Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) may not directly advocate terrorism, but they’re most certainly not the benign group its representative Mr Badar would have us believe. (“Islamic hardliners return after push for ban fails”, The Weekend Australian, July 3-4. Related here). It is indeed extremist.
In July last year HT held a conference in Chicago and more than a dozen issues of the HT newsletter called The Shield were obtained from the conference by the Investigative Project on Terrorism. The publications repeatedly condemned interfaith "outreach initiatives" and called for the death penalty for apostates. Its website continues to preach separatism – not to befriend non-Muslims except to convert them.
HT pushes a radical ideology that is similar to Al Qaeda and glorifies jihadism.
Ban them in Australia? I don’t know. But let’s not kid ourselves about their agenda, which is clear and open: the imposition of strict Shariah law, not just in Australia, but throughout the world, replacing democracies and capitalism with religiously-based constitutions and laws. Anyone who cares about the freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and equal rights for women and minorities is threatened by Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Yours, etc,
Below, the advert from an HT confab... This is carried on the Australian's story linked above. I'm putting here because there's been a trend in recent months for media to remove damning evidence such as this, after, one presumes, complaints from Islamists.
