Posted on 08/01/2008 12:21:19 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
PALESTINIAN security forces in the occupied West Bank today arrested dozens of demonstrators calling for the resurrection of the Islamic caliphate, security officials said.
Police loyal to president Mahmoud Abbas arrested more than 50 members of Hizb al-Tahrir (the Islamic Liberation Party), a group calling for the replacement of the Palestinian Authority and Arab governments with a greater Islamic state.
The group was founded in 1953 and has branches all over the world.
When they were arrested the activists were heading to a football stadium in the town of Beit Jalla outside Bethlehem for a demonstration marking the anniversary of the fall of the last Islamic caliphate.
"The activists were on their way to participate in the celebrations and the security forces stopped them. They did not take into account the decision of the interior ministry" to ban the rally, a police official said.
The last man to formally hold the title of caliph, or ruler of the Muslim world, was the Ottoman emperor deposed after the first World War by Turkey's secular founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who abolished the institution.
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The only thing these people care about. Israels’ destruction and an Islamic State.
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