UK: The Menace Of The Islamists Of Hizb ut-Tahrir
Special Report http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003372.html HizbLogo.gif <http://www.westernresistance.com/images/HizbLogo.gif> Hizb ut-Tahrir, founded in 1953 in Jerusalem by an Islamic jurist, Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, has a mission to restore a Muslim Caliphate, a supreme body which advises on Islamic law. More importantly, they believe that this Caliphate should be set up as a replacement for national governments. The last Caliphate was that of the Ottomans, which was dissolved by Kemal Ataturk on March 23, 1924. Their intention to obliterate sovereign governments means that their agenda is entirely against the principles of democracy. Their website, <http://www.khilafah.com/> Khilafah.com states that they are against violence. Yet the rhetoric of their spokespeople around the globe is always loaded with violence. In Australia last November, an Eid carnival in Melbourne had leaflets distributed. These <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/000809.html> stated that Muslims "enormously rejected their evil and corrupt rulers that the West have appointed over them, and they are looking forward to consigning them to the dustbins of history" and glorified terrorist atrocities overseas, where Muslims had "inflicted the most humiliating lesson on supposed superpowers". The leaflets exhorted Muslims to "Ally yourselves with those who work day and night to confront this war against Islam." In <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/001939.html> April, Islamists from Hizb ut-Tahrir gathered outside Bankstown Town Hall, voicing their opposition to democratic values, secular society and Australia. Usman Badar announced: "Western values are not worthy of human subscription.....Democracy sounds nice enough - not to a Muslim....Sovereignty is for none but Allah. Allah did not say....whatever the people want, we'll have this." Badr said of secularism "it relegates Allah to the margins of public life and places human beings above him. This, to put it blatantly, is as blasphemous as it gets.....The overriding commitment of a Muslim is to Allah, and Allah alone." In August last year, the Australian Attorney General, Philip Ruddock, had considered moves to have Hizb ut-Tahrir banned, but decided that the group was not "terrorist". Though the group may not actively involve itself in terrorist acts, it certainly supports and encourages them. In Denmark, the local leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir, Fadi Abdullatif, was this year jailed on <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/002805.html> August 17 for three months. He was found guilty of threatening the government of Anders Fogh Rasmussen in leaflets which had been distributed in 2004. These fliers had called for the emlimination of any Western leaders who tried to prevent Muslims from going to Iraq to fight the coalition troops. He was additionally found guilty under anti-racism laws of calling for the killing of Jews on the Hizb ut-Tahrir website. In <http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_ID =21654> October, 2002, Fadi Abdullatif had been given a suspended sentence of 60 days' jail for disseminating leaflets in a square in Copenhagen, and also at a mosque, in which it was <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3182271.stm> written: "The Jews are a people of slander...a treacherous people... they fabricate lies and twist words from their right context." The leaflet quoted from the Koran urging Muslims to "kill them (Jews) wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out." The Hizb ut-Tahrir British <http://www.hizb-ut-tahrir.org/english/english.html> website states that the group "also aims to bring back the Islamic guidance for mankind and to lead the Ummah into a struggle with Kufr, its systems and its thoughts so that Islam encapsulates the world." There is nothing "non-violent" about calling for Muslims to fight with Kufr (kaffir, or "unbelievers"). In Bangladesh on <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/001629.html> February 10 this year, Hizb ut-Tahrir organized the protests against the Danish <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/001565.html> cartoons. Here, more than 5,000 Muslims in Dhaka carried banners which showed none of the "non-violence" which Hizb ut-Tahrir claims to espouse, such as "Death to those who degrade our beloved prophet!" and "Hang culprits". Other slogans stated: "Free speech symbolizes War on Islam" and "Free speech - Crusade against Islam." Anyone in any doubt that Hizb ut-Tahrir condones violence should be reminded that followers of Hizb ut-Tahrir <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003365.html> murdered a student, Ayotunde Obanubi, on the steps of Newham College of Further Education in East London on February 27, 1995, for "insulting Islam". This almost-forgotten incident was the first case of someone in Britain being killed for Islamic blasphemy. And as ISIC (the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity) <http://www.isic-centre.org/Bulletins/95_Apr_May_95.pdf> recorded: "Hizb ut-Tahrir is strongly implicated in the killing of a Nigerian student at Newham College of Further Education, East London, on 27 February. The Nigerian, Ayotunde Obanubi, was stabbed by a group of Asians at 1.05 pm in the college grounds. The incident took place four days after Omar Bakri, the leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir had addressed a group of 200 students at the college to mark the end of Ramadan, and three days after another (non-fatal) knifing incident at the college. Fellow students believe that Obanubi may have insulted Ramadan. In <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/000731.html> Indonesia, Hizb ut-Tahrir are involved with the Islamist groups Front Pembela Islam and the Anti-Apostasy Alliance in their campaigns to close churches. On Tuesday evening, the BBC's Newsnight showed a short film by Richard Watson, which exposed the tactics currently employed by Britain's members and followers of Hizb ut-Tahrir. The entire video could be found <http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/bb_wm_fs.stm?news=1&bbram=1 &bbwm=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&nol_storyid=6148560> HERE, but if this does not play, an audio file can be heard in mp3 format <http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radio4/fileon4/fileon4_2006 1114-2001_40_st.mp3> HERE. Among the revelations of the video, Watson tried to interview a mild-mannered Hizb ut-Tahrir member who was distributing leaflets outside Croydon mosque. Two times, another Hizb supporter hit out at the cameraman, until warned off by a policeman. Furthermore, Watson revealed that an undercover mole within Hizb ut-Tahrir showed that new recruits to the group are forced to engage in acts of crime, to "prove their worth". This individual, called "jay", <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6144886.stm> told the BBC that new members were taught to hate "non-believers". He said: "These are people willing to beat you up and sell you drugs and make sure you die." He was urged to show loyalty by robbing kaffirs. "They said Allah says you have to go and intimidate those boys across the street and get money off them." Hizb ut-Tahrir has protested against the claims made by the BBC. They have stated: "The radicalisation of Muslims, particularly young Muslims, is the product of their anger at the government's unjust and brutal war in Iraq." There was no war in Iraq when Hizb ut-Tahrir supporters brutally murdered Ayotunde Obanubi in 1995. Another part of the documentary showed how members of the group Vigil regularly monitor websites which glorify violence and indoctrinate young Muslims. Glen Jenvey of Vigil spoke of a "cyber-mosque" where Omar Bakri Mohammed, who founded Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain 18 years ago, still preaches. Bakri praises Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his decapitation of "infidels". Bakri also says that Dublin's Shannon Airport should be attacked, as it is used by US flights to refuel, before going on to Iraq. In <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/000893.html> November last year, one of Bakri's disciples, Anjem Choudary, told students a Trinity College, Dublin, that the airport could expect attacks. Choudary is involved in Ahl ul-Sunnah Wa al-Jamma, a group The secret website of Ahl ul-Sunnah Wa al-Jamma Muntaada incited members to attend a demonstration at the Old Bailey on November 2, where Mizanur Rahman was on trial. In the <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003298.html> demonstration which ensued, policemen and a cameraman were attacked, and four Muslims were arrested. At Staffordshire University in Stoke-on-Trent, a debate was also advertised on the same website, by a woman who called herself "Mother of Terror". This debate was a lecture by a <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003365.html> former member of Al-Muhajiroun, another group founded by Omar bakri Mohammed. Musa Admani has been imam and chaplain at London Metropolitan University since 2002. When he started his post, he found that the Islamic Society at the university was dominated by former Al Mujahiroun and Hizb ut-Tahrir. He told the BBC that he was recently threatened with death by Muslim students from Imperial College. Adamani runs a group which tries to reform Islamist radicals called Luqman Institute of Education and Development. Jawad is one of Admani's reformed Islamists. He was a former member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, and said told the BBC the group advises its members not to even discuss any issues with other Muslims. At Croydon mosque, Hizb ut-Tahrir, has had influence for several years, against the wishes of the mosque administration. Shuaib Yusaf of the mosque told Richard Watson that members of Hizb ut-Tahrir had tried to make group memberships into the mosque, causing the mosque to amend its constitution. He spoke of fights incited by Hizb ut-Tahrir on the street outside Croydon mosque, which involved knives, and in one instance a sword. He called the conflicts "gang warfare". Hizb ut-Tahrir is officially separate from groups like Ahl ul-Sunnah Wa al-Jamma, but in practice they appear to share the same followers. Both groups oppose democracy and wish to see a Caliphate established. They both use front groups which change their names. Last year, Hizb ut-Tahrir used deception to hire rooms at the Quakers' Friends Meeting House in <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/000088.html> September. They hired out meeting rooms at the Friends' House in Euston, north London, employing the benign-sounding name "Salsa Bill's Publishing House". With the bookings in place, Hizb ut-Tahrir then produced leaflets announcing the event, which was to be entitled "Hizb-ut-Tahrir and the Vision of the Caliphate". Hizb ut-Tahrir was reported in September this year to be using front groups named the East London Youth Forum and Cheetham Hill Youth Forum to organize paintball sessions, where youths are basically shown how to practice warfare. As always, the official body of Hizb ut-Tahrir denies that these groups are connected with it. Other groups which act as "fronts" for Hizb ut-Tahrir are the Debate Society, the Muslim Women's Cultural Forum, the Islamic Society, the One Nation Society, the Millennium Society, the Pakistan Society and the 1924 Committee. Where it is banned on university campuses, Hizb ut-Tahrir started <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/000525.html> operating last year under benign-sounding name of the "Stop Islamophobia" group. Vigil provided the BBC with its information from Jay, an undercover individual who is within Hizb ut-Tahrir. He was recruited to be part of a cell. He spoke of there being 50 similar cells. To become a member of the cell, he had to recruit more members, in a pyramid structure. He states that the group, which makes recruits commit acts of crime, are Hizb ut-Tahrir. He was shown videos at the back room of Croydon mosque, designed to incite hatred against the West. One of those with him said "These Americans are fucking evil." Patrick Mercer, Conservative MP and shadow secretary for Homeland security, said that the group should be banned, mentioning that in August 2005, Tony Blair said that Hizb ut-Tahrir was going to be proscribed. He <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/15/nmuslim15.x ml> later said: "We need legislation that allows us to deal with these groups in whatever guise they appear. If it can be proved that they are doing wrong they should be banned and any individuals associated with them prosecuted." Home Office Minister Tony McNulty has <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6144886.stm> said that Hizb ut-Tahrir's position of legality is "currently under review and if we think we need to take action it will be proscribed... We cannot ban an organisation on our own volition we have to operate under the rule of law" he said that the Home Office needed evidence of criminality or "glorification of terrorism" (an offense under the Terrorism Act 2006) before it could make the group illegal. One of the leaders of Hizb ut Tahrir, Abid Javaid, works for the government, at the Home Office. He admits being a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, but says he is not a leader. He works in the Immigration and Nationality Directorate. He has also been given a grant to organize an event for Hizb ut-Tahrir. Javaid works in information technology. A Home Office official <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2454276,00.html> refused to confirm if Abid Javaid worked at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate, but stated: "All Home Office civil servants are expected to abide by Home Office rules governing their conduct and are subject to the Civil Service Code." During the making of the BBC video, Richard Watson heard from a source that Hizb ut-Tahrir was planning to firebomb a Croydon synagogue. They went to a site and found incendiary materials. Police arrived minutes later, and confirmed that the matter was the subject of an investigation. The English section of the Hizb ut-Tahrir <http://www.hizb-ut-tahrir.org/english/english.html> website carried several "refutations" of the allegations mentioned on the BBC Newsnight program. However, it appears to have become currently inaccessible. However, before it went offline, it stated: "To suggest that Muslim organisations such as ours, rather than the Government's policies, have created anger within the Muslim community is disingenuous and irresponsible. It is organisations like ours that channel that anger into non-violent political activism in an attempt to repair the damage caused by government policies." A refutation by Abdul Wahid of Hizb ut-Tahrir is shown on the BBC <http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/bb_wm_fs.stm?news=1&bbram=1 &bbwm=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&nol_storyid=6148560> HERE. He says that the people on the show were not anything to do with his group. He called the statements on Richard Watson's report as being "so far off the radar of what's the truth" that they cannot be believed. He said that anyone who acted in such a manner as Jay or his associates would be removed from the group. He says his group has nothing to do with criminality. Wahid says that most mosques in south London support Hizb ut-Tahrir. A member of Vigil has <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6143632.stm> claimed that he had contacted the Metropolitan Police's anti-terrorist hotline, saying he had 100 hours of material recorded from the chatline in which Omar Bakri Mohammed was shown on the BBC Newsnight documentary. In a sign of the apathy of Britain's guardians against terror, the Vigil member was told to contact his local police station. ImranWaheed.jpg <http://www.westernresistance.com/images/ImranWaheed.jpg> Today, the <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/16/nvideo16.xm l> Telegraph reports that Hizb ut-Tahrir videos are widely available on the website YouTube. One particular video is entitled Age of Disorder, in which it is affirmed that "Force is used to protect the authority of Islam." I have sat through the five parts of this "documentary", and though it uses authentic archive footage of real events, the commentary is facile and misleading. At stages it is downright inaccurate. The parts are available online thus <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZod9byzKoA> Part 1, <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDHbk83byF0> Part 2, <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wry8IkINnHM> Part 3, <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ollFVmGfu-U> Part 4, and <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b1FxR8IMto> Part 5. At the end of each segment, a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir appears to give a commentary. In Part Four, the break-up of Pakistan in 1971 into Pakistan and Bangladesh is blamed on the Hindus, not upon the Jamaat-e-Islami party and the forcing of Urdu to be the national language of West and East Pakistan. Pakistan under Jinnah had also started as a secular nation, until the Islamists had forced changes to its 1947 constitution. Such details are ignored. At the end of the segment, Salim Fredricks appears to talk about the "low intelligence" of nationalists. He seems unaware of how unintelligent he himself appears. One of the comments under this YouTube segment states "JUST A REMINDER 'A Kafir can NEVER be a friend or an advisor." At the end of section three, which deals with communism, under Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot, an individual called Abdul Mu'iz appears,. After the misleading statements that the Khmer Rouge particularly targeted Muslims, where they targeted almost all classes of Cambodian society, Mu'iz flippantly mentions that Uzbekistan regularly boils Muslims alive. Muslims who do not follow the mainstream Islam approved by President Karimov are treated badly. There is only one instance of a Muslim being boiled. In <http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3943.htm> August 2002, 35-year old Muzafar Avazov was killed in custody. His body showed, amongst other injuries, signs that boiling water had been poured on his middle body. In Central Asia, there is religious repression from governments against "independent" Muslims. But there is also ample evidence to suggest that Hizb ut-Tahrir is involved with radical groups such as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. This group was founded in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 1998, with the intention of forming an Islamist state in Uzbekistan. It is led by Tahir Yuldosh, who gained permission in May 1999 from Afghanistan's Taliban to establish a base in the north of that country, where he is still thought to reside. A senior figure in the group, Juma Namangani, was made a "deputy" of Osama bin Laden in 2001. Namangani was killed recently, In <http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=2272> Kazakhstan today, eleven Islamists were arrested in Stepnogorsk, after an individual in Akmola region "formed a terrorist group of Wahhabi radicals with the goal of forming an Islamic Khalifate on the territory of Kazakhstan and subverting the territorial integrity and security of this country" according to Sergey Kim, the city prosecutor. Hizb ut-Tahrir is illegal in all the Muslim nations of Central Asia - Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan in the south Urals - and in all of these countries, the group is subjected to intense crackdowns. According to Kyrgyz <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/002884.html> officials, the group Hizb ut-Tahrir in the region has recently split into factions, with several members now supporting violence. In 2003, about 34 Hizb ut-Tahrir members were jailed in <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/001461.html> Tajikistan. This increased to 70 in 2004, with nine receiving sentences in September of 13 to 15 years' jail for crimes of organising a criminal group, inciting national, racial, religious and ethnic strife. 99 were arrested in 2005. In Russia, Hizb ut-Tahrir has been made illegal since February 2003. Yesterday, the Russian interior minister, Rashid Nuggaliev <http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=2257> said that 45 cells of Hizb ut-Tahrir, with 247 members have been identified in Russia, particularly, in the Central, Northwestern, Volga, and Urals Federal Districts, Today, <http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=2262> Interfax reported that police have broken a cell of Hizb ut-Tahrir based in Tyumen region, Siberia, 1,340 miles east of Moscow. In Russia, some of the members of Hizb ut-Tahrir who were jailed for distributing leaflets also had weapons in their homes. When three Hizb members were convicted in Nizhny Novgorod in <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/001051.html> November last year, grenades had been found with the leaflets. The group has even been banned in <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/001498.html> January this year in Pakistan. It also banned in virtually all of the Muslim nations of the Middle East. In Europe, it is only banned in Germany and the Netherlands. The group claims to be active in Australia, Canada and the United States. In August 2003, a Muslim leader told BBC's <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/3182271.stm> Newsnight: "I believe that if Hizb Ut Tahrir are not stopped at this stage, and we continue to let them politicise and pollute the youngsters minds and other gullible people minds, then what will happen in effect is that these terrorism acts and these suicide bombings that we hear going on around in foreign countries, we will actually start seeing these incidents happening outside our doorsteps." On July 7 last year, the imam's prediction came true. The main spokesman for Hizb ut-Tahrir is the obese Dr Imran Waheed (pictured), who led a rally of 8,000 Muslims in London last <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/001202.html> December. Waheed is <http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006090722,00.html> recorded as saying that there can be "no possibility of harmonious co-existence between Islam and the West. Ultimately, one has to prevail." Khalid Mahmood, Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr says of Hizb ut-Tahrir: "These people manage to get at young people. I have spoken to parents who say they 'lost' their sons and daughters as a result." Omar Khan Sharif, who went to Israel with the intention of becoming a suicide bomber in April 2003, had Hizb Ut-Tahrir literature at his home in Derby. Sharif failed to get his bomb to detonate, while Asif Hanif, his companion succeeded, killing three people. Sharif was found drowned in the sea 12 days later. In August 2005, Tony Blair announced that he wished to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir. His then-friends at the Muslim Council of Britain argued that they would only support the banning of the group if the government banned the British National Party. Hizb ut-Tahrir also responded with threats to bring young Muslims onto the street to riot, should the group be banned. Blair still wanted the group banned, and wanted a clause in his Terrorism Act 2006 to outlaw the group. 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