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Wed Oct 31 16:00:09 2001



From The Media Office Of Hizb-ut-Tahrir

Communiqué from Hizb ut-Tahrir - America and Britain declare war against
Islam and the Muslims

"Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and
disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of a
believing people" [TMQ At-Taubah: 14].

On Sunday 7/10/2001, America, the head of Kufr and her ally Britain
declared a brutal war against the Muslims. They began to bomb Afghan
cities - Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad, and other cities - with deadly
Tomahawk missiles and with bombers, which carry tens of tonnes of
destructive bombs. These were launched from battleships, aircraft
carriers and submarines that she has amassed in the Indian Ocean over
the last three weeks. They were also launched from airports and military
bases of some neighbouring states with the collusion and treachery of
the criminal rulers in the Muslim lands.

The two enemies of Islam and the Muslims, America and Britain, waged an
unjust war against the poor and defenceless Afghan people who had been
afflicted by destructive wars for more than a quarter of a century. They
declared the war against it even though their government had not
declared a war against them and nor did it commit aggression against
them.

It is one of the strange and astonishing discrepancies, and more so an
insult to people's intelligence when they say that they are not fighting
Islam or the Muslims, at a time when they are unleashing all their
lethal weapons against the defenceless Muslims in Afghanistan visible to
the whole world to see and when they fight Islam in the name of
terrorism.

The war criminal Bush is waging an unjust war on the Muslims to regain
the tattered prestige of America and to eliminate the effects of the
blow, which had shaken her on the eleventh of September, carried away by
the desire of the American people for revenge. Polls have stated that
more than eighty per cent of the American people wish to see military
action as a response to what happened on that date. In addition to this,
one of the aims of this oppressive war is to uproot the aspiration of
the Muslims for the re-establishment of the rule by Islam, and to remove
the Taliban government after it freed itself from the American
subjugation and from the Western subjugation in general. This represents
a dangerous precedent, in the view of the Americans, to her influence
and to the influence of the West in that region and what may result in
terms of the liberation of the other Islamic peoples like Pakistan,
Uzbekistan, Iran and others.

As for what the war criminal Blair is undertaking by squeezing himself
into the hostility against Islam and the Muslims - he has truly drawn
people's attention by surpassing his partner in crime Bush in inflaming
the war. Blair's undertaking of this action is indeed a clear aggression
against Islam and the Muslims. By doing that he is showing enmity to the
Islamic Ummah without any regard for this Ummah, all of which is seen
and heard by her traitorous agent rulers, as if it is not their duty to
protect her sanctities and territories!

Indeed the reality of the war waged by America, the head of Kufr, and
Britain and their allies from the Kafir states on Afghanistan is a
crusade. They are waging it under the banner of what they call fighting
terrorism, through deliberate lies and deception, to strike Islam and
the Muslims, and to protect their treacherous agents - the rulers of the
Muslims who are colluding with them in this war - those rulers who have
opened up the airports and territories of the Muslims to their military
operations throughout the length and breadth of the Islamic world.

This is not the first time in which America and Britain have waged a war
against the Muslims. They waged a war, with other nations, against Iraq
in 1990 to facilitate the continuous plundering of the oil resources of
the Gulf under the pretext of protecting Kuwait and its people. Even
until now they are still, almost daily, launching attacks on the north
of Iraq and the south of Iraq. They established the Jewish entity in
Palestine in 1948 and they still support it with money, weapons and
influence, eager to fight Islam and humiliate the Muslims. Over the
necks of the Muslims they established agent rulers who inflict on them a
horrible torment to facilitate for the West the looting of the Muslims’
resources and to oppose any movement working for liberation from the
noose of Kufr and working to restore the rule of Islam in the land. What
America and Britain are doing is displaying their enmity for the Islamic
Ummah. They are enemies; a state of war exists between them and all the
Muslims that necessitates adopting an actual state of war as a basis for
dealing with them according to the dictates of the Shari'ah rules. That
position should be adopted with them and all those who ally themselves
with them in their war against the Muslims:

"And fight in the Way of Allah those who fight you" [TMQ Al-Baqarah:
190].

The last few days have shown the extent the ruling clans in the Islamic
world, including the Arab world, have reached, in serving the Kafir and
being faithful to him, and the extent of the hatred of these clans for
the sons of the Islamic Ummah. They colluded with the Kafir in killing
the Muslims of Afghanistan and they provided him with the necessary
military facilities and gave him the right to use the bases and
airports. They revealed to them the secrets of the state relating to
intelligence and all the information, which would enable the Kafir to
fight the Muslims. They vied with each other in providing lists which
contain the names of those they call "suspects" in order to chase them,
and they collaborated with them in paying for the costs of the war
against the Muslims.

O Armies of the Islamic Ummah:

The time has come for you to defend the domains of the Muslims:

"O you who believe! What is the matter with you, that when you are asked
to march forth in the cause of Allah (Jihad) you cling heavily to the
earth? Are you pleased with the life of this world rather than the
Hereafter? But little is the enjoyment of the life of this world as
compared with the Hereafter" [TMQ At-Taubah: 38].

Have you not heard and seen with your own eyes the head of Kufr America
and her cunning ally Britain destroying the homes of the Muslims in
Afghanistan? Do you not hear or see what the ruling clans are doing in
your lands in terms of allying with the Kuffar against the Muslims:

"O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians as Awliya
(friends, protectors), they are but Awliya to one another. And if any
amongst you takes them as Awliya: then surely he is one of them" [TMQ
Al-Ma'idah: 51]

"O you who believe! Take not My enemies and your enemies (i.e.
disbelievers) as friends" [TMQ Al-Mumtahana: 1].

The time has come for you to liberate the Ummah from the evil of these
renegade clans that have permitted loyalty to Kufr at the expense of
supporting the Muslims. It is forbidden for you to obey them in fighting
the Muslims. Rather it is obligatory on you to work to liberate the
Ummah from them, and to support your Muslim brothers in Afghanistan and
elsewhere by standing on their side in confronting America, Britain and
their allies in their brutal war against Islam and the Muslims.

O Noble Ummah:

Indeed, the declaration of war on Muslims in Afghanistan or in any other
nation is a declaration of war on all Muslims in the world. There is no
difference between Kabul, Damascus, Cairo, Makkah, Jakarta and other
capital cities of the Muslims. The political borders placed amongst the
Muslims by the Kuffar are of no value. The war of the Muslims is one and
their peace is one. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah
be upon him) wrote in the treaty of Madinah the description of the
Muslims: "They are one Ummah to the exclusion of all other people...the
believers are helpers of each other to the exclusion of others...the peace
of the believers is one and the believer does not make peace except with
another believer in fighting in the path of Allah."

22 Rajab 1422 Hijri
9/10/2001
Hizb ut-Tahrir

[TMQ = Translation of the Meaning of Quran]

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