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January 11, 2007

Australia: Islamist Meeting In Sydney Is Banned

Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international Islamist group, founded in 1953 in Jerusalem by Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, a judge and specialist in Islamic jurisprudence.

The founder of Hizb ut-Tahrir was a friend of Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem. Husseini personally involved himself in the slaughter of Jews in Palestine in the 1930s, and went on to be welcomed by the Nazis in Germany. He founded a Muslim Nazi regiment in Bosnia.

The founder's links with an anti-Semite may explain the virulent anti-Semitism of Hizb ut-Tahrir. The group is also ferociously anti-American. It advocates the destruction of democracies, and the establishment of a "Caliphate" to govern under Sharia Law. The last Caliphate, or system of central Islamic jurisprudence, was that of the Ottomans in Turkey, which was dissolved by Kemal Ataturk on March 23, 1924.

The group claims to be non-violent, though it supports the bombing of Israeli civilians. It is banned in Holland, Germany, Russia, most Central Asian Republics, but is legal still in Britain and Australia. In September 2005, Philip Ruddock, the Australian Attorney General considered moves to ban the group, but eventually decided to let them stay legal. Tony Blair considered banning the group in August 2005, but since then has done nothing to proscribe Hizb ut-Tahrir.

In Central Asia, the group is involved with insurgencies, aimed at bringing down the governments of nations in the region, and generally destabilizing the area. Hizb ut-Tahrir is banned in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and most Middle East countries.

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Two days ago, it was announced that HIzb ut-Tahrir was planning to hold a meeting in Sydney. The conference was to be held on January 27. Philip Ruddock had warned that members of the group would have to be careful of what they said.

An Anglican minister from Melbourne, Mark Durie, said: "If we wake up in 10 years' time and wonder what went wrong, historians who are able to look back and analyse the rise of radical Islam in Australia will identify events such as this conference as part of the answer."

Wassim Douheihi is the spokesman for Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia, and said the meeting was to highlight to Australian Muslims the political struggle in the Islamic world, and to raise awareness of the Calphate, which is called by Hizb "Khilafa".

He said: "The caliphate is a political reality. It's imminent. There is a burgeoning Islamic revival, and it's only a matter of time before the caliphate is a state."

Now, the meeting has been Officially banned. Bankstown City Council has ordered that the conference shall not take place. It claims that one of the proposed speakers had made hateful remarks about women, and had challenged the Australian government at a previous event held by the group at Bankstown Hall.

The mayor, Tanya Mihailuk said: "The promotional material was shocking. It showed daggers with blood put through the state of Israel. It would have certainly breached our conditions of hire in that it would incite racial vilification and violence."

Despite the fraudulent claims that Hizb is non-violent, its Australian website, risala.org urges Somalis to fight jihad. It states: "O Muslims, Hizb ut-Tahrir urges you to give victory to Somalia; this is an obligation, commanded by Allah, the Exalted. If you do not go forth, he will punish you with a severe punishment, and will bring in your place a people other than you."

Hizb ut-Tahrir had managed to book the conference venue because it had used a false name. This is a tactic often employed by the group. In Britain in September 2005, the Quakers of London had their Friend's Meeting House in Euston hired for a conference. The meeting had been hired under the name of "Salsa Bill's Publishing House", though it was booked by Hizb ut-Tahrir. Hizb had advertised the meeting on flyers to its members as " Hizb-ut-Tahrir and the Vision of the Caliphate".

In Britain, the group uses "front-names" for its activities, such as the East London Youth Forum, he 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.

The previous meeting at Bankstown Town Hall which mayor Tanya Mihailuk had referred to took place in April 2006. Here, 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 November 2005 an Eid carnival in Melbourne had been progressing happily, until Hizb ut-Tahrir began disseminating hate-filled leaflets, which said 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 urged Muslims to "Ally yourselves with those who work day and night to confront this war against Islam."

The organizers of the Eid Carnival urged those attending to ignore the fliers.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at January 11, 2007 1:44 AM

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