What is the ruling on strikes?

The Shaykh : This is in Algeria. Have you heard that there is a strike tomorrow from the Nahda Front?
Al-Halabi : A strike means abstaining from work, a complete stoppage.
Abu Layla : Is it permissible, our Shaykh, for this to lead to a hunger strike later?

The questioner : In any case, we were asked about this strike yesterday and earlier today, and we said that this is a European and American democratic system, and it is not permissible for Muslims to imitate the disbelievers. In my answer yesterday, I reminded the questioner, because he appears to have some culture, of the hadith اجعل لنا ذات أنواط كما لهم ذات أنواط، فقال عليه الصلاة والسلام لقد قلتم كما قال قوم موسى لموسى اجعل لنا إلها كما لهم آلهة Make for us a god as they have gods. He said, (peace and blessings be upon him): You have said what the people of Moses said to Moses: Make for us a god as they have gods. This word, with the great difference between it and what the people of Moses intended, was rejected by the Messenger (peace be upon him), and in his rejection he said So I said to them: If the Messenger (peace be upon him) forbade imitating the disbelievers in wording, despite the great difference between the wording of the disbelievers and the wording of the Muslim companions, then it is even more so that we are forbidden from doing the deeds of the disbelievers and following the methodology of the disbelievers in reforming rulers, correcting them, and compelling them to rule by what Allah has revealed. So I told them that this is not the way. Then I rambled on about the purification and education that you know. Is there anything else?