Press Release
Why Russian "Legislators" Rush to Extremes?

On 5 May 2014 some amendments to the Federal Law № 130 entered into force, these amendments introduce new penalties. In particular, Articles 205.3, 205.4, 205.5 of the Criminal Code of RF were toughened. Whom are these articles against? Why Russian "legislators" rush to such extremes?

The observer of these Articles finds it is directed primarily to the members of Hizb ut Tahrir - the Islamic party that calls to Islam and is limited with an ideological and political struggle. Thus, immediately after the tightening of the law, in November 2013 in Chelyabinsk, five Muslims were sentenced for belonging to Hizb ut Tahrir. And if earlier an old scheme of persecuting under Article 282.2 (extremism) acted, so now they added an anti-terrorist article of CC, opening a new round of persecution. Then a case was fabricated in Stavropolye, where the court found Abdurahim Toshmatov guilty in planning a terror act and sentenced him to 17 years of imprisonment. Despite the fact that this was only the beginning of using the new scheme by the Russian repressive machine it was decided, seemingly, to do immediately that for which all the previous amendments were accepted - to increase the timing up to life imprisonment. If before during fabrication of criminal cases, after planting weapons, drugs and accusations in all possible crimes, a member of the party could get up to 2 decades of imprisonment, and today he/she can get life imprisonment.

And do the powers want to hide their crimes! On 26 February 2014, it was found out that they started a criminal case against the inhabitants of the Bashkir town Dyurtyuli according to the criminal case on Article 205.5 CC RF was initiated against six of them. This was the first case brought under this criminal article and special services were not in a hurry to cover this fact in the media, studying the reaction of society. Besides that, the authorities want to test the enforceability of this article to continue prosecution of the Islamic call (dawah) carriers, they want to frighten the Muslims, as before the Quraish did in regard of the Prophet (saw) and his companions. But the Muslims' position comes from the words of the Prophet of Allah (saw). Today there does not exist any more inhuman laws against dawah carriers like these laws. Moreover, since 1 January 2015, cases on Article 205 will be considered only by the Moscow district military court and North-Caucasus district military court, and that excludes any public lighting of the lawlessness, and as practice shows, of any violations of the defendants.

The reason for this vicious attack on behalf of the Russian authorities against Hizb ut Tahrir is its inability to withstand the Hizb in its battle arena of ideology. Therefore, Russia in 2003 took such an unprecedented step making it the only country in the world that handles an Islamic political party as a terrorist.

Russia is the one sinking to its ears in its carrying out of terrorism in and out of the country, and proof of this is ongoing prosecutions of persecutions and murders of the Muslims in North Caucasus and other regions.

The massacres committed in Chechnya against men, women, children, and the elderly. And its absolute political support for the butcher of Ash-Sham, and its supply of all types of weapons by which dropped hundreds of thousands of Muslims fell in Syria among the dead and wounded, not to mention the millions who are homeless or fled their homes and their towns because of this criminal offender. Allah Almighty says,

(قَدْ بَدَتِ الْبَغْضَاءُ مِنْ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَمَا تُخْفِي صُدُورُهُمْ أَكْبَرُ قَدْ بَيَّنَّا لَكُمُ الآيَاتِ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ)

"Hatred has already appeared from their mouths, and what their breasts conceal is greater. We have certainly made clear to you the signs, if you will use reason!" [3:118].

Allah (swt) says that the disbelievers hate the believers and this is the first reason. In their was against Islam that is clearly evident with the ban of Islamic literature, hijabs, destruction of the mosques not to mention the arrests and murders of the Muslims. As for the second reason - it is the fear of the establishment of the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" that Hizb ut Tahrir works for in the Islamic Ummah and with it to live by the Creator's laws and the Hizb vowed to bring this matter to the end, despite all trials, increases its strength. Therefore, the whole world community do its best to destroy even the slightest signs of its appearance, but despite all these, the project Khilafah "Caliphate" is becoming more real. Allah says in the Quran:

(يُرِيدُونَ أَنْ يُطْفِئُوا نُورَ اللَّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَيَأْبَى اللَّهُ إِلا أَنْ يُتِمَّ نُورَهُ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكَافِرُونَ)

"They want to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah refuses except to perfect His light, although the disbelievers dislike it" [9:32].

On the eve of the Geneva 2 Conference, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said: "It is very important that the political process was accompanied by combining healthy forces, who are thinking about their homeland, but not about the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" in the Middle East and north of Africa. To unite them and help them in many different ways to combat with a terrorist threat. It is a challenge for the region and for the whole world". As well as the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in his speech: "...a threat of the radical Islam never subsides. It grows and spreads throughout the world. It destabilizes societies and the whole nations. In the face of this threat, we have with surprise to admit its existence and our inability to counter it effectively". That is, the disbelievers themselves have understood that the establishment of the state is just a matter of time. Russia is rightly worried, due to their crimes, but to this day it continues in their attempts to get rid of the call carriers. But Allah (swt) predetermined the outcome of the struggle between faith and disbelief, saying:

(وَعَدَ اللَّـهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ وَلَيُمَكِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ دِينَهُمُ الَّذِي ارْتَضَىٰ لَهُمْ وَلَيُبَدِّلَنَّهُم مِّن بَعْدِ خَوْفِهِمْ أَمْنًا ۚ يَعْبُدُونَنِي لَا يُشْرِكُونَ بِي شَيْئًا ۚ وَمَن كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُولَـٰئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُون)

"Allah has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession [to authority] upon the earth just as He granted it to those before them and that He will surely establish for them [therein] their religion which He has preferred for them and that He will surely substitute for them, after their fear, security, [for] they worship Me, not associating anything with Me. But whoever disbelieves after that - then those are the defiantly disobedient" [24:55].

Also the Messenger of Allah (saw) said:

" لَيَبْلُغَنَّ هَذَا الْأَمْرُ مَا بَلَغَ اللَّيْلُ وَالنَّهَارُ، وَلَا يَتْرُكُ اللَّهُ بَيْتَ مَدَرٍ وَلَا وَبَرٍ إِلَّا أَدْخَلَهُ اللَّهُ هَذَا الدِّينَ، بِعِزِّ عَزِيزٍ، أَوْ بِذُلِّ ذَلِيلٍ، عِزًّا يُعِزُّ اللَّهُ بِهِ الْإِسْلَامَ، وَذُلًّا يُذِلُّ اللَّهُ بِهِ الْكُفْرَ "

"This case is sure to reach the horizon of night and day. Allah will not leave a single house settled or nomadic not only as setting this religion with the glory of the glorious or the humiliation of the insignificant. Allah will exalt Islam with glory and demean disbelieve with humiliation." (Narrated by Ahmad).

 Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Russia