August 6, 2005

Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain Condemns Tony Blair's Announcement to Ban the Party

Sourse: Imran Waheed - Media Representative
Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain
Uploaded/Updated: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 09:03:16 GMT

London, UK, August 5 - Today's announcement at the PM's press
conference to impose a ban on Hizb ut Tahrir, the well established 
non violent Islamic political party has clearly exposed this PM's and
government's fanaticism and extremism to curtail legitimate Islamic
political debate in Britain, for their own political ends. This is a
clear proof of the government's failure to face the political opinions
of the party through rational debate and discussion and a desperate
attempt to prevent the British public hearing the opinions of the
Muslim community.

Hizb ut-Tahrir has a record of over 50 years of following a method of
non-violent political activity against imperialism and dictators and
despots who rule the Muslim world with the West's approval. In its
work to establish the Islamic Caliphate, Hizb ut-Tahrir has never
resorted to any sort of armed struggle and nor has it ever incited
people to kill innocent civilians. It has throughout its history
worked through intellectual and political means while its members 
have been tortured and killed in the thousands.

Hizb ut-Tahrir has in explicit terms stated that Islam forbids the
killing of innocent civilians and expressed its denunciation of the
killing of 58 innocent individuals on 7th July 2005 in London. To
place a ban on a political party that has criticised the war in Iraq
which Mr Blair and Mr Bush launched after blatantly lying to the
world, the illegitimate occupation of Palestine, the desire for the
Muslims to see the end of dictators and despots and live by the
Islamic government, the Caliphate, in their own lands has proved that
all the talk about freedom of speech, tolerance, people power and
democracy, are only acceptable as long as one agrees with the policies
of 10 Downing Street.

Dr Imran Waheed, Media Representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, said,
"By imposing a ban on Hizb ut-Tahrir, Mr Blair has joined the ranks of
some of the world's most brutal dictators such as Karimov, Musharraf,
Mubarak and Gadaffi who after banning the party continue to imprison,
murder and even boil alive members of Hizb ut-Tahrir for voicing their
political opinions."

"Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain explicitly states that it will continue in 
its non-violent political struggle in exposing the West's colonial
policies in the Muslim world and continue to create a positive public
opinion about Islam as a way of life and the Caliphate as a new state
and civilization that will free the world from the oppression of
global capitalism."

Notes to Editors:

Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain will hold a press conference tomorrow (Saturday 
06 August 2005) at 12pm in London.

Venue: London Continental Hotel, 88 Gloucester Place, London W1U 6HR. 
(access from 11 am).

Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain is the UK branch of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a global
independent Islamic political party. The global leader of Hizb ut-
Tahrir, Ata Abu Rushta, is in the Muslim world. The party works
throughout the Islamic world to resume the Islamic way of life by 
re-establishing the Islamic Khilafah [Caliphate].

CONTACT:

Imran Waheed - Media Representative
Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain
Email: imran.waheed{at}hizb-ut-tahrir.org.uk
Phone: 07074-192400 


Source: "Muslim Uzbekistan"
http://www.muslimuzbekistan.com/eng/ennews/2005/08/ennews06082005_1.html


Cheers, Steve..

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