Press Release
The Agent Political Parties are Elements of Destruction and Ruin in the Hand of the Disbelieving Occupiers
(Translated)

The Sulaymaniyah governorate within the Kurdish province, which is the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Party led by Jalal Talabani, witnessed in this current month of October, noisy protest demonstrations in rejection of the continuation of the economic crisis, the delayed payment of employees for three months, the deterioration of the financial and administrative situation, the lack of solving the problem of the province's presidency as a result of Masoud Barzani, the province's president, holding on to his post since the American occupation in 2003 and the lack of undertaking reforms that the province's government had promised to undertake, in addition to the struggles and clashes between the Kurdish political parties competing over the authority.

As a result of the development of those mass protests, the headquarters of Barzani were attacked and set on fire which led to the intervention of the security forces and the use of force to disperse the protesters. That resulted in tens of casualties with injuries whilst three people were killed... That was accompanied by the ruling party accusing the 'Movement for Change' party led by Nawshirwan Mustafa in addition to ejecting the province's Head of Parliament and four Ministers who belong to that party. Barzani's party also accused Talabani's party of dealing leniently with the opposition and for not protecting the ruling party's headquarters.

Following that the Kurdish opposition (of the 'Change' party) as a result of its parliamentary members and ministers being barred from practising their official tasks, turned to the 'international community'. They sent memoranda of urgent appeals to Washington, London, Paris, the UN and the EU, in order for them to intervene to protect the freedoms and principles of democracy within the province.

O Muslims:

What makes one wonder is that these agent political parties did not turn to the federal government in Baghdad to save the situation and to contribute toward bring the viewpoints between the Turkish groups closer together (with the consideration that they all belong to Iraq). Instead, we saw them directing their sights to the states of disbelief and the enemies of Islam and the Muslims in Europe and America in addition to the den of conspiracies like the UN organisation... This confirms what we have previously decided in respect to those flimsy political parties being nothing other than tools in the hands of the disbelieving occupiers in order to tear apart the lands of the Muslims and that they are enclaves and bases for conspiring from which the enemies can act to spread their influence from. This is to continue the malicious plotting in our lands and to keep them subservient and servile where their existence and continuance depends upon the enemies of the Islamic Ummah. The Islamic Ummah which will never be saved from this humiliation and submissiveness except by the Khalifah of the Muslims whose return is soon by the permission of Allah Ta'Aalaa. That is because it is His Promise Subhaanahu and the glad tidings of His Messenger (saw):

وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنْكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ وَلَيُمَكِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ دِينَهُمُ الَّذِي ارْتَضَى لَهُمْ وَلَيُبَدِّلَنَّهُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ خَوْفِهِمْ أَمْنًا يَعْبُدُونَنِي لَا يُشْرِكُونَ بِي شَيْئًا وَمَنْ كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ

"Allah has promised those among you who believe, and do righteous good deeds, that He will certainly grant them succession to (the present rulers) in the earth, as He granted it to those before them, and that He will grant them the authority to practise their religion, that which He has chosen for them (i.e. Islam). And He will surely give them in exchange a safe security after their fear (provided) they (believers) worship Me and do not associate anything (in worship) with Me. But whoever disbelieved after this, they are the Fasiqun (rebellious, disobedient to Allah)" [An-Nur: 55].

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Iraq