Islamic Revival

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Acceptance by the Opposition Syrian National Council of Farouk al-Sharaa as the Leader of the Transitional Stage is Clear Evidence of the Opposition's Disconnection from the Sufferings and Hopes of the Blessed Revolution in al-Sham (Translated) At a time of heightened tension on the Turkish-Syrian border, following the bombing by Syrian forces on the Turkish town of Okjakali, killing a Turkish family of five; Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, revived an old proposal. This proposal summarised Syrian Vice President, Farouq al-Sharaa, will replace his boss, Bashar, in serving America by championing the transitional government to stop the on-going civil war in Syria, which is along the same lines of the Yemeni model. Davutoglu did not stop there, further adding an ugly melody claiming al-Sharaa is  "a man of mind and conscience; he has not participated in the massacres in Syria, and no one else knows the regime in Syria better than him...

By Abu Anas The Alawite minority religious sect, which Bashar al-Assad belongs to, has been ruling Syria since 1970. As a minority, they consist of at most 2.3 million people; 11% of the population. For the Alawite regime to subdue a Muslim Sunni majority, it had to control every aspect of the state's apparatus especially the military, police and security services. They have permeated every sector of the state's institutions and have aligned themselves with other minorities like the Druze, Christians, and Shi'a in a position of unquestioned power. Things might have started to change! One of the pillars that continues to hold the regime together is the cohesiveness of the Alawite community in Syria.  The Assad regime has stirred lots of animosity between the different religious groups in Syria, especially playing on the fears of the Alawite community of a Sunni backlash in case the regime falls, to maintain that support. Assad relied exclusively on that support from ...

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The Formation of Civilian-Military Boards: A Project Sponsored by the West in order to contain the revolution, establish a civil state and strike the plans for the Islamic Khilafah (Translated) On Friday 28/9/2012, the Media reported the formation of the so-called "Joint Command of the Military Revolutionary Boards." The Head of the Office of Coordination and Communication, Maher al-Naimi, said in a statement to Al-Jazeerah that the Joint Command aims to build an institutional integrated network from all spectrums of the Syrian people in order to achieve a free civil state. For several months there has been discussion about the formation of a civilian-military leadership in Syria that works from within to lead towards transition. According to the newspaper "Al-Sharq Al-Awsat," published on 08/06/2012, "the idea is based on the formation of a body from within, including 28 independent civilians and 28 military renegade officer...

And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient! Who, when disaster strikes them, say, “Indeed we belong to Allah , and indeed to Him we will return.” Those are the ones upon whom are blessings from their Lord and mercy. And it is those who are the [rightly] guided.  [2:155-157] Inshallah, from the pain and suffering of the loyal and pious people of al-Sham, victory and relief will be born – and from the proud land of al-Sham, whose people portray the finest images of bravery and sacrifice every day, the dawn of Islam will undoubtedly loom. We offer our condolences to our brother, Engineer Hisham al-Baba – the head of the Media Office for Hizb ut-Tahrir, Wilaya of Syria – on the death of his maternal uncle, the martyr,  al-Shaheed,   Inshallah  Rafiq Muhammad Al Hamawi, who was kidnapped from in front of his house in the neighbourhood of Jobar in Damascus, by the tr...

By Abu Anas The Turkish armed forces struck a Syrian military government building yesterday, Wednesday, close to the city of Tal Abyad in the Syrian province of ar-Raqqa. This move came in retaliation to the shelling of the Turkish city of Akcakale, situated near the Syrian border, by Assad army loyalists earlier that day, which killed two women and three children. 1  The Syrian government later apologized to the Turks through their UN representative as was confirmed by Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister, Beşir Atalay. 2  Today, the Turkish parliament ratified a mandate that allows the government to undertake acts of war to secure Turkey's borders. 3  The question at hand is: Will Turkey invade Syria due to this skirmish? Turkey, alongside with the US,  will create an excuse to intervene militarily in Syria  if the Assad regime collapses or nears its collapse while the opposition still threatens its vital interests in the region. Turkey is a US ally, and will...

Idries de Vries The current outrage all over the Muslim world, sparked by the awful vilification of Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) in the movie “Innocence of Muslims”, has been carefully framed by the United States government as an issue of freedom speech. Immediately following the Benghazi incident White House press secretary Jay Carney swiftly brushed aside suggestions that the Muslim anger might also have something to do with the United States’ foreign policy over recent decades – the US support for dictators across the Muslim world, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, the constant drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia which are killing hundreds of civilians, et cetera.  He said  “This is a fairly volatile situation, and it is in response not to United States policy, obviously not to the administration, not to the American people. It is in response to a video, a film”. President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton t...