Activism, Europe, Side Feature

The Kremlin continues its War against Islam in Russia

The Circuit session of the Moscow Regional Military Court on Thursday 4 February 2016 sentenced five members of Hizb ut-Tahrir banned in Russia to prison terms ranging from 5.5 to 17 years, RIA Novosti reported citing the Chelyabinsk regional department of the Federal Security Service (FSB).

Comment:

Chelyabinsk is a city in the South Ural, the seventh city by the number of inhabitants in Russia with a population of more than 1.2 million people. The history of town’s name is linked with Islam and Muslims. Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs lived in these territories for centuries. With the capture of these lands by Imperial Russia, and as a consequence of atheist materialist-adherents, Ural Muslims have constantly been harassed, and have got to the point that the region’s people have almost forgotten their past in Islam.

The persecution of Muslims continues in the Urals and Siberia. The mosques are destroyed, such as the “Nur Islam” Mosque which was completely destroyed in Novy Urengoy, Siberia. The Imam of the mosque, Sheikh Isomitdin Akbarov was brutally murdered. On the walls of the “Altyn” Mosque in the Sverdlovsk region a text, “Russia is for the Russian people!” was written.

The Kremlin pays special attention to those who call to Islam. A series of arrests of people from the Hizb began in 2003 and continues to the present day. The last judicial process in the city of Chelyabinsk ended on the 4th February. Salavat Khabirov was sentenced to 17 years in a strict regime colony and 1.5 years of restraint of liberty (executed after serving the main punishment). Shaimov received 16 years in a strict regime colony and 1.5 years of restraint, Kabirov – 6 years, Mirov and Shamsutdinov 5 years 6 months in a strict regime colony and a year of imprisonment each.

The Kremlin, because of its intellectual weakness and malice towards Islam and Muslims, can only conduct a physical fight. Not having any ideas that would in any way justify their cruel and hateful policy against the people of the Hizb. The authorities charged the accused with parts 1 and 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of and participation in the activities of an extremist organization), parts 1, 2 of the Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code (organization of and participation in a terrorist organization) and part 1 of the Article 30, the Article 278 of the Criminal Code (preparation for the violent seizure of power or forcible retention of power).

This lie reminds the mushrikeen of Makkah, who in the “House of Meetings” could not think of anything to accuse our beloved Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Today, as with the Prophet Muhammad’s ﷺ call in Mecca, the authorities imprison those who call for Islam, torturing them, pursuing their wives and children, forbidding anyone to help their families, wives and children of the accused. But the criminal regime in the Kremlin cannot succeed in stopping the dawah and the dawah carriers. Allah Almighty says in His Noble Book:

قَدْ مَكَرَ الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَأَتَى اللّهُ بُنْيَانَهُم مِّنَ الْقَوَاعِدِ فَخَرَّ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّقْفُ مِن فَوْقِهِمْ وَأَتَاهُمُ الْعَذَابُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لاَ يَشْعُرُونَ

“Those before them also plotted, and Allah came at their building from the foundations and the roof caved in on top of them. The punishment came at them from where they did not expect.”

(An-Nahl,16:26)

Despite all the persecution of the men and their families, we see that the dawah does not stop and the faith that has settled in the hearts of the callers in this region does not quench even for a minute and continues to illuminate the darkness by the light of Islam, attracting more and more new adherents and supporters. Despite all the power of the Kremlin, we believe that the victory is only from Allah, the will of Allah, and in the near future, the righteous Caliphate will revive, and a righteous ruler who will send his noble army in order to free the land from the kafir colonialists and save the Muslims of Siberia, the Urals and Russia. Allah Almighty said in His Noble Book:

وَمَا النَّصْرُ إِلاَّ مِنْ عِندِ اللّهِ الْعَزِيزِ الْحَكِيمِ

“Help comes from no one but Allah, the Almighty, the All-Wise”

(Aal-Imran, 3:126)

 

Khamzin Eldar

Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir