Press Release: Houthi Militias Detain 5 Shabab of Hizb ut Tahrir by Blocking Road to the Khawlaan Route

Houthi Militias Detain 5 Shabab of Hizb ut Tahrir by Blocking Road to the Khawlaan Route
(Translated)

Houthi Militias detained five Shabab of Hizb ut Tahrir after their car was impeded on Friday on their return to Sana’a from Khawlaan province. The Militias then led them to a security department (Juhanah district) located on the same road. These Shabab were visiting this province because some of them were from there and had attended a discussion session with the people discussing the correct solution to get out from these crises and ordeals which Yemen in particular is passing through and the Muslim lands in general. These Shabab are Brother Engineer Shafeeq Khamees, Brother Abdullah Al-Qaadi, Member of the Hizb Media Office in Wilayah Yemen who was detained alongside his son Ali Abdullah Al-Qaadi, in addition to Brother Muhsin Al-Ja’dabiy and Brother Abdul Kareem Assda’ii.

What the Houthi Militias are undertaking against the Shabab of Hizb ut Tahrir and the people of Yemen in general are from the types of hideous crimes that none except the Mafia and criminal gangs undertake. This is in the case where they engage in igniting wars, strife, in-fighting, detentions and blockading roads whilst striving to harass and eliminate anyone who opposes their opinion, fearing the word of truth that they are incapable of confronting by way of proof and evidence, whilst only possessing the rapture brought by weapons and the haughtiness and self-importance that accompanies tyrants. This all points to the kind of bankruptcy and egoism that takes the one possessing it into a downward abyss and the anger of Allah Almighty, as long as he continues upon that path.

We have made clear in more than one statement, seminar and conference that we in Hizb ut Tahrir do not adopt material actions and that we do not take up arms in the method to establish the rightly guided Khilafah upon the methodology of the Prophethood. This is not out of fear or cowardice but rather it is only in emulation of our Noble Messenger (saw) when he established the first State in Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah. In spite of this, our Shabab are arrested, harassed in our activities and our banners are removed from the streets of Sana’a under weak and deceitful justifications. This is whilst the militias justify these criminal actions of theirs claiming that they have doubts and that they are suspicious that the Hizb is working as part of ISIS or Al-Qaeda!! All of that is because we raise high the Rayah (banner) of the Messenger of Allah (saw), give out our publications and statements, and call for the Khilafah upon the methodology of the Prophethood!! Indeed we even visited the Houthi Political Office and discussed with them, provided them with our methodology and explained it to them. So when then will they understand the call of Hizb ut Tahrir and the methodology of its work or are they unable to comprehend?!

The Houthi militias have been afflicted by the intoxication of the rule and the rapture of self-importance. At the same time as they claim to be in vehement opposition to the oppressors we see them making alliances and developing warm relations with them. This is whilst they arrest and vehemently oppose the sincere workers from the Shabab of Hizb ut Tahrir who desire to change the oppression, remove the criminals and incorporate the rule of Allah upon the earth by way of the method of establishing the rightly guided Khilafah upon the methodology of the Prophethood… The movement of these militias is like a slaughtered animal; strong in its speed at the beginning, but it occurs without awareness and this is what makes it, in this case, pliable to the political objectives of the West and the sectarianism that it exports to the Muslims. Hizb ut Tahrir has made clear its position which rejects internal and external wars and sectarian strife by which the West wants the whole of Yemen to be overtaken by. The Hizb calls the Houthis to awaken from their intoxication and to repent to Allah for the crimes that they have committed against the people of Yemen and the Shabab of Hizb ut Tahrir. We call them to free those who have been detained and we warn them to stop their hostile position to the historical movement that the Hizb is forming with the Ummah in order to realize the promise of Allah and the glad tidings of His Noble Messenger which is based upon a methodology that has been extracted from the Wahi (Divine Revelation) and its Ahkam. This is so that the Islamic Ummah returns to being one Ummah in one State, which encompasses all Muslims, with all their various schools of thought (mathahib of Ijtihad) to fight together against their enemies as Mujaahideen and victors.

وَقُلِ اعْمَلُوا فَسَيَرَى اللَّـهُ عَمَلَكُمْ وَرَسُولُهُ وَالْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَسَتُرَدُّونَ إِلَىٰ عَالِمِ الْغَيْبِ وَالشَّهَادَةِ فَيُنَبِّئُكُم بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ
“And say, “Do [as you will], for Allah will see your deeds, and [so, will] His Messenger and the believers. And you will be returned to the Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, and He will inform you of what you used to do.” [At-Tawba: 105]

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Yemen