Thousands of delegates attended Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain's national Conference: The Struggle for Islam and the call for Khilafah in London today.
The conference was opened by Dr Abdul Wahid, Chairman of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain’s Executive Committee, who addressed the increasing anti-Islamic propaganda in the West and globally. Using the issue of terrorism and extremism Western governments have embarked on a campaign to prevent the Muslim world establishing an Islamic government, the Caliphate that will free the Muslim world from the terror and hegemony that has been brought upon it by the West. On a daily basis, Muslims are subjected to insults and attacks in the media on their Aqeeda, the hijab, Shariah and Khilafah. He argued that, in this critical time, Muslims needed to hold onto Islamic values living in the West, and resist the attempts to reform Islam, and to support the call for the Islamic Khilafah in the Muslim world – to end decades of oppression, colonisation and dependency.
A series of presentations were then given on how Islam provides an alternative system to Capitalism and the current chaos in the Muslim world. Sajjad Khan elaborated on how the system of governance in Islam is a truly accountable system, which cannot be manipulated by rich and powerful lobbies as seen in Western democracies. Against the backdrop of President Sarkosy’s attack on Muslim women who wear niqaab and the martyrdom of Sister Marwa Sheerbani in a German courtroom, Dr Nazreen gave a powerful case for how Islam gave women rights, responsibilities and honour,