Press Release
When the State Becomes an Enemy of the People’s Aqeedah of the Country!
(Translated)

Not a day goes by in Tunisia, a country whose people are afflicted by the surprises of secularism, without our livelihood being troubled and our tranquility disturbed by the spiteful, worn-out system spreading its poison here and there. We had hardly escaped from the crime of allowing the publication of books/pamphlets calling for homosexuality and LGBTQ, “Sexuality Q&A” for free during the International Book Fair, which concluded its activities on April 28, 2024, and then conferences of immorality and neo-pagan discourse under the misleading titles "Words from the Soul" (Congrès Paroles d'âme), we witnessed the outbreak of a ferocious campaign on April 29, 2024, from the observatories and guardians of the departed, defeated ideology, inciting against a teacher of Islamic thinking in one of the private schools in the city of Gabes, who celebrated the wearing of the hijab by one of his students and rewarded her with refreshments on which was written “Congratulations on your hijab,” a phrase that disturbed the scorpions of secularism and its hyenas, so that they began to lament their luck and squawk in our faces like crows or a drowning man who lost his chance to survive.

We, in the Women’s Section of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Tunisia, want to draw the attention of the public opinion which we are fully confident that it is in harmony and reconciliation with the inherent Islamic Aqeedah (doctrine) deeply rooted within it; we are fully confident of the following:

- These campaigns and suspicious actions are neither coincidence nor separable, but rather a continuation of a new, old project that seeks to further immerse the country in the swamp of dirty secularism and to fight any attempts at revival on the basis of Islam by monitoring the growth of the young generations by corrupting them and spreading the values of falsehood that Western societies have suffered from.

- We call on the honorable people in Tunisia to pay attention and be alert and vigilant to these criminal practices in confiscating the people’s Aqeedah in the style of the Ben Ali and Bourguiba masterminds, that the West, its criminal embassies, and its suspicious organizations, which were nested in the Ministry of Education and Culture, and the media agencies, subject to the direction and supervision of the capitalist lobbies lurking around the people of the country and their creed, would not have found a foothold had it not been for the fall of the heirs, the traitors, and the bribes who had paved the way for it, they were on the same path to Abu Righal, leading the colonialist, the spiteful and the vengeful, so they could deliver our necks to them.

- Therefore, it is obligatory for all of us to forbid evil and enjoin good in every corner of our country. In our homes and families, in our neighborhoods and cities, in our schools and mosques, in our celebrations and funerals, so that we do not give them the opportunity to attack us and raise their discordant voices, for you will not silence them and corner them unless you bite your molars against the foundations of your Deen and proclaim the truth without fear or dread.

- The educational system in Tunisia, which was founded by their idol Bourguiba, is witnessing a decline beyond its decline, thanks to the values of modernity, equality, freedoms and patriotism, the values of illusion, falsehood and slander, which have been planted in educational programs and have become an obstacle to the upbringing of generations, as the school community is witnessing day after day a high level of violence towards the educator, and the attacks of young people who call them “children”, attacks, the least of which is verbal violence and psychological harm, reaching fatal beatings, sexual assault, and even harassment of thirteen-year-old females by male students in the classroom - thanks to the system of compulsory mixing, it is possible to review the secrets of the reports of the education councils in middle and secondary schools - and what is hidden is greater!

- Then, in the face of the torrent of television programs and the corrupting messages they carry and the dangerous media materials broadcast on electronic means of communication that undermine all values and distort the balance of right and wrong, official educational contents in the educational institutions in Tunisia, which are intended to be sterile by someone’s action and malicious management, are ineffective. The only thing remaining for us as a last fortress of struggle is the family environment and the virtuous educators in the school community, and thus we rely on them and draw on the hands of every brave person who strives and invents to take our children to safety, the righteousness of Islam.

In conclusion, we point out a serious central issue, which is the transformations that the world is witnessing today in international and Western public opinion in particular, which has begun to disgust its people with the alleged values of enlightenment thanks to the blessed flood of Al-Aqsa and the pure blood of our martyrs in proud Gaza, and the high percentage of new reverts to Islam, especially the women among them. According to the testimony of international newspapers and media reports - their wearing the hijab and announcing it on social media is nothing but a devastating blow to secular and feminist ideas. Then the student protests continue in the heart of the most powerful and oldest American universities, which represent the largest producer of secular thought theorists against the hypocrisy of the policy of the United States, the world order, international organizations, and feminism towards the massacres of the people of Gaza, except an uprising and an awakening of awareness that warns of the fall of the secular system and heralds the approach of its days. So, what about you, “secularists,” cling to a culture that has expired and been spat out by its people? Is this arrogance or is it self-interest?

O free and honorable people in the land of Uqba, spreading the truth is a great matter that requires strength and sincerity, and getting out of the swamp of secularism and liberating with Islam requires these two things, so remember the words of your great Lord, the Almighty:

[الَّذِينَ جَعَلُوا الْقُرْآنَ عِضِينَ * فَوَرَبِّكَ لَنَسْأَلَنَّهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ * عَمَّا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ * فَاصْدَعْ بِمَا تُؤْمَرُ وَأَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ * إِنَّا كَفَيْنَاكَ الْمُسْتَهْزِئِينَ * الَّذِينَ يَجْعَلُونَ مَعَ اللهِ إِلَهاً آخَرَ فَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ * وَلَقَدْ نَعْلَمُ أَنَّكَ يَضِيقُ صَدْرُكَ بِمَا يَقُولُونَ * فَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ وَكُن مِّنَ السَّاجِدِينَ * وَاعْبُدْ رَبَّكَ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَكَ الْيَقِينُ]

“who ˹now˺ accept parts of the Quran, rejecting others *So by your Lord! We will certainly question them all *about what they used to do *So proclaim what you have been commanded, and turn away from the polytheists*Surely We will be sufficient for you against the mockers*who set up ˹other˺ gods with Allah. They will soon come to know * We certainly know that your heart is truly distressed by what they say * So glorify the praises of your Lord and be one of those who ˹always˺ pray * and worship your Lord until the inevitable¹ comes your way” [Al-Hijr 91-99].

Women’s Section of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Tunisia