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CIA torture report: An indictment of the US

By Mohammad Abu Laiba إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُعَذِّبُ الَّذِينَ يُعَذِّبُونَ النَّاسَ فِى الدُّنْيَا Allah tortures those who torture the people in this life  (Muslim) “Do as I say and not as I do” if ever there was a mantra for the US and its allies in the ‘War on Terror’ then surely this would be it. After over a decade of pursuing “the terrorists” as George W Bush coined them, the CIA, the American administration and any moral authority the Western world claimed to have had, has been destroyed by the latest Senate report into interrogation techniques used by the CIA. The some 500 pages of several thousand that were released show a systematic, deliberate and prolonged torture of prisoners by the CIA held in secret locations across the world. This was no ordinary maltreatment of prisoners in order to gain confessions or extract information. What the CIA’s ‘Enhanced Interrogation Techniques’ (EIT) did was truly medieval and barbaric. Developed in a post 9/11 world when the US ad

Imam Shafi did not change Islam according to changing times and places

Those who wish the Ummah to accept submission before US hegemony have sought to amend Islam so that it does not exceed the boundaries set by Blair and Bush. They carry the old call of “modernism”. They would have us accept the Western way of life because the West is strong. Such a call is in fact just one part of the crusade against Islam that is being waged under the guise of a “war against terrorism”. The modernisers who sit in the courts of Blair and Bush and at the feet of the tyrant rulers in the Muslim countries suggest that Islam can change from time to time, and from place to place. The consequence of this concept is that certain rules of Islam, would not apply, due to the new environment they live in, and that we live in a new time and age. So rules regarding riba, marriage, social interaction, international law, ruling systems, would need to be updated, according to the said principle. The proponents of this understanding use the example of Imam Shafi to legitimise t

Houthi Militias follow the way of the Oppressors in Fabricating Charges against Members of Hizb ut-Tahrir

Houthi (Ansar Allah) militias continue to detain the two members of Hizb ut Tahrir, Brother Yehia Hussein Dakhlaa, age 40, and Brother Saleh Jibran Al Dhalmi, age 23, who were arrested on Friday 15/11/2014 CE from their homes, without guilt, except that they said a word of truth and distributed a press release issued by the party about the new government in which it addressed the international conflict in Yemen, which has become an obvious fact not secret to anyone with sense. In fact, we have issued a press release prior to this release on the arrest of the two mentioned Shababs, wherein we addressed the wise ones in this group to release the detainees and to understand the aim of Hizb ut Tahrir, its thought and its methodology for change, but all to no avail. In addition the families of the two members and some members of the party had pursued and met with officials in the group where some of them seemed understanding and concerned but are confronted with a negative feedback