Press Statement
Picketing Against the Foolish Act of the American President on the Issue of Al-Quds (Jerusalem)

On Friday 15th December 2017, Hizb ut Tahrir in Kenya led the Ummah in different major towns in picketing against the recent announcement by the American President Donald J Trump on 6 December 2017, that Al-Quds (Jerusalem) is the capital of a Jewish state and ordered the US State Department to prepare for the transfer of the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and the start of the contract with the architects.

The picketing was conducted after Jummah prayers in different Mosques in the coastal city of Mombasa and Kwale to condemn with strongest terms such a foolish and dangerous act by the American regime that is hell bent to see the Muslim Ummah suffer far greater wounds than it is currently undergoing via the same evil hands of the capitalist bloody hungry state. In the capital Nairobi, a leaflet was distributed to the Muslim faithful at the Jamia Mosque. The leaflet originally issued by the global leader of Hizb ut Tahrir was entitled: “Trump's Announcement while the Rulers Stand Idle in front of him is a Harsh Slap on their Backs. He has even Stripped them of the Mulberry Leaf that Covered their Nakedness!”

Hizb ut Tahrir in Kenya wishes to reiterate the following:

First, Al-Quds is the first Qiblah for the Muslim Ummah so it is part of the Islamic creed. Hence, it is not only a holy site but also a symbol for the unification of the Muslim Ummah across the globe; and it is the Capital of the Khilafah Rashidah as promised by Rasulullah (saw).

Therefore, it shall remain under the custody of the Muslim Ummah irrespective of the plots and machinations from the West led by the current Global power (America) and its allies.

Second, Al-Quds’s situation is a result of the most painful destruction of the Muslim’s shield the Khilafah by the evil hands of the then Global power (Britain) who after successful achieving their evil act went ahead and ushered the Balfour Declaration paving the way for the creation of the most evil entity in the world, ‘Israel’. This was made possible by the support of the Agent Arab rulers who are under the payroll of the West since then to date!

Third, Al-Quds calls for its urgent liberation; and it can only be done by the mobilization of sincere sons of the Muslim Ummah from the vast Muslim Armies who yearn to please none but Allah (swt) and are ready to die for the sake of being granted the highest levels of Jannah! These sons are none other than those who have shed tears silently time and time again whenever they see their holy site desecrated and contaminated by the evil Jewish entity; while they have remained silent hoping that the agent rulers will soon wake up and order them to march forth but it never happened. These sincere sons have decided to take it up on themselves to not only liberate Al-Quds; but also unshackle the Muslim Ummah from the chains of the invalid capitalist ideology and its secular creed that has been the root cause of the despicable status of the Muslim Ummah today. By toppling, the Agent rulers’ regimes and put in place the blessed Khilafah Rashidah on the method of Prophethood.

Shabani Mwalimu
Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in Kenya