بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
News Right Now: Under the Control of Criminals
Welcome to the episode ‘Under the Control of Criminals’
Last week the prominent and outspoken Palestinian political activist Nizar Banat was brutally murdered in his home near the occupied West bank city of Hebron. The Palestinian Authority’s security forces raided his home in the middle of the night, spraying him with pepper spray, he was beaten ferociously with metal bars and wooden batons for eight minutes. Nizar Banat received several blows to the head, and then stripped of his clothes, he was dragged away in a semi-conscious state. Banat, only 43 years old, was later pronounced dead by doctors at the Hebron Government Hospital. He leaves behind a wife and five children.
Banat had been arrested and imprisoned at least eight times by the ruling PA who govern the parts of the West Bank that are not under full Zionist control. Most recently he accused the PA of corruption and neglect of the health needs of Palestinians, as PA officials agreed to swap a million Coronavirus vaccinations sent from the Zionists, with the vaccinations they are due to receive directly from Pfizer later this year - despite opposition from the people to this move. When 5,000 vaccinations were recently received from the Zionists, Palestinian health care workers discovered that they were much closer to their expiry date than even the PA had anticipated, leaving no time at all to roll out an effective vaccine program, and so the vaccines from the Zionists had to be rejected. Once again leaving the Palestinian people unprotected and vulnerable to the lethal virus for a much longer amount of time than the rest of the world.
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) closely described the actions of a corrupt leadership which harms its own people, in a hadith where he saws said
"صِنفان من أهل النار لم أرهما: قوم معهم سياط كأذناب البقر يضربون بها الناس"
“There are two types of the people of Hell that I have not seen yet, men with whips like the tails of cattle, with which they strike the people...”
Also it was narrated by Ibn 'Umar that the Prophet saws said,
عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " الظُّلْمُ ظُلُمَاتٌ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ "
"Oppression will be a darkness on the Day of Resurrection” and in further describing the severe consequences of such brutal assassinations, He saws said,
"لَزَوَالُ الدُّنْيَا أَهْوَنُ عَلَى اللَّهِ مِنْ قَتْلِ رَجُلٍ مُسْلِمٍ"
“The perishing of the world would mean less to Allah than the murder of a Muslim man”
The PA is known to have worked closely with the Zionist entity since its inception in 1994, when as part of the Oslo accords peace process, it was legitimised by the international community under the guise of the US led two state solution. For the cheap price of being recognised by the Zionist entity, the PA also gave the Zionist state its legitimacy, and denounced all armed struggle against the vile occupiers, preferring diplomacy in dealing with the Zionist invaders and collaboration with the international community to secure its funding.
The PA maintained close relations with successive Zionist governments and tolerated even the most evil of its prime ministers Ariel Sharon the butcher of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre. As well as this, upholding every action related to the inconceivable pretence of the two state solution has been facilitated by the PA over the years. Yet most recently the PA seems to have gone further, in becoming an open enemy to the Muslims as it even facilitated the unjust attempts of the Zionists to lockdown Palestinians from their mosques in many towns under the exaggerated threat of the Coronavirus; leading it to tyranny against worshippers, as they were attacked and arrested by the PA’s forces.
The Ummah must remember that the PA and its security apparatus provides cover to a multitude of corrupt local and international stakeholders. These criminals are the architects of the oppression that Palestinians endure. They are evil minded conspirators who make long term plans to achieve their ultimate goal of seizing every inch of Palestine at whatever the cost to its people. Although acting as an adversary, in reality the PA has been the enabler of the Zionist aspiration and maintained a smoke screen against the web of insidious intentions.
Only a sincere leadership from the Muslim Ummah can challenge the imbalance of power and disproportionate support for the Zionist entity. Through its superior ideology, material strength and political will, the future Khilafah will refuse to compromise as the PA did. Rejecting secular pseudo solutions like diplomacy, the Khilafah will readily take up arms against the Zionist oppressors and deal with the problem swiftly and decisively, so that Palestine is liberated again.
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