History of Bilal Muslim Mission - Kenya

In December, 1964 The Federation of Khoja Shia Ithna Asheri Jamaats of Africa – at its Conference held in Tanga (Tanzania) – passed a unanimous resolution undertaking to convey the Message of Prophet Muhammad, s.a.w.w. and his Ahlul Bait a.s. to the indigenous Africans.

The efforts to spread Shia Madhab among indigenous Africans had been made long before this famous resolution. These efforts, however, were by individuals on their own and not made in unison and organised manner.

The Resolution gave them an impetus and as a result Organisations under the name of Bilal Muslim Mission were established in both Tanzania and Kenya in honour of Hadhrat Bilal, the first Muaddhin of Islam. Thus the obligation of Call to Islam original was given an additional motivation.

The Bilal Muslim Mission of Kenya was registered as a Religious Charity Organisation on 11 November, 1971

Even before formal registration of the Mission, contacts had been established with learned people from non-Shia Muslim Community, some of whom later on embraced the Shia Madhab. The Message was also being conveyed to the non-Muslims and one of the first to accept Islam from Christianity was a Mr. Njoroge – a member of Kikuyu Tribe. In 1964, he was sent to Pakistan to study Islam under Peermohamed Ebrahim Trust. He stayed there for six months and obtained his Islamic Education. The Mission is grateful to Marhum Haji Hassanali P. Ebrahim for his services in this respect. May Allah, s.w.t., grant him lofty abode.

In 1971, Ngala Chuphi -of Duruma Tribe- the Chief of Mackinnon Road accepted Shia madhab and adopted the Islamic name “Yusuf”. Hundreds of members of his tribe accepted Shia mazhab and today the Mission has many centres in the areas dominated by this tribe.

This was all because of the efforts of Kassamali Gulamhusein Family – particularly Haji Mohamedjaffer Kassamali Gulamhusein. It was as a result of their tabligh that the Chief and members of his tribe accepted Islam. The Kassamali Gulamhusein Family actively participated – physcially and financially – in providing facilities like Mosque, Madressa and School for the new Shias.

May Allah, s.w.t., bless with maghfirat members of “K.G. Family” who have since passed away from this world and increase the tawfiqaat of those remaining to continue doing tabligh. Aameen.

The Impact

The impact of Bilal Muslim Mission’s work can be gauged from the comments of non-Shias and the reaction of those who oppose its message. The following will give a clear idea of the success or otherwise of the Mission’s activities.

• Professor Muhammad Bakari, Department of Linguistics: University of Nairobi, in his paper “Asian Muslims in Kenya” Delivered at National Seminar on Contemporary Islam in Kenya States:

“The Ithnaasheri have become better known through the missionary activities of the “Bilal Muslim Mission,” with its network of bookshops in Nairobi and Mombasa. Although Sunni/Shia relations are still uneasy, the activities of the Bilal Mission have helped somewhat to deflect some of the earlier, and often blind prejudice against the Shia in general.” (pp.65).

“The Shia have also attracted some young Sunni, who were fascinated by rhetoric of Khomeini and the success of his revolution. It is also a reflection of the disillusionment of these young people with ineffectiveness of their Ulama. While a number of these young people now openly profess Shia doctrines, a smaller number has chosen t remain crypto-Shia for fear of social ostracisation. Even where there is no overt profession of Shia doctrines and practice, some important Sunni individuals, with fiercely independent views have shown open sympathy towards Shia.” (pp.66)

“The Bilal Muslim Mission also organizes the annual Muharram Majlis at their headquarters. The majlis is dedicated to the preservation and perpetuation of the memory of the ‘martyrs of Karbala’. A series of lectures is organised to coincide with the mourning period, in which aspects of Shia political history is narrated by the speakers. Not all the guest speakers nor the audience are Shia. A number of Sunni scholars have also been invited to give the public lectures. The lectures are video-taped and disseminated for viewing by a much wider audience, and through this strategy, Shia history and political concerns are made more accessible to non-Shias. This has the double advantage of educating non-Shias about Shiism and on the basis of this, eventually minimising anti-Shia sentiments within the country. “ (pp.66).

[ ISLAM IN KENYA published by MEWA]


• In another paper The New ‘Ulama in Kenya, delivered at the above Seminar, Professor Muhammad Bakari has detailed anti-Shia activities of some of the Wahhabi Ulama in Kenya. Under the section The Modern Ulama and Shia Posturing, writing about Dr. Muhammad Salim Badamana, a traditionally educated Alim as well a veterinary doctor who teaches in the University of Nairobi, he writes:


He has also emerged as a relentless and articulate crusader against the increasing Shia influence in Kenya. ………

He believes in waging an intellectual war against the Shias by, for example, countering their accusations against the companions of the Prophet ….. “ (pp.197)

Describing yet another anti-Shia Wahhabi – Sheikh Ahmed Msallam – he writes:

“ Msallam’s pet subject is that of the attack of Shiism. Conscious of the spread and popularity of Shiite ideas in Eastern Africa since the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, he has campaigned vigorously against their kind of Islam as nothing short of shirk. He has translated polemical works written in Arabic into Kiswahili to show the dangers of Shiism to modern Islam. His translation efforts have been financed and supported by the Nairobi branch of the Saudi based Dar Al-Iftah. (pp.185-186)

[ISLAM IN KENYA published by MEWA]

Following are excerpts from a letter by Seif M. Seif, which appeared in a local daily The Standard (December 8th, 1989):

“Daystar sinister campaign against Muslims deplored A copy of a policy document purported to be Minutes of proceedings of a seminar sponsored by Daystar University entitled “Exploring Islam Seminar” is around Mombasa. The aim of the seminar is to evangelise Muslims and to dismantle Islam in Kenya instead of co-existence.

Such recommendations as were adopted include: bribery of the poor under the guise of humanitarian assistance; destabilising Muslim Teaching Institutions, such as Bilal Muslim Mission ; exploiting differences between Sunnis and Shias; infiltrating and spying on Muslim homes; reclaiming Christians (?) converted to Islam, etc., etc. All these activities are to be financed from a 56 million pound fund from abroad, yet the body would like to investigate sources on Muslim funds, including those of Muslim wealthy men.


Your Obligation

In his sermon at the plain of Ghadeer on 18th Dhilhajj 10 A.H;after announcing the wilayat (leadership) of Imam Ali bin Abi Talib a.s., the Holy prophet exhorts:

• Let the one who has heard me convey this message to others

This is an instruction to be fulfilled by everybody at all times. You, too, have a role to play in discharging this obligation:

You can provide support by:

• Praying for success,
• Visiting our centres,
• Providing moral support,
• Donating finance.

Inshallah you will be one of the benefactors who will contribute towards the cause of our Deen.

This article is taken from the website of the Bilal Muslim Mission of Kenya.

See on-line at: http://www.kenbilal.org/content/view/1/5/

O People of Kenya: Deliver Yourselves from the Bitter Fruits of Multi-Party Democracy Destroying You

H. 24 Dhu al-Hijjah 1430
M. 2009/11/12
No:


O PEOPLE OF KENYA: DELIVER YOURSELVES FROM THE BITTER FRUITS OF MULTI-PARTY DEMOCRACY DESTROYING YOU!

The West under the leadership of the USA started beating the drums of multi-party democracy at the beginning of the 1990s in Kenya claiming that multi-party democracy would liberate the masses from perpetual crises that they faced. The US added that the single-party system is the source of the problems facing Kenyans, thus the solution was to throw it away in favour of a new multi-party democratic system praised as the key pillar for political development and economic advancement.

In 1991, and after the US in particular applied extreme pressure upon the existing government, section 2A of the Kenyan constitution was repealed and Kenya changed to a multi-party political system. Despite the then president Moi and his henchmen who were experts in fattening themselves by looting public resources as well as protecting the strategic interests of the West in its ‘cold war'-particularly Britain-resisting that new system, in the end he was forced to submit to US pressure led by its ambassador Smith Hempstone. As for the masses, many-due to their naivete in not realising the cunning of the West nor the reality of its corrupted capitalist ideology-were enchanted by multi-party politics believing it to be their salvation for their miserable lives. Opposition politicians that were beguiled by the US and who supported the ‘solution' of multi-party democracy raised their voices to expose the government of the then-ruling party KANU calling it a dictatorship. Many Kenyans were attracted by opposition politicians and their propaganda believing them to be heroes who would deliver Kenyan from its never-ending crises starting from colonial times extending to single-party rule. The coming of multi-party democracy was deemed to be the ‘Second Liberation' to liberate people from dictatorship who would then, as they assumed, enjoy a new better life of dignity. However, what is the reality after Kenya has passed through four multi-party elections?

O People of Kenya! You assumed that the coming of multi-party democracy would deliver you from the poverty that shackles your daily lives, but have you not seen that your prediction was false since poverty has increased until it destroys all save a few capitalist who loot public resources by force? You thought that changing single-party rule for a coalition government in 2003 would uproot the deep-rooted problem of tribalism and endemic grand corruption, as well as the land problem. Yet how come those problems are still confronting you despite the formation of a ‘grand coalition government or government of national unity' in 2008 led by those same opposition politicians of yesteryear who claims that they were liberators who would ensure reforms and development? Were you not promised that a multi-party democratic government would fulfill your basis needs such as health, food, shelter, education and security as well as ensuring many employment opportunities? Were you not convinced that the dragon of corruption would be slain and the key looters imprisoned, yet today do you not see the increase of grand corruption scandals encompassing politicians of all parties without exception? Is it not clear that the government has failed to ensure basic services for the masses despite changing your rulers and the ruling party? Is it not a crying shame that when the country suffers drought and water scarcity leading to people dying of thirst and severe power rationing, the government argues that the cause is lack of water. Yet when the ‘El Nino' rains fall in abundance, still you suffer from lack of food, water and power rationing and the government claims the problem is too much water! As for the manifesto promise of abundant employment opportunities, today unemployment especially among youth is at an all-time high leading them to be recruited by dangerous militant groups such as ‘Mungiki'!

Is it not as clear as sunshine that your hopes in multi-party democracy have failed miserably? Is it not an open secret that every multi-party election is worse than the previous one until the December 2007 elections led to the loss of many lives, chaotic anarchy and tens of thousands of people to become internally displaced persons (IDPs) in their own country? Are the politicians of different parties not cut from the same cloth such that their first urgent business in parliament was to raise their salaries and allowances exorbitantly even while the country perished under civil strife, yet at the same time the government claims it has no funds to raise the salaries of teachers and civil servants as well as failing to guarantee your basic right to life itself?

O citizens of Kenya! There is no doubt that you are very angry. And why not since when you take your patients to public hospitals the only answer is ‘there are no medicines so go buy yourselves'. Most of you find it hard to get a morsel of food yet politicians are eating fantastic salaries and allowances! Many are starving in a country with stupendous resources, and at the same time you cannot sleep at night for fear of insecurity affecting your property, farms and livestock. Even worse, you are forced to pay a burden of taxes for the sake of politicians who defiantly refuse to pay any taxes! Every day you see a new commission formed squandering billions in public money under the pretext of fighting corruption, getting to the bottom of the Goldenberg Scandal, ensuring clean elections etc. Now you see the third commission charged with constitutional reform and you are promised that you will soon see a new constitution that will bring about a positive change despite their passing almost 20 years without your seeing a new constitution. If there ever were a competition in forming useless yet extravagantly expensive commissions, no doubt Kenya would win but for what use! The constitutional reform charade is the worst comedy since one day a politician announces his position while in opposition that there is an urgent need to reduce presidential powers then he reverses his stance the moment one of his tribesmen assumes the presidency then changes about-turn again when he fears a non-tribesman may assume power in the future!

Kenyan politicians are so cheap and contemptible, yet they are supposed to be the leaders of positive change? Not to mention that politicians, as usual, are already running around campaigning for 2012 elections while you have not recovered from the fatal wounds of the last election. These same politicians announce publicly day and night that they are taking care of your welfare and that once you elect them to power then all your problems would cease overnight, yet they are the captains of internal strife, fighting and corruption. As for western ambassadors who are led by the US ambassador, they run up and down the country advising, instructing and commanding changes related to government, economic, military policies etc in flagrant neo-colonisation more harmful than old-style colonisation. Are these the fruits of independence and the so-called ‘Second Liberation' for which you sacrificed your lives?!

No doubt you are tired of these problems. Your ears are close to exploding upon hearing the lies of politicians, and your eyes are exhausted witnessing blood being spilt for the interests of politicians. It is clear that you need something to deliver you radically and comprehensively. And self-evidently you require a new constitution that provides the true guidance to resolve these crises. Surely you need a better government that caters for the needs of all rather than working for a small elite. And, even more importantly, you need to adopt the correct ideology with comprehensive solutions for life far removed from the false capitalist ideology imposed upon you the west.

The advance scout of a people cannot lie to them. After much thought and examination the reality of the situation, Hizb ut-Tahrir East Africa has realized that the solution for your problems shall never be found in multi-party democracy nor in politicians enslaved to that system and the west as agents. Nor will it be found in governments that accept and implement the capitalist ideology that gave birth to democracy. The true reality of multi-party democracy is that it is a system imposed by the West with the objective of enslaving Kenya, Africa and the ‘third world' generally in order to loot its uncountable resources and gain its vital political, security, economic and geo-strategic interests in place of the old British colonial master. Thus it is to only natural for western countries to engage in a struggle for interests such that each western country finances a party or politicians to sing their tune like slaves. The two leading contenders, USA and Britain, cunningly hire politicians to gain their interest in a dangerous struggle that destroys the country being fought over such as happened to Kenya in the December 2007 elections. Your local politicians are nothing but western agents who work day and night to ensure their masters' interests first and foremost, then secondly to fill their stomachs as far as their masters allow them at your expense, O People! Thus grand corruption and shallow self-interest on the part of local politicians is an inevitable consequence of multi-party democracy.

The grand deception of democracy that beguiled many is its slogan that it liberates people to choose the leader they wish with the vain hope that such a leader will follow their wishes. Since benefit/interest is the criterion for action in the capitalist ideology, politicians indulge in dirty politics in their struggle for power so as to enrich themselves and their close relatives/friends using elections or even violence to achieve their aims since they believe the Machiavellian creed that: ‘The ends justify the means' and that: ‘Politics is a dirty game without rules'! During campaign time people are deceived by small bribes and false promises. Moreover a politician is ready to use any means to remove obstacles including inciting tribal war, civil strife, intimidation, bribes etc not only in Africa but throughout the ‘third world'. The true reality of democratic politicians is that they cater only for their interests and the interests of their masters while oppressing the masses. Similarly such politicians are not expected to unify the people for development but rather to divide them and lead them to ruin since they are the leaders to destruction rather than guides to progress!

As for the call for a new and conducive constitution, it is true that humanity needs guidance to lead it. However, do you realise that a constitution devised by man is not capable of solving your problems? Democracy argues that a human being has the right to legislate laws and systems to guide himself in life, a concept that resulted from the secular creed that arose in Europe leading to the separation between religion and life i.e. man to guide himself based upon his thoughts arising from his limited mind. This creed prohibited religion governing life in general, rather it said that religion must remain a personal relationship between the believer and his deity alone. This creed contradicts man's nature in his capacity as a creature dependent upon his Creator to guide him via the Creator's Comprehensive Law that resolves all of life's problems. As long as man is a weak, limited and needy creature, imperfect and dependent, not aware of all requisite knowledge, subject to disparity and biases, inevitably influenced by his environment, and one whose opinions change one day form the next, this means that man cannot guide himself but is rather dependent on guidance from another not subject to such limitations.

O creatures of the Creator! Surely you were brought to earth to worship and serve your Creator by following His Guidance and Law revealed to His Prophets rather than ideologies devised by fellow men. Worshipping the Creator means governing your lives in accordance with systems governing gender relations, economy, politics, judiciary etc in strict compliance with the comprehensive Law revealed by your Creator, laws that are not subject to time-limitation nor do they oppress anyone unlike manmade laws. Thus any government established upon ideologies devised by imperfect men will inevitably fail to resolve your problems as you witness today with your own eyes with respect to democratic governments after the collapse of the communist governments for the same reason. The government that will truly solve your problems must be independent politically, economically and intellectually; something that is impossible for governments in the ‘third world' that are tied with and subservient to the westerd ideology

O People of Intellect! We pose these important questions: Are you not yet tired of multi-party democracy that in reality is a return to colonial slavery? Have you not seen that the US and the EU have enslaved you until they devise the reigning policies in all spheres of life until they have reached the point of threatening to take some of your politicians to the International Criminal Court at the Hague despite the fact that all evils committed by these politicians was in imitation of, and service to, the West? Not to mention that the leaders of the US and UK are the biggest war criminals perpetrating open atrocities across the world in pursuit of their interests, yet no one dares to take them to the Hague for trial! Do you not also see that accepting a manmade constitution means rejecting your Creator as if He is unable to reveal a true ideology for mankind despite the fact that man depends upon Him every second even for his very breath? And do you not realize that binding yourself to the capitalist ideology and its democratic system devised by man guarantees for you a painful torment first in this world due to the misery surrounding you followed by the punishment of your Creator in the Hereafter? Have you not repeatedly changed your MPs and rulers, president and even ruling parties without success but rather you continue to perish under the capitalist ideology? Have you not sacrificed everything for the sake of multi-party democracy even reaching the point of burning your country by your hands for the interest of the politicians who incited you, then they abandoned you to kill each other while they join hands in a coalition government via which they eat enormous salaries while ignoring your plight in IDP camps? Therefore the Islamic party of Hizb ut-Tahrir East Africa takes the stance that the Islamic ideology alone is the guidance that can lead mankind to a noble life under its government, the Khilafah (Caliphate), that is expected to be established soon in a major Muslim country elsewhere even though the US and the West fight Islam fearing Islam's proven potential to liberate the world from the evils of the capitalist ideology and its corrupt democratic system. We do not carry weapons nor will we force our views upon you, for that is contrary to the Islamic method of revival. Rather we address your intellects to reflect upon the truth of all that we have said and to debate a new way forward based upon evidence and rational proofs. We are always ready to clarify all that we say so that all of us are guided to that which is better for us in this life and the Hereafter, for this is a noble duty imposed upon us by our Lord. Thus we urge you to liberate yourself from the painful torment of the capitalist ideology and its corrupt multi-party democratic system by turning to Islam, the divinely-revealed ideology with solutions for all of your problems.

الْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَأَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِي وَرَضِيتُ لَكُمْ الإِسْلاَمَ دِينًا

"This day I have completed your deen (way of life/ideology), perfected My Favour upon you, and chosen Islam as your way of life" [TMQ 5:3]


This press release is taken from the Hizb ut-Tahrir website.

See on-line at: http://www.hizb-ut-tahrir.info/info/english.php/contents_en/entry_5708

The Fatal Flaw in the Draft Constitution Released by the Committee of Experts Led by Nzamba Kitonga - Hizb ut-Tahrir Media Office East Africa

H. 08 Dhu al-Hijjah 1430
M. 2009/11/25
No: 8/2009


PRESS STATEMENT

THE FATAL FLAW IN THE DRAFT CONSTITUTION RELEASED BY THE COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS LED BY NZAMBA KITONGA

On Tuesday, 17th November 2009, important documents were published in Kenya namely the draft constitution. This draft constitution released by the chairman of the Committee of Experts mandated to review the constitution, Nzamba Kitonga, was offered as a fresh start since there has been a vital quest for a new constitution for two decade. Many believe that enacting a new constitution will enable government institutions to perform efficiently thereby improving citizens' welfare. However, despite those hopes, the draft constitution has not been spared an open struggle between the politicians of the two main parties, ODM & PNU, particularly over the issues of coordinating executive authority. This is only to be expected since capitalist politicians are motivated by self-interest thus they measure only how far a constitution will preserve their lofty position as occurred in the referendum over the previous ‘Bomas' draft constitution that attempted to enact a new constitution. This split has broken the hearts of Kenyans who, as a matter of fact, have a great thirst for a new conducive constitution that will guarantee them a noble life.

While the citizens of Kenya have been given one month to read, consider, give their views and discuss this draft constitution, we in the Islamic party of Hizb ut-Tahrir East Africa having read and understood this draft wish to offer the following brief clarification: -

We understand that the citizens of Kenya have a great need for a conducive constitution since that is a vital document that defines the shape of the ruling system and forms a contract between the rulers and the citizens as well as being an expression of the ideology and values of the people that leads them in all spheres of life. However, which constitution is truly suitable for Kenyan citizens? This must be clarified. Islam as a comprehensive ideology has confirmed the great need for a constitution but clarified explicitly that the divine law revealed by the Creator (Allah Ta'ala) must be the basis of the constitution that guides His creation humanity not man himself to legislate his own laws. Men, even if they are experts or scholars of whatever degree, retain their inherent fallible human nature, limited minds that do not understand all things, influenced by their environment and possessing thoughts that differ and vary in life rather one's own opinion may change one day to the next such that one is deemed good today becomes bad tomorrow and vice versa. The reality of manmade constitutions is that they will never be free of the need for reform since they cannot stand the test of time as is witnessed with respect to all manmade constitutions existing throughout the world. The current Kenyan constitution was enacted by the colonialists with their fallible minds but they thought it suitable yet in their weakness they could never comprehend today's problems. What is surprising is that not even half a century has passed yet the current constitution has become outdated and we have been hearing the drumbeats of constitutional reform for twenty years now i.e. scarcely did any time pass before the deficiencies and flaws of the current constitution were exposed thus requiring reform. Based upon this reasoning, Hizb ut-Tahrir East Africa hereby states the simple truth that the drumbeat of constitutional reform shall never cease, generation after generation, as long as the constitution is devised by man, a naturally weak and fallible creature. If people truly want an enduring constitution suitable for all ages and peoples, they must refer to the Shari'ah revealed by the Creator via His Messengers and Prophets to deliver to humanity and particularly the Last Messenger to all mankind until the Day of Judgement, Muhammad (swalallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam).

We conclude our statement by exposing fatal flaw in the new draft constitution discovered by the members of Hizb ut-Tahrir East Africa which we strongly believe will be accepted by all rational persons who consider the issue profoundly: The basis of all constitutions in the world today is the capitalist creed of secularism which calls for the separation of religion of life i.e. separating the Creator of man, life and the universe from His creation humanity who need Him constantly even for their very breath! This corruption thought was devised by people who deny their Creator in their hearts though their mouths utter words claiming to be believers in God. Thus humanity arrogantly pretended to know more than the Creator, the Infallible, All-Able and Knower of all things who owns everything even our breath. What a fantastic and gross crime man committed in legislating a constitution, for who is more able to deliver a constitution that truly guides between us and Him? O creatures, what is wrong with you that you do not reflect so that you liberate yourselves from the shackles of manmade ideologies to the justice of the Shari'ah of Allah Ta'ala?!

أَفَحُكْمَ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ يَبْغُونَ وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ مِنْ اللَّهِ حُكْمًا لِقَوْمٍ يُوقِنُونَ

"Is it the rule of ignorance (jahiliya) that they wish? And who is better than Allah to judge for the people of conviction?!" [TMQ 5:50]



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Shaban Mwalimu

Media representantive

Hizb ut-Tahrir East Africa

Mob: +254(0737)606667

+254(0717)606667


This press release is taken from the Hizb ut-Tahrir website.

See on-line at: http://www.hizb-ut-tahrir.info/info/english.php/contents_en/entry_5709

The Arrest of Sheikh al-Faisal Is Another Sign that Obama Continues the War Against Islam - Hizb ut-Tahrir Media Office East Africa-

H. 18 Muharram 1431
M. 2010/01/04
No: 1,2010
PRESS STATEMENT



THE ARREST OF SHEIKH AL-FAISAL IS ANOTHER SIGHN THAT OBAMA CONTINUES THE WAR AGAINST ISLAM!

"New World Order" was a phrase used by Bush Senior that indicated the beginning of a new ear wherein the capitalist ideology would rule the entire world without any opposition at the beginning of the 1990's Christian Era after the collapse of the communist ideology that had been led by the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Despite this new era, the USA announced that the greatest danger it faced was from the Islamic ideology, and it promised to fight against Islam perpetually though it tried to deceive many when it pretended that it was not fighting Islam but rather declaring a ‘war against terror'. The US pressured many countries to legislate special laws to fight against ‘terror', and what is most painful is that the corrupt dictators of many Muslim countries, who rule the Muslim Ummah with an iron fist due to the support of the US or other western countries, also passed such laws that are used to humiliate and torture Muslims, men and women, old and young, and even infants who face atrocities in the name of the war against terror. What is even more surprising is to see US troops committing atrocities and killing Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and elsewhere yet these atrocities are not called terrorism nor their perpetrators called terrorists. All the while, the US hypocritically calls for so-called ‘human rights'!

Today the US is the greatest patron of the Zionists in their continued killings against the innocent Muslims of Palestine. Are these actions not the clearest face of terrorism? Whereas Muslims calling to Islam, wearing beards or wearing ‘Arab' clothes, this is interpreted as ‘terrorism' thus they are subjected to the risk of reckless arrest and brutal assaults in their homes such that thousands of Muslims are being tortured worldwide under the supervision of the greatest torturer, the USA or its allies. All this because the arrogant ruler of the world, the US, rightfully fears the true potential of the Islamic ideology to remove the current corrupt and oppressive capitalist order from the world and replace it with the justice and light of Islam.

O Muslims! The arrest of Sheikh Abdullah Al-Faisal by a contingent of Kenyan so-called anti-terrorism police is the clearest proof of what we have stated. Muslims must recognise that they are the real targets of this false so-called war against terror. This war shall endure since every president of the world's leading nation, the US, must commit himself to persist in this war without fail as was seen during the inaugural address of its current president Barack Obama in January 2009 C.E. This also indicates that the US is seriously worried about the impending collapse of its ideology and the near return of the Islamic ideology in the international arena via the re-establishment of its government, the Khilafah. Thus Muslims must not allow this war to deter us from holding fast to our ideology; rather we must redouble our commitment to Islam and realize that the increase of obstacles means the imminent success since Islam is the true ideology without doubt and our Lord has guaranteed its success against all opponents.

هُوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ رَسُولَهُ بِالْهُدَى وَدِينِ الْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُلِّهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ

"He (Allah) is the One who sent His Messenger (Muhammad) with the Guidance and the Deen of Truth such that Islam prevails against all other ways of life even though the polytheists detest that!" [TMQ 9:33]

The press release is taken from Hizb ut-Tahrir website

See on-line at: http://www.hizb-ut-tahrir.info/info/english.php/contents_en/entry_6040

The Interests of Muslims are not Protected, neither by Raila nor by Ruto, but Protected with Islam alone - Hiz ut-Tahrir Media Office East Africa

H. 06 Muharram 1431
M. 2009/12/23
No: 9/2009
PRESS STATEMENT



THE INTERESTS OF MUSLIMS ARE NOT PROTECTED, NEITHER BY RAILA NOR BY RUTO, BUT PROTECTED WITH ISLAM ALONE!

Yet again, Muslim politicians in the Coast Province whose residents are primarily Muslims are involved as secondary actors in a tug of war between the key leaders of the ‘ODM' party involving the Prime Minister Raila Odinga and the Agriculture Minister William Ruto. These Muslim politicians have been divided into two groups, one supporting Raila and the other supporting Ruto. This split appeared openly in public meetings namely one that took place in Tononoka grounds, Mombasa that was addressed by Raila and many Coast politicians that support him on 13/12/2009 and the other that took place on Saturday 19/12/2009 at Mvita grounds led by Najib Balala (Minister for Tourism) that was attended by Uhuru Kenyatta (Deputy Prime Minister), Kalonzo Musyoka (Vice President) and William Ruto (Agriculture Minister) and a supporting cast of MPs. It is important to note that this split within ODM is the first step in forming a new political coalition targeting the 2012 general elections in yet another example of the prevalent shallow democratic politics. The goal of all these coalitions is the interest of leaders not the general public and, based upon these calculations, when these politicians see that their interests are no longer secured by the leader of a specific coalition they hurriedly rush to form a new coalition while brazenly cheating the masses that their interests will be secured with this new coalition.

O Muslims! These current differences between politicians is nothing but a political circus that servers to divert your attention and waste your time as so-called leaders fail to settle on one firm stance. For many years they have been forming coalitions for example ‘NARC' (National Alliance Rainbow Coalition) of 200s that split and gave birth to ODM (Orange Democratic Movement) and the Party of National Unity (PNU), and you were divided into political sects following those factions. You joined PNU and other ODM, but wherever you turned you failed dismally since all those groups graduated in the school of corrupt democratic politics of securing their material interests at your expense. Today in Kenya, forming coalitions is the ‘new old' political fashion adopted by politicians as a means to reach power. The truth is that such politicians are least concerned about your problems caused by their misrule but are rather keen to calculate which party, leader or coalition will secure your interests. And because of their fervent desire to rule at any cost, such politicians use violence to reach their goals according to the western viewpoint that ‘might is right'. These same politicians falling out today are the same ones that chanted slogans of unity as one coalition of ‘Orange' in 2007, yet have they fulfilled any of their false campaign slogans? How many of your rights do you see crushed after these politicians stood on your heads to reach power then now they are fighting between themselves like small children?!

O Muslim Ummah! There is no difference between the current ODM leaders who call themselves ‘Youth' in their newly-formed coalition, and ODM of 2007. Rather all politicians are cut of the same cloth and stand against you, and you will never progress until you understand this profound truth.

O Muslim politicians! Have you not grown tired of tying your destinies with non-Muslim politicians such that you stand with them as a matter of life and death, then after a short time the same politicians you believed in with short-sighted blind faith turn against you and your followers among the Islamic Ummah such that you incur severe regrets? Then today again you jump aboard the same coalition train, nay you lead these trains and again incite Muslims to tie their destiny with people who are not among them who know neither Allah, the Messenger (SAW), truth or the Hereafter?! Have you still not yet heard the cries of citizens, Muslims and otherwise, that echoes far and wide who are stuck in a deep hole due to endemic democratic crises as you pretend to be deaf while pushing them even further down?! We in Hizb ut-Tahrir East Africa exhort you to repent from these shallow and evil politics that only cause severe harm to Muslims and others. Recognise that true politics emanated from the Islamic ideology that truly takes care of public interests meaning that you cannot secure public interests-nor even your own permanent interests-by joining partisan coalition politicians and the narrow materialist-driven democratic politics emanating form the kufr capitalist ideology that contradicts your Islamic ideology. Were you truly to commit to Islamic politics the way you commit to democracy, without doubt you would be leading the Ummah on the path of early success in this world and permanent success in the Hereafter; and to this do we call you.

O noble Islamic Ummah! We conclude this press statement by reminding you that your politics as Muslims is to call the world to the truth, including the ‘leaders' who follow kufr colonial politics either due to ignorance or confusion about the true path that lies in Islam, by enjoining the good and forbidding the evil according to the politics that your Lord commanded you to hold fast to. Commit to and be proud of your Islam since your honour is tied with the true deen revealed and completed to your Messenger (SAW): If you hold fast to it, without doubt you shall succeed in this world and the Hereafter, and if you turn away from it you will definitely taste humiliation in this world under corrupt governments and evil politicians then you shall have no shield when you meet your Lord on the Day of Judgement. We promise that we shall never abandon our stance of calling to Islam as a complete ideology and holding fast to its teachings, nor shall we ever blindly follow alternative paths unlike those without a firm stance: Today they stand with this corrupt leader then tomorrow with another and so on in a never ending embarrassing spectacle! Hizb ut-Tahrir shall persist in binding itself with the method of the Messenger (SAW) of calling to Islam via intellectual struggle and political struggle without using material force until our Lord rewards us with the Islamic State in this world that establishes truth and justice after the spreading of evil and oppression, and eternal success in the Hereafter. Has the time not yet come for you to abandon shallow democratic politics and support us?

Taken from Hizb ut-Tahrir website

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