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August 17, 2006

Denmark: Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamist Gets Jail Sentence

We reported on March 20 that a leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Denmark was indicted on charges of threatening the government. Fadi Abdullatif (pictured) was finally sentenced today to three months' imprisonment, states Reuters via Than Hnien News.

He was found guilty of threatening the Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen in leaflets which were distributed in 2004. Abdullatif had been arrested for these leaflets in August, 2005. 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.

Abdullatif has appealed against the court's decision, according to reports in Danish media. There have been moves in Denmark to have Hizb ut-Tahrir made illegal, but in 2004, the director of public prosecutions stated that the organisation was a legal entity.

Fadi Abdullatif had been charged previously for leaflets he had distributed in 2002:

In March and April 2002, Hizb Ut Tahrir handed out leaflets in a square in Copenhagen, and at a mosque. The leaflet, which also appeared on the Danish groups internet site, makes threats against Jews, using a quote from the Koran urging Muslims to 'kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have been turned you out.' The leaflet also said, 'The Jews are a people of slander...a treacherous people... they fabricate lies and twist words from their right context.' And the leaflet describes suicide bombings in Israel as "legitimate" acts of "Martyrdom".

In October 2002 Abdullatif had been given a sentence of 60 days in prison, suspended, for distributing racist propaganda. He used examples from the Koran to justify the killing of Jews.

Hizb ut-Tahrir was founded in Jerusalem in 1953 by an Islamic jurist, Taqiuddin al-Nabhani. It is banned in most countries of the Middle East, as it calls for the dissolution of governments and the establishment of a Caliphate, a sharia state encompassing all regions where Muslims live. Its Anglophone website states that: "It 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."

The group Hizb ut-Tahrir has been banned in Russia since February 2003, when it was deemed a terrorist organisation, and is also banned in Germany and in Holland, and in all of the Central Asian Republics which were under Soviet rule. Hizb ut-Tahrir was banned in Pakistan in January this year.

In Britain the group has been officially banned from University campuses, following vicious campaigns of intimidation against Muslim students, particularly women. Though Tony Blair has spoken of banning the group officially, this has not happened. In the 1990s, they regularly made death threats against homosexual rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell, and have spoken of the Uk parliament as "the infidel parliament".

In Bangladesh, the group has been responsible for most of the protests about the Danish cartoons of Mohammed. In February, they organised a march in Dhaka, in which banners carried the slogans: "Death to those who degrade our beloved prophet!", "Hang culprits" and also demanded the expulsion of EU ambassadors from Muslim countries.

In Indonesia, Hizb ut-Tahrir is actively involved in persecution campaigns against Christians, and works in conjunction with the violent Front Pembela Islam to close down churches and prevent Christians from practicing their faith.

On Saturday, November 5 last year, we reported that at a carnival held in Melbourne that day, to celebrate Eid ul-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, Australian Hizb ut-Tahrir's members were distributing leaflets. These fliers claimed that Muslims had "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". The fliers also praised terrorist atrocities overseas where Muslims had "inflicted the most humiliating lesson on supposed superpowers". They read: "Ally yourselves with those who work day and night to confront this war against Islam." In August last year Australia's Attorney General, Philip Ruddock had considered moves to have Hizb ut-Tahrir banned. He decided that the group was not "terrorist".

In Britain, the first head of Hizb ut-Tahrir had been the Islamist cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, who also founded the pro-terror group Al Muhajiroun.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at August 17, 2006 7:02 PM

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