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Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah.
This message is regarding the recent events in Tunisia. We have seen that falsehood does not relent, even if you do. Falsehood does not relent even if you do. Some people were defending the conciliatory approach of some parties and their erratic statements regarding the implementation of Sharia, arguing that society must be reformed gradually. As if the forces of disbelief and hypocrisy will let you reform the country and its people and just watch without intervening, while Allah the Almighty has said: {And they will never cease fighting you until they turn you back from your religion if they can} and He said: {They wish that you would disbelieve as they have disbelieved and thus be alike}.
The secularists and the West saw that the callers in Tunisia are taking advantage of the golden period after Ben Ali's escape to call, educate people, and clarify the Sharia that the global media has distorted and continues to distort. This activity angered the enemies of Sharia, and they plotted day and night to push the call towards confrontation and to justify striking the call and repressing it, as the callers suffered during Ben Ali's days.
On 24/5/2012, three weeks ago, the media reported: "America seeks to establish a body to combat terrorism in Tunisia." It was stated that Daniel Benjamin, the coordinator of the counter-terrorism file at the US State Department, will soon visit Tunisia to establish a body to combat terrorism in Tunisia, i.e., to combat Islam, to combat the call, to combat Sharia.
The program includes intensive meetings with the ministers of justice, interior, and foreign affairs in the Tunisian government. These three ministries are for the Ennahda Party. Notice these three ministries are for the Ennahda Party. Now, the Ennahda Party will be put to another clear test, as it leads the ruling coalition in Tunisia, and it has the ministries of justice and interior responsible for dealing with the current events.
A news item was published last Tuesday titled: "The Tunisian Ministry of Justice considers acts of violence and vandalism in the capital as terrorist acts." Notice the response to the American orders. The Tunisian Ministry of Justice considers acts of violence and vandalism in the capital as terrorist acts. Of course, we will see shortly how these acts are provoked and then attributed to the youth who are zealous for their religion and the Sharia of their Lord. And it is reminded that the Minister of Justice is from the Ennahda Party.
This news item stated that Muhammad Fadhel Al-Saihi, the acting head of the Tunisian Ministry of Justice's office, told Agence France-Presse: "The crimes that occurred are terrorist par excellence, and the law applied to the perpetrators will be of the same nature as the act, and we will apply the provisions of the anti-terrorism law to them." This law was issued in 2003 during the presidency of the deposed Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Of course, as I was a political prisoner, I have looked into the details of the law against Islam. What makes an act terrorist? Simply that it has an Islamic character. If a Muslim attacks an art exhibition, he may be imprisoned for a few months at most. But if he is a pious, bearded man who says, "God said and His Messenger said," and if he plans to attack an exhibition that mocks God, then merely planning this is considered a terrorist act, a terrorist act, punishable by death, life imprisonment, or 10 to 15 years in prison. This is the law that America has enforced in Islamic countries.
For a year and a half of Salafi activity, not a single person was killed. Not a single person was killed. And now, in these events, it is the police who killed a Muslim. May Allah accept him. Nevertheless, will the anti-terrorism law be applied to the police? No, but to the victim, to the Salafis. Therefore, this is a conspiracy to restore the Ben Ali regime, but under the guise of a government led by an Islamic party, as they claimed, and to stop the immense calling activity that angered the West and the secularists.
Now, the Ennahda Party will be put to the test. Will it appease the secularists and the West again and be accused of leniency towards the Salafis by participating in the application of this anti-terrorism law? Knowing that the Ennahda Party is aware that this is a conspiracy hatched against the Salafis.
The provocation and enticement to confrontation were clear and systematic. From the blasphemous film "No God, No Master" shown in Tunisia after the revolution, to the continuous mockery of the Prophet peace be upon him and his wives, the Mothers of the Believers, on television channels like "Hanebus," to the very offensive insults we heard about the Mother of the Believers, our mother Aisha may Allah be pleased with her, on the radio, to the screening of the film "Baby Paul" which personifies God and mocks the religion on Nessma TV, to this last exhibition where the phrase "Glory be to God" is written with insects, and they drew God Almighty in it, and they drew the Prophet peace be upon him on the Buraq in a mocking way, and they drew the bearded religious people in a mocking manner, and they placed drawings of veiled women on boxing bags.
Provocation after provocation. Why all this? To entice the callers to confrontation, and then apply anti-terrorism provisions to them as America ordered. A clear, wicked conspiracy.
During this past period, virtuous callers have been advising the youth to avoid confrontation with the authorities, with the Ennahda Party, and with the secularists, and urging them to invest their time in calling to Allah and to Sharia. The words of Sheikh Abu Iyad Al-Tunisi, Al-Khatib Al-Idrisi, and others, may Allah preserve them all, are clear on this matter. Abu Iyad advised the Ennahda Party to stay away from the democratic process, to avoid cooperating with America, and to urge them to correct the course and cooperate in righteousness and piety. But there is no life for those who call for it.
In an interview with Sheikh Abu Iyad, may Allah preserve him, he said: "The government of Hamadi Jebali is not an Islamic government, but we are in an undeclared truce. Our demand is that they leave us to work, that they leave us alone with the people, that we activate our calling tents and gatherings, and that no obstacles are placed for us and that they do not provoke us. We are now controlling the provocations, and we may reach a stage where we cannot control the youth when there is an assault on the sanctities and on the essence of God. We do not want to enter into a material struggle with anyone."
He repeated, may Allah preserve him: "We do not want to enter into a material struggle with anyone. And I say to you: if the upcoming government of Jebali leaves us to work, then America will not leave us. The American embassy is the one that runs the country. And unfortunately, I say it, the embassy runs Ennahda. Unfortunately, this is a reality, and perhaps they will blame me, but unfortunately, this is a reality."
And may Allah preserve him, the embassy leads the Ennahda Party. Two weeks ago, the American newspaper Wall Street Journal wrote: "The support approved by the administration of Barack Obama last Thursday is the deserved support for the Tunisian Ennahda Party, which has presented many acts of obedience and loyalty to the United States, the most prominent of which is the exclusion of the Islamic reference from the new constitution of the country, and its tour of courting the West, which deserves reward."
Again, the American newspaper Wall Street Journal says: "The support approved by the administration of Barack Obama last Thursday is the deserved support for the Tunisian Ennahda Party, which has presented many acts of obedience and loyalty to the United States, the most prominent of which is the exclusion of the Islamic reference from the new constitution of the country."
Thus, America offers bribes to the Ennahda Party to abandon the implementation of Sharia, and even uses it to fight those who call for its implementation. And now we see the beginnings of this party, which refuses to implement the Sharia of Allah, participating in the implementation of the Sharia of America in fighting the Sharia of Allah. The Ennahda Party refuses to implement the Sharia, but its government is on its way to implementing the anti-terrorism law, which is in fact a law against the Sharia.
The secularists in Tunisia are dragging the Ennahda Party into this conflict with the Salafis by deliberately provoking Muslims and mocking their religion. We saw how a number of young people went to the last exhibition at the Abdaliya Palace to try to approach these secular artists calmly and ask them not to display these drawings. But the women present did nothing but mock the youth in a subtle way, and the exhibition continued. The exhibition continued.
One provocation after another until the situation exploded and some of the zealous ones, even from the simple Tunisians who do not have a specific orientation, moved. The police themselves rushed to incite the conflict, destroy property, and set fires as we saw them, and attributed it to the Salafi currents, and then carried out arbitrary arrest campaigns. All of this in videos we saw and are spread on the internet.
So when the opportunity came for the ruling institution of the Ennahda Party and others, they began to issue fiery statements that they would apply the anti-terrorism law. On whom? On those who mock Allah, His signs, and His Messenger? No, but on the revolting Muslims.
The Ennahda Party issues a soft statement calling for the preservation of religious freedoms, while its interior minister boasts that his police have suppressed the protests in front of the Abdaliya Palace where the drawings were exhibited. So the mockers of Allah have protection and care to practice their disbelief comfortably, and the owners of the living hearts from among the Muslims have water cannons and even live bullets and the anti-terrorism law.
The owners of the living hearts have the defamation of the Ennahda interior minister who says: "The destructive acts were carried out by Salafi youth and criminals who are alcohol and drug addicts and engage in theft." The owners of the living hearts have the statements of the Ennahda interior minister: "There is no escape from confronting the Salafis." As for those who mock Allah, His signs, and His Messenger, as for those who write Islamic expressions with insects, these are the ones who must be protected by the police, while trying to legally prevent the recurrence of their offensive acts against Islam, and until then, they are protected and cared for.
The owners of the living hearts who revolted against the bars and taverns have the statements of the Ennahda justice minister: "These Salafis have crossed all red lines and will be punished firmly. The grace period granted to them has ended." As for those who mock Allah, His signs, and His Messenger, they have not crossed the red lines and do not need firmness. They have an extended grace period that never ends.
Lion against and ostriches in wars. This is the moderate Islam that some Muslims are still infatuated with. This is Islam, this is the model that Abd al-Mun'im Abu al-Futuh wants to emulate to bring to Egypt. The model that brings an Islamic party into what they claimed was a democratic system of ignorance and under the supervision of the Americans, who are keen on elections, to become part of this system that protects the freedom of atheism, disbelief, and taverns, and fights the zealous Muslims.
This is the model that American strategic planning study institutions want. Institutions that have stated in their studies the necessity of striking Islamic fundamentalist currents using moderate Islam.
Did some of the youth make mistakes during this period? Of course, they did. But it is a sign of intellectual weakness to focus on their mistakes in judgment and haste in some actions, while ignoring the disbelief and heresy of the secularists, the exclusion of the Sharia by the Ennahda Party, and taking bribes from America for that. Rather, this is a sign of cowardice and following the global media machine that exaggerates the mistakes of Muslims and dulls the feeling towards the atrocities and abominations of the enemies of Allah and those who support them. Even if some of these youth utter words or take positions that are harsh, they are advising and correcting, not enmity and criminalization.
O you who call for postponing the implementation of the Sharia, and o you who call for engaging in the democratic process under American patronage, this is the end: that you become on the side of America and on the side of those who mock your Lord and your Prophet, against whom? Against the best of Muslims, the zealous for their religion, the lovers of their Lord, the zealous for their Prophet, and those who hold fast to the Sharia of their Lord.
Therefore, I remind you to listen to the episode from the series "Support for the Sharia" entitled: "Why Declare the Sovereignty of the Sharia from the Beginning?" Why declare the sovereignty of the Sharia from the beginning? In which I said: "O you who demand not to declare the sovereignty of the Sharia from the first moment, know what that leads to: that the Islamic state becomes the guardian of positive laws, executing them, punishing those who violate them, rewarding the obedient. What remains of its Islamic name at that time?" Here we see that on the ground.
And I say to those who oppress the youth of the awakening, the Islamic awakening and the Salafi call in Tunisia, and defend the Ennahda Party blindly: Fear Allah and do not let your group blind your vision. These youth in Tunisia, in general, are not followers of any party or any organization. Youth who have suffered from ignorance and the obliteration of the signs of religion for decades, then when the opportunity was given to them, they left the world and showed their love for their Lord and His religion, and resisted the systematic provocation of the secularists for nearly two years. So do not abandon them and do not stand with their enemies.
O Allah, preserve our brothers in Tunisia, our Lord, help them and do not help against them, support them and do not support against them, scheme for them and do not scheme against them, guide them and facilitate guidance for them, and support them, O Lord, against those who transgress against them. And the last of our supplications is that all praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah.