19 May 2012 01:38

In Hizb ut-Tahrir’s (Party of Liberation) opinion, the Syrian regime is certainly going to fall and the opposition is an agent of the West, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. They assert that an Islamic state should be established in Syria while foreign military intervention only serves the enemies of Islam.

“The Islamic Caliphate state can not be conceived of without [Greater] Syria. It has what no other spot on earth has in terms of honor, esteem, and status after Mecca and Medina.” This is the Syria of the Hizb ut-Tahrir.

“Its revolution is distinctly Islamic. It is the cornerstone and the center of gravity in every equation,” said Hisham al-Baba, a member of the Central Media Committee in Hizb ut-Tahrir, in his Damascene accent in Tripoli.

Baba came to give a speech at the conference organized by the party Tuesday entitled “The Ummah’s Revolution: the Project to Abort it and the Inevitability of the Islamic Project.”

“The Ummah [the Islamic nation] has been utterly mistreated and the Syrian people are no exception,” says Baba.

Syria (Greater Syria), according to Hizb ut-Tahrir, includes modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Cyprus, and the Sinai.

Baba criticizes the Arab and Western media for ignoring the presence of Hizb ut-Tahrir and hiding its role. Baba tells Al-Akhbar how Hizb ut-Tahrir has been pursued in Syria since the mid-20th century and subjected to attempts to disband it. The Baath Party and the Syrian state tried to strike down even the idea of the party existing.

Hizb ut-Tahrir does not recognize regimes that govern Muslims outside the rule of Shariah. Baba does not accept the regimes that claim to be Islamic but combine Islam with Western ideas.

“Islam can not be fulfilled except in strict compliance. It can not be mixed with other ideas because it stops being Islam. There is no solution except the Islamic Caliphate state, which will bring about justice,” says Baba.

Their story with the Syrian regime is an old one. In the 1980s when the conflict between the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and the state was at its height, the role of Hizb ut-Tahrir was not insignificant. They too participated in the movement and were pursued by the state and arrested.

Baba, a calm man in his 40s, explains how “the people were deceived when the Syrian uprising broke out in Houran.” One year after the uprising, he believes that “people are convinced that the struggle is ideological and that they are waging a war on the revolution because it raises the banner of Islam.”

According to Baba, Hizb ut-Tahrir has “a strong presence in the revolution and that is evident in the Islamic banners, slogans, and chants. And our youth are present with their ideas, their activities, and their patience in all the Syrian provinces.”

Baba criticizes the Arab and Western media for ignoring the presence of Hizb ut-Tahrir and hiding its role. Just as “the revolution’s coordinating committees in the beginning of the events tried to exclude members of the party.” We were patient and persisted, “but we did not give up.”

The party is convinced that the people’s choice is Islam. “Time has proven that secularists, communists, and other adherents of secular thought have no popularity in Syrian public opinion. The beat of the street is Islamist,” he says.

The people are sick of the whole opposition, they have no one but God.Baba criticizes all the parties within the Syrian opposition. “The people are sick of the whole opposition, they have no one but God.”

The latest announcement by the MB stated that they would accept a civil state. This came as a huge disappointment to the leadership of Hizb ut-Tahrir and its supporters. “This position aims to appease and reassure the West that there will not be an Islamic state. It is as if they are providing credentials to the infidels.”

It is not a secret that flirtation between the MB and the West, specifically Britain, is old. “We thought the brotherhood changed.”

What is perhaps stranger from Hizb ut-Tahrir’s point of view is the position of Ali Sadreddine Bayanouni, the former leader of the MB in Syria, who reassured “the monstrous entity, the Jews’ entity, that the change of regime will not constitute a danger to them.”

Baba is not worried however because “the youth of the MB side with Hizb ut-Tahrir’s point of view and they will not follow their leaders for long because they began to give concessions early on, even before the battle began.”

The relationship with the Syrian National Council (SNC) is one of “exposing and disclosing lies.” In Hizb ut-Tahrir’s opinion, the SNC is subordinate to Western powers and gets instructions from “[Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan’s Turkey. How do we build a relationship with them and they do not represent anything in the street and are under the authority of infidels?” There are those in the SNC who say secretly that “they might have to engage in a dialogue with the regime [at some point] in the future. They want to engage in a dialogue with killers!”

Qatar and Saudi Arabia do not escape the party’s antagonism. Baba says that “both regimes, the Saudi and the Qatari, are not different from the Syrian regime, they compete with it in terms of killing. The two countries are tools of the Western colonialist project and respond to US, English, and French orders.”

What comes after the Syrian regime then? The leadership of Hizb ut-Tahrir seems certain that the regime will fall and an Islamic Caliphate state will emerge. Baba believes that the regime has lost its power. “Its extreme violence and the use of military power are nothing but an announcement of the end.” The party was not surprised by the degree of violence, “but by the high spirits of the people and the mujahedeen.”

Hizb ut-Tahrir “is not a religious party but a political party and the caliphate system is a political system,” Baba adds. “This system has restrictions that can not be violated whereas the democratic system has no restrictions.” Here, there is “hala and haram,” what is religiously permitted and what is religiously banned and that’s it.

Baba believes that the solution to the sectarian and confessional conflicts in Syria is the caliphate system, where there is no difference between Muslims – Sunni and Shias.

“It is good for Muslims and non-Muslims,” he says. Non-Muslims “like Christians, Alawites, and Druze are the people of dhimma (non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim state) except for the Alawites who converted to Islam. And who says the people of dhimma are going to be treated differently from Muslims?”

Baba says that “both regimes, the Saudi and the Qatari, are not different from the Syrian regime, they compete with it in terms of killing. The party distinguishes between Shias and their political leadership. Baba views Hezbollah from the Syrian prism. The question of resistance does not change his mind. “Hezbollah supports the oppressor against the oppressed.”

Baba stresses that the party is opposed to foreign military intervention because it serves the enemies of Islam and “puts in place a regime worse than the current one.”

The party is also opposed to drowning Syria in weapons “except for self-defense and defending the people,” Baba said declaring his party’s support for “the Free Syrian Army.”

When asked about the international observers Baba says they are the regime’s lifeline and “we should not rely on the idea.”

There, on a large screen at the conference was the imam of al-Omary Mosque in Daraa, Sheikh Ahmad al-Sayasneh, giving his message to the conference attendees and attacking Shias, Hezbollah, and Iran.

Baba remains silent for a second before he says, “This is his opinion and position.”

Al Akhbar

Source: http://hizb-america.org/culture/news-watch/2463-hizb-ut-tahrir-in-syria-the-regime-will-cede-to-the-islamic-caliphate

19 Hizb Members Arrested

19 Hizb-ut-Tahrir men booked under sedition law, jailed

Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:54

LAHORE – The banned outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir or HT has suffered a major blow as its 19 top leaders and activists have been sent to jail, days after they were arrested during a joint operation in Model Town area and booked under sedition laws. Sources in the joint investigations team disclosed that some of the arrested leaders of HT have alleged that they were receiving funding from the MI-6. However, a member of the HT denied the claim, terming it baseless and said that the HT men were attending Dars-e-Quran when the law enforcing agencies raided the house.

All 19 accused have been sent to a local jail after the Lahore High Court (LHC) rejected the petition, seeking their post-arrest bail. Earlier, a Special Judge of the Anti-Terrorism Court had dismissed the post-arrest bail of the petitioners. The LHC also asked the security agencies to submit evidence and details about the HT, an outfit banned by the Ministry of Interior in November 20, 2003 vide notification (SRO-1061 (1) 2003).

The law enforcement and intelligence agencies carried out a joint operation, raiding the HT headquarters situated in (79/C-III) Model Town at about 10:00 pm on March 29 and arrested 19 leaders and activists of the banned outfit. The police have claimed the HT leaders and activists were holding a key meeting at their secret headquarters to intensify operations to conspire and incite rebellion among the Judiciary, government and the Pakistan Army, when security personnel stormed their safe haven. The arrested suspects are highly-trained, well-off, and welleducated, police sources said, adding, “they are professors, serving in leading universities, computer experts, textile engineers and chemical experts with M. Phil and PhD degrees”.

The Model Town police registered a case (FIR No 130/12) on the charges of sedition, criminal conspiracy, subversive /hate material, funding by prescribed organisation, and meeting by prescribed organisation (under sections 120-B, 124-A, 11-W-ATA, 11-H-ATA, and 11-F-ATA). According to section 124-A (Sedition), “Whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise, brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards, the Federal or Provincial Government established by law shall be punished with imprisonment for life to which fine may be added, or with imprisonment which may extend to three years, to which fine may be added, or with fine.”

Security agencies recovered more than 500-kg of “subversive and hatred material, including hundreds of books, thousands of leaflets, CDs, cassettes etc from their possession during the raid,” a source close to the investigations team told this reporter, requesting his name not be mentioned. “It was a grand and extraordinary operation, which took place under the direct supervision of SP Model Town Maroof Safdar Wahla. The law enforcing agencies got irrefutable evidences against the HT,” he added. Investigators further revealed that all addresses printed on the recovered subversive material were found fake. “They always use fake names, fake IDs and bogus documents to incite people especially the youth against the state and government institutions in the name of Islam,” investigators said.

According to the Hizb-ut-Tahrir’s manifesto, it is working for the establishment of Islamic state or Khilafah and is the only global party that works throughout the world. Interestingly, the focus of the banned outfit remains Pakistan, since 2003, when it began targeting Pakistani government, Army and Judiciary in its propaganda campaign. In an open letter, the HT had asked the Generals, Air Marshals, Navy Admirals, and officers of Pakistan’s armed forces “to rise up against the western forces because only through you the Ummah can be liberated.”

More interestingly, after the Lahore High Court rejected the bail plea of the suspects, the HT forwarded an SMS to a great number of people across Pakistan, apart from its members, and criticised the courts stating that the “the independence of the courts has been exposed,” and warned the rulers that the HT would never stop its ‘struggle.’ The outfit using various methods of communications regularly targets the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Chief of Army Staff, DG ISI and the government in order to spread hatred the people against the state institutions.

“While focusing on the youth, they target judiciary, armed forces and the government in an attempt to create hatred among the public against the state institutions,” a police investigator said. HT members base their philosophy in the name of Islam, the officer added. “By God, they even don’t know the basics of Islam,” he said.The arrested were identified as Faisal Rehman, Ali Nawaz, Muhammad Tanveer, Zain Bin Zubair, Ghulam Ali, Ahsan Namdar, Shahzad Ahmed, Muhammad Danial, Muhammad Shajji, Muhammad Jamal, Adeel Naeem, Sharak Naeem, Muhammad Saleem, Qamar Abbas, Jalal, Shoaib Daud, Muhammad Talha Sameeh and Zeshan. The accused have been sent to Kot Lakhpat Jail. Further investigations are underway.

The Nation

Source: http://hizb-america.org/culture/news-watch/2460-19-hizb-ut-tahrir-men-booked-under-sedition-law-jailed

Muslim Exemption of First Amendment

It’s official. There is a Muslim exemption to the First Amendment

Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:51

Tarek Mehanna is no David Stone.

David Stone and members of his Hutaree anti-government militia amassed a huge arsenal of weapons, including the ingredients for explosives, and allegedly plotted to kill a police officer and bomb his funeral. A federal judge in Michigan said they were just venting and exercising their First Amendment rights.

Mehanna, a 29-year-old pharmacist from Sudbury, Massachusetts, emailed friends, downloaded videos, translated and posted documents on the web, and traveled to and from Yemen in 2004.

No evidence was presented in court directly linking him to a terrorist group. He never hatched a plot – indeed, he objected when a friend (who went on to become a government informer and has never been charged with anything) proposed plans to stage violent attacks within the United States. He never had a weapon. He did lie to the FBI. And he has just been sentenced by US District Court Judge George O’Toole to 17.5 years in a supermax prison on various material support to terrorism charges.

Over 220 of Mehanna’s supporters in an overflow room watched on a screen as prosecutor Aloke Chakravarty in his pre-sentencing remarks stressed the “gravity” of Mehanna’s offenses. Over a decade ago, he claimed, “this defendant began to radicalize” and to radicalize others to “visit violence” on Americans. Although he failed in his efforts to find a terrorist training camp when he visited Yemen in 2004, he found his niche, the prosecutor stated, serving as the “media wing” of al Qaeda, translating documents, and sharing videos.

“The impact of the harms created through that work is huge,” Chakravarty asserted.  “We don’t know how many have been radicalized…people around the world are consuming his work…The damage he has done will linger.”

The prosecutor went on at length about Mehanna’s “reticence to assist the government”  – that is, become an informant. He maintained that nothing is wrong with soliciting cooperation if it is necessary to keep the country safe.

Defense attorney Jay Carney countered that Tarek Mehanna was being punished for activity protected by the First Amendment, for translating documents freely available in Arabic on the Internet and for his refusal to be an informant. The government, Carney said, does not want people to be able to read the views that other people hold.  “This case goes further than any other in attacking speech protected by the First Amendment,” and involved important constitutional issues at every turn.

The attorney asked the judge to focus on “what the defendant did and did not do” – he went to Yemen for one week eight years ago. He refused to go to Iraq with the friend whom the government later enlisted as an informer. He was under close FBI scrutiny for more than eight years – if he was so dangerous, why did the FBI wait so long to arrest him?

When Tarek Mehanna personally addressed the court he described the moment when he was approached by two federal agents who said he could do things the easy way or the hard way: if he chose the easy way, he would never see the inside of a cell.

Mehanna then eloquently talked about the world view he adopted during his childhood when he avidly read Batman comics and then books like Uncle Tom’s Cabin and began to see the world in terms of the oppressor and the oppressed. He talked of learning about the struggles against slavery and for civil rights, and how impressed he was by Malcolm X and his transformation from a petty criminal to a devout Muslim.  It was this, he said, that made him look more deeply into Islam and become increasingly devout.

And then he began to look to what was happening to Muslims around the world. He was horrified by the suffering caused by the sanctions on Iraq and Secretary of State Albright’s comment that the death of half a million children because of the sanctions was “worth it.” Deeply angered by the “shock and awe” US invasion, he described how affected he was by atrocities committed by American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In his view, what the government had really put on trial was his belief that Muslims in other countries had the right to defend their own land from foreign invaders, including Americans. He thinks “one day America will change. One day people will look back with horror at how hundreds of thousands of Muslims were killed by American soldiers.” Meanwhile, he is the one who will go to prison as a “terrorist.”

The Mehanna case ruling and sentencing suggest that Muslims do not have the right to protected speech, and that “venting” can cost them the long years in prison spared the Hutaree militia.

Not only did the prosecution and judge shun any discussion of what the First Amendment protects and does not protect.   They steered clear of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project ruling which criminalizes any kind of “material support” if carried out in connection with a group on the State Department’s terrorism list, while upholding “independent advocacy,” even of the most controversial kind.

The country has clearly traveled a long way since an Idaho jury in June 2004 found that the web activity carried out by a Saudi graduate student, Sami Omar Al Hussayyen, was protected by the First Amendment. He had been indicted in a blaze of publicity for setting up websites for Islamic organizations and posting inflammatory messages on the Internet.

After a seven-week trial, where the defense presented only a single witness – a former CIA operative who cast doubt on the government’s assertion that people become jihadists because of what they read on line – the jury acquitted him of the serious charges against him.

Just as in the Sami al-Hussayen case, the prosecution in the Mehanna case made the material support statute a vehicle for the suppression of unpopular ideas that fall within the boundaries of the First Amendment – including watching ‘Jihadi’ videos with others, lending CDs to “create like-minded youth,” translating texts freely available on the internet.  Why did it turn out so differently?

The explanation, at least in part, appears to lie in the widespread acceptance of the notion of a “domestic radicalization process“ promoted through internet activity, which was first put forward by the New York Police Department in its 2007 report, “Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat.”

This is the same NYPD which mapped its ethnic communities, carried out wholesale monitoring of Muslims, and in the years ahead, would screen the Islamophobic film “The Third Jihad” to nearly 1500 of its new recruits and officers.

The nub of the government’s position appears to be this: extending the protection of the First Amendment to what Muslims like Mehanna do online is no longer an option if it serves to cloak a supposed process of radicalization that could ultimately be much more dangerous than anything the Hutaree could cook up.

For the prosecution, Tarek Mehanna serves as a poster boy for the radicalization thesis:  a dangerous “violent extremist” who “lived a double life” and never “expressed any remorse for his crimes.” This “angry, callous and calculating man” was radicalized himself and then set about using his language skills and the internet to radicalize others, just as the NYPD had warned.

The NYPD analysis figured prominently in the pre-sentencing hearing submissions forwarded by the US Attorney’s Office to Judge George O’Toole. Among them is a May 2008 staff report from the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Violent Islamic Extremism, The Internet and the Homegrown Terrorist Threat which reads like a primer on the government’s case against Mehanna.

Quoted in the report is Lawrence Sanchez, Assistant Commissioner of the NYPD’s Intelligence Division – who, thanks to an investigation by the Associated Press, we now know to be a CIA operative and the architect of the NYPD’s blanket monitoring of Muslims.

Also quoted in the document is Dr. Marc Sageman, a former CIA Operations officer and counter-terrorism expert – who testified for the defense in the Mehanna trial, an uncomfortable fact which the government preferred to skirt.

Taking a similar line to the CIA operative who testified for Sami Omar al Hussayyen, Marc Sageman argued in court that the videos which Mehanna downloaded and shared were insignificant as recruiting tools.

While the prosecution showed 9/11 videos to the jury and sprinkled its language during the trial and in its sentencing memorandum with repeated references to al Qaeda, the defense maintained that “the government has from the beginning of the case attempted to portray Mehanna as weaving some kind of spell over others to bring them into a terrorist cell. This is a fantasy of the government’s own making.”

Mehanna’s translations were independent advocacy, the defense claimed, and the government had never proven otherwise.

In her closing argument during the trial, defense attorney Janice Bassil stated that “the only idea that Tarek Mehanna had in common with al Qa’ida is that Muslims had the right and the obligation to defend themselves when they were attacked in their own lands. And we believe that. When the British came to reassert their hold over America – let’s face it, we were a colony – we fought back.  We rebelled.  We defended our land.”

The lesson of the Mehanna case is that where Muslims are concerned, sentiments like these could constitute ‘thought crime.’

Boston.com

Source: http://hizb-america.org/culture/news-watch/2458-its-official-there-is-a-muslim-exemption-to-the-first-amendment

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Jihad and Foreign Policy

Each chapter of Jihad and Foreign Policy is in PDF.

Summary of the Preface

Summary of the Introduction

Hizb and the NDAA

Hizb is clearly against the recent NDAA. Of what are they afraid? Read the last paragraph. Muslims whinning again.

Beware Everyone and Anyone Now At Risk in the United States: The Terrifying New Act: NDAA

Written by Manal Bader Sunday, 18 December 2011 23:51

When US Congress Representatives and Senators are sworn into office they take an oath to uphold the basic principles of the US constitution. To uphold the law and to preserve the principles of the basic guaranteed liberties including due process and habeas corpus. Yet it is these very Congress people that propose preposterous bills that trample basic civil liberties. As this is the case in the newly proposed bill; the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) could allow for the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without charge or trial in a military prison. Of course this was met with huge negative reactions towards detaining any US citizen without due process anywhere in the world if s/he is merely suspected of any terrorist behavior. Of course this definition is extremely vague and broad to the point if someone voices any government objection may be interpreted as a terrorist inclination and thus detained indefinitely without any charges. We heard some of the higher officials, especially in the Senate, voice their concerns of the dire consequences of passing this bill into law. Even a mentioning of an executive veto by the President himself who can ultimately halt this bill in its tracks.

However the threat is real and imminent. According to Christopher Anders, senior legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) responded, “…This bill puts military detention authority on steroids and makes it permanent. If it becomes law, American citizens and others are at real risk of being locked away by the military without charge or trial.”

Yet one major point was omitted from the high level debate: the indefinite detainment of an individual in a military prison applicable to American citizens not actual combatants, just regular citizens on the street. That poses a major problem, a déjà vu of Guantanamo Bay thereby ensuring this nightmare scenario will be ever-present anywhere in the world, destroying the values of the rapidly crumbling democracy which America now falsely touts. A strikingly similar resemblance to Qadaffi’s former regime and Bashar Assad’s current regime.

Every Muslim or Arab or Brown person is a new potential target. What happened to “innocent till proven guilty”? The US Constitution strictly forbids this sort of action as mentioned in the the habeas procedure in Article One, Section 9, states that “The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it.” Now if someone happened to look like Osama bin Laden or Anwar Awalaki will have the legal backing to kidnap, the actual meaning of detain, that person for an unspecified time subjected to military confinement. As evident in Guantanamo Bay, prisoners are held without trial or charges for almost a decade.

Does racism and hatred run deeper than ever before? Did the Civil Rights Movement not shatter these glass walls? As the decades pass, it is clear that this is far from the truth. Now every racist bigot will be able to notify the authorities of their Muslim citizens simply based on suspicion and fear be it “manufactured” or real whether that person wears hijab or grows a beard while wearing a kufi cap. This is simply based on appearance. What about the vocal US citizens who oppose foreign or domestic policies. Why not lock up 99% of the US population???

If one were to simply judge using US produced statistics, immigrant Muslims lead a far more law-abiding lifestyle than their white counterparts. They do not resort to substance abuse, looting, or vandalism during times of need and hardship. The children of these immigrant families go on to complete successful college educations and live productive lives.

Now another more alarming statistic is the profile of a serial killer or child molester or rapist. Why not propose and pass a US Bill that will contain such dangerous people thereby protecting the greater society. Well perhaps the US will have more detention centers than shopping malls and nearly 90% of the population will be indefinitely locked up for an unknown time period.

Another facet of this newly proposed bill is the resounding paranoia and fear factor that will be ever more exaggerated. Every American and non-American will do a double or triple-take on their Muslim neighbor, co-worker, and while we’re at it our Muslim doctors all whom the majority of the population has had some type of relationship or interaction with, the vast majority included positive results.

In fact, Islamophobia with the backing of the NDAA will have detrimental effects on society quickly advancing the breakdown of democracy and its social fabric. Media hype will almost immediately propagate quick check-lists for possible terrorists. True that many human rights organizations will cry foul and Muslim civil liberties agencies will call upon the community to quickly and actively voice their objections to their local representatives. In the end Islamophobia will gain fierce momentum and basic liberties will have no bearing on the fate of US citizens living on US soil or any soil for that matter.

The introduction and the potential effect of NDAA will be another nail in the coffin in US democracy. What a humiliating day in US history when the US legislation signs the following bill into effect. Let’s pray, if that is even possible without being detained these days, that this is not the prelude towards Muslim concentration camps. It happened before on US soil, it could happen again all in the name of “War on Terror”.

 Source: http://hizb-america.org/culture/political-analysis/2262-beware-everyone-and-anyone-now-at-risk-in-the-united-states-the-terrifying-new-act-ndaa

The Method ot Hizb ut-Tahrir

The Method of Hizb ut-Tahrir

The author has provided a lot of background about why the Ummah is in the situation that it is presently. In this the last section of this booklet, the author provides more explicit insight into Hizb’s so-called method.

Hizb claims that it has limited itself only to the divine rules based on Mohammad’s sayings and actions. The author quotes a number of passages which command Muslims to follow Mohammad. (1, 2, 3) The author makes a distinction between Mohammad’s work and their own. Mohammad carried the Da’wah to Mecca which was not Muslim at the time. Hizb focuses on taking the Da’wah to lands which claims to be Islamic but are not. Hizb, like Seyyid Qutb in Milestones, argues that no Islamic land is truly Dar al-Islam because they do not implement the Shar’ ia fully.

Hizb provides four guidelines which they follow to proclaim the Da’wah. The last guideline has five parts to it.

Guideline #1: Hizb proclaims Da’wah to Islamic and non-Islamic worlds to fulfill “Let there be from amongst you a group calling to good, enjoining Ma’rouf (what is right) and forbidding Munkar (evil).” (Al Imran 104) Allah makes it Fard (obligatory) on Muslims to implement the Shar’ ia in all areas of public and private life.

Guideline #2: Hizb constrains itself to follow only the divine rules for all actions and activities. The list they provide is the following:

1) The Halal and the Haram is the standard for all activities.
2) Mastery belongs only to Islam.
3) Hizb exposes itself to danger from both without and within the Ummah.
4) Hizb does not flatter anyone. If Muslims and non-Muslims are engaged in Kufr activities, they are confronted and encouraged to leave.
5) Hizb believes that all political parties (Republicans and Democrats), ideological parties (Socialism, Communism and Democracies) and religious parties (Christian and non-Christian) are kufr.
6) Hizb shows no allegiance to any non-Islamic governmental system whether it is in an Islamic land or not.
7) Hizb does not use any non-Islamic political party to carry Da’wah because it is Haram. Instead, it takes every opportunity to criticize the Kufr government sharply.
8) Hizb does not participate in the ruling system because the participation would strengthen and support the Kufr. Rather, Hizb strives to uproot and remove Jahili systems to restore the Islamic way of life.

Guideline #3: Hizb works to implement Islam everywhere fully. (4) The author quotes “Whatever the Messenger brought you take it, and whatever he forbids you abstain from it.” (Al Hashr 7) The word whatever is maa and covers every rule Mohammad gave. Hizb claims that it is obligatory (fard) to implement every command at the same time and not gradually because all of Mohammad’s commands must be followed.

The author also takes about reality. He does not explain the term so I can only assume he is talking about the way things really are at any given moment in the world. The Hizb author states “Furthermore, when the reality contradicts with Islam, it is not allowed to interpret Islam so as to agree with reality . . . ” In other words, reality is to be reconstructed by the Islamic way of life. So, the Kufr reality is meaningless if it is not the Islamic reality and it cannot be that Islam is the unreality.  So, Islam is responsible to force its change on the reality, as the Qur’ an states, even if the Kufr hate it.

Guideline #4: The fourth guideline reveals how Hizb attempts to change Jahili from within. There are five stages.

Stage 1: This is the stage of culturing. This involves finding and culturing an individual convinced by the Da’wah. This stage is the foundational stage and everything else hinges on it. In this stage the nucleus or the first circle begins.

A) An individual is contacted.
B) The thought and method of Islam are presented individually.
C) When the individual accepts the Da’wah he is invited to study in concentrated circles.
D) This study will create an Islamic personality with an Islamic mentality who looks at the world through an Islamic world view.
E) This creates an Islamic psyche with Islamic emotions making him happy when things are done Allah’s way and angry when they are not.
F) At this point the individual forces himself upon the party and they meet secretly until the second stage. The Hizb author claims that Mohammad also meet secretly with his new converts in Mecca quoting the Qur’ an until they were fully formed.
G) The purpose of this stage is to create a party of people molded by the Islamic thought.

Stage 2: In this stage Hizb goes public and interacts with the Ummah.

A) The concentrated culturing of individuals which began in stage one continues increasing the party’s numbers and knowledge.
B) The collective culturing of the Ummah begins when Hizb takes the Da’wah to the masses through mosques, conferences, lectures, public gatherings, newspapers, books and leaflets.

Stage #3:

A) The intellectual struggle begins with the Kufr.

Stage #4: This is the political struggle against the governments.

A) The struggle is against any political institution which is imperialist and disbelieving.
B) All the rulers of Islamic states that are not Dar al-Islam must be confronted to expose them.

Stage #5: In this stage Hizb now turns to care for the Ummah. Hizb claims that the party has already been following the Sunnah through these steps.

Hizb has struggled against both Islamic and non-Islamic leaders challenging them at every step when they do not follow the Shar’ ia. Mohammad defamed, insulted and cursed the gods of the Meccans and Hizb has been doing the same to Shirk no matter who is in charge. And just like Mohammad did in similar circumstances,  Hizb too has refrained from using violence. The Sunnah the Hizb writer chooses is the time when the people who gave Mohammad the second pledge at Aqabah sought to use violence against those persecuting them. Mohammad answered that Allah did not permit the use of force at this time. (5) Hizb also has been trying to reach the world with Da’wah peacefully.

This is an interesting statement because although it is true, it is also true that Mohammad eventually abandoned peaceful methods and used force. Mohammad did not take Mecca merely through Da’wah but ultimately through force. Force was the life blood of Islamic conquest throughout the Near and Middle East and eventually into Europe and North Africa. Hizb stated in this booklet that its job is to promote the Islamic way of life through Da’wah and Jihad. So, when does Hizb turn from merely peaceful means to jihad?

Nevertheless, the world hardened its feelings toward Hizb and the question might be, is it permissible to use force? Hizb reviewed the times when society hardened itself against Mohammad and they believe that Nusrah (help) is the answer. This may be a cry for help from Hizb ut-Tahrir to get the protection they seek to continue the Da’wah.

1) Mohammad was under Abu Talib’s protection but when he died Mohammad lost that protection and the society hardened against him. So, Allah commanded Mohammad to leave Mecca and to seek help from other tribes.
2) So, Mohammad approached the tribes. He stated he was Allah’s messenger, asked them to believe that and to provide him protection so he could continue his Da’wah.
3) The Bani Kinda and Bani Amir ibn Sa’as’ah (Medinah) consented to protect Mohammad as long as they had the right of government. The Hizb author concludes that the Kinda tribe understood that Mohammad wanted to setup a government in his request for Nusrah.
4) The tribes at Medinah provided the Nusrah at the end of the second pledge of Aqabah and at this point the Islamic state now existed.
5) The society has become hardened to a point against the Da’wah today. Therefore, Hizb is asking for Nusrah to (1) carry the Da’wah to the world and (2) to reach the government to establish the Caliphate. Nevertheless, this protection would be limited because there are many areas in which Hizb has the political upper hand. Hizb does not protection everywhere but they could use help in Central Asia and America.

The Hizb author ends with a prayer that Allah help them to establish demolish all Kufr regimes, establish the Caliphate and govern by the Shar’ ia.

1) “Verily, in the Messenger of Alllah you have a good example for everyone who looks for Allah and looks for the last day and who mentions Allah much.” (Al-Ahzab 21)
2) “Say to them if you love Allah then follow me, Allah will love you and will forgive you your sins.” (Al-Imran 31)
3) Whatever the messenger gives you take it, and whatever he forbids you abstain from it.” (Al Hashr 7)
4) “And govern between them with what Allah has revealed and don’t follow their desires and beware that they might seduce you from some of the what Allah has revealed upon you.” (Al-Ma’dah 49)

Hizb Hates Cantor

GOP leader: Stop radical Islam in Egypt

Thursday, 24 November 2011 02:09

A top House Republican said Tuesday the primary goal of U.S. policy in Egypt should be to “stop the spread of radical Islam,” an objective that has been little mentioned by Obama administration officials in recent weeks.

Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., also said at a news conference he hopes the street protests taking place in Cairo and elsewhere will lead to a democratic society that “stands for human rights, progress and equal opportunity.”

In his remarks, Cantor did not criticize President Barack Obama over his handling of the two-week crisis.

GOP leaders have privately urged members of the rank and file not to second-guess Obama’s approach to the crisis, in which hundreds of thousands of Egyptians have staged demonstrations demanding that President Hosni Mubarak surrender power.

Asked about criticism leveled recently by another Republican lawmaker, Cantor said, it would not be “helpful for this President, who is having a tough enough time as it is, to have 535 members of Congress to opine on his conduct of foreign policy.”

Yet with his remarks, which aides said were planned in advance, Cantor appeared to be articulating a different policy objective than the one Obama has spoken of most frequently.

“I think the primary goal should be to stop the spread of radical Islam. That is where our focus should be,” he said.

Since the protests first arose, Obama has called for a transition to a government — regardless of its leader — that grants greater freedoms than Mubarak allows in a nation of 80 million.

“The future of Egypt will be determined by its people. It’s also clear that there needs to be a transition process that begins now. That transition must initiate a process that respects the universal rights of the Egyptian people and that leads to free and fair elections,” the president said late last week.

Mubarak, who has been in power nearly 30 years, has been a strong ally of the United States in the Middle East as well as in its attempt to rein in international terrorists. He also has abided by the peace treaty with Israel signed by his predecessor.

At the same time, in recent years U.S. presidents have urged Mubarak to allow greater freedoms for Egyptians, including free elections.

Cantor is Jewish and a strong supporter of Israel, whose leaders have been watching events unfold in Egypt with apprehension.

Asked whether Cantor’s remarks stemmed at least in part from his position on Israel, Cantor spokesman Brad Dayspring said the majority leader “has consistently made clear that the expansion of radical Islam is a global danger and is bad for America and our allies.”

Other traditional congressional supporters of Israel have also remained on the sidelines while Obama grapples with the protests in Egypt.

Simultaneously, one of the most powerful lobbying organizations in Washington, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, has been largely silent on the fast-moving developments. AIPAC holds considerable sway with lawmakers and many take their lead from the group.

Source: http://hizb-america.org/culture/news-watch/2230-gop-leader-stop-radical-islam-in-egypt

 

Three Hizb Seized

Three Hizb ut-Tahrir activists seized in Bashkortostan

Ufa, October 31, Interfax – A covert unit of the Hizb ut-Tahrir international terrorist organization, outlawed by the Russian Supreme Court, has been seized in Sibai, Bashkortostan, the republican department of the Federal Security Service said.

The organizer and leader of the group, native of the Baimak district of Bashkortostan, Ramil Sharipov, was taken into custody. He was a witness to a Hizb ut-Tahrir case in 2008. The police also detained his two close associates – Rinat Arginbayev, who joined the organization in 2010, and Rustem Gibadatov.

One of them was recruiting new members to Hizb ut-Tahrir in Sibai and the other hosted meetings of the extremists at his home, the department said.

The detainees were engaged in Hizb ut-Tahrir propaganda in Bashkortostan, recruited local residents to the organization for stirring up separatist feelings with the goal of changing the political and state structure of Russia, and took purposeful efforts to split the society and to create conditions for a change of the constitutional system, the department said.

Plenty of magazines, brochures, leaflets and video films were seized in the searches done at the suspects’ homes on October 21. All of those materials were proclaimed extremist by court.

The unit’s leader and his accomplices were charged with organizing an extremist organization on October 27.

Sharipov made partial confessions, and the confessions of Gibadatov and Arginbayev were full.

The investigation continues.

Hizb ut-Tahrir units were neutralized in Birsk, Tuimazy, Sterlitamak, Salavat and Ufa in Bashkortostan in June to early October 2011. Six supporters of the international terrorist organization acting in Kumertau and Tuimazy were sentenced.

Hizb ut-Tahrir started its activity in Bashkortostan in 2001. It spread to a number of towns and cities later on.

Source: http://interfaxreli.customers.ru/?act=news&div=8836

Protests Karimov

Hizb ut-Tahrir’s demonstration against Uzbek president Karimov’s visit to Brussels

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 | Filed under Activism,Europe,For Facebook RSS,Multimedia,Photos,Videos -Global Activism | Posted by Syawal

24th of January 2011, Hizb ut Tahrir Europe organized a demonstration against the visit of Karimov, president of Uzbekistan, in front of the Uzbek Embassy in Brussels.

Hundreds came to show their support for Hizb ut Tahrir and to confront Karimov, for his crimes against Islam, the Muslims and humanity in Uzbekistan.

Speakers highlighted the various crimes of Karimov and his regime, including the mass murder on the 13th May 2005 when he ordered his special security forces to attack unarmed protestors in Andijan; thousands of people, including many members of Hizb ut Tahrir, were killed.

The Andijan massacre is part of a much broader pattern of oppression that has characterized Karimov’s rule. These include the severe torture of independent Muslims and members of Hizb ut Tahrir’s prisoners. The severe mutilations that some suffered resulted in the death of many innocent people. The silence of Western governments against these crimes has been deafening.

Furthermore, one of the speakers highlighted how the European Union (EU) and NATO revealed their real face by inviting and welcoming this tyrant. Western governments do not care about the fate of the Muslims of Uzbekistan or anywhere else. Rather, they support unelected dictators in order to secure energy contracts and other profitable interests. Regimes like Karimov’s in Uzbekistan were given the free hand to attack Islam and the Muslims and the ‘International community’ has turned a blind eye to it.

Hizb ut Tahrir Europe condemned the regime’s imprisonment of thousands of members of Hizb ut Tahrir and other Muslims and demanded their immediate release.

Our message to Karimov and his regime is that we have promised Allah (swt) that we will never bow our heads before any tyrant and will continue to speak the truth with patience and firmness and work tirelessly to re-establish Al Khilafah Ar Rashidah.

Okay Pala Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir

Email: okay.pala@hizb-ut-tahrir.nl
Website: http://www.hizb-ut-tahrir.info / http://www.hizb-ut-tahrir.nl

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Source: http://www.aljunnah.com/2011/02/hizb-ut-tahrir%E2%80%99s-demonstration-against-uzbek-president-karimov%E2%80%99s-visit-to-brussels/