In just five weeks, the number of deaths in Yemen due to the cholera epidemic has risen to more than 600, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report, and children account for 40 percent of all deaths due to the epidemic, with an average of four children dying each day. According to the UNICEF in Yemen, health facilities receive more than 1,000 children suffering from acute watery diarrhea every day.
The cholera related deaths are on the increase, and is usually spread by polluted water or rotten food and causes severe diarrhea and dehydration. This contagious disease is the most common in places of poor sanitation, overcrowding, war and famine and is accompanied by the deterioration of healthcare coverage in Yemen, malnutrition and acute shortages in medicines, health equipment and fuel needed to run generators in hospitals; this resulted in the closure of entire health facilities due to physical damage, destruction or lack of funding. Cholera has become a deadly and life-threatening epidemic! And why would it not be, since the war in Yemen has entered its third year, evoking a terrible humanitarian catastrophe, from poverty, displacement, shelling and spread of epidemics in a savage Western conflict over this region, upon which the Western parties have not yet reached an agreement, as was reported in the British newspaper, The Independent.?
This is while these meddling forces in Yemen are represented by Yemen’s tools who have conflicting interests and agendas, as with the countries of the Islamic Alliance, but they agreed to abandon the children of Yemen and the destruction of the country and the people and to kill the people, by bombarding and starving them, and through poverty and disease.
This is the monstrous capitalist ideology that does not care about human life or its value and dignity. It violates the wealth, country and people, in its competition for influence. It does not care if entire nations are exterminated. The responses will not go beyond condemnations and expressing concerns, while the blood of the innocent is spilled, and infants die in front of their mother’s eyes, starving and thirsty, or are ill and cannot find treatment as is the case with the cholera epidemic!!
O Muslims in general and especially you Muslims in the Gulf countries…
You are only separated from Yemen by imaginary borders, but it separated you. The Muslim Ummah is like one body, if one part complains, the rest of the parts will respond with sleeplessness and fever. So why is your government responding with bombings and missiles, and your government only bringing poverty, death and destruction while you are silent and distracted? Are you not sleepless over the wailing of the people of Yemen and the screams of their elders and women?
Your governments are oppressing the people of Yemen and they mobilize you with them in this war to serve the enemy of Allah and your enemy, the Kaffir Western colonizer, through the actual participation of some of the leaders and armies with them and support of some scholars for this war and the fatwa of its permissibility in the framework of combating terrorism. Don’t let silence be your stance, because to remain silent over the prohibitions is a crime, and to remain silent means acceptance!
It is time for you to stand in the ranks of this Ummah, and to unite around its project, and work with Hizb ut Tahrir to establish the righteous Khilafah (Caliphate) on the method of Prophethood, which removes borders, unites hearts and ranks, and brings back glory and the best of people to this Ummah.
كُنتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ تَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَتَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ
“You are the best nation produced [as an example] for mankind. You enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and believe in Allah.”
(Al-i-Imran: 110)
Women’s Section in The Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
Thursday, 20th Ramadan 1438 AH
15/06/2017 CE
Issue No: 1438 AH / 047