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Sunday 11th of January, world leaders gathered in France for a public march of solidarity against the killing of hostages in the now infamous Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris.

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The contrived line up of world leaders wishing to take advantage of a photo-opportunity to enhance their political kudos amounts to nothing more than a laughable sadistic joke that mocks the sanctity of human life and human rights.

All of the leaders arm in arm represented a criminal line up of usual suspects that use their power to oppress, torture, murder and silence political dissent in their own (and in some cases foreign) countries. The shabby attempt to convince the world of that secular liberal values have the moral high ground and that they are the heroic guardians of world peace and civilization cannot be accepted when the terms of freedom of expression and the right to live without fear of oppression are clearly manipulated by these elite to keep themselves in the gilded offices of dictatorship and exclude millions of peaceful law abiding citizens who face daily oppression under these counterfeit values.

One example that cannot be dismissed is that, as these world leaders stand together in France, they must accept their positions as being unified in the abuse and violation of the rights of millions of Muslim women suffering under the Hijab and Niqab ban that denied them unfettered access to education, medical care and government services in a manner that is far more comprehensive and organized than any of so called Islamic terrorist organizations that they so readily criticize.

The only activity left is to actually kidnap girls and women, Boko haram style, and start executing them, with Europe's leaders consenting to the Bosnian Muslims rapes and executions we need to expect the worse. The toxic Islamophobic rhetoric of the West and the silence of the world leaders to defend Muslim women (in Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Burma, Turkey, Germany, Egypt, Jordan....) have already set up a political order where violence and abuse of Muslims - in particular of women, is socially accepted and normalized.

If pictures are weapons of political warfare against Islam then British anti-Islamophobia group, MAMA UK have published their own counter offensive statistic report showing how violence against Muslims has risen in the climate of anti-Islamic hysteria whipped up by irresponsible politicians bent on socially punishing and excluding Muslim women.

It is clear that western democracy is far from being able to create safe and cohesive societies for all to live in with the freedom to express different opinions. The truth is that terrorist actions are nurtured by politicians who wish to use these incidents to create a climate of fear where all citizens self-censor and conform to specific opinions approved by government.

The Associated Press reported that between the 6th and 10th of January 2015, post the glorious "free speech" march, France has reportedly opened 54 criminal cases for "condoning terrorism." "France ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and glorifying terrorism."

To highlight the hypocrisy of free speech laws France is currently a country that has tighter speech restrictions than the United States. A fact that has allowed is most popular Charlie Hebdo style comedian, Dieudonné to be arrested 48 hours after the ‘free speech' march for a Facebook post that was non-violent in nature and was vaguely interpreted to be offensive to Jews. The outcry of injustice has prompted a new hashtag "Jesuis Dieudonné".

In all of the confusion of political correctness, one thing is blatantly clear. Western liberal politics is failing humanity to create safety and security. It serves only the elite, disenfranchises and abuses those that challenge it and organizes international terrorism in an unprecedented manner in history.

The Khilafah "Caliphate" Islamic State is the only historical model that not only protected Muslim women, but safeguarded persons of different religions to live in harmony under the authority of Islam as long as they did not violate the contract of living as citizens of the State.

The Islamic political model does not accept the wide scale scapegoat tactics that are employed by world leaders where, in the post-Cold War present, Muslims are used as the enemy target to hide the crimes of those in power. The Khalifah cannot be hostile to law abiding citizens as expressed in ayats such as Surah Al-Mumtahanah verse 8;

((لا يَنْهَاكُمْ اللَّهُ عَنْ الَّذِينَ لَمْ يُقَاتِلُوكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ وَلَمْ يُخْرِجُوكُمْ مِنْ دِيَارِكُمْ أَنْ تَبَرُّوهُمْ وَتُقْسِطُوا إِلَيْهِمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ الْمُقْسِطِينَ))

"Allah does not forbid you to deal justly and kindly with those who fought not against you on account of religion nor drove you out of your homes. Verily, Allah loves those who deal with equity."

The obligation of looking after the non-Muslim with due care and diligence is a matter of great importance as narrated in numerous Hadith and sayings of the Prophet (saw) in regards to the noble status of the Dhimmi.

In the absence of this outstanding illustration of political superiority, the betrayal, lies and deception of Muslim leaders is the unfortunate example that the world sees. It is only with the return of real Islamic politics that the world and its women will know true human rights in a just and non-selective manner. In the mean time we can expect western leaders to sponsor their appointed puppets internationally and place every obstacle to thwart the progress of this shining beacon of ruling as it the only system that will efficiently remove the treacherous hegemony of the world's elite over the impoverished exploited masses.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Imrana Mohammad
Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir

What is understood from this is that a wig can be worn under the Khimaar or inside the house for instance, doesn't the wig take the ruling of Wasl (linking hair extensions to the original hair)?

The attack on Islam did not stop after the assault on Charlie Hebdo Newspaper in Paris last week. As some of the Western media as well as some policymakers have expressed explicitly in the past few days that Islam is a threat, while many politicians of the world spoke implicitly about the problem of Islam.

Headlines:

• French Ambassador: France is at War with Radical Islam
• Tony Blair: Force is Necessary in Struggle against Radical Islam
• America: Newt Gingrich Outlines 7-Step Plan to Defeat Radical Islam
• Muslims World Stages Protests Over Offensive Charlie Hebdo

Details:

French Ambassador: France Is At War With Radical Islam

Gerard Araud, France's Ambassador to the US: What I want to say is as the French Prime Minister said we are at war and we are at war with radical Islam. It means that right now that Islam and in a sense Muslims, but Islam is breeding radicalism which is quite dangerous for everybody. So I think in the coming weeks or the coming months we have to define the global strategy. The part of the strategy is to work with the Muslim countries, to do that part of the job. [Source: RealClearPolitics]

The West has been plotting strategies against Islam for 1000 years, apart from a temporary respite they have failed each time. For Allah (swt) says:

((وَإِذْ يَمْكُرُ بِكَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ لِيُثْبِتُوكَ أَوْ يَقْتُلُوكَ أَوْ يُخْرِجُوكَ وَيَمْكُرُونَ وَيَمْكُرُ اللّهُ وَاللّهُ خَيْرُ الْمَاكِرِينَ))

"And [remember, O Muhammad], when those who disbelieved plotted against you to restrain you or kill you or evict you [from Makkah]. But they plan, and Allah plans. And Allah is the best of planners." [Al-Anfal: 30]

Tony Blair: Force is Necessary in Struggle against Radical Islam

Tony Blair has called for a US-led effort to confront the "substantial minority" of Muslims who support terrorism, during a meeting with top Republicans that reunited the former British prime minister with hawks in the party who believe the White House response to recent attacks has been too limited. According to a source present at a closed-door strategy session attended by nearly 300 Republican senators and congressmen, the former prime minister argued that force would be needed in what he called a "generational" struggle, but more important would be a "global alliance to teach tolerance" as millions of people in the Muslim world are systematically being taught to be intolerant. Blair, who was introduced by Senator John McCain, also reportedly argued that radical Islam and the terrorism associated with it had not been contained; that countries in the west "didn't cause it but were caught up in it"; that it was neither isolated nor insignificant and that while the majority of Muslims opposed it, "a substantial and not a fringe minority" supported it. According to the witness, Blair said radical Islam was a perverted ideology that justified the use of force against those of other religions or Muslims who interpreted their faith differently. It was hostile to "us and our values", he claimed, and though some want to negotiate with it or ignore it, neither of those approaches would work and it had to be confronted. The former prime minister also talked about the lessons of the post-9/11 era. He reportedly argued that the US and UK had learned that if you topple dictators, you release other forces that have to be dealt with. However, the Arab Spring demonstrated that many of those dictatorships would be swept away in any event. It was hard to be successful "unless you had allies within Islam itself", he reportedly said, adding that the Middle East would continue to evolve away from what it is and that unless extremism was fought it would continue to grow. He was said to be "extremely concerned" about the emergence of the Islamic State (Isis) in Syria and Iraq. [Source: The Guardian]

Tony Blair is clearly advocating force against those Muslims who only use their tongues to protect Islam and the interests of the Muslim ummah. Intellectually bankrupt, the West can only use force to prevent the emergence of the true Islamic state.

America: Newt Gingrich Outlines 7-Step Plan to Defeat Radical Islam

The United States has been at war with radical Islamist terrorism for at least 35 years, starting with the November 1979 Iranian seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and taking of 52 American hostages. President Jimmy Carter, in his State of the Union address two months later, declared the American captives "innocent victims of terrorism." For the next two decades, radical Islamist terrorism grew more powerful and more sophisticated. On Sept. 11, 2001, a remarkably sophisticated effort by Islamist terrorists killed nearly 3,000 Americans in New York City, Washington, D.C., and western Pennsylvania. In response to the worst attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor, President George W. Bush  told a joint session of Congress: "Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated."

We have clearly failed to meet that goal. After more than 13 years of war, with thousands of Americans dead, tens of thousands of Americans wounded, and several trillion dollars spent, the U.S. and its allies are losing the war with radical Islamism. The terrorists of Islamic State are ravaging Iraq and Syria, Boko Haram is widening its bloody swath through Nigeria, al Qaeda and its affiliates are killing with impunity in Somalia, Yemen and beyond, and the Taliban are resurgent in Afghanistan. The killings in Paris at Charlie Hebdo and at a kosher supermarket are only the most recent evidence of the widening menace of radical Islamism. Here is an outline of the sequence of topics that Congress should investigate:

1.     The current strength and growth rate of radical Islamists around the world. We need a detailed sense of the total picture. The scale of the threat from this nihilistic global movement, I suspect, will be stunning.

2.     The country-by-country danger. Americans simply don't realize how dire the situation is in specific areas. Boko Haram has killed thousands more people in Nigeria alone than Ebola has in all of Africa, according to data compiled by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Centers for Disease Control. One or more hearings should focus on each center of radical Islamism, including Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

3.     The role of the Muslim Brotherhood. The group is vital to the global radical Islamist movement, yet so little understood by Washington elites that it deserves its own set of hearings.

4.     The primary sources of radical Islamist funding, especially Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Iran.

5.     The Arab countries-including Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria-that have successfully contained and minimized radical Islamists. We must learn how this was accomplished and what aspects should be replicated.

6.     Radicalization in mosques and on social media. How are young Muslims being drawn into terrorism? What can be done to counter a seductive message that has reached deep into Europe and the U.S. and inspired jihadists by the thousands to travel to the Middle East for terrorist training that can be exported back home?

7.     The Islamist cyberthreat. The hacking of the U.S. Central Command's social-media accounts this week apparently didn't inflict serious damage, but the episode was evidence of a new front in the fight against terrorism. [Source: Wall Street Journal]

Allah (swt) says:

((يُرِيدُونَ أَن يُطْفِؤُواْ نُورَ اللّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَيَأْبَى اللّهُ إِلاَّ أَن يُتِمَّ نُورَهُ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكَافِرُونَ))

"They want to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah refuses except to perfect His light, although the disbelievers dislike it." [Al Tawba: 32]

Muslims World Stages Protests over Offensive Charlie Hebdo

The new issue of Charlie Hebdo has sparked heated condemnation from some Muslim-majority countries. In Jordan, where around 2,500 protesters took to the streets of the capital Amman amid tightened security, while demonstrations also took place in east Jerusalem and Khartoum. Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound Friday, some with banners reading "Islam is a religion of peace!" and "Our leader will forever be Mohammed". Egypt's premier religious institution, the Al Azhar Mosque, has also publicly expressed its dismay at the cover. The image was a "blatant challenge to the feelings of Muslims who had sympathised with this newspaper" Abbas Shumann, the deputy to the mosque's Grand Sheikh said, according to AP. However, Muslims should ignore the cover and respond by showing tolerance as an angry reaction "will not solve the problem but will instead add to the tension and the offense to Islam." In Pakistan, dozens of lawmakers chanted "death to blasphemers" at a march in front of parliament in Islamabad on Thursday. "All political parties are with us ... All Muslim countries should condemn these blasphemous cartoons, "Religious Affairs Minister Sardar Yousaf said.

The response of the Muslim world is clearly shameful and adequate. What is required is a response that forces the West to change its behavior completely. This happened at the time of Sultan Abdul Hameed II. During his reign there was a French theatre which was planning on making an insulting drama about the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad (saw). This drama would be played out not only in France, but in all of Europe. The Sultan stood up, and mobilized his army and followers, and they all wore the uniform of war. He then demanded that the ambassador of France (in Turkey) come to his presence immediately. He demanded that France stop the theatre drama against the Prophet (saws) immediately. When the French ambassador arrived, he was shocked to see the Ottoman army prepared, and even the Sultan himself in an army uniform! The Sultan said to the French ambassador: Send your letter. Straightaway, the ambassador of France sent a letter to the French government saying: "This State is preparing to enter into a state of war for this play... end it now ..!" And they stopped the play (in all of Europe).