Press Release

Belligerent Russia Wages a Fierce Attack on Hizb ut Tahrir Videos on Youtube!

(Translated)

It seems that Hizb ut Tahrir and the activity of its members utilize social network sites and the Internet to spread the pure and pristine message of Islam, and expose the plans of the criminal Kuffar and plots against the Muslims, and the collusion of the rulers with them against the Ummah and their preference against its interests...  It appears that this activity haunts the West and its followers and agents, even Putin's criminal state that sheds the blood of Muslims daily in Ash-Sham on behalf of America, they are even disturbed by the Takbeers of Eid ul-Adha.

For several months we have been receiving formal notification from YouTube Inc. with information that the Russian security authorities submitted complaints about a number of videos posted on different Hizb ut Tahrir channels; like HT Media, and Calls from Al-Quds, and others. Hardly a week goes by without a ban being imposed on a number of files; this disables those within the Russian zone from watching these channels or video files.

It is noticeable that, with the exception for a single file, all those files that are banned are in the Arabic language, which makes one wonder if these continued attacks and attempts of banning extends to others countries beyond Putin's criminal state.

It is also noticed that the security authorities purposely banned the video files with the greater viewings respectively, even if they were published several years back, and even if they were in a funeral of one of the Dawah carriers, suggesting that the intention is to try to push for a ban on various channels worldwide, as had happened several times on other social media network sites such as Facebook which deleted pages of Hizb ut Tahrir and its Ameer Scholar Sheikh Ata Bin Khalil Abu Al Rashtah, may Allah protect him.

The latest was the Russian authorities complaint to the Twitter site admin demanding the removal of the account of the Director of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir, Othman Bakhach, under the pretext of what he publishes on Twitter is an incitement to violence, and an incitement to overthrow the Russian regime, and these acts, as they claim, are criminalized under Russian law. It is not strange, since this law has previously banned the Sahih of Imam Bukhari, and the Forty Nawwai Hadiths, and Fortification of the Muslim. This reveals that the Russian powerhouse is weaker than a spider's web; the Stalinist-Putinist power cannot tolerate to hear the word of truth, and does not take heed by the fate of its predecessor’s tyrannical regimes. So it wastes its energy in vain to extinguish the light of truth through these absurd movements.

In this respect, we in the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir have two messages:

First:  Putin’s criminal state and those behind it must know that its criminality and brutality in Syria today, and before that in Afghanistan, Chechnya, and the Caucasus, and on top of that the pursuit of the Dawah carriers on the ground and legislating the laws of the jungle to criminalize, detain and torture the Muslims, simply because they carry the word of Islam. They pursue everything related to Hizb ut Tahrir and the call of Islam on the Internet, all this will not deter us from our work, and will only increase the Dawah carriers with persistence to challenge its gagging policy and its continuous military, material, political, intellectual terrorism.

Second: We will be launching a massive campaign to spread our videos and extensively increase the number of viewers, and even translate them into Russian, with Allah’s aid first, and then with the aid of the protective Muslims over their Deen, spiteful of the criminality of Putin and his rogue state, along with countries of Kufr and the statelets of harm which transgressed all limits through its war against Islam and Muslims.

Below is a small portion of the links to the files that were banned in Russia until this hour, and the list will be long:

We call on all those who are protective of Islam, concerned for the Muslims, to take part in this campaign and to intensify the visits to our sites and various channels and to spread these files and others on a large scale, as well as to interact by commenting, engaging, and with continued participation.

We are filled with the trust that Allah (swt) is our Protector, He is our Supporter, and He is the Best Protector and Best Supporter. We do not doubt for a moment that the fate of tyrants and criminals will be doom and destruction.

﴿إِنَّ مَوْعِدَهُمُ الصُّبْحُ أَلَيْسَ الصُّبْحُ بِقَرِيبٍ﴾

“Indeed, their appointment is [for] the morning. Is not the morning near?” [Hud: 81]

Allah (swt) says:

﴿يُرِيدُونَ لِيُطْفِئُوا نُورَ اللَّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَاللَّهُ مُتِمُّ نُورِهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكَافِرُونَ﴾

“They want to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light, although the disbelievers dislike it” [As-Saff: 8]

Osman Bakhach

Director of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir