Political Concepts

Pakistan Headlines – 14 Dec 2014

Regime Loses Its Mind in Addressing the Nearing Success of the Khilafah Project

Since the arrest of a number of activists of Hizb ut-Tahrir by government agencies on 5 December, the government has initiated a campaign of slander against Hizb ut-Tahrir, falsely claiming links with militancy. Electronic and print media has prominent regular reports about the arrests.

The regime’s slander is ridiculous as Hizb ut-Tahrir is now known throughout society, in all of its regions and levels. It is well-known that it undertakes the political and intellectual struggle and calls the people of Nussrah, the sincere within the armed forces, to give the Nussrah for the re-establishment of the Khilafah. Yet, the regime resorts to ridiculous slander as it does not have anything of truth to utter in defense its false and ever weakening position. Moreover, the Western masters of the regime sense the widespread acceptance of the Hizb and the Khilafah project throughout the Muslim World and are frustrated in their previous attempts of mobilizing the tyrants of the Muslim World to undertake a harsh campaign of abductions, torture and persecution against Hizb ut-Tahrir.

Just as the frustrated Quraysh resorted to ridiculous slander when they sensed that Islam was about to be established as a state in the time of RasulAllah (saaw), so the West has mobilized its agents in the Muslim World to slander the Khilafah project as the return of Islam as a state draws near by the permission of Allah سبحانه وتعالى. And just as the tyrannical supremacy of the Quraysh was eradicated by the light of Islam, so shall the return of the Khilafah end the cruel Western hegemony.

Blasphemy Issue Highlights Absence of Islam as an Authority

On 2 December 2014, a FIR charge sheet was registered against the media personality Junaid Jamshaid for blasphemy. Within days, the issue became a major talking point in the society. There are scholars who have defended him and there are religious people who have condemned him. Now the problem is clear for everyone to see. There is no central religious authority. No one religious authority to whom everyone submits and which everyone holds in high esteem. Hence the division which we see in this and many other cases. Moreover the religious and the temporal (government) authority is separate. So let’s assume Junaid Jamshed is guilty, in that case he should be tried by the state’s legal process and punished. Let’s assume he is not guilty, in that case he should be tried by the state and exonerated through the legal process. The same procedure applies to anyone accused of blasphemy whether Muslim or otherwise. No matter how heinous the crime, whether blasphemy, murder or apostasy, Islam has mandated a legal process for punishment or otherwise.

So we have two missing things. A central religious authority and a state which rules by divine law. In origin these two are one. For in Islam the religious and the temporal (government) authority is one, the Khilafah State. It is the Khalifah of the Muslims who adopts religious edicts and it is he who executes them. And all of the legal schools of thought in Islam agree on the principle of submitting to the religious opinion of the Imam of the time. So it can be seen that it is about perspective. For some the problem is too much religion. For others, it is too less religion. People will stop taking the law in to their hands, and stop being divided on religious issues if there is an Islamic State. The problem in Pakistan is not religious “extremism”, it is a secular state ruling a religious population. The “extremism” comes when the state insists on its “liberalism”. Take the “liberalism” out of the state and “extremism” from the population would vanish. Khilafah for Pakistan and the Muslim World.

US Promises More Blood Money for Continued Spilling of Muslim Blood

At the 23rd meeting of the US-Pakistan Defence Consultative Group, the two countries stressed the need for creating a mechanism for reimbursing Pakistan after the expiry of the Coalition Support Fund. The fund expired this year. “Both delegations affirmed the significance of the Pakistan military’s ongoing North Waziristan operation, which the US side affirmed has disrupted militants,” said a joint statement issued on 10 December after the meeting.

At what price will the regime earn this American wage? America is buying permission for the existence of the US CIA and private military network on our soil under the guise of co-operation. It this Raymond Davis network which has orchestrated false flag attacks against our civilians and military, which have claimed thousands of Muslim lives. These attacks are used by American officials to claim that the war in the tribal areas is Pakistan’s war. And America is buying the use of our armed forces for fighting a war that America itself caused by invading and occupying Afghanistan.

The Khilafah will end American blood money and will ensure the protection of Pakistan’s civilians and armed forces by eradicating all hostile American presence within Pakistan. It will also mobilize the tribals and armed forces as one hand against the American occupation of Afghanistan, which has plunged the region into insecurity for over thirteen years.