A demonstration occurred in the neighborhood of Shiaar, Aleppo only confirmed the demand of the revolution is the governance by the laws of Allah the Almighty through the Khilafah "Caliphate" State.
Friday, 12 Jumada I 1434, corresponding to 22 March 2013
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On 6th April, the Chinese Foreign Ministry's press release expressed that, last week Chinese, Pakistani and Russian diplomats held a meeting in Beijing, discussing the situation in Afghanistan, in which they stressed the effective and active role of Shanghai cooperation Organization in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Before this meeting, in April, the Foreign Policy magazine quoted Russian officials saying that After 2014 Moscow wants to build few military bases in Afghanistan. The purpose of these bases would be to protect the Russian efforts of construction and safeguarding their interests. However, Russia so far has rejected its military presence in Afghanistan. In addition to this the head of Russian Anti-Narcotics Agency, Victor Ivanovo, said on April 4th that due of the NATO presence in Afghanistan poppy cultivation has increased over 40%, which is causing great damage not only to Afghanistan but Russia as well.
Comment:
Geo-politically, Afghanistan is considered to be the heart of Asia, which is why it has always been a battle ground amongst the superpowers of the world. Even in the recent past it has been a battlefield amongst Russia and Great Britain then came the U.S. and USSR. However, it's an established fact that whosoever came to Afghanistan and tried to occupy it, has severely defeated; therefore, Afghanistan is also famously known as the ‘Graveyard of Empires'.
In the year 1991 after the disintegration of USSR, the U.S. initiated democratizing and westernizing the states that were liberated from the USSR, at a time when Russia was severely damaged and was suffering from extreme crises, so far so that it was not even able to tackle the internal chaos. But when in 1999 Putin became the president of Russia, he managed to devise a long-term strategic plan and once again enabled Russia to stand on its own feet and make Russia an effective player in regional and world politics. However, just after 9/11 the U.S. moulded the world public opinion in favor of launching another crusade against the Islamic Ummah and invaded Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003, jointly with NATO forces.
This situation gave a golden opportunity to Russia to develop its internal and external might as well as focus on its foreign policy objectives and economics. In this twelve year long war of Afghanistan, Russia always adopted the policy to keep the U.S and NATO forces busy in the issues of Narcotics and the ‘war against terrorism'. Russia always negated U.S. negotiation with the armed groups and has always stood against any such peace deal, in the UN Security Council.
On the other hand, the U.S. and NATO forces are striving hard to stop the re-establishment of the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate", and are struggling to take control of the natural resources, their transportation routes, so that to control Eurasia and encircle Russia and China.
Moreover, with the recent statements and stands of Russia, old communist groups are trying to rearrange themselves in Afghanistan. These groups are trying to restart the same old ‘cold war' and to start their propaganda campaign against unipolarism and colonialism. As in the last twelve years, America has failed to cleanse the Afghanistan Intelligence agencies from Russian influence as well as control the technical necessity of Afghan National Security Forces. However, the communist circles do not understand the fact that this time Russia is not the same USSR, representing Communism Ideology rather it has also become a capitalist country, which is the mother of colonialism.
Some pragmatic analysts believe in the cooperation between NATO and Shanghai and consider it beneficial for Afghanistan, yet consider their internal rift and struggle, as Warsaw and NATO, against the interests of Afghanistan. However, reality dictates that under the guise of war on terror, the prime objective is to hinder the unification of the Muslim Ummah under the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" and thwarting the political and intellectual struggle for this. So when it comes to this, America, NATO, Russia, China and their puppets ruling the Muslim world, also speak the same language and support each other.
The best example to illustrate this is the massacre of Chechnyan Muslims by Russia, for which never the U.S. raised any slogan of Human Rights violation or any concerns of innocent human losses. Similarly Russia never used its veto power against U.S. illegal and immoral invasion of Afghanistan, just because if its share of interests. Even after that in 2005, with the cooperation of both U.S. and Russia thousands of Muslims were brutally murdered by the Karimov regime, and now in Syria, where the protesters are calling for revival of the Khilafah "Caliphate" state, America, hiding behind the veto power of Russia and China, is giving time to Bashar al-Assad and is supporting it, till U.S. finds another puppet to replace him.
On the other hand, the same countries who are unified against Muslims are struggling against each other to secure their economic benefits. You can witness the greater interest of U.S. in Pacific Ocean, the issues of Japan and China, North and South Korea, Iran Nuclear issue, Middle East, Central Asia, Europe, Africa and Far East, are all these areas where there is a power struggle for markets and resources, amongst the major capitalist powers of the world. Therefore, the prime objectives of the Shanghai Cooperation member countries is to keep U.S. and NATO forces busy in this quagmire for as long as possible, so that Russia continue increasing its political, economic and military might, especially in the region.
Therefore, until the Muslim Ummah is unified under the banner of Khilafah "Caliphate", which ruled the world for centuries and have protected the blood, honor, resources and unity of the Ummah, the infidel colonialists will always be in conflict with each other on our resources and lands. The recent past has made it clear to every sensible Muslim that in the absence of Khilafah "Caliphate" we shall always have issues like Afghanistan, Chechnya, Palestine, Iraq etc., which no one can resolve permanently but the army of the Khilafah "Caliphate" state. For instance, in Afghanistan when Great Britain was defeated; Russia replaced it and when Russia was defeated, then America replaced Russia. Now when America is on the verge of defeat another colonialist power will replace it and this will continue until we establish the Deen of Allah (swt) through the re-establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" state, which will put an end to colonialists and their evil struggles in the Islamic lands. Soon the system of justice ‘Islam' will eradicate the system of oppression and tyranny ‘Capitalism', and will take the humanity towards success in this world as well as in the Hereafter.
((فَإِنْ آمَنُواْ بِمِثْلِ مَا آمَنتُم بِهِ فَقَدِ اهْتَدَواْ وَّإِن تَوَلَّوْاْ فَإِنَّمَا هُمْ فِي شِقَاقٍ فَسَيَكْفِيكَهُمُ اللّهُ وَهُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيمُ))
"If then they believe as you believe in Him, they are indeed on the right course, and of they turn back, then they are only in great opposition, so Allah will suffice you against them, and He is the Hearing, the knowing." [TMQ Baqarah: 137]
Saifullah Mustanir
Kabul, Afghanistan
On Monday 8th of April 2013, American President Barack Obama sent a memorandum to his State Secretary John Kerry, stating he had reached the decision that supplying Somalia with defense equipment and services "will enhance the security of the United States and strengthen world peace", paving the way for his country to arm and train Somali forces, under the first American agent government after two decades of chaos.
Demonstration in al-Bab, Aleppo during which a great speech given by one of the heroes of the revolution: Abu Islam al-Halabi.
Friday, 23 Jumada I 1434 AH, corresponding to 05 April 2013
Over the last week, a number of stories related to the beauty industry have hit the headlines, including the publishing of a book entitled "The Vogue Factor" by former editor-in chief of Vogue, Kirstie Clements where she describes the extreme measures that models take to maintain the ideal body size expected by the beauty and fashion industry. She stated that the pressure for models to stay thin was so intense that some ate tissues to starve off hunger pangs, others avoided solid food to reduce down two dress-sizes resulting in hospitalization, whilst others did not eat for days such that they could barely stand. This war waged by models on their bodies has made a grievous casualty of their health with fatal consequences at times, all in the pursuit of an irrational Western template of beauty set by a handful of designers and personalities in the beauty, fashion, and entertainment industries who have dictated to women their whimsical view of the perfect physical ideal that women should embrace. However, this unrealistic manufactured template of beauty and this "Anorexia-induced obsession with size-zero models" as one UK Independent journalist describes it, has also had a disastrous impact on ordinary girls and women within Western societies who are constantly bombarded with images of the so-called "perfect" face, body-size and shape on their TV screens, billboards, and the pages of magazines. In the US and UK there are 7 million and 1 million starving women respectively. These are not victims of famine but primarily victims of fashion. They are women with eating disorders who starve themselves to fit this oppressive template of body-size to feel valued, the result of which can be organ failure, heart failure, and death. They have been influenced by the highly destructive messages drilled into their minds by the liberal society in which they live of what beauty constitutes, that fitting this restrictive mould of beauty equates to success, and that the value of the woman is measured by her face and figure.
This phenomenon of risking death in the pursuit of beauty is not isolated to the West. It is sadly a significant and growing trend amongst women in the Muslim world who have also been affected by Western-influenced images of beauty that saturates entertainment, magazines, shopping malls, and mass media within their societies - images that assign great importance to acquiring this "ideal" look to achieve self-worth. This week Al-Jazeera ran a report about Nigeria as the country that has the world's highest percentage of women using skin lightening agents because lighter skin is considered more beautiful by many within the society. According to the World Health Organisation, 77% of women in Nigeria use these creams or bleaches, many of which can cause kidney failure, leukaemia, and cancer of the liver and kidneys. Similar skin-lightening products are used by women in other Muslim countries. Furthermore, earlier this year, the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons reported that there has been a notable rise in demand for cosmetic surgery in Turkey and Saudi Arabia who both rank in the top 25 countries worldwide with the highest rates of cosmetic procedures. These procedures of course carry health and sometimes mortality risks.
And all this has been driven by the merciless capitalist system that has made women's physical insecurities a marketing tool for profit. As the figures of women are squeezed down, the profit margins of the multibillion beauty, fashion, and diet industries are ever-expanding through their perpetual promotion of this unreachable illusionary beauty ideal that is based upon constantly trying to persuade women - "you're not quite good enough". The UK population spends over £11 billion each year on weight loss products. In the US, it's between $40-100 billion. The Economist magazine reports that skin-bleaching products are expected to be a $10 billion industry by 2015. One Western feminist Kat Banyard writes, "As long as the beauty ideal remains, business will keep on picking the scab and then selling us a plaster". The disastrous impact of perpetuating this beauty myth on the self-esteem and lives of women including fuelling eating disorders is of irrelevance to the heartless and conscienceless capitalist ideology whose morals are defined by money. Any right-minded individual would consider the starvation, mutilation, or grievous bodily harm against women a form of abuse but capitalism has managed to market it for the sake of financial gain as empowerment, liberation, and beauty. But what kind of empowerment is it when a woman feels she needs to starve herself to feel valued or mutilate her body through painful, life-threatening surgery to fit an irrational template of beauty? What kind of liberation is it when a woman depends on the gaze of others to feel a sense of self-worth, or is duped into spending thousands to engage in this never-ending beauty quest scam. No! This is physical, psychological, and emotional oppression!
Islam in contrast liberates women from this crippling obsession with their face, figure, and skin tone for it does not value a woman based on her looks but her piety, character and conduct. Allah (swt) says,
((إِنَّ أَڪۡرَمَكُمۡ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ أَتۡقَٮٰكُمۡ))
"The most honourable of you with Allah is the one who has more piety (more obedience to Allah)." [TMQ Al-Hujraat:13]
And Islam liberates women from insecurities and low-self-esteem associated with their appearance for it does not set superficial, man-made, irrational, and unrealistic expectations of beauty. Rather, it prescribes a simple, realistic dress-code for the woman in public life that is within the reach of every woman - the khimar and the jilbab - which focuses society's attention to her personality, intelligence, abilities, and contribution to her community rather than her waist-size and weight, as well as conveying a message that her beauty is not up for public discussion or dissection. This is the view towards women that will be promoted within the Khilafah "Caliphate" system. Is this not what women's empowerment is all about?
Dr. Nazreen Nawaz
Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
"O you who believe! If ye obey the Unbelievers, they will drive you back on your heels, and ye will turn back (from Faith) to your own loss." Whoever compares between the past and recent history will clearly see that as though Allah (swt) is describing our era and our country in this Ayah... As the structure of our criminal ruling system is represented as follow:
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Did you know that there are thousands upon thousands of homeless people that are living underground beneath the streets of major U.S. cities? It is happening in Las Vegas, it is happening in New York City and it is even happening in Kansas City. As the economy crumbles, poverty in the United States is absolutely exploding and so is homelessness. In addition to the thousands of "tunnel people" living under the streets of America, there are also thousands that are living in tent cities, there are tens of thousands that are living in their vehicles and there are more than a million public school children that do not have a home to go back to at night. The federal government tells us that the recession "is over" and that "things are getting better", and yet poverty and homelessness in this country continue to rise with no end in sight. So what in the world are things going to look like when the next economic crisis hits? But perhaps the saddest part of this is the massive number of children that are suffering night after night. For the first time ever, more than a million public school children in the United States are homeless. That number has risen by 57 percent since the 2006-2007 school year. So if things are really "getting better" then why does the US have more than a million public school children without homes? The middle class continues to shrink and poverty continues to grow with each passing year. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, approximately one out of every six Americans is now living in poverty. And if you throw in those that are considered to be "near poverty", that number becomes much larger. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 146 million Americans are either "poor" or "low income".
The Pentagon has plans to deploy its first ever ship-mounted laser next year, a disruptive, cutting-edge weapon capable of obliterating small boats and unmanned aerial vehicles with a blast of infrared energy. Navy officials announced Monday that in early 2014, a solid-state laser prototype will be mounted to the fantail of the USS Ponce and sent to the 5th fleet region in the Middle East for real-world experience. Video released by the Navy shows the laser lock onto a slow-moving target, in this case an unmanned drone, which bursts aflame in mid-flight. The drone soon catches fire and crashes into the sea below. "It operates much like a blowtorch ... with an unlimited magazine," one official said. There are potential targets for the laser in the 5th fleet region, which includes the Persian Gulf, where Iran operates small surveillance drones and is known for swarming and harassing U.S. Navy ships with small, armored speed boats. One of its major advantages, the Navy said, is its relatively low cost to operate. "Its weapon round costs about $1 to shoot," said Rear Admiral Matthew Klunder, Chief of Naval Research. Although the unit cost is higher -- at around $32 million to produce.
The Syrian government is sending members of its irregular militias for guerrilla combat training at a secret base in Iran, in a move to bolster its armed forces drained by two years of fighting and defections, according to fighters and activists. The discreet programme has been described as an open secret in some areas loyal to president Bashar al-Assad, who is trying to crush a revolt against his family's four-decade hold on power. The fighters appear to come largely from minority groups that have supported Mr. Assad against the mostly Sunni Muslim-led uprising. Such a move could exacerbate the dangerous sectarian dimensions of a conflict that has turned into a civil war that has cost the lives of more than 70,000 people. Iran, a Shi'ite rival to Sunni countries in the Gulf that support the rebels, sees Syria as the lynchpin of its regional influence. "It was an urban warfare course that lasted 15 days. The trainers said it's the same course Hezbollah operatives normally do," said Samer, a Christian member of a pro-Assad militia fighting in rural parts of Homs province. "The course teaches you the important elements of guerrilla warfare, like several different ways to carry a rifle and shoot, and the best methods to prepare against surprise attacks." According to fighters interviewed in Homs, most men sent to undergo the training are from the Alawite sect, the heterodox strain of Shi'ite Islam of which Mr Assad is a member. A smaller number were Druze and Christians, whose communities are divided but largely support Mr. Assad due to their fears of rising Islamist rhetoric among the opposition.
US Drone War Deal 'in Return for Killing Pakistani Militant in CIA Missile Strike':
The US assassinated a Pakistani tribal rebel with an armed Predator drone to win support from the country's government to launch the war from the skies with drones in 2004, according to US reports. The back-room deal, although not publicly confirmed, was detailed in several interviews with officials in the US and Pakistan for a New York Times investigation. The bargain was crucial in allowing the Central Intelligence Agency dramatically to escalate its use of unmanned drones to target suspected terrorists in Pakistan's border areas in what the then Bush administration called the "war on terror". President Barack Obama has intensified America's covert drone operations, expanding their role in Yemen and East Africa, as he has tried to reduce US boots on the ground in combat missions. John Brennan, the new CIA director, was the architect of Mr Obama's "targeted killing" programme as the president's chief counterterrorism adviser in the first term. According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, drone strikes killed between 474 and 881 civilians - including 176 children - in Pakistan between 2004 and last year.
Russia Putin Warns Korean Crisis Could Be Worse than Chernobyl:
Russian President Vladimir Putin appealed on Monday for calm on the Korean Peninsula, warning that the escalation of tension in the region could lead to a nuclear disaster far worse than the Chernobyl incident. "We are concerned about the escalation on the Korean Peninsula because we are neighbors and because if, God forbid, anything should happen there, Chernobyl, of which we are all only too aware, would seem like mere child's play in comparison," Putin said at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "I would like to call on everybody to calm down and to sit down at the negotiating table and calmly resolve the issues that have been accumulating there for many years," he said.
Abu Hashim
Hizb ut Tahrir held countrywide protests in condemnation of the wasteful Tirah Valley Operations that have resulted in the death of dozens of soldiers and tribal Muslims. These operations were initiated on Friday, 5 April 2013, without announcement, by traitors in Pakistan's leadership. Such operations exploit our armed forces in order to save the cowardly American occupying forces in Afghanistan from the armed resistance of the Muslims in the tribal areas that lie between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Protestors held banners and placards declaring "Tirah Valley Operation: Don't allow Pak Army to be fuel for American crusade" and "Tirah Valley Operation: Slavery to America, Betrayal of Ummah". The protestors called for a stop to using the Pakistan Army as a fuel for America's crusade in the tribal areas.
General Kayani has proven by the Tirah Valley Operations that he is the actual ruler of Pakistan, whilst a caretaker democratic government sits on its hands in Islamabad. Only the securing of American interests concerns Kayani and his small club of traitors in Pakistan's leadership, whilst the entire country is stricken by huge electrical shortages in blistering heat with tens of millions deprived of even the use of fans to cool themselves. Moreover, rather than seizing these tyrants for their flagrant violation of Islam and neglect of the Ummah, democracy and dictatorship grant "legal" backing for their actions, as they are both man-made systems that trample over the commands and prohibitions stipulated by Allah (swt).
Hizb ut Tahrir calls the armed forces of Pakistan to grant it the Nussrah to secure the return of the Khilafah "Caliphate" to these Muslims Lands. Indeed, only Hizb ut Tahrir is amongst us to lead us to the establishment of this Khilafah "Caliphate" and end the dark days of American hegemony. Hizb ut Tahrir has prepared an entire constitution of 191 articles, accompanied with divine evidences from the Quran and Sunnah. It has prepared a library of books elaborating upon Islam, its solutions and its method of implementation. It has produced armies of capable, aware and committed, men and women to advise and account the rulers of the Khilafah "Caliphate" in their implementation of Islam. It works throughout the Muslim world and is the world's largest party working for the unification of the Muslim World as a single Khilafah "Caliphate" state. And it is full of politically capable jurists (Fuqaha'a), and at the forefront is its Ameer, the honorable scholar Sheikh Ata Ibnu Khalil Abu Arrashtah who has the capability to lead this entire Ummah, with the grace of Allah the Almighty.
The Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah of Pakistan
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