Press Release
The Absence of Islam from the Scene Emboldens the Nations to Attack Us
Only the Khilafah Preserves Our Dignity
(Translated)

American universities are witnessing widespread protests against the Jewish aggression against Gaza that has been ongoing for seven months. Universities have witnessed protests by students and teachers alike, both Muslims and non-Muslims, to denounce the brutality of the occupying Jewish entity against the steadfast Muslims in Gaza. While Western people have been living for decades under the illusion of freedoms sold to them by politicians, these protests exposed the worst of the Western system, and the falsity of the ideal of freedoms and human rights to expression and belief. Thousands have been arrested and dozens beaten on grounds of anti-Semitism. Two days ago, four Muslim girls were attacked in particular at the University of Arizona, their headscarves were forcibly removed and they were thrown into jail amid strong condemnation from the students and attendees who documented the incident. This was condemned by Executive Director, Azza Abu Saif, of the Arizona branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

Western leaders have always intended to present Muslims in two images to their people and to the world: either extremist terrorists with a passion for murder and a thirst for bloodshed and the bombing of innocents, alongside stigmatizing Islam as a religion of violence that has spread by the sword, amidst historical fallacies and the spreading of lies without an impartial clarification of the truth and the meaning of jihad Or ignorant, backward, barbaric people who do not understand anything about civilization, who are behind in culture and civilization, while the West is superior to them and is doing them a favour by spreading its culture to them and invading their countries!

But years ago, with Allah’s grace, and especially after October 7th, 2023, the image that the West saw of Muslims was reversed. For the first time the world saw Muslims in the image of the dignified, not the humiliated debased image that Western politicians painted about Muslims. During the months of the war, the Jewish entity deliberately tried to hide this image, and hide the sight of the unity of Muslims, who with their steadfastness and patience after the operation of October 7th, 2023, undermined all the enemy’s efforts over the years to instill division and consolidate the inability to uproot the occupation. So, the Jewish entity became brutal, shed blood, and committed hideous massacres in a successive manner, expressing a hidden hatred and real fear at the imminent demise of their entity. The people of the world revolted after being astonished by the complicity of their rulers and their support for the criminality of the Jewish entity, for they are the ones who have always seen their countries in the role of the hero who defends the values ​​of justice and freedom.

The Muslim woman, who fell under direct targeting just like the man, in light of the bloody wars waged by the West and the East against Muslims in the lands from India and China in the east to America in the west, was strongly present in the proud Gaza, giving her sisters in the world the meanings of steadfastness, pride, patience, and readiness to sacrifice for Allah’s Deen with life, money and children. And now her sisters in America and Europe are also standing and taking their share of the test for the sake of upholding the truth and supporting Allah’s Deen. What Muslim women in the West are subjected to in terms of racism, harassment, and removal of the headscarves from their heads is the result of the complicity of Muslim rulers and the betrayal of the armies stationed in their barracks.

How great it would be if officers in the Ummah’s armies understood their assigned role, and were aware of the importance of their role in change and the great sin that falls on their shoulders by their silence. We have seen an army conquer Amorium for the sake of a woman whose children were killed, so she cried for help from the Caliph. Now we hear the cries of thousands of women in Gaza and watch the scenes of headscarves being removed from the heads of Muslim women in front of the people, and these images transmitted over the air to reach the whole world, but they do not find a caliph moving nor an army that restores rights and preserves dignities!

[فَإِنَّهَا لَا تَعْمَى الْأَبْصَارُ وَلَكِن تَعْمَى الْقُلُوبُ الَّتِي فِي الصُّدُورِ]

“For indeed, it is not eyes that are blinded, but blinded are the hearts which are within the breasts” [Al-Hajj: 46]

Women’s Section
in The Central Media Office
of Hizb ut Tahrir