Mainstream media and politicians have gone into overdrive with sensationalist Islamophobic commentary and fear mongering following recent events in Iraq. This time the ‘Islamic State of Iraq and Sham' (ISIS) is the primary object through which Muslims, Islam and Islamic ideals such as Jihad and the Caliphate are being demonised and attacked. In this regard, Hizb ut Tahrir Australia emphasises the following points: 1. This episode is little more than…

Documented revelations have shown that Australian intelligence agencies were spying, through Australian embassies in Indonesia, on Indonesian leaders in 2009. The phones of President Yudhoyono, his wife, and many in his inner circle were tapped. Indonesia has recalled its ambassador to Australia and demanded an apology, dismissing Prime Minister Tony Abbott's response to the revelations as inadequate.

In the name of Allah, to whom belongs all praise and the abundant blessings of whom are sought for His noble Messenger. كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَآئِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ وَإِنَّمَا تُوَفَّوْنَ أُجُورَكُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ فَمَن زُحْزِحَ عَنِ النَّارِ وَأُدْخِلَ الْجَنَّةَ فَقَدْ فَازَ وَما الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا إِلاَّ مَتَاعُ الْغُرُورِ "Every human being is bound to taste death: but only on the Day of Resurrection will you be requited in full - whereupon he that…

The Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus, listed Jabhat al-Nusra as a "terrorist organisation" last Friday, 28 June 2013, supposedly because of various randomly-adduced actions and links deemed "terrorist" and because it, "is not part of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, which Australia acknowledges as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people." The Government also took the opportunity to re-iterate its deplorable stance on the conflict in Syria. Uthman…