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Press Release<\/strong><\/p>\n Our deepest sympathies go out to the victims and their families who were targeted in a grievous terrorist attack while at Friday prayers on the 16th<\/sup> of March in Christchurch, New Zealand, where 49 people were slaughtered by a gunman who live-streamed his killing with automatic weapons on social media. This is not an isolated incident, as some, such as US President Trump, pretend. This is part of a global right wing campaign that will not be stopped easily.<\/p>\n Mainstream western politicians and media have been supplying the fuel and oxygen needed to fan the flames of hatred against immigrants and Muslims. Public expressions of fear mongering have intensified around the false narrative of the white man becoming a second-class citizen in his own country due to immigrants, especially those from Muslim countries.<\/p>\n * It would be a mistake to view the hate-mongering as only the product of evil right-wing politicians. There is a terrible problem with race and nationality, because the modern Western conception of statehood is centered upon race. National sovereignty means just that, and over the past two centuries European states have formed themselves upon national bases and have reinvented their histories around the heroes and poets of their individual cultures and languages. This is a relatively new political conception in Europe, and the rise of Nazi Germany is not the only disaster that strident \u2018national\u2019 awareness in the face of economic and social decline has created. The incorporation of nationalism into the heart of the Western concept of statehood means that Western politicians can never stamp out the hatred or draw a neat line in the sand between \u2018legitimate\u2019 expressions of national identity and incitement that leads to hatred of \u2018others\u2019.<\/p>\n Only the Khilafah Rashidah (righteous Caliphate) system can harmonize between races. The world is lacking now a tangible model for how people of different races and even starkly different cultures can live together without the stronger feeling threatened by the weaker in times of depression. The Islamic system of governance was set up by the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings upon him) 1400 years ago, which served as a beacon of light through Europe\u2019s Dark Ages, and it\u2019s absence since early in the last century has been a disaster, not only for Muslims, but for all humanity. In its absence, countless race wars and massacres have attested to that. Muslims are familiar with their history, but not so the rest of the world, and it is the imperative of our age for Muslims to shoulder the burden of replacing the corrupted rulers of their lands who sully the image of Muslims by their oppression and bloodthirsty behavior. When the blood of Muslims appears so cheap in Yemen, Iraq, Egypt and Syria and elsewhere, even in their own embassies, it should be remembered that others are watching and judging, and in their ignorance learning the wrong lessons about us. The Khilafah Rashidah (righteous Caliphate) would apply meaningful pressure on those seeking to defame Islam and Muslims, and would open its arms to immigrants without the fear that pervades the West.<\/p>\n The Central Media Office<\/strong> of Hizb ut Tahrir<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Press Release Our deepest sympathies go out to the victims and their families who were targeted in a grievous terrorist attack while at Friday prayers on the 16th of March in Christchurch, New Zealand, where 49 people were slaughtered by a gunman who live-streamed his killing with automatic weapons on social media. This is not [...]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-media-office-press-realeases"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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\n H.\u00a0 12 \u00a0Rajab 1440<\/strong><\/td>\n No: 1440 AH \/ 025<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n M.\u00a0 Tuesday, 19 March 2019<\/strong><\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n