Al-Raya Newspaper: Miscellaneous from Al-Raya – Issue 551
June 10, 2025

Al-Raya Newspaper: Miscellaneous from Al-Raya – Issue 551

Al Raya sahafa

2025-06-11

Al-Raya Newspaper: Miscellaneous from Al-Raya – Issue 551

It is no longer hidden from any reasonable person that the rulers are the most important pillars of colonialism in our countries. Were it not for them, the nation would have been able to defeat its enemies, liberate its country, and live with dignity and honor under the law of its Lord. This is what we repeat our call to, to hasten with us to rid it of the cause of its humiliation, division, and weakness, and to establish the Rightly Guided Caliphate according to the method of Prophethood, in which is our glory and by which is our victory.

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Who is there for your sisters

in Sudan?!

Médecins Sans Frontières has warned that women and girls in Sudan's Darfur region are at risk of sexual violence almost constantly. The true extent of this crisis remains difficult to determine, as services remain limited and people face barriers to seeking treatment or speaking out about their plight. However, all the survivors who spoke with MSF teams in Darfur and across the border in Chad recounted horrific stories of brutal violence and rape. While men and boys are also at risk, the scale of suffering is beyond description.

Accordingly, a press release from the Women's Section of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir stated: The conflict that began in April 2023 between the Sudanese regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands, the displacement of 13 million, and left the country's already fragile infrastructure in ruins. The Rapid Support Forces have been accused since the beginning of the war of systematic sexual violence throughout the country, which has become so widespread in Darfur to a terrifying extent that many people consider it an inevitable fate. Girls and women do not feel safe anywhere; they are attacked in their homes, when fleeing violence, obtaining food, collecting firewood, and working in the fields.

Médecins Sans Frontières said that between January 2024 and March 2025, it treated 659 survivors of violence in South Darfur, 94% of whom were women and girls. More than half of them were assaulted by armed groups, and about a third of them were minors, and some of the victims were as young as five years old.

The situation is similar in other places where MSF provides care to survivors, such as eastern Chad, which currently hosts more than 800,000 Sudanese refugees. In Adré, MSF has treated 44 survivors since January 2025, nearly half of whom are children. In the Wadi Fira region, 94 survivors received treatment, 81 of whom were under the age of 18.

The statement continued, addressing the army officers and soldiers, saying: You continue the hateful infighting, the heavy price of which is paid by the people, women, and children, in the service of the interests of America and Europe, who aspire to sovereignty over Sudan and control over its wealth and the fate of its people, even if that leads to its division into areas of influence that you think will be yours. So turn away from your error and misguidance, perhaps you will have mercy.

To the people of Sudan, the press statement said: This is just the tip of the iceberg of what you have been suffering since the outbreak of the bloody conflict, which has entered a dark tunnel of violence and displacement, economic and social collapse, the horrific results of which you are living... This conflict is directed by colonialism, which is greedy for your country, so why do you not work to stop it and get rid of the conspirators and uproot them, and find the Muslim ruler and the courageous leader who does not fear falsehood, does not compromise with it, and does not covet a position or authority, but wants to implement God’s law and His method, may His glory be exalted? This is what unites people and the nation, ﴿AND INDEED THIS UMMAH OF YOURS IS ONE UMMAH, AND I AM YOUR LORD, SO FEAR ME.

The press statement concluded: This will only come about through serious work to establish the second Rightly Guided Caliphate according to the method of Prophethood, which will correct the deviation, restore rights to their owners, and wealth to its people, so that Sudan will return as it was, the Muslims’ food basket and the impregnable fortress in the strong Islamic state.

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O Muslims,

Is it not time for you to realize the reality of your rulers?!

It is time for the Islamic nation to realize that its misfortune is not in the monstrous entity of the Jews, nor in the infidel colonialist countries behind it that provide it with the means of life and the tools of killing, destruction, and extermination, but rather its misfortune is in its insignificant rulers, who do not repel an aggressor from it, nor do they ward off a plunderer, but rather they conspire with its enemies, prevent it from carrying out its duty in repelling aggression, provide the criminal Jewish entity with protection and cover for its crimes, conclude peace and normalization agreements with it, provide it with the means of life, and supply it with military equipment with which it kills the sons of the nation in Gaza, the West Bank, and elsewhere.

The attacks of the monstrous Jewish entity have gone beyond Palestine to Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and Yemen, and its military machine roams freely in Muslim countries without any objection from the insignificant rulers, let alone any of them repelling its aggression! Despite all of this, we find them sending their delegations to Ramallah under its spears to seek peace with it!

The situation has become unbearable, and it is time for you, O Muslims, to realize the reality of your rulers, to cast them aside like date stones, to remove them like removing a shoe, to restore matters in your countries to their proper state, and to hand over your leadership to the conscious and sincere among your sons, to Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is still seeking to take you by the hands towards renaissance, uniting your countries in one entity with one army, and leading you not only to repel Jewish aggression, but to cleanse the blessed land of them and make their entity a thing of the past.

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Erdogan's Turkey and its collusion against Muslims

An official source in the Jewish entity told the Hebrew newspaper "Israel Hayom" on Wednesday that the entity and Turkey had reached understandings regarding coordinating their military activities in Syria in order to prevent friction between the forces from both sides. (Russia Today)

Al-Raya: It has become clear that the Erdogan regime in Turkey is the patron of America and the implementer of its projects in the region, especially in Syria, and that it is the one who dragged the revolution into a series of negotiations that led to diverting the revolution from its course, then its decline and its arrival at what it has reached in its recent years, as it took away its decision and controlled the course of the leaders who renounced its principles and the slogans they were raising.

Dealing with the Jewish entity is a betrayal of God Almighty, His Messenger ﷺ, and the Muslims. At a time when this criminal entity is committing massacres against the people of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and violating Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, you see the Turkish regime concluding military and political agreements with it on land liberated by the Mujahideen with their blood, thus becoming a partner with it in its crimes against the Islamic nation.

These regimes that exist in our countries are regimes loyal to the infidel colonialist West, and the Jewish entity is its shadow. If the thing disappears, its shadow disappears. This is an opportunity for the Turkish army and all the Muslim armies to break the Sykes-Picot borders, support the people of Gaza, and liberate Jerusalem from the Jews and the rest of the occupied Muslim countries.

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The Egyptian regime's cooperation with America

Subservience and mortgaging to the colonizer!

On May 25, 2025, the so-called "Egypt-United States Policy Leaders Forum" was held in Cairo, in the presence of the Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, the American Ambassador Hero Mustafa Garg, and representatives of more than 60 American companies, along with Egyptian ministers from the sovereign and economic sectors. The forum was portrayed as a strategic opportunity to strengthen cooperation between Egypt and America, and was supported by an official speech praising the American private sector and its role in "Egypt's development," with many promises and facilities for foreign investment.

Al-Raya: The clear fact that should not disappear behind the dust of diplomatic slogans is that this forum does not represent cooperation between equals, but rather an expression of a reality of humiliating political and economic subservience, which enshrines Egypt's mortgaging to the forces of colonialism, led by America, and establishes new decades of draining the nation's wealth, restricting its sovereign decision, and stifling its capabilities for real advancement.

The duty of Muslims is to reject this path, and to realize that salvation does not come through the doors of the White House, but through returning to Islam, and implementing it in politics and economics, under the Rightly Guided Caliphate according to the method of Prophethood, which restores the nation to its position, expels the colonizer from its countries, and establishes true justice.

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International law is a law of the jungle

It is not permissible to resort to it

Under the auspices of the Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator in the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) mission in Yemen, Daniel Cavoli, the ICRC in Sana'a organized, in cooperation with the Ministry of Information and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a training course at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for cadres of media and journalistic institutions on Tuesday and Wednesday, 20 and 2025/05/21, on: International law, its foundations and objectives, and the terms related to international humanitarian law, especially with regard to human rights to protection and dignified living, preventing cases of violence, responding to the needs of the most vulnerable groups, and groups covered by its protection, protecting civilians from the effects of hostilities, and the prohibition of causing excessive damage or unnecessary pain.

In response, a press statement issued by the Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the Wilayah of Yemen stated: International law was founded on hostility to Islam and Muslims at all its stations; 1648, 1919, 1945 AD, and therefore all its ideas should not be applied in Muslim countries, nor should they be published or called for, as they contradict the Islamic creed, and all the treatments for human problems in life that emanate from it.

The statement asked in condemnation: Were not the First and Second World Wars waged under this international law?! Was not the war between Muslims in Yemen waged for 11 years under UN sponsorship, under Chapter VII, under the guise of maintaining international peace, and is not the extermination in Gaza also being carried out for nearly two years under the auspices of this international law?!

He said: Relations between countries in Islam are based on dividing the world into a land of peace and a land of war, and not on the basis of international law. Dealing between countries is based on equality and parity, there are not two teams for the Security Council; permanent members who have the right to veto decisions, and non-permanent members who do not have the right to veto decisions!

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Iran's rejection of owning nuclear weapons

Betrayal of the nation and conspiracy against it with its enemies

Iran, through its President Masoud Pezeshkian and its Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, stated its rejection of owning nuclear weapons, and reiterated those statements once again. This came at a time when Iran is holding talks with America in an effort to reach an agreement on its nuclear program.

Al-Raya: Iran signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1968, ratified it in 1970, and agreed to have its nuclear program subject to the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency to ensure that it is not diverted to military purposes... It is forbidden for Muslims to sign this treaty and abide by its provisions because that contradicts the saying of God Almighty: ﴿AND PREPARE AGAINST THEM WHATEVER YOU ARE ABLE OF POWER AND OF MOUNTED HORSES BY WHICH YOU MAY TERRIFY THE ENEMY OF ALLAH AND YOUR ENEMY﴾ God Almighty has commanded Muslims to prepare the maximum amount of power they can to achieve the intimidation of the enemy.

Muslims will not be able to rise unless they resolve their affairs, cast aside these insignificant rulers, and establish the rule of God Almighty on earth by establishing the Caliphate according to the method of Prophethood, which will govern them with the law of their Lord, unite their countries and armies, cut off the traces of the infidel colonizers from their countries, and remove the Jewish entity from existence, and the One who is capable of that and the owner of this project is the leader who does not lie to his people; Hizb ut-Tahrir, so come, O Muslims, to support it, for in that is your glory, your dignity, and a greater pleasure from God.

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Source: Al-Raya Newspaper

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Ar-Raya Newspaper: Ar-Raya Miscellany – Issue 573

Al Raya sahafa

2025-11-12

Ar-Raya Newspaper:Ar-Raya Miscellany – Issue 573

O people of Sudan: How long will the conflict in Sudan and elsewhere remain fuel for international ambitions and their struggle with their malicious plans, interventions, and supplying the conflicting parties with weapons to completely control it?! Your women and children have been suffering for more than two years from this bloody conflict that only serves the interests of the West and its allies in controlling the fate of Sudan, which has always been coveted for its location and wealth, so it is in their interest to tear it apart and fragment it. The Rapid Support Forces' seizure of Al-Fashir is just another episode in these plans, as America wants to carve out the Darfur region and concentrate its influence in Sudan and eliminate British influence in it.

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The Goal of Ortagus' Visit

to Lebanon!

In light of the American offensive against Lebanon and the region with the project of normalization and surrender, and the US administration's endeavor under Trump and his team to bring more rulers of Muslim countries into the Abraham Accords, the visit of the American envoy Morgan Ortagus to Lebanon and the usurping Jewish entity comes, loaded with political, security, and economic pressures, threats, and conditions on Lebanon, noting that this visit coincided with the visit of the Secretary-General of the Arab League and the Director of Egyptian Intelligence, apparently to serve the same direction.

In response to these visits, a media statement from the Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Wilayah Lebanon affirmed the following:

First: The interventions of America and its followers in Muslim countries are to serve the interests of America and the Jewish entity, not to serve our interests, especially since America is the first supporter of the Jewish entity in politics, economy, finance, weapons, and media, openly and publicly.

Second: The envoy's visit is not a neutral visit, as some may imagine! Rather, it comes in the context of a clear American policy in the region that supports the Jewish entity and contributes to enabling it militarily and politically, and what the American envoy offers is only an imposition of hegemony, a consecration of subservience, and a diminution of sovereignty, which is a form of surrender and submission to the Jews, and this is what God refuses for the people of Islam.

Third: Accepting these dictates and signing any agreements that consecrate foreign tutelage is a betrayal of God, His Messenger, the Ummah, and everyone who fought or sacrificed to remove this usurping entity from Lebanon and Palestine.

Fourth: Dealing with the Jewish entity is a crime in the legal sense for the vast majority of the people of Lebanon, Muslims and non-Muslims, even in the positive law to which the Lebanese authority resorts, or human law in general, especially after the criminal entity committed genocide in Gaza, which it has not and will not hesitate to do in Lebanon and other Muslim countries.

Fifth: The American campaign and offensive on the region will not pass, and America will not succeed in its endeavor to shape the region as it desires, and if it has its project for the region, which is based on colonialism, plundering peoples, misleading Muslims, and even taking them out of their religion by calling for the (Abrahamic religion), then Muslims, in return, have their project promised by God Almighty; the project of the Second Khilafah according to the method of Prophethood, which has become very close, God willing, and this project is the one that will redraw the region, and even the entire world, anew, in fulfillment of the saying of the Messenger ﷺ: "Indeed, God showed me the earth, and I saw its east and its west, and my nation will reach what was shown to me of it." Narrated by Muslim, and the Jewish entity will be eliminated as the Messenger of God ﷺ foretold in his hadith: "The Hour will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them..." Agreed upon.

In conclusion, Hizb ut-Tahrir/ Wilayah Lebanon continues to adopt the task of repelling America's campaign and offensive of normalization and surrender on Lebanon and the region, and nothing will deter it from doing so, and we warn the Lebanese authority against following the path of normalization and surrender! And we call on it to seek refuge in its people to confront that, and not to play around with the matter under the pretext of borders or reconstruction and the influence of the international system, ﴿And Allah is predominant over His affair, but most people do not know.﴾.

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A Delegation from Hizb ut-Tahrir/ Wilayah Sudan

Meets with a Number of Dignitaries from the City of Al-Ubayyid

A delegation from Hizb ut-Tahrir/ Wilayah Sudan, on Monday, November 3, 2025, visited a number of dignitaries from the city of Al-Ubayyid, the capital of North Kordofan. The delegation was led by Professor Al-Nazeer Muhammad Hussein Abu Minhaj, a member of the Hizb ut-Tahrir Council in Wilayah Sudan, accompanied by Engineer Banqa Hamid and Professor Muhammad Saeed Boukeh, members of Hizb ut-Tahrir.

The delegation met with:

Professor Khalid Hussein - Head of the Democratic Unionist Party, Jalaa Al-Azhari wing.

Dr. Abdullah Youssef Abu Seil - Lawyer and Professor of Law at universities.

Sheikh Abdul Rahim Jouda - From the Ansar al-Sunna group.

Mr. Ahmed Muhammad - Suna News Agency correspondent.

The meetings touched on the topic of the hour; the fall of Al-Fashir and the accompanying crimes of the militia against the people of the city, and the betrayal of the army leaders, who did not fulfill their duty towards the people of Al-Fashir and lift the siege on them, while they were capable of doing so throughout the period of the siege, and the repeated attacks on them, more than 266 attacks.

Then the delegation handed them a copy of the publication of Hizb ut-Tahrir/ Wilayah Sudan entitled: "The fall of Al-Fashir opens the way for America's plan to carve out the Darfur region and concentrate its influence in Sudan. How long will we be fuel for the international conflict?!" Their reactions were excellent and they called for the continuation of these meetings.

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"Phoenix Express 2025" Exercises

A Chapter in Tunisia's Submission to American Hegemony

Tunisia's preparation to host the new version of the multilateral naval exercise "Phoenix Express 2025" during the month of November comes, which is the exercise that the US Africa Command has become organizing annually after the regime in Tunisia involved the country by signing with America, on 2020/09/30, a military cooperation agreement, which US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper described as a roadmap that lasts for ten years.

In this regard, a press statement by Hizb ut-Tahrir / Wilayah Tunisia reminded that the party clarified when this dangerous agreement was signed that the matter goes beyond traditional agreements, as America is drawing up a huge project that requires 10 full years to complete, and that the roadmap, according to America's claim, is related to border control, port protection, combating extremist ideology, and confronting Russia and China, and this means, with all impudence, a diminution of Tunisia's sovereignty, but rather it is direct tutelage over our country.

The statement affirmed that Hizb ut-Tahrir in Wilayah Tunisia, despite the harassment, arrests, and military trials that our youth are subjected to as a result of their speaking out with the word of truth, reaffirms its call to dissolve this ominous colonial agreement that is intended to drag the country and the entire Islamic Maghreb and adapt them to the malicious American policies, and also repeated its appeal to the people of power and strength in Tunisia and all Muslim countries to pay attention to what the enemies of the Ummah are plotting against them and luring them to, and that the Shariah duty requires them to support their religion and repel the enemy lurking in their countries and their Ummah, and to exalt the word of God by supporting those who work to implement His Shariah and establish His state, the Second Khilafah Rashidah according to the method of Prophethood promised soon, God willing.

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America's Disdain for Its Citizens

Leaves Women and Children Hungry

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a federal program that helps low-income individuals and families and people with disabilities obtain electronic benefits that are used to purchase food and beverages, except for alcohol, and plants to grow their own food. Reports indicate that 42 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families. 54% of adults who receive food assistance are women, most of whom are single mothers, and 39% are children, meaning that nearly one in five children relies on these benefits to ensure they don't go hungry. The federal shutdown also forced some states to find other ways to fund free and reduced-price food programs in their educational areas, so that children who rely on food during the school day would not have to live without food. As a result, the many food banks spread throughout the country post pictures of empty shelves and ask people to donate food and grocery store gift cards to meet the increasing demand for food.

Accordingly, the Women's Section in the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir said in a press statement: We may ask how can the richest country in the world ignore the fact that millions of its most vulnerable citizens will not find enough food? You may wonder where America spends its money, even during the shutdown? Well, instead of ensuring that Americans get enough food, they send billions of dollars to the Jewish entity to kill Palestinians. He is a ruler who sees building a luxurious celebration hall as more important than anything else, while other deputies find that their personal investments are given priority over the well-being of the people they are supposed to represent! As you can see, capitalist America has never been interested in caring for the affairs of its citizens, but was only interested in providing military and financial support to those who deprive children around the world of their right to security, food, shelter, and education, which are basic necessities. Therefore, it leaves children in America also suffering from hunger and insecurity, and lacking adequate education and health care.

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"Every Muslim is inviolable to another Muslim: his blood, his wealth, and his honor."

To every Muslim, to every officer, soldier, and policeman, to everyone who owns a weapon: God Almighty has granted us reason to think with, and obligated us to use it correctly, so one should not act, perform any action, or utter any statement before knowing its Shariah ruling. Knowing the Shariah ruling requires understanding the reality to which the Shariah ruling is to be applied, so the Muslim must enjoy political awareness, so that he perceives matters as they really are, and is not carried away by the plans of the colonizing disbelievers who do not want good for us or for Islam, and who strive with all their might, cunning, and ingenuity to tear us apart, control our countries, and plunder our capabilities and wealth. How can a Muslim accept to be a tool in the hands of those colonizing disbelievers, or an executor of the orders of their agents?! Does he covet a little of the fleeting pleasures of this world, so he loses his Hereafter and is among the people of the Fire, abiding therein forever, cursed and expelled from the mercy of God? Does a Muslim accept to please any of the created, helpless humans while angering God Almighty, in whose hand is this world and the Hereafter?!

Hizb ut-Tahrir calls you to raise the level of political awareness, adhere to the rulings of God Almighty, and work with it to rule according to what God has revealed, so that it removes the hands of the colonizing disbelievers and their agents from you, and thwarts their plans in our countries.

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You Are the Ones Who Starved the Muslims

O Masoud Pezeshkian!

Under this title, the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir said in a press statement: Iran has announced the bankruptcy of the largest private bank in it, which is (Ayandeh) Bank, and this bank has 270 branches in Iran, after the debts on it increased to five billion dollars. What is surprising in the matter is the criticism of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian for administrative failure, saying: "We have oil and gas, but we are hungry"!

The statement affirmed: The person responsible for that administrative failure that the Iranian president is talking about is the president himself, so why is the Iranian people hungry - O Masoud Pezeshkian - and you have oil, gas, and other wealth and minerals? Is it not a result of your foolish policies? Is it not due to your distance from ruling by Islam? The same can be said about the rest of the Muslim countries. The foolish rulers in them squander the Ummah's huge wealth, enable the colonizing disbelievers to access it, and deprive the Ummah of that wealth, then one of them comes to justify the reason for the hunger by saying that it is an administrative failure!

In conclusion, the press statement addressed the Muslims: The foolishness of these rulers who are in charge of your affairs has become clear to every sighted person, and they are not worthy of taking charge of it. It is time for you to restrain them, for this is the ruling of the fool; preventing him from disposing of money and restraining him, and pledge allegiance to one Khaleefah who rules you with the Shariah of God Almighty, and cancels the riba system in your countries so that your Lord Almighty and His Messenger ﷺ will be pleased with you, and restores your plundered wealth, and restores your dignity and honor. Here is Hizb ut-Tahrir, the pioneer whose people do not lie, calling you to work with it to establish the Second Khilafah Rashidah according to the method of Prophethood.

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To the Sincere Descendants of the Ottoman Heroes

We ask the sincere descendants of the Ottoman heroes: What happened, O great army?! What is this humiliation and weakness?! Is it due to a lack of equipment and supplies?! How can this be, when you are the strongest army in the Middle East? And you rank eighth among the strongest armies in the world, while the Jewish entity ranks eleventh. That is, you are ahead of it in all respects, so how can you accept humiliation?!

The Jihadi army may lose a battle, but it will not lose a war; because the determination that ignited its leaders and soldiers is the same determination that created Badr, Hunayn, and Yarmouk, it is the same determination that opened Andalusia and made Muhammad al-Fatih determined to conquer Constantinople. And it is the same determination that will liberate Al-Aqsa and restore things to their rightful place.

We affirm that the national military doctrine has been lost and not preserved. It is a doctrine of weakness and failure, which diminishes the prestige of the army because it does not open the door to fighting in the way of God. It is a doctrine that made the military a job to receive a salary, so conscription became a heavy burden on the hearts of young people, who avoid it. It is a doctrine that made military ranks for boasting, so the army was emptied of its true meaning.

We in Hizb ut-Tahrir call on our sons in the Turkish army not to continue abandoning Jihad and not to support the Muslims who are crying out for their help; because that is an evil, and what an evil... So do not abandon the pinnacle of this religion until you win in both worlds.

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Trump's Attack on the Democrats

A Coup Against Democracy and an Exposure of Its Falsehood

(Al Jazeera Net, Wednesday, Jumada Al-Akhira 14, 1447 AH, 2025/11/5AD) US President Donald Trump launched a series of sharp statements, criticizing the performance of the Democrats, the voting system, immigration policies, and the government shutdown, stressing that the time has come for the Republicans to take decisive steps (Al Jazeera Network).

Ar-Raya: Since Donald Trump's rise to the American political scene, the world has witnessed a wide debate about the nature of his speech and his style in dealing with his political opponents. Between those who see him as a reformer who wants to restore America to its "lost greatness," and those who consider him a direct threat to the values of democracy, the most important question remains: Is Trump's continuous attack on the Democratic Party merely a normal political conflict, or is it in its essence a coup against American democracy itself?

Trump's attack on the Democrats comes as an internal explosion in the heart of the American system, as it exposes the real conflict between the elite class that controls the joints of the state, and the American people who feel that their voice is no longer effective in the political decision.

Trump's attack on the Democrats, although it seems like a rebellion against American political norms, is in fact a mirror that reflects the crisis of Western democracy itself. It is not only a coup against democracy, but an exposure of its falsehood, and that it is a dead person waiting for the Khilafah state to announce its death and bury it soon, God willing. Our responsibility is to be certain that the path to renaissance is not by imitating