Press Release
The Jordanian Government's Attack on the Honour of our Syrian Sisters will not be Forgiven

On the 31st of March 2013, statements were made by a female member of the Jordanian Parliament attacking the honour and dignity of the noble Syrian Muslim women residing in the notorious refugee camp at Jordan's Zaatari border with Syria. The video recordings of the full speech are available online, however specific details of the MP's abusive language and derogatory references that amounted to unfettered backbiting and slander leaves no room for doubt or justification. And in following high Islamic morals, we do not take part with the Jordanian Parliament members in spreading corruption and deviant devious values or slander. Suffice to say that the MP's comments sweepingly labelled all Syrian women and young girls with the character of low morals, devoid of Islamic conduct and directly accused them of selling themselves for financial gain. In truth, these intolerable foul comments reflects the low moral status of the Jordanian government and its members of parliament. Is it not enough that such an attack has transpired on the helpless and voiceless sisters who are fleeing from a scale of persecution that is unprecedented in recent history! The honourable women of Al-Sham have lost everything in the physical attack by their own leader for standing courageously against his tyranny, only then to face a war of words from another equally ruthless regime in Jordan. It is clear therefore that the shamelessness and lack of regard for good conduct is not the characteristic of our dear Syrian sisters, but those who slander, attack and demean these vulnerable women. How dare they utter a single word of insult against these honourable, dignified women who have demonstrated their true quality as righteous, fearless, and devoted servants of Allah (swt) as opposed to the cowardly, treacherous and shameful behaviour of those Muslim rulers and regimes who have abandoned them to their oppressors!!!

The women of Hizb ut Tahrir fiercely condemn such repulsive, degrading insults against our dear Syrian sisters and recognise that these tactics are but political tools used to distract the world from the Jordanian government's own REAL CRIMES of denying the Syrian Ummah the military protection that is their right, Allah (swt) said,

(وَإِنِ اسْتَنصَرُوكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ فَعَلَيْكُمُ النَّصْرُ ) "and if they seek aid from you in the matter of religion, aid is incumbent on you" and we declare their collusion with the international community in aiding the Assad regime through its silent consent and inaction that allows the violation, murder and terror of their neighbouring Muslims. Oh Muslims, the Jordanian government's crimes against our people in Syria, are greater than the words spoken from the rogue in Parliament as it traps over 100, 000 Syrians, mostly women and children in a sham refugee camp that is underequipped and offers no physical security as it allows criminals to enter at will to kidnap and physically violate women and girls freely. Reports from the women living in the camps reveal that they fear using the public toilets and even stay awake all night in order to guard their honour. In light of these facts, the shear audacity that the Jordanian MP's have to label our respected Muslim sisters of Syria as immoral in their Islamic conduct is utterly sickening! By Allah (swt), the Lord of the heavens and the earth, the women of Hizb ut Tahrir redirect the finger of blame and point it directly at the Jordanian government itself and all of the Muslim leaders of the world as they have rejected the Command of Allah (swt) when He ordered that the life and honour of the believer should be protected and made it forbidden to slander and insult the chaste Muslim women.

(إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَرْمُونَ الْمُحْصَنَاتِ الْغَافِلَاتِ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ لُعِنُوا فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ)

"Verily, those who accuse chaste women, who never even think of anything touching their chastity and are good believers - are cursed in this life and in the Hereafter, and for them will be a great torment" [TMQ al-Noor: 23]

O People of power and sincere sons of the Muslim armies, o protectors, o followers of Muhammad (sallalahu alaihi wassalam), do these foul insults against the honourable, righteous women of Al-Sham not make your blood boil in rage? We call you to give Nussrah to your sisters and people in Sham. We call you to remove these treacherous rulers and their corrupt regimes who have demonstrated their utter disregard for the honour and sanctity of the Muslimah. We call you to work with Hizb ut Tahrir to establish with urgency the noble Khilafah "Caliphate" system that embodies an unsurpassed approach to protecting the dignity of women and under which it mobilized an army of 900,000 with the Khalifah at the lead to defend the honour of just one Muslim woman in Umairah. Indeed great will be the honour, status, reward and station in this Dunya and great rank in Jannah for those men who establish it to attain all its Khair now and later.

Women's Section
in the Central Media Office
of Hizb ut Tahrir