Hizb ut-Tahrir calls ummah to re-establish Khilafah
Overnight, on 19-20 March 2011, the Western states started air raids and launched rockets from the sea upon some sites in Libya. These countries took advantage of the feebleness of the Muslims’ rulers, particularly in the neighbouring country, Egypt, in supporting the Libyan people so as to save them from the massacres committed by Gaddafi, his henchmen and his mercenaries.
It is truly a tragedy that through his bloody massacres, the Libyan tyrant provided an atmosphere for military intervention in Libya … It is a further tragedy that the Arab rulers, in fact all the rulers of Muslim lands, also contributed to this intervention through not supporting Libya against this tyrant. Their duty was to move the armies to support the Libyan people so as to break the back of the tyrant, without the intervention of Western powers in the Muslim countries. And it is a third tragedy that the Muslims have admitted a poisonous snake into their homes to stop harm upon them!
The Libyan tyrant, through his bloody massacres, and these rulers, through their not supporting the people of Libya so as to rescue them from the tyrant, are partners in the crime of creating the atmosphere for militarily intervention by Western countries, after political intervention in the form of the UN Security Council Resolution 1973, under the excuse of humanitarian rescue for the people of Libya, whilst these countries know nothing of humanity. They only know about material reward and not any reward, but an exorbitant reward through realizing their interests in the Muslim countries!
O Muslims: The affliction of this Ummah is its rulers and then the Ummah’s silence over the crimes of these oppressor rulers and their tyranny. The Ummah is afflicted by the punishment that the rulers are afflicted by, not only in the Hereafter, but even in this world, as she sees her enemy bombing her lands and roaming in the skies, violating her sanctities.
O Muslims, O rulers in Muslim lands, O rulers of Egypt Al-Kanaanah (Fortress): Is there not a wise man amongst you, one who would put right the matter before it is too late and move his army to Libya to rescue her from the tyrant Gaddafi, bringing relief to the people of Libya and ending any justification that the West uses to violate the Libyan airspace and territories, with its airplanes and missiles? Is there not a single wise man amongst you to end this Western military intervention which is humiliating the Muslims? It really is a tragedy, one of the misfortunes of this world that the oppressed do not find anyone to save them from the oppressor but their enemy! Is it difficult for one and a half billion people to save Libya from the tyranny of Gaddafi, rather than compelling the people to opt for their enemy to save them?!
O Muslims: isn’t it time for you to acknowledge that which Hizb ut-Tahrir was, and still is, calling you to: the establishment of the Khilafah, the protector of the lands and its people, which will break the backs of the enemy?