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Buyer Beware

In the Capitalist system, it is the consumer who is responsible for assessing the quality of a product before purchasing it. Consequently, this has resulted in products which have harmed or even led to the loss of innocent lives. Little importance has been placed on the value of life in the pursuit of wealth accumulation. Only the Islamic Aqeedah can raise the character of man to such a level where he is not driven by his own desires but rather by the desire to please Allah (swt). In recent weeks, China has been in the limelight for selling products which have been found to contain poisonous ingredients. Initial reports came out of Europe and North America, where pets were dying from food made in China that contained the toxic substance, melamine. Thereafter, toothpaste and cough syrup made in China were found to contain anti-freeze and brake fluid. Most recently, toys and baby bibs made in China have been found to contain dangerous levels of lead. The Chinese government has defended t

Turkey: Kurds, Iran and Prodding the United States

Summary Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 17 defended a preliminary natural gas deal with Iran to carry natural gas to Europe following strong criticism of the agreement from the White House. With U.S.-Turkish relations taking a serious hit from the Iraq war and its aftermath, Turkey is clearly sending a political message to the United States that it still has a number of ways to pressure Washington into cracking down on Kurdistan Workers' Party rebels in northern Iraq. Analysis Iran and Turkey have signed a preliminary agreement to pump Iranian natural gas to Europe via Turkey, a senior Turkish energy official who requested anonymity said July 16. A U.S. State Department spokesman criticized the agreement the same day, saying now is not the right time to invest in Iran's energy sector, and that Iran has not necessarily proved itself to be the most reliable partner in this regard. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan responded by defending the agreement

Kuwait on hunting campaign directed at activists for Khilafah

The following is a translation from Arabic. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Kuwait on hunting campaign directed at the Shabab of Hizb ut-Tahrir Accuses them of working for establishing the Islamic Khilafah! For more than a month now, the Kuwaiti security services have launched a massive campaign of arrests of Shabab of Hizb ut-Tahrir. It began by the arrest of Hassan Dahi, the head of the Media Office, who had been to the newspaper offices for publishing an article to mark the 86th painful anniversary of the destruction of Khilafah. The article read: “…that on 28 Rajab 1342 AH, i.e. 3rd March 1924, the Khilafah was destroyed, and since then the Muslims have been without a Khaleefah and without the bay’ah on their necks, and the implementation of the provisions of the Islamic commands is in suspension. On this painful occasion, we look up to the Almighty Allah (swt) in the hope that the future dawns upon us only in a state of Khilafah, as the Prophet (saw) had said: “... and then the Khilafah wi