Press Release
American Aid is a Colonial Tool. Accepting it is Political Suicide and a Means of Abandoning One's Homeland!
(Translated)

Last week seemed to be the week of U.S. aid!  America announced the resumption of 1.3 billion dollars of aid to Egypt, an increase of 55 million dollars in humanitarian aid to Yemen, and 100 million dollars of aid to Tunisia to ease their debt.

News of the assistance was announced in the midst of such events and in the heat of the revolutions, with some of the rulers overthrown, and the effort to overthrow others. It was announced during the time of politically charged issues.  On top of that, the relationship of the regimes with the international treaties and peace agreements with the usurping entity, "the Jewish State."

We in the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir are concerned and wish to shed light upon the following points regarding public opinion and to the Muslims:

1. The Muslim countries do not need to beg for assistance from anyone!  The Muslims reject the enemy's (Sadaqa) charity for the Ummah!  Since the dawn of history, the Muslim countries were the breadbasket for the world that does not deplete.  How can we accept today to stand at the doorstep of the enemies to beg for aid from the criminal state of America or from other enemies of Islam and the Muslims?

2. The assistance provided for the Muslims are laden with conditions filled with catastrophic consequences.  For example, ensuring the preservations of the peace treaties with the usurper, the Jewish entity.  And other conditions which allow for Muslim countries to placed in its grip-hold America to control the Muslim lands by imposing on their ruler's policies, without regard for the calamities and misfortunes that these policies cause for the Muslims.

3. Therefore we must loudly raise our voices, that Muslims and the aware from the Ummah must realize that America and the West were never friends to the Muslim Ummah.  Rather, they are your enemies so beware.  Their crimes filled the lands from east to west.  So do not accept their aid or charity, for their aid entails their conditions, dependence, and compliance and becoming lackeys.  The lands will become much worse than the dark days when the agents Mubarak, Ben Ali, Ali Abduallah Saleh, and Qadaffi were present.

4. Allah (swt) provided countless abundant resources to the Islamic Ummah.  The resource of oil in Libya and Gulf countries including many other resources such as in Morocco.  Whereas the natural gas in Egypt that is gifted to the Jewish entity without any shame as well as the phosphate wasted in Jordan. The abundant animal and sea resources that do not benefit the Muslims, causes great heartache!  And others and others. There are many other enormous resources in our land; too many to be listed in a press release rather a book!

Land with such great resources is not in need of American or Western aid! The Muslims' dignity will be unified under the banner of "la illah illa Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah" under one State- the Khilafah "Caliphate" ar-Rashidda. The people of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Sudan are bonded by the Islamic creed, which necessitates that Muslims peace is one, their war is one, and their wealth is one, which is not limited to the country without the other as well as it is in all the Muslim countries.  These resources are not the property of a certain family, king, or president so and so! The West has appointed lookouts over the Ummah's resources for their utilization.  They deprive the Ummah from its its benefit despite it being their natural right given to them by the Shari'.

The aid that America and the West granted to the Muslim lands is to establish its hegemony and dictate their political decisions.  In other words, American and Western aid is not given out of love for their situation, as Allah (swt) the Glorious stated:

(مَا يَوَدُّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ وَلَا الْمُشْرِكِينَ أَنْ يُنَزَّلَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْ خَيْرٍ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ وَاللَّهُ يَخْتَصُّ بِرَحْمَتِهِ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَاللَّهُ ذُو الْفَضْلِ الْعَظِيمِ)

"It is never the wish of those without Faith among the people of the Book, nor of the Pagans, that anything good should come down to you from your Lord. but Allah will choose for His special Mercy whom He will - for Allah is Lord of Grace abounding." [al-Baqara: 105]

Indeed, the American and Western aid for the Muslim lands indicates its direct occupation!

Oh Muslims, We in Hizb ut Tahrir call on you to reject American and Western aid; thus insist of its refusal to thwart their conspiracies dejected and filled with humiliation and loss.

(ولا تركنوا إلى الذين ظلموا فتمسكم النار وما لكم من دون الله من أولياء ثم لا تنصرون)

"And incline not to those who do wrong, or the Fire will seize you; and ye have no protectors other than Allah, nor shall ye be helped." [Hud: 113]

Osman Bakhach
Director of Central Media Office Hizb ut Tahrir