Press Release
Organized Beggary of Tunisia's Rulers in Exchange of Organized Failure
(Translated)

The President of Tunisia, Kais Saied, received at the Carthage Palace, on Friday, November 4, 2022, Dr. Abdel Rahman bin Abdullah Al Hamidi, Director General and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Arab Monetary Fund, in the presence of the Director of the Central Bank, Marwan Al Abbasi.

In his speech, Al-Hamidi stated that the meeting, all in all, highlights the great transformation taking place in Tunisia in terms of adopting the economic program and agreeing with the International Monetary Fund on this program, and considered that this will be a "lighthouse for the great transformation that will take place in this country in terms of achieving high growth rates and attracting foreign investment.”

On the same day, Prime Minister Najla Boudin Ramadan welcomed him at the Government Palace in the Kasbah. This meeting occurred after the signing of the "regular loan" agreement between Tunisia and the Arab Monetary Fund, under the amount 74 million US dollars.

O People in Tunisia, we in the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Tunisia, in this regard, state the following:

1. The reality of the situation attests and confirms that these loans bind the state, impoverish the country and the people, and mortgage its will to others. Debt was - and still is - the first and official economic option for the Tunisian state, and it increased in style, quantity and quality after the revolution, where the debt volume doubled between 2011 and 2022 to reach this astronomical figure (115 billion dinars), equivalent to 80 percent of the country's gross domestic product.

2. The speech of the Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Arab Monetary Fund, Abdul Rahman Abdullah Al-Hamidi, is a capitalist speech par excellence, and in the language of the defunct Arab regimes that have continued to follow the logic of foreign circles and colonial states that looted the bounties of our country.

Even when talking about the strategies and mechanisms, such as the “economic reforms” that the president’s government is promoting in compliance with the instructions of the International Monetary Fund, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Arab Monetary Fund could not hide the mentality of the existing regimes in our country that embodies the Sykes-Picot breaks, as they are the same regimes that have been looting the Ummah's wealth, and takes possession of its public properties of oil and minerals, and smuggles it to the colonial West.

3. Placing hopes on the beggary policy pursued by the president's government will not solve Tunisia’s crisis! The huge damage inflicted on our country as a result of this humiliating policy has become clear to everyone, and the rosy tables behind which the looting circles hide their veils are revealed, and the damage that has befallen Tunisia as a result of this is nothing but the best evidence.

O People in Tunisia: Shame on those politicians who were not satisfied with all these lean years of the destruction of loot boxes. How long will you, sons of the green Tunisia, bear the burden of these rulers who empowered the colonial countries from your countries and their capabilities, wreaking corruption in it?!

The solutions to the economic problems in Tunisia and other Muslim countries are not through borrowing based on interest, and taking what Allah Almighty has forbidden in a harsh prohibition when he said:

(يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَذَرُوا مَا بَقِيَ مِنَ الرِّبا إِنْ كُنْتُمْ مُؤْمِنِينَ فَإِنْ لَمْ تَفْعَلُوا فَأْذَنُوا بِحَرْبٍ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ)

“O believers! Fear Allah, and give up outstanding interest if you are ˹true˺ believers. If you do not, then beware of a war with Allah and His Messenger!” [Al-Baqarah 2:278-279]. Rather, it is by applying the Islamic economic system by making the state’s resources as Allah has legislated and permitted; from zakat on trade, money, rikaz (buried treasures), kharaj, tithes, spoils, booties and public funds resources such as oil, gas, minerals and others, and spending it in the purposes that it legislated. As well as solving other problems of political and social life, international politics and education under the Khilafah (Caliphate) State, which carries the correct and effective solutions to our problems and the problems of the whole world.

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Tunisia