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| Hizb ut-Tahrir launches petition against colonial war on Iraq |
| 2003-01-08 |
| Ummahnews The British chapter of Hizb ut-Tahrir is launching a nationwide petition as part of a campaign opposing the impending military action against Iraq. "Support your local dictator"... The petition will be launched this Friday [10 January] at mosques throughout the UK. The group believes to secure the signatures of tens of thousands of Muslims. "The petition will reflect the fact that the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Britain are opposed to military action against Iraq, whether authorised by the UN or not," said a press release by the group. "Furthermore, the Muslim community views the âwar on terrorâ as a pretext employed by Britain and America to re-colonise the Muslim world and prevent the emergence of an independent powerful Islamic state." This is the Muslim fifth column I was talking about last night, in action. "No Muslim can be held accountable for his actions, simply due to his being a Muslim." Muslims can be judged only by other Muslims, who are, ummm... non-judgmental in these matters. The group says that the petition will send a stern message from the Muslim community to the UK based embassies of Muslim countries "whose corrupt rulers are partners with the West in this war against Islam and who remain stooped in silent submission while terror is rained down on the Muslim peoples of the world." Sammy's kind of the epitome of the "corrupt ruler," isn't he? And his Dr Imran Waheed, a UK based doctor and a representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, said, âThis petition, which will be signed by tens of thousands of "Butchering Iraqi Muslims is Sammy's job, and you can't take it away from him..." "Islam obliges Muslims everywhere, including those in Britain, to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Muslims of Iraq in any upcoming conflict. Western colonialist states must stop their interference in the political destiny of the Muslims. The true solution to the problems the people of the world face, Muslims and non-Muslims, is to re-establish the Islamic State [Khilafah] which will be ideologically and politically independent of the West and her agents.â There's the crux of it: Islam obliges Muslims everywhere to support other Muslims, or at least the ones the turbans running Hizb ut-Tahrir say they should support. Through this sort of magic, the Iraqis are better off under a crummy regime run by a nominal Muslim than they would be under a good regime run by somebody whose religion didn't matter. The Northern Alliance in Afghanistan was somehow transformed from a group of armed Muslims fighting another group of armed Muslims into a group of "apostates and hypocrites", next thing to Lutherans. The Hizb adherents, or at least the big turbans, are viewing themselves as citizens of the ummah, and not as citizens of Britain. |
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