Press Release
Gaza is Dying and the Uzbek Regime is Complicit with the West
(Translated)

It would not be an exaggeration to say that Uzbekistan became, during the first ten days of April, a hub for Western colonial powers. This includes, on April 3–4, the first “European Union–Central Asia” summit held in the city of Samarkand. The summit was attended by the President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the leaders of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. On April 7, Uzbekistan’s Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, Abdulaziz Kamilov, met with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Christopher Landau, in Washington. On April 10, the President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, received former British Prime Minister and head of the Institute for Global Change, Tony Blair. Several similar meetings and events serving Western interests have been held. In light of the Ukraine crisis, the colonial disbelieving powers such as the United States, France, and the United Kingdom are increasingly competing with each other to secure a larger slice of the “Central Asian pie,” especially Uzbekistan. The repressive regimes in the region are eager for the billions in funds they have been promised, and they wag their tails like a dog that sees a bone.

Yes, such things are happening while Gaza is perishing and losing tens of thousands of its innocent children and helpless women! The United States openly supports and protects the cursed Jewish entity and allows it to completely destroy Gaza. France and Britain also stand by it. Meanwhile, the regimes of Central Asia, especially the Uzbek regime, are competing to build close ties with these colonial disbelieving states in order to receive their dirty money and backing. Is this not treason on a level beyond human comprehension?! What has happened to these rulers?! Has being a Muslim truly lost all meaning for you?! And what has happened to you, scholars of deen?

Do you not feel even a shred of guilt for remaining silent, silent as the people of the graves, even after witnessing your leaders' grand betrayal?! Do you eat and sleep without shame, or have you become so secure in your delusion of Allah’s mercy?! Wretched indeed is what your knowledge and your pulpits instruct you to do!

Regrettably, both of these groups in Uzbekistan today stand not with Islam and the Muslims, but with the enemies. The cries of oppressed Muslims in Gaza, which pierce the hearts of every believer, have yet to reach their ears and hearts! At the very least, after hearing these words from a Palestinian Muslim woman, should the leaders of Islamic countries not be moved? This oppressed woman says: “I witnessed the killing of my husband and the severing of my son’s legs. I tied his legs with my scarf and walked four kilometers. But he died too. I did what I could, even my scarf was useful, but the Muslims were not as helpful as my scarf.” These words spread on social media, written beneath a photo of her with a bloodied scarf tied on her head.

Truly, the oppressive and treacherous regimes that have taken root in Islamic lands are unable to help our Palestinian brothers even to the extent of a handkerchief, and the Uzbek regime is one of them. For if their ears can bear to hear such harsh and shameful words, then their hearts must be hardened, and they are like stones, or even harder. Otherwise, how could they collude with those disbelieving colonial states without shame or embarrassment?! We ask Allah Almighty to destroy the colonial disbelieving states at our hands soon, to erase them from above our heads, and to remove their client regimes quickly. We ask Him, glorified is He, to allow for the establishment of the Khilafah (Caliphate) State that protects the lives, wealth, and honor of Muslims. We ask Him to empower the Islamic army, under the leadership of the Khalifah (Caliph) to liberate Palestine first, Gaza and Al-Aqsa Mosque, from the Jews, and then to liberate all Islamic lands from the influence and control of the colonial disbelievers. And indeed, that day is near, Inshallah (Allah willing).

[وَيَوْمَئِذٍ يَفْرَحُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ * بِنَصْرِ اللهِ يَنْصُرُ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الرَّحِيمُ]
“Within three to nine years. To Allah belongs the command before and after. And that day the believers will rejoice” [Surat Ar-Rum:4]

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Uzbekistan