Hizb Ut-Tahrir in America: Preaching Hate, Building a Caliphate
Submitted by Steve Emerson on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 20:59
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Hizb ut-Tahrir, (HT) the pro-jihadist organization that met this past weekend in suburban Chicago, has been waging a below-the-radar campaign to recruit Americans for decades. While HT (the "Party of Liberation") says it is committed to advancing radical Islam by nonviolent means, it advocates violence (see here, here and here) and its prominent alumni include terrorists like Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and Abu Musab Zarqawi along with suicide bombers.
The open nature of this weekend's Khalifa (Caliphate) Conference in Chicago under the Hizb ut-Tahrir banner indicates that the group has decided to enhance its recruiting efforts among U.S. Muslims. Until late last year (when it publicly called on American Muslims to boycott the November election) HT had operated in secret or through front organizations here.
Zeyno Baran, who has extensively researched HT, points out here (see especially pages 20 to 23) that HT doctrine "seeks to emulate the steps by which the Prophet Muhammad established the Caliphate" in three stages. In the first stage, HT seeks to build a party, cultivating a small number of supporters to engage in recruitment and propaganda. In the second (which HT would appear to be entering now in the United States), it begins to educate and visit Muslims in their homes in order to recruit a larger group of people to join HT and support its revolution. Finally, HT (having won the support of Muslims) moves to establish a Sharia-ruled Islamic government.
Hizb ut-Tahrir activists in the United States have generally taken a low public profile following the 9/11 attacks, avoiding the vitriolic, hate-America rhetoric coming from HT activists abroad like this, this and this.
In California, a small group of Hizb ut-Tahrir cadres began recruiting in the early 1990s. They set up an organization in Walnut, (located in eastern Los Angeles County) called the Islamic Cultural Workshop (ICW). The organization published Khalif'ornia magazine, which later became Khalif'ornia Journal. Although ICW and the Khalif'ornia publications are no longer in existence, their writings offer the closest thing to a comprehensive body of ideological and religious literature produced by HT's American supporters.
The publications devote considerable attention to translations of HT literature on everything from "Separation of Church and State" to "A draft Constitution of the Islamic State."
The Khalif'ornia Journal states that its "direct objective" is to teach Muslims "that we must reestablish the Khalifah in the Muslim World, where Islam will be applied in every aspect of life and be carried to the world." The publications devote considerable attention to translations of HT literature on everything from "Separation of Church and State to "A draft Constitution of the Islamic State." Jews and Christians are depicted as inferior beings and the United States is portrayed as constantly conspiring against Muslims.
According to the July/August 1992 issue of Khalif'ornia, for example, "the Jews and Christians are kuffar [infidels] and their belief in Allah is totally distorted."
The January-June 1998 edition included an article titled "The American Revolution" which likened the Founding Fathers of the United States to "tyrant dictators" of the Muslim world "who have no regard for the welfare of the Ummah [Muslim nation.]" The same edition contained an article titled "Revisiting the Middle East" which tried to make the case that Saddam Hussein was really a U.S. "agent" brutalizing his people to serve Washington's interests.
Other articles published in Khalif'ornia emphasized anti-American and anti-Israel themes and attacked Arab leaders for negotiating peace agreements with Israel. The July/August 1993 edition included an article noting the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and suggested that PLO Chairman Yassir Arafat might also be assassinated for negotiating the Oslo Accords with Israel: "We, the Muslim Ummah, pose a similar question to Yassir Arafat, 'How does it feel to be a traitor, O Arafat?' "
Another recurring theme was the importance of jihad. The December 1995 edition of Khalif'ornia declared that "Jihad is impossible … without an organized military machine," adding that: "The Islamic state must form an army capable of offensive attacks. The army is an integral part of delivering the message of Islam to the world."
Another issue of Khalif'ornia urged Muslims to "annex all the Islamic wilayah (provinces) stretching from Europe to China. Let us then see the U.S. try to meddle in our affairs." The same edition included a front-page editorial declaring that "Muslims need swords, not candles" in protecting Iraqis from U.S. military airstrikes and Palestinians from Israeli "oppression" and denounced Muslim leaders who invited Jewish and Christian clerics into mosques to express solidarity with besieged Bosnian Muslims.
When President George H.W. Bush provided humanitarian assistance to starving Somalis in the early 1990s, Khalif'ornia portrayed it as part of a Western conspiracy to enslave Muslims: "The Western capitalist nations never lost their imperialist behavior. What has changed is the form of their imperialism. The aid programs are designed to cripple the Ummah into a mode of dependency and thus we remain slaves to the imperialists."
The April-June 1996 edition of Khalif'ornia Journal includes a speech given at Virginia Tech University by Iyad Hilal, a Palestinian–Jordanian who immigrated to the United States in the late 1980s. A grocer living in Orange County, California, Hilal spoke about the conflict in the Middle East. Asked about the possibility that Arafat might make peace with Israel, Hilal said it would be no more legitimate than an agreement between Hitler and Vichy France:
"Nobody nowadays can say that this agreement is legally binding upon the French people. This is so, because the agreement was signed by an occupied people or prisoners of war under the Nazi occupation. The same thing applies to the people of Palestine who signed the agreement with Israel. Legally speaking, their signature will not be binding on the others, since they are occupied. You can expect that they will sign such an agreement under pressure from their occupier (Israel.) We cannot give their signature to Israel."
Even if Palestinians were willing to compromise with Israel, "it would not be binding" on other Muslims, Hilal said, because "Those who gave away Muslim lands were not delegated by Muslims to give away those lands." Any effort to compromise with Israel, Hilal emphasized "will cause more bloodshed" in the long run.
HT supporters also formed a group called the Workshop for Awareness on Islam and Enlightenment (WAIE). It had a Washington, D.C. mailing address and telephone contact numbers in Northern Virginia. Its Internet domain was registered by a software developer named Adil Elkiyari whose Maryland-based company, transinfocom, is no longer in business.
WAIE had a booth at the August 31-September 2, 2002 conference staged by the Islamic Society of North America at the Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
WAIE also sponsored several lectures at the University of Maryland College Park together with the Muslim Students Association. A flyer advertising a February 6, 2002 address by Ossama Hazim, WAIE president, declared that "The Islamic State's foreign policy is the call to Islam. As such, it does not recognize so-called International Law, United Nations or other International Organizations that contradict Islam." A "State may not be partly Islamic. Gradual implementation of parts of Islamic Law is not acceptable."
A November 2002 leaflet accessed from the WAIE website declares that "Palestine, much like many other Muslim land [sic], has been occupied by the jews [sic]. Islam rules that Muslims next to that land must fight the jews until they are repelled away from the land of Muslims."
Muslim rulers, the leaflet added, "are the de-facto protectors of the Jewish State," the WAIE leaflet said. "It is therefore a prerequisite for Jihad that Muslims stand up to these rulers and knock their regimes down."
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Steven Emerson is an internationally recognized expert on terrorism and national security and heads the Investigative Project on Terrorism. This article originally appeared on the Hudson Institute website.
Interesting article. Good to
Interesting article. Good to see FFI going forward. Many bright days are ahead for all of us. Islam will surely be exposed for the fraud that it is within the honest individual.
Correction: Sad to see and
Correction: Sad to see and say that these bright days ahead will not happen for many.
Islam is the sick, selfish fraud of Muhammad and those who stubbornly cling to it will go down with it. Such individuals will face their own reality at death and in life.
To educated Muslims with heart, Islam in totality is an obvious fraud that they eventually leave as hundreds of millions have done before them.
Due to fear and empty claims of love and respect 'those who call themselves Muslims' are afraid to admit such things to themselves.
Is USA waiting to become
Is USA waiting to become another India? Pandering of these islamists by pseudo secularists will definitely hurt the Americans.
USA cannot afford to let these conservative, extremists succeed in their ugly designs. Hope better sense prevails over the rulers to call a spade a spade. The olive branch business is seen as weakness by the terror sponsors.
India is getting slowly
India is getting slowly islamized by the ruling congress party and the un-suspecting public has no clue about it... The media is successfully purchased by ruling party, so all the peace loving hindus believe that BJP is communal. Well Hopefully in all other countries including people learn from the mistake from others and keep their country safe from islamists.
Khalifornia.. I like
Khalifornia.. I like that!
Muslims love Arabic and Arabize every name. One Indian Muslim has written a book [the idiot had nothing else to do] wherein he has Arabized names of every single place in India to show that the whole world belongs to Allah and Arabic is His language!
India paid a heavy price of being negligent, America will, if she doesn't arrest such manoeuvrings by Muslims on its land.
In Nigeria a muslim group
In Nigeria a muslim group "Boko Haram", which means "Education is prohibited" is responsible for the death of 150 plus people. Muhammed was an illiterate one, and as muslims consider him the best person to emulate , so the demand is justified. All Muslims should avoid education and be illiterate like the Arabian Idol.
Hi friends Hizb Ut-Tahrir in
Hi friends
Hizb Ut-Tahrir in America or elsewhere need not build a caliphate anymore. The peaceful Caliphate of Muhammad in terms of Surah Al-Noor chapter 24: verses 55-57 as already been established by God Allah
YHWH in the form of Second Coming 1835-1908, the Promised Messiah, the Imam Mahdi. Mirza Masroor Ahmad is the fifth Caliph of the Promised Messiah.
Thanks
I am an Ahmadi peaceful Muslim
islam and arabs please leave
islam and arabs please leave us alone and go back to your desert and fuck all the goats and camels and babaies all ya want .
please just leave us.we have no respect for you.get the fuck outa somalia...1400 yrs of shit is enough.
you have been warned the last time.
sick sick fuckers. no wonder
What can happen to US the
What can happen to US the moment islam takes over?
First thing the islamists do is to attack the sources of knowledge.They will destroy all your big universities! Dont believe me?
Just superficially read the islamic bloody history.They destroyed Library in alexandria the largest and the Egyptians gradually gave up learning as higher centres of learning were not there any more.Sooner they become illitertaes they followed the brain dead islam.
In India they destroyed Taxila and nalanda universities but could not get their hands on other centres of learning and so India survived.Persia? Same thing happened, The US universities are the first to go when islam takes over.Note Iam carefully using the word when islam takes over and am not saying if islam takes over.It's a forgone conclusion that islam will take over US , but the question is when and not if.
Paarsurrey Allah is not YHWH.
Paarsurrey Allah is not YHWH. Allah is SATAN the Devil. YHWH is the tetragrammaton of the Jews. Satan has always had a name called Satan. You wish YHWH was allah The quran allah wrote said he is the devil-greatest liar, deceiver amd worst.
http://www.encyclopediadramat
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Muhammad
paarsurrey wrote: "The
paarsurrey wrote:
"The peaceful Caliphate of Muhammad in terms of Surah Al-Noor chapter 24: verses 55-57 as already been established by God Allah
YHWH in the form of Second Coming 1835-1908, the Promised Messiah, the Imam Mahdi. Mirza Masroor Ahmad is the fifth Caliph of the Promised Messiah."
Wait..wait. What did you mean by second coming? You mean the same person came twice?
Kokamal wrote:
"Khalifornia.. I like that!"
Mmmm, khali is a hindu god, isn't?
Raisinhead
Raisinhead wrote:
"Paarsurrey Allah is not YHWH. Allah is SATAN the Devil. YHWH is the tetragrammaton of the Jews. Satan has always had a name called Satan. You wish YHWH was allah The quran allah wrote said he is the devil-greatest liar, deceiver amd worst."
Pfffttt...LOL. YHWH has nothing to do with allah, because allah originally inside kaba'a with other gods. Jews were monotheistic long before that. The best deceiver, liar, and the proud one in the bible is satan.
proudkafir, you are right.
proudkafir, you are right. Anything touched by islam were turned into dust. The great persia, egypt, iraq, pakistan, etc. You name it. Next: europe and USA. Islam entered china too but they have failed to take it over and look at china now, a very powerful nation that makes even the great USA trembles. I like japan and south korea, because it's totally free from islam and both countries are very advanced.
PaarSurrey you wrote: "Hizb
PaarSurrey you wrote:
"Hizb Ut-Tahrir in America or elsewhere need not build a caliphate anymore. The peaceful Caliphate of Muhammad in terms of Surah Al-Noor chapter 24: verses 55-57 as already been established by God Allah
YHWH in the form of Second Coming 1835-1908, the Promised Messiah, the Imam Mahdi. Mirza Masroor Ahmad is the fifth Caliph of the Promised Messiah."
I take it this is the Ahmadi position.
As far as I'm aware the Shia are still waiting for the return of the twelfth Imam (their 'version' of Imam Madhi).
As for the Sunni, they can't be bothered to wait for any action on the part of god or Allah - they seek to recreate the Caliphate as practiced in history.
If they do, we can expect a large upsurge in internicene blood letting as Caliphs are murdered for ploitical reasons.
At a rough estimate, from an Islamic history I have in the first 400 years about 1/4 Caliphs or major rulers were killed off. And that's only the ones we definitely know about!
Now there is a system so much better than democracy, why bother with elections, public support, accountability etc when you can murder your way to the top.
One of the main tools that
One of the main tools that these groups use is the MSA (Muslim Student Association).
The government have discovered such documents from the Muslim Brotherhood that ties the MSA with them and one of their tools they are using in our country. 'The Project' docs were found in Europe (http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/Read.aspx?GUID=61829F93-7A81-4654-A...), and in the USA there is Government Exhibit 300-0085 (http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/nefaikhwan1007.pdf).
It uses many other groups too. It all has traces back to the Saudi Wahabbi movement to push their brand of islam on us, Al Qaeda is tied into this, many already federally indicted, and unindicted, groups such as CAIR and the Holy Land Foundation.
It is even more tangled than this and there are many more documents that I am currently reading and going to be working on more fully to make more and more people aware of. One sickening aspect of this is that some high schools also have muslim organizations in them that are tied to terrorists.
Their intent is to infiltrate, change our way of thinking, settle and grow (their birth rates out do ours immensely), and with our Federal laws on immigration - they can be illegal (coming in via borders), and also immigrate in via standard practices that some immigrants do to bring in hundreds more people legally. They indeed want their caliphate, and they indeed use the muslims, who we think of as 'moderate', to carry on their goals. It is all in their documents.
This conference is just one more of the same sort of meeting to gather together and with a single objective move forward. If they fail to get what they want today - they never stop. They look at this as religious, and so when we think we can rest and think it is all over - they are still hammering on the same point until they get what they want. They have an endless supply of money (oil money) right now and they use our courts for their ends. And like I said, if they don't get what they want today - they try, try again tomorrow. And for them they got forever and a jihad they HAVE to wage against us in order to get to their orgy in the sky.
One thing I should note is that they are also using the Black Muslims to achieve their goals. Even though they don't view the Black Muslims as 'real' muslims - they will use them, I suppose. And one other thing they do is make sure to keep pounding on the anti-Israel agenda, and also anti-USA agenda.
So, they recruit in our schools, our prisons, and even put a phoney facade in new unsuspecting communities while they try to get more mosques and madrassas built (that is on their agenda - to get as many of them built too).
Here is more about the ties
Here is more about the ties that the group in this article who are also using the MSA, and the Muslim Brotherhood.
'The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States', by STEVEN MERLEY
Research Monographs on the Muslim World
Series No 2, Paper No 3, April, 2009
HUDSON INSTITUTE CENTER\
Some quotes from this paper:
The Goals
"The leadership of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood (MB, or Ikhwan) has said that its goal was and is jihad aimed at destroying the U.S. from within. The Brotherhood leadership has also said that the means of achieving this goal is to establish Islamic organizations in the U.S. under the control of the Muslim Brotherhood...
...
A 1991 document written by U.S. MB leader Mohammed Akram (a.k.a. Mohammed Adlouni) explains the goal of the Brotherhood in America, which he identifies as “settlement:”
The general strategic goal of the Brotherhood in America which was approved by the Shura [Leadership] Council and the Organizational Conference for 1987 is “enablement of Islam in North America, meaning: establishing an effective and stable Islamic Movement led by the Muslim Brotherhood which adopts Muslims’ causes domestically and globally, and which works to expand the observant Muslim base; aims at unifying and directing Muslims’ efforts; presents Islam as a civilization alternative; and supports the global Islamic state, wherever it is.” ... The priority that is approved by the Shura Council for the work of the Brotherhood in its current and former session is “Settlement."
Source: Mohammed Akram (a.k.a. Mohammed Adlouni), “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the
Brotherhood in North America - May 22, 1991,” Government Exhibit Elbarasse Search—3 3:04-CR-2. 40-G U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation et. Al http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/ExplMemoGenStra... p. 4.
Another quote:
"In 1995, global MB leader Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi further confirmed the connections between MSA and the Brotherhood, and said that the goal of the organization was to “conquer” the U.S. through dawa (Islamic proselytizing): In a 1995 speech to an Islamic conference in Ohio, a top Brotherhood official, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, said victory will come through dawa: “Conquest through dawa, that is what we hope for,” said al-Qaradawi, an influential Qatari imam who pens some of the religious edicts justifying Hamas suicide bombings against Israeli civilians. “We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America, not through the
sword but through dawa,” said the imam, who has condemned the 9/11 attacks but is now barred from the United States. In his speech, al-Qaradawi said the dawa would work through Islamic groups set up by Brotherhood supporters in [the U.S.].
He praised supporters who were jailed by Arab governments in the 1950s and then came to the United States to “fight the seculars and the Westernized” by founding this country‘s leading Islamic groups. He named the MSA [as one such group]"
source: John Mintz and Douglas Farah, “In Search Of Friends Among The Foes,” Washington Post, September 11, 2004,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12823-2004Sep10.html.
MY COMMENT: proselytizing in any muslim country is punishable by death at the worst. And when some muslim guards denied some Christians their right to free speech, or to do a form of proselytizing, they were attacked, in the USA. This is a glimpse of what to expect since this is how they figure they should behave against unbelievers.
Also, the words 'conquer' and 'fight' show us that this takes Islam out of the 'religion' category and plants it firmly into the arena of political movements. And that dawa is nothing but disinformation (as we see on these threads by muslims 'defending' their 'religion'), and the use of taqiyya and kithman - deception.
"proselytizing in any muslim
"proselytizing in any muslim country is punishable by death at the worst"
Not only death, they also burn religious places, persecuting minnorities, terrorizing (physically and mentally) others including apostates, insulting others publicity (via radio, TV, articles), etc. So becareful when you want to proselytize. All of this are fact and reality in real world by the way, not mouth like muslim usually say.
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