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Views on the News 7/5/09

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‘China cancels US credit card'

China, wary of the troubled US economy, has already "cancelled America's credit card" by cutting down purchases of debt, a US congressman said last week. China has the world's largest foreign reserves, believed to be mostly in dollars, along with around 800 billion dollars in US Treasury bonds, more than any other country. But Treasury Department data shows that investors in China have sharply curtailed their purchases of bonds in January and February. Representative Mark Kirk, a member of the House Appropriations Committee and co-chair of a group of lawmakers promoting relations with Beijing, said China had "very legitimate" concerns about its investments. "It would appear, quietly and with deference and politeness, that China has cancelled America's credit card," Kirk told the Committee of 100, a Chinese-American group. "I'm not sure too many people on Capitol Hill realize that this is now happening," he said.

UK police search powers alienate Muslims

Police use of anti-terror stop and search powers trebled last year, prompting fears that the policy is alienating London's Muslim communities. Officers in England and Wales used Terrorism Act powers to search 124,687 people in 2007/8, up from 41,924 in 2006/7, figures released yesterday showed. But only around 1 per cent of those searches ended in an arrest. There were 1,271 arrests in total but only 73 of those were for terror offences. Chris Grayling, the shadow Home Secretary, said: "People will be highly suspicious about the scale of stop and search under terror laws. This will reinforce the view that anti-terror powers are used for unrelated purposes." UK Ministry of Justice statistics showed "stop and account" powers were used on 2,353,918 occasions in 2006/7, up a quarter from 1,601,196 in 2006/7. There were twice as many stops and searches of Asian people per head of population than of white people, a similar rate to the previous year. Black people were almost three-and-a-half times more likely than white people to be stopped on the street and questioned.

US crusaders engaged in spreading Christianity in Afghanistan

New video evidence has surfaced showing that U.S. military forces in Afghanistan have been instructed by the military's top chaplain in the country to "hunt people for Jesus" as they spread Christianity to the overwhelmingly Muslim population. Soldiers also have imported bibles translated into Pashto and Dari, the two dominant languages of Afghanistan. What's more, the center of this evangelical operation is at the huge U.S. base at Bagram, one of the main sites used by the U.S. military to torture and indefinitely detain prisoners. In a video obtained by Al Jazeera and broadcast Monday, Lieutenant-Colonel Gary Hensley, the chief of the U.S. military chaplains in Afghanistan, is seen telling soldiers that as followers of Jesus Christ, they all have a responsibility "to be witnesses for him.""The special forces guys -- they hunt men basically. We do the same things as Christians, we hunt people for Jesus. We do, we hunt them down...Get the hound of heaven after them, so we get them into the kingdom. That's what we do, that's our business", he says. The video footage was shot about a year ago by documentary filmmaker Brian Hughes, who is also a former U.S. soldier.

Taleban pull out of the peace deal

On 4/5/2009 a Taliban spokesman blamed the government and military for provoking the violence saying it had sabotaged the peace process to appease the United States. Muslim Khan, said that the controversial peace deal "practically stands dissolved". "This is not our army, this is not our government. They're worse enemies of Muslims than the Americans," he said. "They're US stooges and now it's clear that either we'll be martyred (killed) or we'll march forward," he added. The collapse of the peace deal was expected, as successive Pakistan governments have used such peace deals to deceive the people of Swat into believing that the government was going to institute shariah law.

Modi the butcher of Gujrat speaks out against Congress Muslim voters

"Congress, SP and BSP have always deceived Muslims. After exploiting Muslims, the parties kick them like a football," Modi said at an election rally in Aligarh district. Accusing the Congress of appeasing Muslims to get political mileage, Modi said: "The Sachar committee (set up to look into the social, economic and educational status of Muslims) was constituted by the Congress-led central government only to misguide Muslims." The chief minister, who was the primary culprit behind the slaughter of Muslims during the 2002 Gujarat riots, also had the nerve to say that the condition of Muslims in Gujarat was better than that in other states. The truth of the matter is that neither BJP nor Congress is concerned about improving the lives of the Muslims of India. Indian Muslims can only enjoy justice and security if they abandon Indian politics and re-establish the Khilafah "Caliphate".

Hasina and US launch campaign to uproot Islam in Bangladesh under the pretext of fighting terror

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said last week that her government was working to uproot Islamic militancy to strengthen democracy in the country. "We will not allow extremists to repeat the carnage (of people) in the name of religion any more," Hasina told a May Day rally organised by the labour wing of her Awami League party. "Unlike the previous government, we have started uprooting religious militancy to strengthen democracy in the country." Later U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh James Moriarty said," We do have disturbing indications. There continues to be a threat in Bangladesh and my government does believe that there is a threat," he said at a press conference held here at office of Dhaka Reporters Unity, an association of working reporters. Moriarty said attacks in India, Pakistan and other countries around the globe suggest that the world has a long way to go before getting rid of the scourge of terrorism. The ambassador appreciated the Bangladeshi Parliament's passage of the Money Laundering Prevention Ordinance and the Anti-Terrorism Ordinance which will give law enforcement agencies new tools to ensure that terrorists cannot use Bangladesh as a haven. Moriarty said the U.S. continues to work closely with Bangladesh in training programs for law enforcement organizations.

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Seven Hizb ut-Tahrir men arrested in city

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Police last night arrested seven Hizb ut-Tahrir activists in the city's Badda area and seized leaflets containing 'provocative statements over Pilkhana carnage'.

The arrestees are Abdur Rakib, 44, Sahadat Hossain, 23, Fakrul Hasan, 22, Abdullah-al-Mamun, 25, Noman Sikdar, 25, Arifuzzaman, 22, and Mir Salekin, 22.

Officer-in-Charge (OC) Kazi Wazed Ali of Badda Police Station told The Daily Star that after a tip-off they raided a three-storey building at West Kuril at around 9:30pm and found the Tahrir men meeting on the roof.

Several locals including teenage boys were in attendance.

The Hizb ut-Tahrir operatives were holding the meeting without prior permission they needed to do so, he added.

Besides the leaflets, a laptop, CDs and a banner were recovered during the raid.

In primary interrogations, the arrestees admitted they are members of the Islamic outfit suspected to have links to militancy.

OC Wazed said the others were not detained as they were there believing it was going to be a religious gathering.

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Pakistan's rulers strike at Islam's basis using lowly tactics

On 13 April, President Asif Ali Zardari signed the Swat Nazam-e-Adl Regulation. However, it is not the first pact that the Pakistani government has made with Tahreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM). In the past, Pakistan's rulers have made pacts with TNSM in 1994, 1999 and 2007 as well. And again, as in the past, the government of Pakistan is not sincere in her measures

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British Proposal to Form a Counter-Terrorism Framework is a Tool to Prevent the Rise of Islam as a Political Ideology

Chief Coordinator and Official Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Bangladesh Mohiuddin Ahmed condemned the government's decision to agree to a British proposal for forming a joint working group under counter-terrorism framework. In a press release issued today, Mohiuddin Ahmed said that Britain is a partner of America's crimes in the so-called ongoing war on terror which in reality is a crusader war against Islam.

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Stop Joint Exercise with the British Naval Forces in the Bay of Bengal

The media have reported that 12 warships of the British Navy are on their way to the Bay of Bengal and two of them will participate in a joint naval exercise with the Bangladesh Navy and coast guard. Chief Coordinator and Official Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Bangladesh Mohiuddin Ahmed in press release issued today said that British armed forces killed innocent Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan along with their partners in crime the terrorist United States.

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Current Global Recession is a Sign of Capitalism's End; Only Islam can Solve Economic Problem of Mankind

Hizb ut-Tahrir in Bangladesh organized an Economic Conference today at the National Press Club titled "Global Recession: Impact on Bangladesh - Islam's Economic Alternative". Three speeches were delivered on the following topics:

  1. Capitalism is inherently flawed and causes crises;
  2. Causes of current global recession and failure of the patchwork solutions of Capitalism;
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Statement of Protest from Hizb ut-Tahrir in Bangladesh

To: The Home Minister Sahara Khatun and State Minister for Home Affairs Sohel Taj

On 25th April 2009, a private television channel broadcast a news report quoting the State Minister for Home Affairs Sohel Taj in which it was stated that the Home Ministry has included Hizb ut-Tahrir in its list of twelve organizations being monitored for links with militancy. In response to this, Hizb ut-Tahrir in Bangladesh sends to you this Statement of Protest condemning your decision in the strongest possible terms. Hizb ut-Tahrir states firmly and unequivocally that your decision is politically motivated and lacks sound awareness of the party's ideology in particular its method of work. 

Firstly, regarding your decision being politically motivated, we make the following two points:

1. Your recourse to the brutality and false propaganda against Hizb ut-Tahrir results from your failure to face the party's opposition to your government through just political means and from your desperateness to silence the party. Hizb ut-Tahrir has successfully exposed Indian conspiracy behind the BDR massacre and the dubious role of your government in the conspiracy. On 28th February the party issued a leaflet which stated that the massacre of the military officers was part of a ‘long term plot carried out by India and her agents inside and outside the government.' Your government arrested 31 of our members and activists for distributing the leaflet. And since then the government has undertaken fascist repressive measures against the party. On 27th March your government instructed the police force to launch a brutal attack on the party's demonstration against the dubious role of the government in the Pilkhana massacre where more than 100 were injured and 10 more party activists were arrested. Despite this the party has continued its programme of activities and mobilizing public opinion. Since your decision to include the name of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the so-called ‘black list' comes following your failure to deter the party through the repressive measures it leaves no room for any doubt in the minds of the aware people that it is a politically motivated decision.

2. Your decision also results from your fear and the imperialists' fear of Islam as a political ideology and Hizb ut-Tahrir's intellectual and political activities which have gained strong popular support for the party among the Muslims of Bangladesh.The degenerate secular system and the so-called democratic form of government (led by your alliance government and the BNP alliance) have failed the people of Bangladesh. And as a result of Hizb ut-Tahrir's sincere work the Muslims of Bangladesh are realizing that their salvation does not lie in the system subservient to the disbelieving polytheist states - USA, Britain and India.  

Hizb ut-Tahrir  has demonstrated to the people that Islam is not a spiritual Deen; rather Islam is a comprehensive political ideology providing detailed models regarding ruling, economy, foreign policy etc and Islam is capable of solving problems faced by the man of the 21st century. Hizb ut-Tahrir has also demonstrated that Islam has made it mandatory upon the Muslims to restore the rule by what Allah (SWT) has revealed by establishing the Islamic state (Khilafah "Caliphate" state), which is an ideological state. It is not a theocratic state opposed to science, technology and society's quest for progress. The Khilafah "Caliphate" state will secure progress, industrialization, technological advancement and military superiority for the Muslim Ummah as a result of which she will free herself from the clutches of the imperialist nations and restore her former glory. The leaders of the Khilafah "Caliphate" state will be enlightened statesmen possessing sound understanding of the international situation able to guide the Muslim Ummah to establish herself in the position of world's leading nation. Therefore the intellectually aware people and the general people are gathering around the ideology of the party i.e. Islam and the party itself. This is what makes you and your so-called intellectuals resort to false propaganda and using brutal means against the party. It a sign of your weakness; for it reveals your inabiliity to face the party with any strong intellectual challege and just political means. And Allah willing Hizb ut-Tahrir will progress towards achieving the noble goal of removing the corrupt system you uphold and re-establishing the Khilafah "Caliphate" state soon.   

Secondly, regarding the party's method of work, it is well know to everyone with political awareness that Hizb ut-Tahrir is a global Islamic political party which operates intellectually and politically in all Islamic lands with the aim of re-establishing the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate". The party has adopted its method of establishing the Khilafah "Caliphate" from the Sunnah of the Prophet Mohammad (saw), which is the non-violent political and intellectual struggle in the society so that the Muslim Ummah strongly embraces the Islamic Aqeedah; makes Islam the center of her thoughts and emotions and practices Islam in her life. The Party places the erroneous ideas and the corrupt systems at the center of its intellectual and political struggle, and exposes the colonialists' plans in Islamic lands.

Oh Ministers!

Hizb ut-Tahrir in Bangladesh urges you and your government to refrain from your deceptive tactics, false propaganda and repressive measures against the party and its members. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has warned of severe and harsh punishment in the Hereafter for such actions. 

"Verily, those who oppress and torture believing men and women, and do not repent from such deeds, they shall be put in the Hellfire"

Finally we remind you that despite all hardship, oppression, torture and illegal prosecution of party members you will not succeed in making Hizb ut-Tahrir falter in its determination and resolve for establishment of the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate". Hizb ut-Tahrir's members are ready to make any kind of sacrifices, and will continue to work for this cause without any fear of persecution, hoping to earn their reward with Allah (SWT).

"And who is better in speech than he who invites (men) to Allah, does righteous deeds and says: "I am one of the Muslims"

 

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