Six Libyan villagers shot by US team rescuing pilot

Channel 4 News International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, says that the villagers were shot when a US helicopter picked up the pilot who had ejected from the F-15E Eagle plane after it experienced a mechanical failure.

The US aircraft crashed on Monday night and was found in a field outside Benghazi and landed in rebel-held territory.

The local Libyans who were injured in the rescue mission are currently in hospital. They are the first confirmed casualities of allied operations, almost four days after operations began. At the time of writing, no one had died as a result of the gunfire.

Lindsey Hilsum has been in the hospital where some of the injured were taken. She has spoken to the father of a young boy who expects to have his leg amputated due to a bullet wound.

Gauging the reaction of locals in the area, she said: “the local Libyans do not seem resentful, they still want the coalition forces to keep operating.”

Both crew members ejected and have now been flown out of Libya by US personel, according to a US military spokesman.

He said the crash was “not due to enemy or hostile actions.”

The pilot and a weapons officer were aboard the fighter jet, having set off from from Aviano Air Base in Italy. On experiencing the mechanical difficulties, both pilots ejected safely, but suffered minor injuries.

The pilot was rescued by the US helicopter soon after crash landing and opposition rebels recovered the weapons officer, taking “took good care of him” before coalition forces picked him up some time later.

Channel 4

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Are Muslims calling for democracy or elections?

“…democracy is more than elections”(1).
Tzipi Livni – Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Washington Post, February 24, 2011.

Brave protestors are still on the streets struggling against many of the tyrannical Arab regimes. The world continues to watch the efforts of once-ordinary people who finally shook off their fear of their dictatorial regimes and chose dignity instead.

In the aftermath of the uprising an important question remains unanswered; are Muslims calling for democracy or elections?

The question exists because Western news reporters and camera crews report demonstrators calling for democracy but what does this mean to them? CNN and the BBC may report that they use the phrase democracy but there’s an unsurprising bias, particularly when the Western media scour the streets for those who can explain their ideas in English. Do we take these calls at face-value or do we investigate if that’s what they are really calling for?

There’s no doubt ‘democracy’ is recognised as a contested and elusive term(2). So we could take a simple meaning which depends on procedural elements such as civil rights, particularly fair elections; the rule of law; equality before the law; economic opportunity and a fairer distribution of wealth; accountability and transparency as well as an end to the corruption of crony capitalism. All of this fits within what many ascribe to democracy.

However, we could also take a deeper meaning of democracy that includes Western values, not least the notions of secularism and that legislation comes from man. This meaning of legislation through popular will and separation of church from state is essentially a rejection to the Right of Allah SWT, as al-Hakim, to be the sole legislator and as al-Malik, to be sovereign alone.

Awareness of this conflict between the two definitions means it is clear we must guard against employing the term ‘democracy’ so carelessly.

One answer on what the people want comes from the explicit calls for Islam by demonstrators from Tunis and Cairo to Sana’a to Benghazi, easily available on YouTube but conspicuous by their absence in Western news reports.

Another comes from the calls of the Islamic jurists motivating the people to rise on the basis of Islam. Al-Arabiyya reported the publication of a statement of 90 ‘Ulema from various countries supporting the uprising but condemning democracy adding:

“In democracies, people might vote for things that are prohibited in Islam like establishing brothels, allowing homosexuality, drinking alcohol, and usury, and prohibiting the call for prayers or the veil”(3)

This was supported by a fatwa by the Network of Free ‘Ulema of Libya telling all Muslims it was their Islamic (rather than democratic) duty to rebel stating:

“They (the government and its supporters) have thereby demonstrated total infidelity to the guidance of God and his beloved Prophet (SAW)…this renders them undeserving of any obedience or support, and makes rebelling against them by all means possible a divinely

ordained duty” (4)

Yet another answer comes from the objective polling data taken from reputable bodies. The Pew Research Centre’s Global Attitudes Project asked Muslims if democracy was preferable to any other kind of government in a report published in January, 2011(5). They found strong agreement in Lebanon (81%), Turkey (76%), Jordan (69%), Nigeria (66%), Indonesia (65%), Egypt (59%) with Pakistan trailing in behind (42%).

However, when Muslims were asked in the same poll if Islam was seen as a positive rather than negative influence in politics it found impressive margins in favour of Islam in Indonesia (91% positive to 6% negative), Egypt (85% to 2%), Nigeria (82% to 10%), Jordan (76% to 14%) and Pakistan (69% to 6%). A separate Pew report on Religion & Public Life from April 2010 found substantial majorities of Muslims polled in sub-Saharan Africa who favoured making shari’ah the official law of the land including Djibouti (82%), DR Congo (74%), Nigeria (71%), Uganda (66%), Ethiopia and Mozambique (both 65%), Kenya (64%) and Mali (63%)(6).

This coincides with previous polls. The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland conducted a major survey in February 2007 in Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan, and Indonesia. Its summary concludes:

“On average, about three out of four agree with seeking to “require Islamic countries to impose a strict application of sharia,” and to “keep Western values out of Islamic countries.” Two-thirds would even like to “unify all Islamic counties into a single Islamic state or caliphate”(7)

The Centre for Strategic Studies (CSS) at the University of Jordan surveyed Muslims in Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria back in February 2005(8). It found approximately two-thirds of Muslim respondents in Jordan, Palestine, and Egypt stated that the shari’ah must be the only source of legislation; while the remaining third believed that it must be “one of the sources of legislation”. By comparison, in Lebanon and Syria, a majority (nearly two thirds in Lebanon and just over half in Syria) favored the view that shari’ah must be one of the sources of legislation.

So the desire for rights is clear and the desire for Islam is clear. The people may sometimes use the term ‘democracy’, which will be eagerly seized on by western media networks, but there is clearly awareness that Islam provides the rights that people want.

Some Muslims, fearful of being labelled extremists have gone to great lengths to downplay any fervour for Islam in governance while the Western media have reported events to support their bias for democracy. However, this should not lead to confusion. Muslims have risen, with iman in their hearts. They’ve put their lives on the line facing tanks, jets, artillery, machine guns and snipers, chanting loudly that they want the fall of their regimes and that they want their rights.

There is certainly more to democracy than elections and it should not surprise any of us that the people of a Muslim-majority region want Islam.

Notes:

1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/23/AR2011022305364.html

2 http://www.globalbarometer.net/GBS_Oct_2010/08.%20Bratton%20Print.pdf

3 http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/02/21/138583.html

4 http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLDE71K1TQ20110221

5 http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1874/egypt-protests-democracy-islam-influence-politics-islamic-extremism

6 http://pewforum.org/newassets/images/reports/sub-saharan-africa/sub-saharan-africa-full-report.pdf

7 http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brmiddleeastnafricara/346.php?nid&id&pnt=346&lb=brme

8 http://www.css-jordan.org/SubDefault.aspx?PageId=37&PollId=140&PollType=3

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Hizb ut-Tahrir calls neighbouring armies to intervene and stop the bloodshed in Libya

O Islamic Armies! Stop the Bloodshed in Libya and Raise the Banner of Tawhid!

Gaddafi and his supporters are still spilling Muslim blood in Libya from Zawiyah to Misurata and from Ras Lanuf to Bin Jawad where this criminal and his cronies have not hesitated in using all weapons at their disposal. All this happens, while contacts intensify between the capitals of the colonial powers in the West to agree on how to divide the spoils among themselves.

The matter has reached such that America, Britain, France and Italy, and even India have mobilised their naval fleets and aircraft carriers, AWACS aircrafts off the coast of Libya with their pretext of humanitarian intervention as well as the transfer of fleeing persons to Tunisia and other arguments that do not deceive anyone from the obscured fact of the old colonial greed in extending their hands on the resources of the country and enslaving its people. In the thick of all this, the Egyptian army stands on the sidelines motionless at all that is happening as if Libya was located in the European or American continent. Hizb ut-Tahrir, a political party that takes care of the affairs of Muslims and their interests according to the rulings of Islam, considers it important to declare the following:

1. We remind all the Muslims that they are one ummah, they have one Lord, the One and Unique, one Prophet, One Book, one qiblah, their peace is one and their war is one.

2. We remind the Muslims that they must help their brother; rejoice in his joy, feel his pain when he is afflicted as has come in the noble hadith: “The Example of the believers in their love for each other, their nearness and compassion for each other is like one body; when one limb suffers pain the rest of the body breaks out in sleeplessness and fever” (Muslim, Sahih #2586). And from the Prophet (saw) where he said: “The believers are like one building – each re-enforcing the other…” (Bukhari, Sahih #6026).

3. We remind them too that the lesson in this is being bound to the `Aqeedah and not bound to the Sykes-Picot agreement and what it established. This is a colonial treaty utterly invalid and rejected and any resulting spurious conditions imposed by the coloniser is also rejected. Islam required the Sykes-Picot agreement to be rejected and dissolved as well as all its implications and terms.

4. That our Lord and Helper – the Mighty and Exalted – will gave help to the oppressed where He says in his Majestic Book: “And what is the matter with you that you fight not in the cause of Allah and of the weak — men, women and children — who say, ‘Our Lord, take us out of this town, whose people are oppressors, and make for us some friend from Yourself, and make for us from Yourself some helper?’”[ TMQ An-Nisa 4:75].

We direct this urgent call to the Muslim Ummah and her armies:

Firstly: O army of Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco; O Muslim army commanders, officers and soldiers! Come immediately to the aid of your brothers in Libya in order to strike a crushing military blow to the criminal Gaddafi and his entourage of mercenaries and the bloodbath they preside over.

Secondly: O armies of the Muslim leadership, officers and soldiers! Refuse and forbid any foreign interference in the affairs of Muslims in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere. Are you not an army to defend this nation, its faith, blood and soil?!

Be up to this responsibility and stand as men and by your action make history for yourselves.

Thirdly: We urge you, O sons of the Ummah to support the armies in order to prevent the interference of these unbelieving and greedy foreign countries. We do not want to repeat the tragedy of Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Chechnya, Kashmir and other countries.

Fourthly: We strongly appeal to the Islamic Ummah to urgently come forward and support the people in Libya and Tunisia to overcome the difficult ordeal in which they live in these fateful days. We appeal also to any initiative to provide them with the needed supplies, medicine, clothing and so on, just as we call on the people of Tunisia, Egypt and Algeria, to come to support their brothers in Libya, by all means available and to help people displaced by the hell-bound Gaddafi and work too to secure a decent livelihood for them and obtain the necessary healthcare, and provide them with everything they need of support.

And we conclude with the open invitation to all Muslims to work with us to raise the word of Allah high through the pledge of allegiance to the Khalifah who will rule with the laws of Allah and to cut the hands of the greedy colonialists in our country and our affairs. The only way to liberate the Ummah from the West and those following behind her lies in the establishment of the Khilafah which we were informed about by the Noble Prophet (May Allah bless him and his family) when he said: “Verily the Imam is a shield behind whom you fight and are protected”.

Osman Bakhach
Director,
Central Media Office
Hizb ut-Tahrir
8th March 2011
6 Rabi ul-thani 1432

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Amerika dan Kroni Gunakan Bom Uranium di Libya

Aliansi Anti-Perang Inggris mengkonfirmasikan penggunaan bom-bom yang mengandung uranium oleh Amerika Serikat dan sekutunya dalam serangan ke Libya.

Kantor berita Fars melaporkan, David Wilson, anggota Aliansi Anti-Perang Inggris dalam artikelnya yang dimuat di situs aliansi tersebut menulis, “Hanya dalam 24 jam pertama setelah serangan koalisi pasukan Barat ke Libya, pesawat pembom Amerika Serikat menjatuhkan 45 bom raksasa ke Libya. Bom-bom itu dijatuhkan berbarengan dengan penembakan rudal cruise oleh kapal tempur Inggris dan Perancis. Seluruh bom dan rudal itu dilengkapi dengan hulu ledak yang mengandung uranium yang telah diperlemah.”

Uranium yang telah diperlemah merupakan sisa-sisa dari proses pengayaan uranium. Jenis uranium yang telah diperlemah ini digunakan untuk memproduksi senjata nuklir. Menyusul zat ini memiliki kemampuan destruktif yang besar jika digunakan dalam bom, maka dari sisi militer uranium yang telah diperlemah menjadi bahan yang cukup bernilai tinggi.

Selain mampu menembus lapisan baja pada badan tank, bom yang menggunakan uranium juga sangat berbahaya karena beracun dan mengandung zat radioaktif.

Menteri Luar Negeri Inggris, William Hague mengklaim, “Kami di Libya demi menjaga warga sipil dan kawasan-kawasan pemukiman.”

Hanya dalam 24 jam pertama, Amerika Serikat dan Inggris telah mengeluarkan dana hingga lebih dari 100 juta pound untuk menggunakan persenjataan yang dilengkapi dengan uranium yang telah diperlemah. (IRIB, 27/3/2011)

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