1434 AH - 2013 CE

News:

On 9^th September 2013, the Government of Pakistan conducted an All Parties Conference (APC) in Islamabad. It not only had political parties in attendance, it was also attended by the senior most leadership of the armed forces, the army chief, Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani, and the intelligence chief, Zahir ul-Islam. The stated purpose of this conference was to arrive at a consensus over how Pakistan should be steered out of this war against terrorism. The conference decided that for the sake of peace in the country, the government should start dialogue with the tribal people, instead of continuing military operations.

Comment:

As the year 2014 is approaching fast, America is moving quickly to secure a long lasting deal with the Taliban for the continuation of its occupation of Afghanistan, in the guise of a limited withdrawal. In order to do this, America allowed the Taliban to open their office in Qatar and instructed traitors in the political and military leadership of Pakistan to release Taliban prisoners. The purpose of the September 9th APC was to achieve this American objective. In this conference, the government was urged to initiate a dialogue process with the Tribal people. At the same time, it declared this American war as our war by stating that "we shall ourselves determine the means and mode of fighting this war." So if the Taliban does not agree with the conditions of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, Pakistan can quickly change from the "carrot" to the "stick".

It is regrettable that those parties, who day and night ask for withdrawing Pakistan from this American war, also signed this document. They have endorsed the argument employed by the traitors in the political and military leadership that this American withdrawal is a success of Pakistan. However, US President Obama and numerous other American officials have confirmed that even after 2014 American troops will remain in Afghanistan in thousands, not dozens. In order to station these American troops permanently, America wants to establish nine bases in Afghanistan. America has also made clear on numerous occasions that it is a prerequisite for the success of the negotiations that the American-made Afghan democratic constitution must be accepted first. On top of that Obama and Karzai have already signed a strategic agreement on 2^nd May 2012, which allows wider American presence in Afghanistan after 2014.

How is this success for Pakistan? A country which is spending more of its "Black Budget" for espionage and monitoring of Pakistan's nuclear assets, than for spying upon its declared enemies, Iran and North Korea, will now be given a secure presence on Pakistan's door step, Afghanistan. Moreover, Pakistan's arch enemy India will continue to use this American presence in Afghanistan against Pakistan. Indeed the Hindu State has a string of bases under the guise of consulates all along the Af-Pak border, to enable it to create mischief. So, how is the permanent presence of thousands of American forces on our door step a success for Pakistan?

It has been proved that democracy and dictatorship both serve and secure the American interests and whoever participates in either will never dare to put aside American demands and instructions. Only the establishment of Khilafah "Caliphate" in Pakistan will end the American Raj in this region. A Khilafah "Caliphate" which will close American embassy, consulates, bases, NATO supply line and expel its diplomats and military personnel. And if even after this America tries to remain in this region then Khilafah "Caliphate" will wage Jihad against it with the combined force of its armed forces and sincere Mujahideen.

Written for The Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Shahzad Sheikh / Deputy Spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir in Pakistan

News:

The UK is presently in the midst of a heated political debate initiated by the Home Office Minister Jeremy Browne who is encouraging the government to consider the banning  the Niqab. On the 16^th of September Minister Browne stated; ".....there is genuine debate about whether girls should feel a compulsion to wear a veil". The debate over banning of the veil was initiated after Birmingham Metropolitan College reversed its previous 8 years ban on Niqabs.

Comment:

The Liberal Democrat MP's staunch anti-Islamic position is echoed by fellow MP's with Tory backbencher Dr Sarah Wollaston, writing in the Telegraph Newspaper a day earlier that veils were "deeply offensive" and were "making women invisible". The widely asserted assumption that Muslim women need rescuing from being forced to practice Islam is one of the cheap political tactics often employed by desperate politicians internationally in order to create Islamophobic hysteria and distract the internal population from their own political failures or win cheap votes. The fact is Muslim women are fully aware that the western nations they live in give allot of assistance in turning their back on the Islamic points of view and yet statistics show that it is the younger well educated Muslim women who see through the black cloud of popular liberal culture that covers every part of the world and reject the fanatical pressure to conform to a viewpoint of success that is driven by company profits feeding off women's unhappiness and insecurities. The idea that Muslim women are forced to cover is one that represents the exact opposite of the reality It is western values that Muslim women are being forced to accept when divisive discussions on Hijab bans, Halal meat or any other Islamic policy is placed in the firing line. This trend represents a continuation of the Orientalist tradition, which automatically discredits any non-Eurocentric political entity, in order to elevate its own substandard position. The fact that Muslim women in France, Tunisia, across Europe, Africa and beyond, prefer Islamic politics over liberal secular values is proven when we see Muslim women taking their cases to European Courts of Human rights and other legal bodies and how they suffer great consequences, even death, in order to defend their Islamic identity.

The recent example in Birmingham Metropolitan College is a case in point when a 17-year-old girl started an online protest against the Niqab ban. She stated at the time that the veil ban was embarrassing and that it "upsets me that we are being discriminated against. I don't think my Niqab prevents me from studying or communicating with anyone...." The online petition against the ban was signed by 9,000 in 48 hours showing the immense solidarity and sympathy Muslim women have for the struggle to defy the negative consequences of being Muslim women in liberal democracies as these statistics reflect a powerful message that Muslim women refuse to submit to the will of Secular fanaticism with its oppressive laws that criminalize, marginalize and punish Muslim women for exercising their own free-will when they see no hope for real success under the double standards and false promises of liberal-secularism and Capitalism. When faced with such debates like the banning of Niqab, Muslim women are reminded that Islam is the only truly stable viewpoint in life, free from contradictions in policy. It is a political system that provides women with social and economic security unprecedented in the world's history. Women were not forced to abandon their public roles due to the pressure of exposing more of their physical attributes. In the Islamic social system, women are valued for their inherent qualities of womanhood, that of being a mother, wife and daughter. Their success is defined by the content of their character not the cutting edge of a plastic surgeons knife. In an Islamic system a women is encouraged to fill her mind not her wardrobe and her happiness is not measured by the approval of other people but by the approval of her creator. In this way we can see that the real danger and obstacle Muslim women's progress has its origins not in Islam, but western political systems that are enforced globally. It is the removal of these alien viewpoints in our lands, not the removal of the Niqab that should be the critical point of debate internationally. Allah (swt) speaks of the struggle for Islam in Suran As-Saff verse 8;

يُرِيدُونَ لِيُطْفِئُوا نُورَ اللَّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَاللَّهُ مُتِمُّ نُورِهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكَافِرُونَ

"Their intention is to extinguish God's Light (by blowing) with their mouths: But God will complete (the revelation of) His Light, even though the Unbelievers may detest (it)."

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Imrana Mohammad

Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir

Washing the Martyr, Bi'idhnillah, Gappaev     Abdullah Muhammad Rasool in Dagestan