Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem

(The political Review)

The conflict between Turkey and Syria is a conflict between rulers and not between peoples

 In Teheran, mass demonstrations took place calling for the downfall of the secularism of Khatemi and his clique and demanding the Islamic rule. In Turkey, about a million demonstrators protest against the Kufr laws implemented by the military junta and the secular politicians upon the Muslims with an iron fist. In Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif expressed his readiness to rule by Islam in order to strengthen his grip on power and silence the masses. In Sudan, America was forced to dress her agents with the Islamic cloak. In Egypt, several disturbances, trials and executions take place owing to the contradiction between Islam and the systems implemented upon the Muslims. In Syria, the Kuffar from among her rulers bulldozed entire cities and massacred their residents.

Amidst such atmosphere, the drums of war between Turkey and Syria are beaten and the Kuffar from among the Syrian rulers appeal for the Arabs and the Muslims to come to their rescue; while the Kuffar from among the Rulers of Turkey incite the Muslim people to stand up to defend the unity of the land, the state and the Ummah according to them.
 
The Muslims in Turkey and in Syria realise that their rulers are agent of America and the Muslims in Turkey and in all the Islamic lands realise that the blood, wealth and honour of a Muslim is prohibited upon another Muslim. They realise also that the Kurds are legitimate residents of these lands just like all the other Muslims; they even have an honourable involvement in the history of Muslims, just like the Arabs and the Turks who hold the honour of having carried and spread this ideology in the past.

What is in fact baffling is that the rulers of Syria and the rulers of Turkey exhort the Muslims to take part in a battle which is not between Islam and Kufr, but a battle where Muslims will be slaughtered. The Syrian and Turkish rulers realise that they are the most despised creatures to their peoples, and yet the Syrian ruler deceive the Muslims under the banner of the Zionist Turkish alliance, despite the fact that the Muslims do know that the Syrian rulers are yearning for the day when they will officially recognise the state of Israel. The Syrian rulers claim the Golan and the 1967 borders and once the withdrawal takes place the conflict between them and the Jews will come to an end.

The Muslims realise that the war between Islam and Kufr is their real battlefield and that victory or martyrdom in this war is one of their wishes; any other battle is not considered an issue for them. The might of the Muslims will not be established unless the established entities in the Islamic lands are removed and unless the borders that divide these lands are destroyed. The Muslims are angering Allah (swt) by keeping silent over these entities, these rulers and these borders. Despite all this, the Syrian rulers appeal to the Arabs and to the Muslims and the Turkish rulers order the Muslim people to fight their vital battle and describe anyone who stay behind.

The attempts at deceiving the Muslims practised by the disbelieving Rulers of Turkey and Syria will not be answered by the Muslims, Arabs and Turks alike. The Muslims will continue to regard Kufr as their enemy. No matter how horrific the tyranny to which they subject the Muslims, the Turkish and Syrian rulers, as well as their likes from among the rulers of the Islamic lands, will not described but a enemies of the Islamic Ummah as a whole.

Despite the Muslims’ reaction throughout the Islamic lands, and the horror they felt due to the looming spectre of war between Turkey and Syria, the rulers of Syria and Turkey would be dreaming if they thought that the horror that had befallen the Muslims was an indication of their concern for their thrones or their entities or their borders. It is rather a concern for the resources, power, wealth and the sons of the Ummah, which the Muslims hope that they will turn into a power for the single Islamic entity, a power that will protect the Ummah, Islam and its State and that will spread Islam to the world.

The Muslims are not fooled by the propagators of secularism, nationalism and sectarianism. These calls have no place but under their feet. The Muslims realise that the Rulers of Turkey and the rulers of Syria are agents of America and that their is no animosity between them and the Jews, even if their roles are diverse.

If the manner in which the Muslims nowadays express their aspirations to return to their way of life and build their State and unify their entity, is reflected in demonstrations, protests, individual and partisan actions here and there, the Islamic Ummah will not take long to make Islam her main and vital issue, and to undertake towards it the measures that Islam has ordered. The Ummah will not take long to sacrifice for the sake of Islam their bodies and souls and engage in struggle for it. Then the clash between secularism and Islam and against the champions of nationalism and sectarianism will be a clash that topples the thrones. Then the Islamic Ummah will be united and she will resume the real struggle against America and capitalism, and she will resume the task of carrying Islam to the world. That day, the Muslims will rejoice by the victory of Allah .

Allah (swt) says: “And cover them with shame, help you to victory against them and heal the breasts of the believers.” [9-14] T.M.Q.
 
Hizb ut-Tahrir

26th Jumadah Al-Aakhirah 1419h
17th October 1998

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