Press Release

An Apology to Our Lord, and an Excuse to Wounded Gaza

Tripoli of Al-Sham Raises Its Voice Against Dance Festivals on the Wounds of the Nation!

Hizb ut-Tahrir in Lebanon called on its youth to participate in the sit-in scheduled in coordination with activities and activists in the city of Tripoli, this Saturday afternoon at 6:00 PM in front of the Tripoli International Fair, in protest against the dance and singing festival in the city of Tripoli, the city of science and scholars, an apology to God Almighty for the evils committed in Tripoli, which do not reflect its identity, at a time when the criminal Jewish entity is waging a fierce war against Muslims in Palestine in general and Gaza in particular, but its aggression and criminality extends to Lebanon and Syria, where it occupies part of the southern land and the land of Syria, and its planes have not left their skies, bombing and destroying without deterrent or prevention!

The demonstrators were surprised by the large numbers of various security agencies, including the army, intelligence, information, general security, and state security, to prevent this vigil and prevent the expression of legal opinion, instead of preventing corruption festivals in wartime! In order to avoid clashing with them, we moved dozens of meters away from these security and military gatherings! Then we continued the sit-in, in which Sheikh Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim, head of the Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Lebanon, gave a brief speech in which he denounced this evil committed by some suspicious women's associations supported by money sharks, and denounced this act at this particular time. He also denounced the authority's involvement of the security services in the face of the city's residents, and stressed that their place is on the front lines and confronting the Jews, not the streets of Tripoli, and their role is to protect people, not prevent them from their rights, and that they must not carry out the orders of the thieves from the money sharks in the seat of power, for now is the time for confrontation and preparation in the face of the enemy, not the time for festivals and corruption, especially in the city of Tripoli.

Commenting on the title of the festival, "Night of Feeling," Dr. Ibrahim stressed that this is the time to feel the children and women of Gaza and work to stop their extermination, as well as to stand by the poor of Tripoli and the deprived in this country, and the authority in Lebanon must work to take care of people's affairs and help the poor and needy, and find a way to turn the Tripoli International Fair into an economic center where thousands of young people from the needy people of Tripoli work instead of turning it into a center for dancing, singing, immorality and debauchery! Then the sit-in concluded with prayer.

﴿Why were there not, among the generations before you, those possessing understanding, prohibiting corruption in the earth - except a few of those We saved from among them? And those who wronged pursued what enjoyment they were given of it, and they were criminals. And never would your Lord have destroyed the cities for wrongdoing while their people were reformers.﴾

The Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir

In the Wilayah of Lebanon