On Monday 3^rd August 2009, the chairman of Central Communications Committee committee of Hizb ut-Tahrir East Africa Sheikh Ashbal Karama  delivered a letter to the Turkish embassy offices situated at Gigiri in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Although  the embassy secretary told him that the ambassador had travelled, Sheikh Ashbal left it to him and insisted that it be handed  to the ambassador when he comes back.

 The subject of the letter was about the news /description from Hizb ut-Tahrir  Wilaya of Turkey concerning the step taken by the Turkish government to arrest shabab (activists) of Hizb ut-Tahriron Friday 24^th July, 2009 as a stiff action to ban the Khilafah "Caliphate" conference  to be held on 26^th July 2009 in Istanbul. Despite that action, the government also dispersed negative propagandas against Hizb ut-Tahrir  and its activities.

 These were the contents of the letter: -

1. The press release prepared by the deputy spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Wilaya of Turkey which carried a heading that read: "By Allah's Will, Hizb ut-Tahrir Will Not Be Suprressed". He described how the Turkish police invaded the houses of shabab and arrested hundreds of them putting 200 activists into police custody, from at least twenty three towns. The letter warned the Turkish leaders on Allah's painful torment on wrongdoers.  

2. The press release which contained the Turkey's majority opinion published on ‘Radical Reform' magazine clarifying the false information propagated by the government. The magazine also illustrated that the Hizb received permission from the governer of the state of Istanbul to hold The International Khilafah "Caliphate" Conference on 4^th Shaaban, 1430 Hijri entitled: "The Situation of the World and the Way of Revival". The conference was among the activities/functions organized by the global party of Hizb ut-Tahrir worldwide in the holy month of Rajab for the purpose of sensitizing the Islamic Ummah to re-establish the obligation (fardh) of the Khilafah "Caliphate", but two days prior to the fixed date planned for the conference the police force issued a statement banning the conference which was followed before and after the with the cruel arrests of the shabab of Hizb ut-Tahrir.

3. A leaflet from Hizb ut-Tahrir containing the events of the arresting of the shabab in Turkey. The leaflet warned the government against that inhuman step which will never stop Hizb ut-Tahrir from carrying its work, and stated that  anyone who declares enmity and rages war with Allah will never succeed, is a loser and will be among those who oppose Allah and His Messenger and thus will be among the lowest.   

إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُحَادُّونَ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ أُولَئِكَ فِي الْأَذَلِّينَ

Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, they will be among the lowest (most humiliated)

The paper concluded  by saying: "We in Hizb ut-Tahrir warn the Turkish agents that believe in secularism and submit to British masters as well as those who nominally guise themselves with Islamic guise but in fact are enemies of Islam and agents of America, we severely warn both of them that by Allah's wish the Khilafah "Caliphate" is coming back soon at the same place where  it was destroyed and is returning to the city  of Istanbul, returning to the place where the Islamic fortress was found, even though the big noses of the disbelievers and wrong-doers will be rubbed into the soil in humiliation.

       سَيَعْلَمُ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا أَيَّ مُنْقَلَبٍ يَنْقَلِبُونَ

"And those who do wrong will come to know by what overturning they will be overturned."

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Shaban Mwalimu

Media representantive

Hizb ut-Tahrir East Africa

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