O you who believe, respond to the call of Allah and His Messenger when He calls you to that which would give you life... JUMADA I 1433 - JUMADA II 1433 ··· APRIL 2012 ··· ISSUE: 20 Will the Islamic Parties Deliver on Their Promises? PRINCIPLES AND POLITICS CAN MIX - UNDERSTANDING ‘DAR AL-KUFR’ & ‘DAR AL- ISLAM’ - WOMEN OF HIZB UT-TAHRIR ORGANISE HISTORIC INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S CONFERENCE (TUNISIA) - THE ILLUSION OF ECONOMIC GROWTH - THE REALITY OF AN ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN - REPLACE SHEIKH HASINA'S BANKRUPT REGIME WITH THE ISLAMIC KHILAFAH STATE - DECIPHERING THE “TURKISH MODEL” OF GOVERNMENT NEWSBITES needed by those people who feel excluded Commenting on Ahmad’s BBC interview in in society; and unemployment amongst April 2012, former US prosecutor David young people has reached historic levels. Raskin told journalists that the US constitution was ‘generous’ to those Furthermore, the secular nature of society, defending themselves against prosecution! excluding religion from life’s affairs is such Maybe if you’re a US soldier who murders that it gives no fixed standards of rights and Muslims in Kandahar or Haditha. But try wrongs that means almost two generations telling that to Dr Aafia Siddiqui and others BOSNIA – 20 YEARS ON of parents find it very hard to guide their who have tasted the bitter reality of so- Media outlets highlighted the 20-year children with a stronger set of values than called US ‘justice’. anniversary of the war in Bosnia breaking the materialistic and individualistic ones out this April. What wasn’t highlighted was propagated in the media. the shameful embargo NATO forces imposed on the Bosnian Muslims (Serbs were Finally, mistrust of the police – particularly provided weapons from Russia), the amongst minority ethnic communities – is appalling siege of Sarajevo which western endemic. The riots started when Mark governments allowed to continue 3 times Duggan, a black man, was shot and the longer than the siege of Stalingrad, or police escaped fundamental scrutiny on perhaps most troubling the capitulation of their actions. In addition, this week the the UN “protection” forces which effectively British media has been filled with stories left the population of Srebrenica to be about racism in the London’s police force. slaughtered at the hands of the Serb marauders of Ratko Mladic (more than 8,000 Unsurprisingly, no one as yet seems to be men and boys were executed in cold blood). brave or honest enough to examine the BRITAIN INVITES BUTCHER OF The targeted rape of thousands of Muslim causes that seem endemic to capitalism, BAHRAIN TO JUBILEE women and young girls, even toddlers have secularism and national identity. CELEBRATIONS, AFTER THEIR left an entire population traumatised. And all DEFENCE MINISTER VISITS THE within a Europe that had said “never again” MONSTER OF UZBEKISTAN after Hitler. Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahrain’s ruler, has been invited to attend the British Queen’s Bosnia gave us the media term of “ethnic Diamond Jubilee celebrations, rendering cleansing” and it was predominantly the meaningless the Foreign Office’s Muslims that were “cleansed”. The Dayton protestations about the murderous actions Accord perhaps epitomised all that of Middle East tyrants. happened best. Western interventions were late (after 100,000 died), were one sided Over the past year, the Bahrain regime has (giving half the land to the aggressor Serbs), not only massacred protestors and succeeded in dividing the populations demonstrating against the regime, they on nationalist grounds, creating further MUSLIM SETS A NEW RECORD IN THE locked up doctors and nurses who treated problems which will rumble on for decades. UK! the injured protestors. A Muslim has set a landmark record in the BRITAIN’S RIOTS IN 2011: CAUSED BY UK. Sadly, it is not an achievement anyone Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa is, apparently, also ‘POOR PARENTING’? would welcome. set to attend a champagne dinner hosted by An independent government-appointed Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace. panel, set up to study the causes of last Babar Ahmad has spent over 7 years in a summer's riots calls in the UK, has identified maximum-security prison without being None of this should surprise anyone – and the causes for last years riots as poor charged, put on trial or even seeing the certainly, no one should trust any British parenting, a failure of the justice system to evidence against him. This is the longest government statements opposing the rehabilitate offenders, materialism and time in British history anyone has been brutality of Assad, Gaddafi or anyone else. suspicion of the police. In 2011, another imprisoned without being put on trial. report by the Guardian Newspaper and the In February 2012, British Defence Secretary London School of Economics (LSE) The reason is that the United States Philip Hammond met with Uzbek President, interviewed 270 of the rioters and found a government asked for his extradition to the Islam Karimov, one of the world’s most complex mix of grievances including USA. ruthless dictators and architect of the distrust and antipathy toward police as key Andijan massacre of 2005, in Tashkent to driving forces. The crime he is alleged to have committed discuss closer military co-operation. He and is that he ran a website from the UK, that the LibDem Armed Forces Minister Nick Sadly, most of these factors – which are sits on a server in the USA. The website, it is Harvey visited all five Central Asian systemic - are unlikely to disappear in a said, was campaigning to support the republics. It is reported that Mr Hammond hurry. Chechen mujahedeen – a struggle that was made no public mention of widespread considered legitimate by the UK and USA – human rights abuses during his trip, but if The economic situation in Britain and until their extreme labeling of jihad he had, such visits and invites would render austerity measures to control the budget struggles as ‘terrorism’. these mere hollow words. deficit are likely to cut the social programs n 2 :: Khilafah Magazine :: April 2012 www.khilafah.eu DR. ABDUL WAHID Editorial Nicholas Sarkosy is forced to be even inconsistencies of this model. more right-wing than his usual hawkish Will the self, to out manoeuvre the fascist Marine But by contrast, Dr Nasreen Nawaz’s Le-Pen. The victims of this election will coverage of the International Women’s be minorities generally and Muslims Khilafah Conference offers the people of Islamic specifically, who will be scape-goated by the region a different vision, based on all politicians to play to the basest Islam. Similarly Mohamad Arif’s instincts of the masses. presentation of Islamic economic Parties solutions is a step forward to presenting Sadly, Egypt appears to be entering the ideas that are needed to introduce a election mode accepting the capitalist new thinking into the Muslim world. Deliver on democratic system and nation state model that Britain and France have. And However, the real hope of real change is the politics may well get as unethical. in the hearts, minds, chants and blood of the beautiful people of Syria. They have Their In a striking U-turn, the Muslim maintained their pure Islamic call, Brotherhood – who vowed not to stand despite massacres by the regime and in presidential elections – have put international conspiracies. They are ﷺ Promises? forward not one, but two candidates. sacrificing, inshallah, like the Prophet Moreover, one of these received a and his companions sacrificed before pardon from the ruling military Allah brought them from the hardships Election fever is in the air. There are authority [SCAF] to pave the way for his and fear of insecurity to the security of Presidential elections scheduled for May standing, leaving some people feeling the Islamic State in Medina. 2012 in Egypt; French Presidential that they had colluded with SCAF in elections are scheduled for April & May order to secure a position for themselves Al Tabarani narrated that the Messenger once said: “Do you know ﷺ and London is in the midst of a and, in so doing, undermined the of Allah ;2012 bitter electoral contest. revolution. what Allah says about al-Sham? Allah Ta’ala says “Al-Sham you are safwati min The elections in the mature democracies Our article by Sajjad Khan [Principles bilaadi (the best of My lands) and I shall of Britain and France give some flavour and Politics Can Mix] highlights the inhabit you with the chosen ones among of how the systems work in the similar inconsistencies of the Ennahda My slaves.” capitalist system. Party in Tunisia, in their placing of power over their former principled May Allah make those brave people His The two main candidates of Ken position that won them so much respect chosen ones. May He protect them and Livingstone and Boris Johnson in in the hearts of the people during the reward them with His Victory. London have accused each other of Ben-Ali years. Similarly, Adnan Khan’s being liars – and barely say a civil word critique of the western-endorsed Ameen to each other. The victims of this ‘Turkish model’, that some seem so keen n election are truth and civility. to emulate, highlights the failings and www.khilafah.eu Khilafah Magazine :: April 2012 :: 3 SAJJAD KHAN the ones we see in the West, are deeply flawed. Power is distributed amongst different politicians or institutions, not to have checks and balances, but to PRINCIPLES encourage division and to stop strong leadership. Indeed elections are a necessary smokescreen to allow the illusion of societal participation to cover the real reality that power is exercised by an unelected elite. Having multiple AND POLITICS institutions such as lower or upper houses or constitutional restrictions ensures nothing can get done which is too radical.