How militant Islamists are infiltrating Britain's top companies

'IoS' investigation: Extremist organisation that Tony Blair wants 
to ban is active in unexpected places. Shiv Malik reports 

Published: 11 September 2005

A militant Islamist group that Tony Blair has said should be banned
has members in some of Britain's most important institutions,
including the NHS and blue-chip companies such as IBM and Reuters, an
Independent on Sunday investigation has revealed.

The Government is due to publish legislation this week to ban Hizb 
ut-Tahrir, which is already proscribed in European countries such 
as Germany and in most of the Middle East. The Home Secretary, 
Charles Clarke, has undertaken to give the wording of the ban to 
the Opposition to secure cross-party agreement.

In contrast to other groups that the Government intends to ban, 
the membership of Hizb ut-Tahrir is mainly middle-class and well-
qualified. A significant proportion are university-educated and 
work in areas such as finance, information technology, health and
education.

[...]

The organisation's well-designed www.hizb.org.uk website replaced
earlier sites such as www.1924.org, which until the London bombings
used to contain material from the 100,000 leaflets and flyers handed
out at mosques across Britain every Friday.

Though Hizb denies being anti-Semitic, a leaflet first published in
1999 said: "The Jews ... are a poisoned dagger thrust into the heart
of the Islamic Ummah and [sic] evil cancerous gland which spreads deep
within the Islamic countries." Until last year the same statement was
carried on Hizb's websites.

[...]

INSIDE HIZB

Hizb ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation) was founded in 1953 by a
Palestinian court clerk, Taqiuddin al-Nabhani. Its aim is to establish
the Caliphate, a state based upon and governed by Islamic law.In
Britain, the party is headed by Jalaluddin Patel, 28, an Indian IT
engineer, and has up to 10,000 members. In 2002 it was outlawed in
Germany after allegations of anti-Semitism and last year three British
members were sentenced to five years in jail in Egypt.

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Full article at "The Independent"
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article311824.ece


Cheers, Steve..

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