U.K.: ***UPDATE***HOME OFFICE EMPLOYEES CAN JOIN ISLAMIC EXTREMIST GROUPS***UPDATE***

This post is a follow up to the story I posted on November 14, 2006 concerning the report that a Abid Javaid a "senior executive officer" in the IT department of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate is a member of Hizb-ut Tahrir.

Leading member of Muslim extremist group working at the Home Office

Home Office staff can join Islamic extremists

Home Office staff are free to be members of the Islamic extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, it was revealed yesterday.

Those working in the department responsible for immigration and homeland security do not even have to declare membership of the fanatical organisation, the Government admitted.
This means Home Secretary John Reid has no idea how many of his staff hold the group's radical views and he has no means of monitoring their activities.

The revelation - in a written parliamentary answer - comes after Home Office IT manager Abid Javaid, 41, was found to be a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, which supports a worldwide Islamic state run under hardline Sharia law and has refused to condemn last year's London bombings.

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1) Home Office staff can join Islamic extremists

2) Leading member of Muslim extremist group working at the Home Office

3) Initial Thread


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As you can see, I received a comment from Hizb ut-Tahrir (check the very bottom of the page). In response I shall post several additional links that shall provide more information on Hizb ut-Tahrir...

Please review the data and make up your own mind to see if Hizb ut-Tahrir is a terrorist organization or not and if their words and proclamations about islam being remotely peaceful should be accepted at face value.

1) DogPile search for Hizb-ut Tahrir

2) Islamists Down Under

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“But they belong to a political group called Hizb ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation) that calls for the creation of a global Islamic state, or caliphate, under strict sharia law,” wrote Devine. “The message from these young men is one of division, non-assimilation and rejection of the values of the ‘kafir’ – non-Muslims.”

This radical Islamist movement now being invited onto campuses in one of America’s most dependable allies in the war against terrorism has been banned in Germany, Holland, Russia and many Muslim countries. Once tolerated in Britain, it has, according to Devine, also been banned there. Those familiar with this movement’s message, methods and terrorist connections know how dangerous it is.

Muslims living in Western nations “must be aware of the plot of the kafir, the plot of the Western society to enforce on them a palatable Islam,” said another Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Soadad Doureihi in an April 8 public speech in Bankston, Australia, titled “Should Muslims Subscribe to Australian Values?” (Video of his lecture can be seen here.)

“Secularism is a clear assault on the fundamental belief of a Muslim,” Doureihi told his audience of 200 men and 50 women, many of them Muslims. “Democracy is a clear assault on the fundamental belief of a Muslim also.”

In the society Doureihi and Hizb ut-Tahrir advocate, in other words, there would be no equal rights for those of other faiths or for women. No speech or writing would be permitted that questions Islam, and no democratic votes would be taken to choose national leaders or determine government policy. All would be controlled by a small group of Muslim theologians, as (despite its rigged, fake elections and figurehead president) it is today in theocratic Iran.

Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia claims to advocate non-violence. But to judge this tree by its worldwide fruits, this movement radicalized many future terrorists.

These Hizb ut-Tahrir “graduates” include one of the founders of Fatah who, prior to that, was a founder of Hizb ut-Tahrir. Another former Hizb ut-Tahrir member became the "spiritual leader" of Islamic Jihad.

Hizb ut-Tahrir has been the “finishing school” for several top members of Al-Qaeda, the group behind the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States that killed nearly 3,000 Americans. According to terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna of Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, one former Hizb ut-Tahrir member who became a leader of Al-Qaeda is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Think of Hizb ut-Tahrir as a “gateway drug” that seduces young Muslims away from assimilation, then softens their brains and hardens their ideological dogma to forge them into True Believers in the utopian vision of a future Islamo-fascist Third Reich’s global domination.

After Hizb ut-Tahrir separates young Muslim sheep and goats from their larger society, the most fanatical goats and follower sheep often are led to contact its ideological fellow travelers. These radical kinsmen in parallel Caliphate movements such as Al-Qaeda then try to recruit and hook the most susceptible youngsters on the “harder stuff” of zealous religious fanaticism, terrorism, assassination, the promise of 72 virgins in Paradise and suicide bombing.

Such are the Islamist “drug pushers” of Hizb ut-Tahrir to which Australian schools are now exposing their Muslim and religiously adrift other students.

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3) Europe’s Last Chance

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In April 15, 2005, five months before the cartoons ran, Palestinian preacher and Hizb Ut Tahrir leader Sheikh Issam Amayra called from al Aqasa Mosque in Jerusalem, upon Muslims in Denmark to begin a holy war. His sermon translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Dahoah Halevi, director of Orient research Group in Toronto, Canada.

Amayra’s sermon warned that: “…the three percent of the Muslims in Denmark constitute a threat to the future of the kingdom of Denmark. And that should not be a surprise. After all, the Muslims in Yathrib [the city of Medina, before Mohammed moved there from Mecca] constituted less than three percent of the population there. Yet they managed to change Yathrib into Medina. Thus, it should not be a surprise that our Danish brothers manage to bring Islam to all the homes of the Danes. Allah will grant them the victory in their country in order to raise the Caliphate in Denmark.”

Amayra continued, “Afterwards the citizens of the Caliphate (which will be raised in Denmark) will wage war on Oslo, and after they change that city’s name to Medina [for the Arabian holy city] they will fight their neighboring Scandinavian countries in order to join their lands to the territory of the Caliphate. In the next stage, they will wage a holy war and spread the message of Islam to the rest of Europe, until they reach the original city of Medina. Then they will join both cities under the banner of Islam.”

Amayra, a 56-year-old Palestinian and leader of the Muslim Brotherhood splinter group, Hizb ut Tahrir, has focused his teachings on the revival of the Caliphate worldwide. He was arrested in Hebron in 1990 for preaching against negotiation with Israel and the Oslo Accords. He also participated in a 1994 Hizb ut Tahrir conference in London.

His own curriculum vitae proudly boats of Amayra’s writings and lecture tours spreading Dawa, the Islamic practice of “inviting” non-Muslims to Islam. His talks took him to Kuwait, Jordan, the Palestinian territories, Iraq, Egypt, the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2000, Amayra twice participated in Hizb ut Tahrir meetings in Chicago.

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4) Terror Rising


When the State and Treasury departments manage to cooperate with each other to halt terrorist financing, they should consider putting Hizb ut Tahrir (Islamic Liberation Party) and its splinter organization, Al-Mujahiroun, on the U.S.-designated terrorist list and freeze their assets.

Hizb ut Tahrir (HT) and Al-Mujahiroun, like al Qaeda and Hizbollah, describe the USA, the United Kingdom and Israel as “the work of the devil,” and European democracy as "a farce". The group’s goal is to establish a global caliphate and force all non-Muslim states to pay a tax or face military attacks. Its graduates join al-Qaeda, according to the director of international security and energy programs at the Nixon Centre in Washington, DC, Zeyno Baran. More ominously, HT and Al-Mujahiroun call for a jihad against the U.S., its allies, and moderate Muslim states in order to “find and kill the Kufar (non-believers).” The groups, together with the Muslim Brotherhood, were reportedly behind last month’s riots in France.

HT, a global Islamist organization in the mold of al-Qaeda, was established in 1952 by Sheikh Taqi al-Din al-Nabahani in the Jordanian occupied part of Jerusalem as a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. It soon expanded to neighboring countries in the Middle East and has since been banned from most of them. With the growing immigration of Muslim workers to Europe, the movement established branches in Germany, the UK and France. By the 1980s, it spread to Turkey, India, Pakistan, Indonesia and Australia.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, it rushed to fill the spiritual gap in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and parts of Russia. Soon after, HT’s incitement to terrorism and several attempts by the group on the lives of public officials prompted Central Asian governments and Russia to ban the organization. After 9/11, when it re-invigorated its campaign in Europe and metastasized into Scandinavia, it was outlawed in Germany and Sweden.

After the July bombings in London, the British government announced that it will ban the HT. However, it has yet to follow through. The reason is that the British mistakenly believe that by barring HT’s leader, Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammad, from returning to the U.K., they have solved the problem.

Not even the strong and public warnings from Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf last August have moved Britain to act. In a meeting with the British Premier, Musharraf admonished Blair, saying, "There is Hizb Ur-Tahrir and al-Muhajiroun, who operate with full impunity in that [England] area." Emphasizing the violent nature of the group, Musharraf stated, "They had the audacity of passing an edict against my life and yet they operate with impunity."

Hizb ut Tahrir is usually described as a political party, and that suits its members because it enables them to operate just like the Palestinian group HAMAS, using the political façade to hide their terrorism, which is alleged to be carried out by its splinter organization, the al-Muhajiroun, which was established in 1995. In the most recent news, on November 25, three members of HT were sent to prison by Russian prosecutors for possessing grenades and propaganda calling “for the creation of the universal Islamic caliphate” and the destruction of non-Islamic governments.

At the same time that riots shook France, Arhus, the second largest city in Denmark, had its own share of rioting Muslims. Violent demonstrations followed the publication of a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad in the Danish newspaper, Jyllands Posten.

Denmark has in the last few years become a host country for various Muslim radical groups, the most prominent of which is Hizb ut-Tahir. International experts have mentioned Hizb ut-Tahir and Al-Mujahiroun in connection with the recruitment of fighters for the Taliban, as well as membership in the al-Qaeda terrorist networks. Omar Bakri Mohammad, the leader of Al-Mujahiroun, who preached in London, also threatened to overthrow the Danish government, as was reported by the Copenhagen Post, on August 9, 2002.

Denmark is the home of 180,000 Muslims who constitute approximately 3 percent of its 5.4 million citizens. Most of these Muslims, including the second generation, adhere to the creed propagated by HT, and refuse to assimilate into the Danish society.

The movement first started receiving media attention in Denmark a month after the terrorist attacks of September 11, when more than 1,000 members of the group marched against the US and its allies’ military actions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. According to the Swedish Daily Svenska Dagblade, they also demonstrated against democracy, human rights, gender equality, and other Western threats to what the group considers the true way of Islam.

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