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HT Indonesia Rejects the Visit of US Secretary of State

Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) held another peaceful rally in front of the US Embassy in Jakarta, on Monday afternoon (16/2). The rally is meant to remind the Indonesian government and the people to reject the visit of US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who is scheduled to make a two-day visit in Jakarta. (18-19 February 2009)

Her visit, in fact, gives more advantages to the US while it gives minor benefit to Indonesia. Until early February, Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda hasn’t decided an agenda of the talks. Meanwhile the US State Department has long prepared the agenda which is to continue US domination all over the world including Indonesia.

Hundreds of people displayed posters while chanting the slogans rejecting the visit of Clinton. Among the posters they read, “America Go to Hell with Your Agenda,”  “Hillary=Zionist= Terrorist.” They sang together a phrase of a children song – “hoeing, hoeing, deep hoeing, planting corn in our fields…” which are substituted by the phrase drive “out, drive out, drive out Hillary from Indonesia.”

In a press statement, the vice-spokesperson of HTI Farid Wadjdi stated that the visit is meant to strengthen the US hegemony in Eastern Asia and South East Asia, especially Indonesia. Though Clinton is from the Democrat Party, besides being a fanatic supporter of Israel even more fanatic than Obama, she personally supported the US aggression in Iraq.

Farid continued saying that by letting this happen, this is clearly against the warning of Allah سبحانه وتعالى in the Holy Qur’an in Surah An-Nisa verse 141.

Hence it is a form of real betrayal to Allah سبحانه وتعالى, the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم, and the Muslims.

At the end of his speech, Farid called on the Muslims in Indonesia as a whole to reject every form of step and activity both internally and externally which will lead this country into falling in the grip of colonialists such as the US. If Indonesia doesn’t reject, or even welcomes the visit of Clinton, the terrorist, it is “against the principles of rejecting all forms of colonialism and the struggle of Indonesia to its real independence.”

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