The Sunday Times reports:
British militants are pushing for the overthrow of the Pakistani state. Followers of the fundamentalist group Hizb ut-Tahrir have called for a “bloodless military coup” in Islamabad and the creation of the caliphate in which strict Islamic laws would be rigorously enforced.
Members of the group, which describes itself as the Liberation party in Britain but is banned in Pakistan, revealed last week that it had targeted the country as a base from which to spread Islamic rule across the world.
The Sunday Times has obtained the names of a dozen British Hizb ut-Tahrir activists based in Lahore and Karachi, or commuting between Britain and Pakistan. There are believed to be many more.
Oh, and remember Tayyib Muqeem – the ex-boxer who could only give the weakest explanations for assaulting Maajid Nawaz in Lahore a few months ago – well it turns out that he is even more unpleasant than previously suspected.
Tayyib Muqeem, an English teacher from Stoke-on-Trent, said he had moved to Lahore to convert Pakistanis to the movement.
At Lahore’s Superior College, where Muqeem has set up a Hizb ut-Tahrir student group, he said the organisation’s aim was to subject Muslim and western countries to Islamic rule under sharia law, “by force” if necessary.
In a caliphate, “every woman would have to cover up” and stoning to death for adultery and the chopping off of thieves’ hands would be the law, he said.
He added that Islamic rule would be spread through “indoctrination” and by “military means” if non-Muslim countries refused to bow to it. “Waging war” would be part of the caliphate’s foreign policy.
One of Hizb ut-Tahrir’s strategies in Pakistan is to influence military officers, he revealed.
And then there are more details about HT’s attempts to destabilise Pakistan.
Shahzad Sheikh, a Pakistani recruit and the group’s official spokesman in Karachi, talked openly about persuading the army to instigate a “bloodless coup” against the present government who, he said, were “worse than the Taliban”.
“It is the military who hold the power (in Pakistan) and we are asking them to give their allegiance to Hizb ut-Tahrir,” he said. “I can’t explain to you in detail how we are trying to influence the military . . . We never disclose our methodology of change. You may say it’s a coup.”
In 2003 four army officers were arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of being linked to extremist groups, although the groups and men have not been named. A Hizb ut-Tahrir insider at the time claims they were recruited by the organisation’s “Pakistan team” while training at Sandhurst.
And why all of this emphasis on Pakistan?
The group is believed to have been set up in Pakistan in the early 1990s by Imtiaz Malik, a British-born Pakistani who may still be operating underground as its leader in the country. In 1999 a call was sent to British Hizb ut-Tahrir members to move to Pakistan. This prompted the movement of some of the UK’s “top quality” activists to south Asia.
“Pakistan was neglected and ignored until it had a nuclear bomb and then the global leader realised it would be a good strategic base for the caliphate,” said Maajid Nawaz, one of the organisation’s pioneers in Pakistan, who has since renounced the group.
HT may be laughable most of the time but the idea of them controlling nuclear weapons is terrifying. Thank God their attempts failed.
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Pakistan only became part of the ‘majal’ after it attained nuclear weapons. Prior to that HT used to look down on Pakistan and the Indian subcontinent in general.
I met Tayab many years ago (just after he was released from prison for drug pushing). In those days he used to like bragging about his past and teling everyone what a bad man he used to be (a common trait among some HT members). I attened a couple of talks he gave and 90% of the talk was about him being a ‘bad man’. Even as a teenager I thought he was an idiot.
HT will never be successful in Pakistan, that’s a fact. People are fed up with Taliban and Jamaat types. The majority of the populace just want to get on with their lives and not work towards overthrow governments.
When Nabhani established HT in 1953 he thought the Khilafah would come within 13 years, it didn’t. Then he said it would in another 13 years and still didn’t. After that HT died as a movement in the Middle East with members leaving in their droves.
When are the remaining HT members going to realise that HT is a failed movement with a bankrupt ideology?
I think this Munafiq site is absolutely disgusting,
The writers of this site ought to close it down immediately, turn to Allah and repent before the punishment descends swiftly upon them.
Anyone with half an iota of sense can see what you’re doing; you’re focussing all your negative efforts to capitalize and exploit the sectarian differences within Muslim Communities, you are educating both brothers and sisters with the necessary mental ammunition they need to seek to create further factions and turn against one another. You’re mocking the arabs, you’re pounding the Muslims with wave after wave of your deceptive scheming under the cloak/guise of what is looked at by your filthy modern compatriots as ‘civility’.
The Friday caption thing is way beyond a joking matter, its not fun, its ludicrously abhorrent and a form of inciting backbiting about those you find out of place or out of touch in that delusional perfect place in your head that you roam around in as kings.
FEAR ALLAAH! FEAR HIS PUNISHMENT!
Stop criticizing your fellow Muslim Brothers and Sisters, if you’ve had a neglected or traumatic childhood or if you were sexually abused during your early years then don’t grow up taking your anger out against the rest of your community.
Seek alternative therapy:
1). try counselling, I know a this great Aalim that will treat you guys for free on a one to one basis, just visit him, in a room ,one on one, and he’ll beat the djinn out of you silly.
2). or you can choose to throw yourself off a cliff, just tell your friends when you’re about to, that way they can take a photo of the moment and post it under the Friday Caption section of your website –
I wonder what captions they’ll come out with?
Groups such as HT/MCB and others (retards like yourself) do nothing but mock anyone who doesn’t agree with your views.
Your the real ‘munafiq’ and I suggest you repent before your sexual frustration gets the better of you.
Mr Moderator,
We get one of you nutters arriving here every week. First it was Abd al-Azeez, then it was ‘me’ and now you. Every time one of you guys shows his face here he gets bruised and battered, and then runs off into the distance. Why do you do it to yourselves?
Anyway, please do submit your picture so we can use it for the Friday Caption Competition. What’s so funny is that I already said it winds up the Islamist apologists and then you turn up moaning about it. Hahaha.
Also, I checked out your website. On it, you say:
We do not encourage, incite, support or promote any forms of race hatred, violence or terrorism against any individuals whether they be Muslim or non-Muslim.
But with links to IEngage and Anwar al-Awlaki on the website I’m not sure how moderate you are! Anwar al-Awlaki spreads the worst kind of sectarian rubbish and at one of the people involved with IEngage is wanted by Interpol. So much for your credentials, eh?
Also, you say that you want to:
provide intellectual & thought provoking content/reading materials & resources for Muslim readers
And that pseudo-intellectual theme runs across your website. Yet, here, when you find people who disagree with you then you resort to saying they’ve been “sexually abused” just for holding different opinions. Not very intellectual of you, is it?
You’ll end up like our earlier Islamist friends – huffing and puffing for the next few days and then skulking off back to your chums to talk about how we’re all going to hell.
Hurrah!
Ps, feel free to get stuck into the Caption Competition.
Mr. Moderator;
Salaams! Tell us who this Aalim of yours is, we’ll visit him!
xxx
I think this Munafiq site is absolutely disgusting
Do you believe that capitalising a transliterated Arabic word somehow conveys gravity? Well, it doesn’t…
And aren’t you committing a base form of associationism with your accusations of hypocrisy? How can you presume to know what is in the hearts and minds of men? Only Allah the Sublime is cognisant of the Unseen.
Damnit, soon we’ll be being accused of having comment threads full of shirk.
You guys are really full of yourselves arent you?
Now I know how Moses felt when the Children of Israel gave him such a hard time, except you guys are one level above, you’re a joke.
The attacks concentrated on HT in article after article is a testament to your hypocrisy. Even if the issue has nothing to do with HT, even if HT weren’t being mentioned, I thing somehow you’ll find a way to include them in the coversation and feast on their flesh, cos thats what you guys seem to do best – Backbite.
You’re just like the Yahood, Even if you were Present when the prophet preached Islam, you’d make him jump through so many hoops before you even consider turning to accepting what he’s working so hard to convey.
On your latest attempt to create divides, you’re focussing on the Iran election and how a small proportion have gone against the Ayatollah.
Fear Allah!
You’re just like the Yahood, Even if you were Present when the prophet preached Islam, you’d make him jump through so many hoops before you even consider turning to accepting what he’s working so hard to convey.
wow, you Hizbis aren’t modest when it comes to your own self-regard, are you?
Likening yourselves and your pernicious ideology to the prophet’s preaching of Islam?
Your similarity to far-right evangelical Christian fundamentalists in so far as how ridiculously beholden you are to your own exactitude is uncanny.
speaking as one of these putative “yahoods”, i should point out, pace carl sagan that exceptional claims tend to require exceptional proof.
“i am a prophet and a bring a message from G!D” is the sort of thing i would tend to be somewhat sceptical of *particularly* were i present.
this clearly demonstrates why questioning and critical thought are so inimical to the hizbi world view.
b’shalom
bananabrain
Let me get this straight – Ht can attack Muslims groups and rulers all arounf the world but if you criticise them then you become a hypocrite and Jewish. Hmmmmmm
Firstly, do you even know the meaning of the word ‘hyprocrite’? Secondly why are you so anti-semetic?