Over a thousand people gathered yesterday at a conference convened by Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia in Sydney. International and local speakers addressed numerous issues affecting Islam and Muslims in the West.
The following points were established:

 

1. The struggle for Islam plays out primarily in the Muslim World as the Muslim masses struggle against Western-backed tyrants for accountable and equitable governance on the basis of Islam in the form of the Caliphate.

2. The various attacks on Islam and Muslims in the West that we increasingly witness are the product of a concerted attempt by Western Governments to re-construct Islam into a mould that fits comfortably within their designs for the Muslim world. These designs aim at maintaining the status quo of despotic rule that favours their own economic and political interests.

3. Muslims reject the ‘moderate’ Islam constructed by Western Governments – a secular, apolitical and localised Islam that forms no barriers to their exploitative foreign policy with respect to the Muslim World.

4. The present hostility towards the hijab and niqab represents an underlying divergence of ideologies and identities. The reality is that there is a great distinction between a God-centric worldview and a man-centric one. The only tenable way forward for responsible human beings in this regard is robust debate and discussion, not insults, mockery and threats of banning.

5. Australian Governments, from both sides of politics, have had an active agenda against Islam and Muslims, represented in recent times in the likes of the anti-terror laws, counter-terrorism and ‘national security’ policy, funding for interfaith dialogue and institutes promoting ‘moderate’ Islam, and underhand tactics by its agencies like the AFP and ASIO. This is over and above its being party to the oppressive US-led foreign policy with regard to the Muslim world.

6. Muslims must be politically active, but not through the secular democratic process, which does little more than represent the interests of the economic elite. Rather they need to be active on the grassroots level in presenting the correct image of Islam and in exposing the policies of Western Governments that are detrimental to the whole of humanity.

7. In these difficult times, Muslims have added responsibility of dealing with multiple local issues, but necessarily within a global context. The Muslim Ummah is one indivisible whole and our priorities locally are defined by the circumstance of the Muslims globally. Thus we must positively interact at all levels of society as responsible citizens, whilst focusing our efforts on positive change in the Muslim World through the establishment of the Caliphate, which is the need of the time, not only for Muslims but for humanity as a whole.

 

Ends.

 

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