Hizb ut-Tahrir have a problem. Long gone are the glory days when they could attract thousands to a conference held at the famous National Indoor Arena in Birmingham (where Gladiators was shot). Now their “Birmingham” conference is being held in, er, West Bromwich and at the not-so-glamourous Bethel Convention Centre.
It gets worse though. In a clear sign of what they have been reduced to, they’re now skulking around organising purportedly independent events at major mosques and misleading other Muslims about who they are – just to get them to turn up to events run by HT members. Oh dear.
