PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
30th October 2002
CONTACT:
Dr Imran Waheed
Hizb ut-Tahrir - Britain
Suite 298
56 Gloucester Road
London, SW7 4UB, United Kingdom
Email: [email protected] / Phone: 44-(0)7074-192400/ 44-(0)7946-510006
MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN BRITAIN LAUNCHES DOSSIER TO COUNTER WESTERN HEGEMONY
London, UK, October 30 - The Muslim community in Britain are set to launch a dossier in response to that of the British Government, which was received with much scepticism and incredulity. The dossier will be launched at seminars throughout the UK this Sunday, 3rd November 2002. Thousands of Muslims are set to attend the seminars including prominent Muslim community leaders, thinkers and professionals. The organisers of the seminars are Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, the global Islamic political party. The seminars will take place in London, Birmingham and Bradford.
The dossier is entitled “The West’s Weapons of Mass Destruction and Colonialist Foreign Policy” and painstakingly catalogues the real motives behind the impending war on Iraq by studying the strategic, economic and political interests at stake for Western governments. In addition it charts the contemporary history of the world under the domination of the Capitalist ideology by outlining the use of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) by the West, the West’s support for a variety of unsavoury dictators and tyrants and the disregard of the United Nations and international law by Western states.
The dossier reflects the fact that the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Britain are opposed to military action against Iraq, whether authorised by the UN or not, and the ‘war on terror’, which they see as merely a means to establish and further US and British hegemony over the Muslim world.
Organisers hope that the launch of the dossier will outline the real motives behind the aggression towards Iraq, as well as presenting a clear path to follow. Dr Imran Waheed, a UK based doctor and a representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, said, “Are the people of Britain and the West happy to send their sons and daughters to have their blood spilt in some far off land in order to fatten the profits of US oil companies? This dossier is a damning indictment on the shameful history of Western governments, the ideology of capitalism and its colonialist worldview. It calls on the people of world to study Islam as an ideological alternative to Capitalism.”
“Ideological Islam has long been suppressed by the Capitalist states. Western colonialist states must stop their interference in the political destiny of the Muslims. The true solution to the problems the people of the world face, Muslims and non-Muslims, is to re-establish the Islamic State (Khilafah).”
The seminars will take place on Sunday November 3rd 2002 at 2 p.m. The venues are:
Brondesbury Park Hotel, 233 Willesden Lane, Willesden Green, London NW2
The White Pearl Suite, Al-Hamra Centre, 7 Upper Trinity Street, Birmingham B9 4EG
The Hilton Hotel, Hall Ings, Bradford BD1 5SH
Notes to Editors:
(1) Press are kindly invited to attend the London seminar.
(2) The dossier has been produced and issued by Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain. Hizb ut-Tahrir is an independent political party whose ideology is Islam. The party works throughout the Islamic world, including Iraq, to resume the Islamic way of life by re-establishing the Islamic Khilafah (Caliphate). The party adheres to the Islamic Shari’ah in all aspects of its work. It considers violence or armed struggle against the regime, as a method to re-establish the Islamic State, a violation of the Islamic Shari’ah.
(3) The dossier will be available from November 3 2002 from Al-Khilafah Publications, Suite 298, 56 Gloucester Rd, London, SW7 4UB and at all good bookshops.