Media Release: On The Issue of Crime and Our Daunting Social Challenges

Media Release: 

On The Issue of Crime and Our Daunting Social Challenges

255 Murders in 182 days. As these numbers show and with the Increase in crime and public uneasiness, crime, in all its different forms has become a major threat to societal and individual security. There has been less discussion on the role and response of national security mechanisms. Hence, most of the methods used to fight against crime have backfired and fall short of meeting such a challenge. The failure of the Western methods of combating crime and the Increase in impunity of criminals leads one to suggest a solution, which treats criminal activity not piecemeal but in the total scheme of life. 

The Islamic concept of security is a very comprehensive one, more comprehensive than any of the other existing systems. It looks at humankind in relation to the universe and the factors influencing it. It encompasses physical, mental, psychological and spiritual domains as integral parts of an overall societal security system.

Islamic teachings do not merely provide solutions to exceptional instances of criminal behavior, but emphatically focus on measures that halt their existence. In other words, Islam executes as many means as possible to avert temptation. While modern societies flaunt temptation – liquor, pornography, violence, etc. – before the people, a true Islamic society removes the sources of these temptations, and when the need for correction emerges, the punishment is serious and effective. If crimes are not countered with serious punishments, then our society will be in grave danger.

Crime has prospered in modern societies because a completely contradictory approach is followed to controlling it.

Waajihatul Islaamiyyah (The Islamic Front) is therefore calling the government to stamp out all forms of temptation that are prevalent and easily accessible and when the time comes for correction or punishment of a crime, the justice system should not be lenient and should be serious. Sentencing should not be biased and protective of the criminal's rights over those of the victim.

Government must take into consideration the changing circumstances of our society as well as the constancy and permanence of the nature of our countrymen.

Waajihatul Islamiyyah (The Islamic Front) is prepared to seek legal injunctions aimed at achieving human welfare, which can all be referred back to universal principles which are necessary for the well-being and security of our citizens. These universal principles are:

1.    The preservation of life.
2.    The preservation of religion.
3.    The preservation of reason.
4.    The preservation of lineage.
5.    The preservation of property.

Waajihatul Islaamiyyah (The Islamic Front) is working with an objective that would seek to protect our society from the dangers of crime by advocating fairness, equality and justice, also prison and prisoner reform. However, we must bear in mind, the punishment is a recompense for the crime.  It is undesirable to treat a criminal lightly who threatens the security of society with danger. 

For Immediate Release: 
Date: 3rd July 2017

Umar Abdullah
Head of Waajihatul Islaamiyyah (The Islamic Front) 
Tel: +18687870765 or +18683656253

Media Release: Re: Murder of Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal

Media Release:

Re: Murder of Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal

Waajihatul Islaamiyyah (The Islamic Front) strongly condemns the assassination of Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal. This act not only speaks to the gross incompetence of our protective services but also more importantly to the lack of political will by this PP administration to address the disintegration of the social and moral fabric our society.

We want to caution the police in their investigation of this murder and to warn them against chasing red herrings. We are very much concerned that they are pursuing innocent individuals and would subsequently arrest innocent persons for that murder as they have done in the past. 

The information which they claim to have on the Carapo man is faulty and misleading.

Are these the same police who could not have detected a dead child in a barrel after spending 7 hours in the same  room where the said barrel was? Are these the same police who after a conviction of five persons in the 700 million drug fine on Monos Island still can't tell us who owned the drugs? What about the murder of Ramishchand's daughter? What about Akeel Chambers? What about the eight year old found murdered in the drain; where an innocent police officer was held and won his case? The real murderer still walks free!  At the time the Prime Minister vowed the murderer will be held and brought to justice. What about the drugs in the container of chicken? And just in recent times the coke in juice cans? The Debideen murder in Grand Bazaar? The examples are too numerous to contemplate.

Are these the same police who are telling us today that they have a suspect? Informing us that someone in prison called the shot? Well tell us too what was the motivate; informing us that calls were intercepted; well then you did know the SC's life was threatened; why didn't you protect her.

If the police and this government do not want a scandal on their hands they better know what they doing; I have already passed on certain information to the authorities; the ball is in their court.

For Immediate Release:
Thursday 8th May 2014

Umar Abdullah: Head of Waajihatul Islaamiyyah (The Islamic Front)
Tel: 1 868 365-6253/787-0765
Email: waajihatulislaamiyyah@gmail.com

...Lean On The Side Of Caution And Withdraw.

Even though in a society like America where one would have the right to burn all kinds of things — letters, flags, books, Bibles and Qurans and not be punished and censored for their political expression based on their own emotional reactions or sense of morality, we must also understand Rights, Privileges and Laws; especially if they are not Divine, do change over time and these changes are dependent upon the Social, Economic and Political impact on our society at the time. In cases where the impact is negative so as to cause wide spread social and political unrest resulting from a phobia of harm and provocation; we must all agree to lean on the side of caution and withdraw.