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Tories will ban Hizb ut-Tahrir

By Guest | Published: October 8, 2009

This is an extract from the speech delivered by Chris Grayling, shadow Home Secretary, at the Tory party conference in Manchester yesterday.

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The Home Office has another key responsibility.

The security of our people and of our nation.

To take the lead in the battle against terrorism.

And the fight against an ideology of hate and violence.

An ideology that damages the reputation of decent, law abiding British Muslims as well as threatening life and limb.

And let’s be clear. That ideology wants to destroy the civil liberties that make this country what it is. No Government should allow them to do so, and the way this Government has eroded those liberties is shameful and must be reversed.

Our police and security services have done a magnificent job in protecting us against the terrorist threat.

We owe them a huge debt of gratitude.

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Paying for Political Islam

By Guest | Published: September 30, 2009

This piece by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens is cross-posted from the Standpoint blog, Focus on Islamism

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This November, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) will be holding its course on political Islam and, like the last one, it is not without its controversial speakers.

I don’t have many fans in the SOAS political Islam Course; this is mainly because the think tank for which I work was instrumental in preventing the entry into the UK of one of its prominent invitees, Ibrahim el Moussawi.  Moussawi, the head of Hezbollah’s propaganda station al Manar TV, was due to address the same course in March of this year until the Home Secretary refused him an entry visa at the last minute.  SOAS, for their part, were more than happy to play host to a man who heads a TV channel which is banned in most of Europe because of its extreme antisemitism and promotion and incitement of violence.

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Hizb ut-Tahrir: “what is required is actual war” (Updated)

By Guest | Published: August 20, 2009

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

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Hizb ut-Tahrir claims to be a non-violent political party. Its members publically state this, however critics are not convinced. In this article I will be looking at some of its literature and its stance on the use of violence.  All quotes appear in their correct contexts and all references used in this article can be supplied upon request.

Background

Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) is a political party established by Taqiuddin al-Nabhani in 1952. Being a former Ba’athist, Nabhani incorporated the organizational principles of Marxism-Leninism into the structure of his new party. The central aim of HT is to unite all Muslim-majority countries into a super-expansionist Islamist state. This is to be done by seizing power in a Muslim-majority country through infiltration of the army and then initiating a military coup, a war by proxy. Once the state is established it will invite other Muslim-majority countries to join, but if they refuse then a war (jihad) will be declared against them and they will be taken over by force. Failed coup attempts by HT in the 1960s led to the loss of much support and membership and today it is banned or viewed with suspicion in all Muslim-majority countries.

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Hizb ut-Tahrir: The only place is the battlefield between the Muslims and the Jews

By Guest | Published: August 13, 2009

Continuing where Hizb ut-Tahrir ‘Brandishing the Sword’ left off, this is another post where Hizb ut-Tahrir will be allowed to speak for, and thereby condemn, itself. The vicious Antisemitism of this leaflet (dating from December 1992) has never been recanted by HT but, after several years of distribution, they realised that it was damaging their PR and the leaflet was suppressed. These ideas, however, remain an integral part of HT’s ideology.

Taken from ‘The only place is the battlefield between the Muslims and the Jews’ (an official Hizb ut-Tahrir leaflet published by al-Khilafah Publications).

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The recent event of the imprisonment and the killing of a Jewish soldier by Hamas is lawful, for it is a means of resistance against the occupiers according to the Islamic Shari`ah, for the Jews are belligerent enemies and we are in a state of war with them. They have violated the land and driven away its people, they constantly aggress the people of Palestine, killing, injuring, destroying properties, arresting, expelling and breaking the Palestinians’ bones; Islam considers their blood and their property as violable; thus their property and their lives have no sanctity; [..]

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The Entryist

By Yossarian | Published: August 10, 2009

For those unfamiliar with the term, entryism is a strategy whereby members of one group join another with the intention of taking it over surreptitiously or just to manipulate the latter into serving the interests of the former/leach off its reputation. For example, throughout the seventies there were repeated attempts by Scientologists to join Mind (then the National Association for Mental Health) to try and influence policy regarding psychiatric treatment.

It has also become a favourite tactic for Islamists. Shikwa recently documented the efforts of one Majed Iqbal, a Hizb ut-Tahrir member from Rochdale, to use his role as a writer at the ‘Asian Leader’ to push HT’s agenda. He has even managed to appear on Sky News and the BBC’s ‘The Big Questions’ passing himself off as an impartial observer.

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Press TV Confirms Hizb ut-Tahrir’s Irrelevance

By Yossarian | Published: August 9, 2009

Poor Hizb ut-Tahrir. Things have hardly been going well for them these days and now Iranian propaganda channel Press TV has, through its own incompetence, proven what we always suspected – the number of people who actually give a damn about Hizb ut-Tahrir is miniscule in the extreme.

Under the title “In London, Turkey’s Hizb ut-Tahrir protests secularism“, Press TV publishes an article which clearly demonstrates that they have no idea who Hizb ut-Tahrir are and, despite sending a reporter to their protest, can’t be bothered to find out; they think Hizb ut-Tahrir is a Turkish political party not a global Islamist movement.

Protesters from Turkey’s banned Islamic political group Hizb ut-Tahrir have staged a demonstration in front of the Turkish embassy in London.

Sucks to be Hizb ut-Tahrir – the only people writing about them are their own members, critics like us and the discredited media arm of a totalitarian regime which can’t even get basic details right.

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HT Conference A Flop

By Yossarian | Published: August 7, 2009

Cast your mind back a few years to the Hizb ut-Tahrir annual conferences of yore. That extremist, violent, Antisemitic global Islamist party which thinks reintroducing a Caliphate is the answer to all of life’s little problems was able to persuade several thousands of British Muslims to attend its annual Khilafah conferences.

For example, its 2003 Birmingham conference was held at the prestigious National Indoor Arena (where ‘Gladiators‘ used to be filmed) and over 7,000 delegates were reported – by independent sources – to have attended.

Now look what’s happened to them. Going on the 2001 census figures (which must inevitably underestimate the numbers) there are 1,591,000 Muslims in the UK, of which 607,083 are in London.  This leaves at least 983,917 Muslims outside London and potential attendees at HT’s Birmingham (actually West Bromwich) conference. How many of them turned up to HT’s recent Birmingham conference?

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The Sex Education Issue

By Guest | Published: August 5, 2009

This is a guest post by Ibn Khaldun

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A lot has recently been made (particularly in Muslim circles) of the idea that the government is attempting to introduce sex education to 5 year olds. Some Muslim parents are up in arms at the idea of their children being taught about sex at the age of five. Islamist groups have also jumped on the bandwagon, spotting an opportunity to spread their propaganda to unwitting Muslim parents. But what is the truth?

Firstly, the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) has yet to approve any plans, i.e. it is merely being discussed.

Secondly, it is not about ‘sex education’ but rather ‘relationship lessons’, which are a part of a wider initiative to promote Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE).

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Islamophobia Watch – Dimwit Unlimited

By Yossarian | Published: August 3, 2009

Islamophobia Watch have found another less-than-worthwhile cause to throw their “might” behind – defending global Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir from their critics.

In reality, Hizb ut-Tahrir is a peaceful if highly sectarian organisation that poses no threat whatsoever to the people of East London. But what can you expect from the Tories, given that David Cameron is on record as calling for HT to be made illegal?

Needless to say, Cameron isn’t calling for a ban on the far-right British National Party, even though no HT members have been convicted of the sort of violent crimes that BNP members have. Clearly the Tories apply different standards to white fascists than they do to brown Islamists.

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Hizb ut-Tahrir violates copyright regulations!!

By Houriya | Published: August 3, 2009

Hizb ut-Tahrir’s Malaysian chapter [the revolutionary and expansionist Islamist group] advertised its 26 July 2009 conference with this image:

HT Malaysia Khilafah Conference

HT Malaysia Khilafah Conference

A beheaded Statue of Liberty. A burning and ruined Financial District in Manhattan.  Conveniently using this clip image from the film Cloverfield, Hizb ut-Tahrir uses it to epitomise everything the party loathes and despises: democracy, freedom, capitalism, secularsim (values many of us cherish) – and generally the West. And they want to do what? Take over the world?

Viva la Islamist revolución!

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