On the 8th of April 2013, many news outlets including the BBC and Al-Jazeerah reported the death of 11 Afghan children along with one woman in a NATO airstrike in the Shighal district of Kunar province. And in February this year, at least 10 civilians, mostly women and children, were also killed in a NATO air strike in the same region. This incident of Muslim children being killed by the American and ISAF forces is not new for the Afghan people. Since the US occupation in 2001, thousands of Afghan civilians have been killed by the occupying forces.

The US and NATO try to portray the native Muslims of Afghanistan as the insurgents asserting falsely that they take refuge behind the human shield of women and children, while in reality they are the ordinary villagers trying to defend their land. The most heinous of all crimes against the innocent Muslim women and children is being committed by the traitor rulers and army generals of Muslim lands including Karzai, Zardari and Kayani, who have sold the blood of the Muslims in return for their worldly gains, wealth and power. They are the ones who have allowed their soil and air to be exploited by the occupation forces for enhancement of their influence over the region and to kill those who come in their way. America and the Allied Forces could never have fired a single bullet in this area unless these traitors were not supporting and providing them logistical and physical assistance.

What about these eleven blossoms that were killed by killed in cold-blood; if there was only a state or ruler to protect the interests of Islam and blood of the Muslims. If not the absence of the Khilafah to cut the hand of anyone who tries to touch the Muslims. Unlike the current Muslim rulers who took the democratic system external from Allah’s method and those who embarked their lives and devoted themselves on safeguarding the interests of their Capitalist masters even if that be at the cost of the life of their own citizens. Hence, the lives of Muslims, their men, women and children, can never be secured under the corrupt immoral systems that plague the Muslim world or while these treacherous puppet leaders continue to rule over our Muslim lands. These pure lives can only be saved by the implementation of the just set of laws given to us by Allah سبحانه وتعالى and implemented by the Khilafah, under which the Khalifah is bound to defend the life, property and honour of every citizen of the state. He cannot for a moment abandon the defence of the Muslims because it is an Amaneh (trust) in which Allah سبحانه وتعالى will hold him to account on the Day of Judgment if he was deficient in fulfilling it to the fullest capacity. Therefore we must endeavour to remove these traitor rulers and dismantle their corrupt, Kaffir Western-serving systems and establishing in their place the Khilafah State, then and only then that all these colonial powers, their forces, intelligence, and bases will be expelled from the region only then will security will be achieved for the Muslims of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the whole Muslim world, in place of fear, exploitation, and oppression.

Throughout the history of the Khilafah, the Muslim women and children’s life and honour were defended and secured because

الإمام جنة يقاتل من ورائه ويتقى به

“The Imam is but a shield from behind whom the people fight and by whom they protect themselves.” (Muslim)

Today, the Muslims have some of the most powerful and skilled armies in the world but they have been held hostage by a few sell-out generals and rulers. We call upon the sincere within the Muslim armies to defend the blood of their brothers and sisters and to give the Nusrah (support) to Hizb ut Tahrir for the re-establishment of the second Islamic Khilafah Rashidah on the method of the Prophethood and to give the bayah to the honourable scholar Amir of the Hizb, Atta bin Khalil Abu Rashta as the Khaleefah for the Muslims and then Insha’Allah no-one would dare to violate the sanctity of the lives of innocent Muslim children and women. We want to refresh the memories of the sincere amongst the Muslim armies that they are the grandsons of Muhammad bin Qasim, Tariq bin Ziyad and Khalid bin Waleed so how could they let these atrocities be committed against their Muslim brothers, sisters and children? O sons of the Muslim armies answer the call of Allah and His Messenger and liberate these innocent Muslims and their lands from these cowardly killing forces.

يَـٰٓأَيُّہَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ ٱسۡتَجِيبُواْ لِلَّهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ إِذَا دَعَاكُمۡ لِمَا يُحۡيِيڪُمۡ‌ وَٱعۡلَمُوٓاْ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَحُولُ بَيۡنَ ٱلۡمَرۡءِ وَقَلۡبِهِۦ وَأَنَّهُ ۥۤ إِلَيۡهِ تُحۡشَرُونَ

“You who have iman! Respond to Allah and to the Messenger when He calls you to what will bring you to life! Know that Allah intervenes between a man and his heart and that you will be gathered to Him.”

(Al-Anfal, 8:24)

Women’s Section in the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir

Friday, 02 Jumada Al-Thani 1434 AH

12-04-2013 CE

Issue No: 1434 AH /42