Palestinian-Led Sharia Movement Rallies at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Calls for Pakistan Army to Liberate Jerusalem (VIDEO)

May 28, 2014 7:20 pm 12 comments
Palestinian-founded and led sharia movement Hizb Al-Tahrir, or Party of Liberation, atop the Temple Mount at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, where they called for the Pakistani Army to liberate Jerusalem. Photo: MEMRI / Screenshot.

Palestinian-founded and led sharia movement Hizb Al-Tahrir, or Party of Liberation, atop the Temple Mount at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, where they called for the Pakistani Army to liberate Jerusalem. Photo: MEMRI / Screenshot.

Palestinian-founded and led sharia law movement Hizb Al-Tahrir, the Party of Liberation, hosted thousands of Muslims for Friday prayers last week atop the Temple Mount, at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, where footage showed its leadership denigrating Jews and calling for the Pakistani Army to emerge from under the thrall of America to liberate Jerusalem.

On Thursday, MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute, posted the video and a translated transcript from the rally.

Beginning with a deafening call and response from attendees, the speakers at the event exhorted sharia law-laden themes, including a call for a universal caliphate.

The call and response began, “Oh the army of Pakistan!” followed by, “Come for the sake of the rule of the Koran!” Then, “Oh nation of millions!” followed by “Awaken to support your religion!” Then, “Oh our imprisoned Al-Aqsa Mosque!” followed by, “We bear the glad tidings of liberation!”

“Where is the Caliph Omar? Where is Saladin? Where is the Caliph of the Muslims?” the unnamed speaker asked those assembled. “Don’t you care that the Jews are defiling the place of the Prophet’s nocturnal journey with their filth? The Jews are the most hostile people towards the believers. They conquered Jerusalem.”

Another speaker took the microphone to say, “Oh people of Pakistan! Oh people of Islam! The place of the Prophet’s ascent to Heaven is calling for your help! What are you doing? The Al-Aqsa Mosque calls for your support! Will you heed the call?”

“Oh Pakistani Army! America is using you to kill your brothers. America wants to destroy you. America is your enemy. Free yourselves from subordination to it,” the second speaker said.

“This is the call of Hizb Al-Tahrir: Advance with your mighty army to Jerusalem,” he said. “You are worthy of the honor of liberating it.”

“Oh Muslims in Algeria and Morocco, the land of the martyrs, respond to the call of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Reject secularism. Remove the borders separating you, and follow the banner of ‘There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is His Messenger.’”

Hizb Al-Tahrir was founded in Jerusalem, in 1953, as a Sunni Muslim organization by Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, an Islamic scholar and appeals court judge from the nearby village of Ijzim.

Branches of the movement are in 40 countries, and are especially active in the Western diaspora. The organization is believed to have a million active members, according to an archived profile by The New Statesman, and credits itself with expanding the popularity of the call for sharia law and a unified Muslim caliphate.

As a political force, it was behind failed coups in Jordan, where it was banned, then Syria and Egypt. Today, Hizb Al-Tahrir is active in supporting the Syrian militias whose hoped for military victory against the Assad regime would become its crowning political achievement.

The Palestinian founder al-Nabhani died in Lebanon, in 1977, and was succeeded by Abdul Qadeem Zallum, a Palestinian cleric, who was unable to unite the old and new guards within the group, and it was largely dormant during its second period.

Upon his death, also in Lebanon, in 2003, Palestinian Ata Abu Rashta, formally known as Sheikh Abu Yasin Ata ibn Khalil ibn Ahmad ibn Abdul Qadir al-Khatib Abu Rashta, became the global leader of Hizb Al-Tahrir.

Abu Rashta grew up near Hebron, attended school in Jerusalem and then graduated from Cairo University as a civil engineer, a field he worked in while supporting both of the group’s prior leaders as a lieutenant. During the Persian Gulf War, Abu Rashta became the group’s first official spokesperson in Jordan, where his public engagements, including a speech entitled, “The Neo-Crusader Assault on the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf,” helped frame the military conflict in religious terms.

In 1994, Abu Rashta said, “The establishment of the Caliphate is now a general demand among Muslims, who yearn for this: the call for Islamic government (the Caliphate) is widespread in Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Pakistan, Algeria and so on,” according to ‘A Fundamental Quest: Hizb al-Tahrir and the Search for the Islamic Caliphate,’ the primary book about the movement, published in 1996 by Professor Suha Taji-Farouk, Lecturer in Modern Islam at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, in England.

In the book, Abu Rashta said, “Before Hizb al-Tahrir launched its career the subject of the Caliphate was unheard of. However, the party has succeeded in establishing its intellectual leadership, and now everyone has confidence in its ideas, and talks about it: this is clear from the media worldwide.”

After becoming more vocal, he was arrested by Jordan, designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, and then emerged from prison shortly before the death of predecessor Zallum, in 2003, with Abu Rashta assuming full control over Hizb al-Tahrir, as the third Palestinian to lead its charge to create the global Muslim caliphate.

Watch the footage from MEMRI below:

12 Comments

  • Oh Muslims be united, save Muslims those are being killed daily in the war of Gaza .. This is the time when our Muslim brothers need our support and help kindly do something for them …. I appeal all muslims to join hands and help Palestinias save Al-aqsa mosque …

  • Pakistan Army, please go and help our Muslim brothers. Please. We are powerful. We have nuclear bombs. We can destroy Israel. Our brothers and sisters need us. Save Gaza. Save Jerusalem. Save Palestine :(

    • Sister, we realise what is going in Gaza but Pakistan can’t step to fight with Israel due to UN rules. On the fact Israel is nothing against Pakistan in terms of army and defence power but we are compelled. We trying all our best so that pressure is built up on international media and UN so that we all stop this violence and we help u out of this turmoil. If Pakistan take any action the America, Russia, India and other non-muslims will get chance to destroy and plan against Pakistan, the only nuclear power in Muslim world.

  • Oh Muslim, Please awake and follow Islam with fear of Allah Tallah .Our enemy is in full preparation and destroying our muslims all over the world if you could not awake you will also be destroyed. Please follow the Quran Pak our Prophet Muhammad P.B.U.H. INSHALLAH we will succeed.

    Regards,
    Ali NOman

  • Muslims Army should destroy first America …second Israel and India … then world will be save … They are terrorist …kill them… Allah ho Akbar….

  • Come to the war field we will teach who can wipe out you or us you kafirs are nothing but a bunch of coward who can only kill children women and innocent people you are blessed we have not call jihad for all over the world if we all muslim call jihad you and your nations will erase from history of the world

  • Bart A, Charta

    The gathering of so many enemies of Israel in one place and at one time is the perfect opportunity to wipe them out. These are people who cannot be “re-educated”. Their world outlook negates life, and that makes them less than human. They should be eradicated like the variety of 2-legged vermin they are. The entire world knows that would be their plan for the Jews were they in control. Follow the Talmudic dictum, “Do [it] unto these others before they can do it to you (“Haba lehargecha – hashkem lehargo” – literally, “the one who comes to kill you – kill him first ).

    And the Israeli Government allowing the use of Judaism’s most sacred space to call for the deaths of Jews is nothing short of an obscene abomination to both God and man.

    • Your forefathers Crusaders and other terrorists have tried many times in history to wipe Muslims out….but they have always failed. We have always destroyed you into pieces…like Saladin….and others.

      Don’t worry…wait….Israel is made so that we can destroy it….very soon Muslims will remove it…. There is a saying of Prophet Muhammad (P) that Jews will fight Muslims in last days….and at last, Muslims could destroy them completely….every terrorist Jew will be killed then…meaning, every Israeli. Because occupying someone’s land is illegal.

      wait…for that time…we too wait with you. You people are sons of Pharaoh. God almighty destroyed him so he will also destroy you…. GO TO HELL!!!!

      • Oh muslims when will you all realise your are serving lucifer, you kill maim, prostitute, child rape, pedophile all in gods name

        • historical facts

          Thunder the most blood shed caused in recent history was caused by non muslims. World war 1 and 2 caused by european non muslims, both wars killed tens of millions Stalin and communism killed millions. So what are u talking about. As far as child rape , what about the catholic church. Where do u get your info from!!???

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