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Garton Ash’s view of the Swiss ban on minarets

By Houriya | Published: December 10, 2009

Timothy Garton Ash has written a comment piece for the Guardian discussing the Swiss ban on mosque minarets. I agree with all that he says except for the Islamic Shakhsiya Foundation point.

I have looked at the curriculum that they were teaching at the time they received government funding. And yes, they do promote Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) ideology to the core. And as many of us know, HT ideology mandates Muslims to lead segregated lives from the rest of society and to only follow HT’s version of Islam. It is not exactly rocket science to know that HT run schools with HT teachers and a headmistress that was HT at the time of funding and writing the school’s curriculum would be teaching HT ideology to children. Anyway, the rest of the article is good. Have a read:

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Hizb ut-Tahrir and the 1997 Redress

By Guest | Published: November 30, 2009

This is a guest post by Raziq, a former member of Hizb-ut-Tahrir

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Many people are not aware that Hizb-ut-Tahrir is split into two groups. Both groups oppose each other but go by the same name. So how did this situation come about?

In 1997 some members of Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) claimed to have removed the then leader Abdul Qadeem Zalloom from the Imara (leadership) of the party. In his place they had elected a new Amir (supreme leader) and were now going to correct the mistakes of the previous leadership. This incident led to HT splitting into two groups, the first being those who continued following Zalloom as the leader and the second being those who broke off and formed their own party, also known as Hizb ut-Tahrir. This incident is referred to as the 1997 ‘Redress’.

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Death Threats, Part Of An “Exclusively Political Method”

By Yossarian | Published: November 16, 2009

Global Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) likes to claim that it is devoted to an “exclusively political method” which is non-violent. Even though HT would be happy to see the deaths of millions and its ideology and strategy has been well documented by my Spittoonite comrade Houriya (not least in the excellent, but somewhat prosaically titled, report Hizb ut-Tahrir: Ideology and Strategy (pdf) which she authored with her colleague Hannah Stuart) there are still many politicians, civil servants and the like who repeat the wrong-headed platitude that HT is non-violent.

They could not be less correct, as a Bangladeshi news site reports:

The Dhaka University’s vice chancellor received death threats on Sunday from banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir.

The organisation in two letters asked A A M S Arefin Siddique to reinstate central coordinator of the outfit and spokesman professor Mohiuddin Ahmed to his position in the university without delay.

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Hello Hizbis

By Guest | Published: November 4, 2009

This is a guest post by Hannah Stuart and Houriya Ahmed

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Regular readers don’t need us to tell them about Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT). However, as authors of the Centre for Social Cohesion’s recent report, Hizb ut-Tahrir: Ideology & Strategy, we feel obliged to respond to HT’s ‘smear aimed at distracting our organisation from
its work’.

HT’s statement lays out six allegations against the Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC) and our report:

#1. ‘The report is little more than a rehash of the same old and tired allegations that have been disproved on many previous occasions’.

Yeah, sure, it’s the same old allegations… hijacking planes and killing Jews…

If the plane belongs to a country at war with the Muslims, like Israel, it is allowed to hijack it, for there is no sanctity for Israel nor for the Jews in it and their property and we should treat them as being at war with us

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Slam Dunk

By Effendi | Published: November 3, 2009

First, the bad news: Last week a report in the Sunday Telegraph highlighted the Shakhsiyah Foundation, an Hizb ut-Tahrir front organisation which runs three schools in north London, had received in excess of £113,000 from government grants. The foundation’s lead trustee, Yusra Hamilton, is a leading Hizb activist who is married to Taji Mustafa, the group’s chief spokesman in Britain.

Now, for the good news: Within seven days of this information going public, Haringey Council has axed funding to the Shakhsiyah Foundation:

The public money – from the Government’s Early Years Fund – was paid to help run the nursery school and two Islamic primary schools where children are taught key elements of Hizb’s ideology from the age of five. It was administered by the local authority, Haringey.

In a statement, the Home Office said: “Haringey Council has decided to suspend its allocation of Early Years Funding, to the schools concerned, pending an investigation.”

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Hizb ut-Tahrir Admit SRE Islamic Campaign is an HT Front

By Yossarian | Published: October 30, 2009

It was the Spittoon which first revealed that a campaign launched ostensibly by British Muslims to counter government plans for Sex and Relationship Education in schools was actually a less-than-subtle front for Hizb ut-Tahrir. The Independent then picked up on the story.

Well, now Hizb ut-Tahrir have admitted (pdf) to the duplicitous tricks they have been using to insinuate their way into British mosques, from which they have long been banned.

Members of Hizb ut-Tahrir have also started raising awareness around the country on government plans to promote compulsory Sex and Relationship Education to children aged 5 years old and above, and encouraged parents to question the implementation of this policy in their children’s schools.

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Dalia Mogahed Makes More Excuses for HT Show Appearance

By Yossarian | Published: October 25, 2009

As covered here at the Spittoon, one of President Obama’s advisors on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, appeared on a Hizb ut-Tahrir TV show on the Islam Channel. She then sent a letter to the Telegraph which, in a singularly unconvincing manner, tried to justify her appearance on the ‘Muslimah Dilemma’ show.

Now she has written another defence of her appearance, this time for the Huffington Post.

At Gallup, where I direct the Center for Muslim Studies, we do precisely this every day–measure and report what the world is thinking. While what we discover is not what some expect–or want to hear, denying these findings may help some score points with their ideological base, but only weakens our ability to meet our goals as a nation.

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Hizb ut-Tahrir and its Nuclear Ambitions

By Yossarian | Published: October 23, 2009

Here at the Spittoon we have covered HT’s attempts to destabilize and even mount a coup in Pakistan, an HT member’s assault on Quilliam’s director, the various unpleasantries of HT’s ideology yet even their copyright violations have so far failed to convince me (as all these matters have the Tories) that HT deserves to be designated an illegal organisation.

It is indisputable that HT’s rejection of free speech, democracy, equal rights, secularism (and on and on and on) is deeply unhelpful in British society. Their rejection of the key values (and democratic institutions) which bind our society together is certainly not something that should go unchallenged, but is this enough reason to ban them?

Well, this week the argument for banning has got that little bit stronger. Pakistan’s Daily Times reports:

Nuclear scientist among held Hizbut Tahrir activists

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Spittoon Exclusive: Dalia Mogahed’s letter to the Sunday Telegraph

By Guest | Published: October 13, 2009

This is a guest post by Al-Qanaas Al-Masri

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Through a source, who must for obvious reasons remain anonymous, I have received a copy of a letter that Dalia Mogahed, an advisor to Obama, wrote to The Telegraph in response to their coverage of her decision to appear on the Islam Channel on a programme run and hosted by Hizb ut-Tahrir. The letter reads:

Dear Sirs;

I am writing in response to the 8 October article “Barack Obama adviser says Sharia Law is misunderstood” by Mr. Gilligan and Mr. Spillius.

I was on the Muslimah Dilemma program as a pollster, not a pundit. I did not take issue with the objectionable remarks of the host or the guest because as a Gallup analyst my job is to explain the opinions of others, in this case Muslims around the world, and not to present my personal opinions. I do not in any way endorse Hizb ul Tahrir.  My participation in the program does not serve as endorsement of any group or cause.

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Obama’s Advisor and the Promotion of Hizb ut-Tahrir

By Guest | Published: October 8, 2009

This is a guest post by Al-Qanaas Al-Masri

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Since taking office, President Obama’s administration has tried hard to break with Bush-era ‘them and us’ rhetoric and reach out to ordinary Muslims around the world.

However, I don’t think that anyone thought this policy would include publicly sucking up to Hizb ut-Tahrir, a group which, much like al-Qaeda, aspires to create a global, totalitarian and expansionist Caliphate.

And yet, as Counter Terrorism News website reveals, this is precisely what has now happened.

On Sunday, Dalia Mogahed (pronounced ‘mujahid’), a high-profile member of President Barack Obama’s Faith Advisory Council, spent 45-minutes on the Islam Channel’s programme ‘Muslimah Dilemma’ alongside fellow guest, Nasreen Nawaz, HT’s national women’s media representative (the video is available here).

There are some initial problems with this:

-          The Islam Channel is a hardline wahhabi/Islamist outfit run by Mohammed Ali Harrath, a convicted terrorist who is wanted by Interpol.

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