Posted on 07/23/2005 1:25:31 PM PDT by Pikamax
A radical Islamic group linked to the London bombings, and outlawed in British universities and across the Middle East, has launched an underground recruitment campaign aimed at Muslim youth in Sydney.
The group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, which describes suicide bombers as martyrs and openly advocates the destruction of Western ideals, held its second meeting behind closed doors in western Sydney on Friday night.
The British Home Office and Pakistan's intelligence agencies are investigating the group's links to Shehzad Tanweer, 22, one of the four suicide bombers who killed 56 people in London two weeks ago.
Sydney's mainstream Islamic community is believed to have warned the group, whose name means the Party of (Islamic) Liberation, to stop distributing material near local mosques in an effort to recruit young Muslims to its cause.
One leaflet declares "the war on Islam is reignited" and claims the London bombings are being used to "pressure the Muslims into blinding submission in the West".
Wassim Doureihi, a Hizb ut-Tahrir leader in Sydney, confirmed that a meeting of up to 30 new members had taken place on Friday night.
Advertisement AdvertisementHe said there was no hard evidence linking either Tanweer or any other Hizb ut-Tahrir members to the London bombings. But he refused to denounce the attacks.
"It's unconstructive to expect the Muslim world to mobilise a response to these events when there is no solid information to act upon. We have snippets and circumstances but no hard evidence.
"But at the same time, what we know for sure, and what is obvious to the rest of the world, is the reality of what is happening in Iraq and Afghanistan … and for that reason, we can squarely point the blame at Western governments, whether it's America, the UK or Australia … in terms of what they have perpetrated."
The Federal Government will investigate ways of identifying, blocking and possibly deporting radical ideologues who promote terrorism in Australia.
Clerics and others who promoted training in terrorism could be charged with a new offence of "indirect incitement" to violence being considered by the Government.
Despite a blanket ban among college campuses across Britain, Hizb ut-Tahrir has resurfaced using different names, and continues to draw a strong following among Muslim students.
The group, however, has been under the terrorism microscope for several years. September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta made contact with Hizb ut-Tahrir members in Germany before the attack.
The party also boasts a large following in Central Asia and has been blamed for a spate of suicide bombing attacks and recent riots in Uzbekistan. It remains outlawed across the Middle East.
Sydney Muslim leaders yesterday expressed concerns about Hizb ut-Tahrir, which they described as a provocative fringe group not aligned to any of the larger Islamic organisations. One, who did not wish to be named, said: "They are opposed to integration, even with other Muslim groups. For these reasons, they're treated with disdain and have been asked to stop what they are doing."
Australian National University's director of terrorism studies, Clive Williams, said: "Hizb ut-Tahrir is an organisation promoting the desirability of a return to a fundamental period of Islam. There's no hard evidence of it advocating violence but there has been considerable cause for concern in the UK and other countries following reports of threats, links to bombings and the peddling of racism. To find out that a local chapter existed would not be desirable."
- With Kerry-Anne Walsh
Simple answer. Bulldoze the mosques. they will have to raise their buttocks to each other somewhere else..
G'day, J'had?
Ping!
"Hizb ut-Tahrir"
Wow. There is a name from my past. Are they still going? Had a few run ins with those goons in the early 1990s. They recruited quite heavily in British universtity campuses at that time. Pure evil.
So much for help from "moderate"muslims!
"Treating them with disdain" just ain't gonna do it! Either these "not so bad" Muslims are a bunch of useless woosies or they secretly agree with the radical jerks.What is this crap..." one who did not wish to be named"?
I have YET to see my tagline invalidated!
Clearly all westernized nations have to quickly create laws that can remove all sources of these type groups. To hear them in public discourse plan terrorism and not do anything about it, puts the blam on the countries. This stuff has gone far enough, well over due for the governments to take control. It they don't. Then don't complain when these creeps pull stuff off. We have no more excuses.
I have become quite verbally rabid in my hate for the whole Muslim deal. I want to throw up when I hear" But there are some really nice Muslims, I knew one once, and blah, blah, blah."
The Muslim Community et all continuously revalidates my prejudice.
Dont miss: What is the Khilafah?hizb-ut-tahrir.orgAnd JIHAD!
"I have been ordered to fight the people until they bear witness that, ‘there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger’ and they establish the prayer and the zakat. And if they do this, then from me is protected their blood and their wealth except by the right granted by Allah.As for his (Salalahu Alaihi Wasallam) actions, they are full of actions that show Jihaad is to start the fighting. So when he went out to Badr to take the caravan belonging to the Quraysh, this was going out to fight, this is offensive – as Muhammad (Salalahu Alaihi Wasallam) initiated the action before the Quraysh. Likewise, when Muhammad (Salalahu Alaihi Wasallam) invaded Hawazin in the battle of Hunayn, when he (Salalahu Alaihi Wasallam) seiged Ta’if and the battle of Mutah to fight the Romans and the Battle of Tabuk – all of these are evidences to show that Jihaad is to start fighting kuffar (offensive). This should clarify the erroneous view that in origin Jihaad is defensive.
They continue to do so with glee, it seems.
Don't worry too much about harboring your (our) "prejudice" since we'll probably live longer by doing so.
Isn't that the same "non-violent" group that the Guardian writer was affiliated with?
Everything I've ever heard about Australia leads me to believe that only a fool would start any crap with that Country.
My grandfather called Aussies some of the fiercest fighters he ever had the honor of knowing. Second only to the Scots. ;)
I wish more people could see the truth as you do. The islamics are all dead set against the western world. The is only one solution, get them away from us.
It seems to me that a criminal organization recruiting in this manner should be pretty easy to infiltrate. Then, on the other hand, when you're dealing with followers of the holy pedophile it's naive to trust anyone.
A great benefit!
Bingo. Same group.
Our diggers would love to hear that! The west must unite
against this attempt by Islam to commit genocide against us
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