Hizb ut-Tahrir organized a demonstration today at 11.30AM from Bijoynagar to Bait ul-Mukrram masjid against the aggression on Libya by the imperialist disbelieving states, France, Britain and America. Several hundred members, activists and supporters of the party attended the demonstration. Before starting the demonstration a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir delivered a speech in which he made the following points:

1. The French, British and American intervention in Libya is a clear act of aggression against the Muslim Ummah. The purpose of the Western intervention is to try to ensure that whoever takes over Libya will see that Libya continues to remain under Western colonial influence. The talk of humanity, humanitarian values etc does not suit the Westerners who do not even fulfil their responsibility towards their own parents! Furthermore these are the very colonial powers that backed the tyrant Gaddafi and his regime for decades, along with other tyrannical regimes. Indeed they continue to back oppressive regimes in the Muslims countries like that of Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh.
2. The tyrant Gaddafi must be removed and the people of Libya must be given the support of the global Muslim Ummah especially the Muslim armies. The problems of the Muslim world need to be solved by the Muslims. Hizb ut-Tahrir calls upon the Muslims to resist the imperialist aggression on Libya. Hizb ut-Tahrir also calls upon Muslim armies, particularly the armed forces in the region, to take up their obligation and liberate the people of Libya from Gaddafi and his cronies. With a force of over 450,000 the Egyptian army is more than capable of ending Gaddafi's murder and mayhem. If the Saudi army can enter Bahrain to protect the tyrant there, why isn't it able to come to the rescue of the people of Libya? If the despots of the Arab League can come to a resolution of a no-fly zone why are they not able to release their armies to enter Libya? Why have they invited in the very same forces that caused hundreds of thousands of deaths in Iraq? Why is the Bangladesh army in their barracks? The rulers in Bangladesh have been forcing them to be an ‘army on pay,' sending them all over the world to protect and guard the interests of the imperialists. If our army can be sent abroad to participate in the wars of the West to loot the resources of the Islamic world in Africa and elsewhere, then why are they not being sent for protecting their oppressed brothers from the tyrant Gaddafi?! Allah (swt) says:

   وَإِنِ اسْتَنْصَرُوكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ فَعَلَيْكُمُ النَّصْرُ  

   "But if they seek your aid in religion, it is your duty to help them" [Al-Anfaal:72] 

3. The only way for the Muslims to achieve their twin goal of liberating themselves from the imperialists; and ending the kufr, tyrannical rule of the Western agents, is to re-establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" State. This is what will achieve real change by implementing the Qur'an and Sunnah; unifying the Ummah, her resources and her armies; and ensuring just accountable rulers who fulfil their responsibilities towards the people, Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Hizb ut-Tahrir calls upon the Muslims to direct their energy towards working for the Khilafah "Caliphate" state which is their Islamic obligation.

    Finally, on 16^th March, the saga of Raymond Davis abruptly came to an end.  The whole Pakistan was in a state of a shock.  People never had faith in the agent rulers that they would stand-up against their US masters but it was the manner and speed in which they capitulated that shocked the Ummah.  The trial was held inside the jail where media and public were not allowed.  After four hours of "hearing"it was revealed to the media that the heirs of the two murdered Pakistanis have accepted blood money (Diaya) worth 20 million rupees.  On the other hand, the lawyers of the heirs claimed that they were not even allowed to attend the proceedings of the court and they were illegally detained inside the jail.  They claim that all this was under coercion and the heirs were made to sign the deed under duress.  All the 18 hires are missing and their whereabouts are known; this also casts doubts on government claims.  Has this been an independent decision by the families the government would have made sure to bring them on media in order to quell all speculations and suspicions.  But now, it is only government's story which is being reproduced over and over again by the media.  The condition of the homes of these families also paint a different picture.  Looks like that the people were abducted from their homes as household utensils were scattered and the food was still in cooking pots, which show an unplanned evacuation.

On the other the rulers tried their best to highlight that diayat aspects of the case as if the only crime Raymond commited was that of murdering two innocent Muslims.  The government downplayed all other offenses, which could have awarded him multiple years of jail sentence if not capital punishment.  These offenses included espionage, terrorism and illegal possession of arms.  The whole procedure of granting pardon based on blood money took just few hours whilst for an ordinary person it could have taken days.

This capitulation attracted large-scale condemnation and angry protests all across Pakistan.  The government spokespersons and ministers refused to appear before media and defend this shameful act of surrender.  But the positive aspects of this episode was that the system as well as various key figures from the ruling elite got completely exposed.  The farcical mask of "independent Judiciary" was ripped to pieces. The Supreme Court judges, who were seen by many as the final hope to salvage this kufr system, were badly battered by the media.  The media openly criticized the military and security top-brass and publically held them responsible for their connivance with the US.  As a result, this has generated a widespread public opinion that there is no possible remedy within the system and people are need a replacement.  All most every sane individual in the society has come to the obvious conclusion that these treacherous rulers are the actual cause of our subservience and they must be eradicated.

Day by day, the Ummah is inching closer to its inevitable destination- the Khilafah "Caliphate".  According to a recent survey by an international company (MEMRB) shows that a majority of 53% people in Pakistan consider the system of Khilafah "Caliphate" to be the only system which can solve the problems of Pakistan whilst only 13% thought democracy is the savior-system. The day is not far when the Ummah, with the help of the people-of-power, will eject these rulers and establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" that would account all the traitors of the Ummah with severest chastisement.

 NB

The Official Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Pakistan

Ansyad Mbay, Chairman of BNPT (National Agency for Combating Terrorism) tries to link the rise of sending bombs in packages of books to a number of figures-- known bearers of the liberal idea of ​​anti-Sharia and Khilafah "Caliphate", to Islamic groups who work to establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" Islamiyah.

    Once again the allied crusader forces have manufactured false pretexts under the fig leaf of international law to invade another Muslim country for the sole purpose of securing Libya's valuable oil resources. Like with Iraq and Afghanistan before it, it is obvious to any sane person with a modicum of common sense that such wars are not about protecting civilians, finding weapons of mass destructions or removing brutal dictators coveted by the West for decades- rather it's all about oil security.

 As the crusader forces pummel Gaddafi's obsolete hardware and ravage the country through indiscriminate bombing, resulting in hundreds of civilian causalities-one cannot ignore the fact that only six weeks ago Gaddafi and his family were portrayed by the West as reformed modernizers with a gleam of democratic credentials. Indeed, in Britain Gaddafi and his family mixed with the aristocracy and hobnobbed with the likes of Nat Rothschild who through his friend Lord Mandelson a confidant of ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair helped engineer Libya's rehabilitation in the so called comity of nations. As part of this clandestine assistance, Blair also exercised great freedom over the Libyan Investment Authority, which at the last count had $70 billion of plundered money belonging to the Libyan people. Yet none of these intertwined commercial interests between Britain and their protégé Gaddafi prevented the former from turning against their surrogate for the last forty-one years.

Sensing the cataclysmic nature of protests across Libya, the UK was quick to abandon Gaddafi and expunge any vestiges of cooperation between the two countries. William Hague UK foreign secretary scurried to announce Gaddafi‘s exit to Venezuela and that the UK was looking to a post-Gaddafi era.  Nonetheless, the enigmatic Gaddafi whom the British nurtured and protected dug in his heels and decided to fight, Which angered other countries, France and America in more greedy of the wealth in Libya, and they mobilized Western countries and the UN to use force to remove him power-the unofficial goal of military intervention.

The story hitherto is reminiscence of the lives of several other brutal dictators that the colonial powers brought to power, armed to the teeth, watched as their protégé oppressed the ummah and when the time came ditched them like a disposal tissue.  Saddam, Suharto, Musharraf, Mubarak and Ben Ali are just some of the names that come to immediate recollection.

West's unrepentant treachery is not limited to their agents-it is far worse in both scope and magnitude when applied to the Muslim world. For the past eighty odd years, the West has ignored the plight of the Muslim masses, denied them the same values they espouse for their own citizens and turned a blind eye the tyranny of the Arab and Muslim rulers. The callousness of Western duplicity has reached new heights which humanity is not accustomed to. Where is the West's moral compass and human rights standards when Israel slaughters Palestinians at will, Russia covers up the killing fields in Chechnya, India desecrates the daily lives of the Kashmiris and China routinely carries out extra-judicial killings of Muslims in East Turkestan? The crimes of these states dwarf what Gaddafi has committed, but West is muzzled in its criticism. Then there is bitter tyranny of the Saudi and Syrian regime against its people, the savagery of the Bahraini monarchy and the cruelty of Yemeni government. This selective application of western values has left an ineffaceable impression on the Muslim masses about the West's true intentions.

Nevertheless, despite West's colonial suppression of Muslim masses and years of propping-up dictatorial regimes a silver lining is fast emerging that makes uncomfortable reading for both the West and their agent despots. In a recent poll, he University of Maryland surveyed Muslims in Indonesia, as well as Egypt, Pakistan and Morocco, and found that 77% agree to unify all Islamic countries into a single Islamic state. The quest for the return of the Caliphate is no more a dream, but a reality that is shaping the contours of current thinking regarding alternative political systems for both Muslims and non-Muslims alike. In an IBD/TIPP poll, 61% of Americans believe that the establishment of the Caliphate is likely in the next 10 years. The West through its own handiwork has already lost the Muslim masses and now the inner power circles of other loyal agents to Western powers must be teetering on who to support next. The choice is a simple one- the very same colonial powers that someday will intervene and hound them out of power or the re-establishment of the Caliphate that will make them heroes over night and guarantee their survival in this world and the hereafter.

O you who believe, answer (the call of) Allah and His Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life, and know that Allah intervenes between a person and his heart, and that to Him you shall be gathered.( TMQ Al-Anfal 8:24)

Abed Mustafah