Hizb ut-Tahrir: A Party We Should Know More About

Manuela Paraipan - 7/12/2005

Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) is a global Islamic political party whose ultimate
aim is to implement Islam in all life aspects and to establish the
caliphate in the Muslim lands and then spread it everywhere in the
world. Its leadership claims that their message is peaceful and they
do no support terrorist actions against capitalist nations they are so
eager to bring down.

The party, which refuses to take part in any political system except
that based on Islam and the Sharia, describes as carrying "the Islamic
call in a political way, so as to change the current corrupt society
and transform it to an Islamic society. It works also to change the
current dealings (relationships) so as to become Islamic dealings
(relationships) that proceed according to the rules and solutions of
Islam."

Sheikh Taqi Al-Din Al-Nabhani established HT in Jerusalem in 1953 as 
a breakaway from the Muslim Brotherhood. The Sheikh studied and then
taught at the al-Ahzar University in Egypt when he joined the Muslim
Brotherhood. Later, he left the group blaming it for supporting Gamal
Abdel Nassar, merely a US puppet in his view.

Now, HT is centered mainly in Britain, but with thousands of
supporters and members all over the world. The party's activities in
most parts of the world are clandestine, and sometimes associated with
various terrorist cells. Taking advantage of the freedom and liberty
of rights and movement from the United Kingdom, HT openly manifests
against country's leadership and against any secular, liberal
democracy. Hizb ut-Tahrir rejects everything that is not an Islamic
theocracy.

The Soviet regime has aggressively suppressed the members and
sympathizers of HT because of their declared aim of destroying the
central government, taking over the state institutions and replacing
them with a Muslim caliphate. After the collapse of communism in
Eastern Europe and parts of Asia, the party felt that it has been
given the right opportunity to achieve its aims. Few things are public
about their present leadership. In United Kingdom Omar Bakri Mohamed
was the founding leader of the party and its global leadership is
ensured by Abu Ata Rishda. However, the party never disclose the name
of its members, much less the names of its leaders not even to its
members out of fear of being targeted by the regimes they criticize.

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Full article at "Global Politician"
http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=976&cid=2&sid=2

Cheers, Steve...

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