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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Leb: Inerga-type Rocket Hits Tripoli's Jabal Mohsen

2011-04-23

[An Nahar] An Inerga-type rocket-propelled grenade hit the Tripoli neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen on Thursday night, causing material damage and "terrorizing" residents, As Safir daily reported. The rocket landed near Café Omran that lies behind the Harakat al-Shabaab field around 11:00 pm, the newspaper said. The incident took place on the eve of a demonstration that Hizb Ut-Tahrir is planning to hold in the northern port city against the Assad regime in Syria. The army threw a tight security dragnet in the area of the attack and launched an investigation.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hizb Ut-Tahrir says Hamas giving up principals

2010-12-04

[Ma'an] The Islamist movement Hizb Ut-Tahrir on Thursday slammed Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, saying the party was giving up its principals. Hizb Ut-Tahrir (Liberation Party) issued a statement following a rare news conference held by Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gazoo on Wednesday. The party said Hamas was heading toward the same track as Fatah and the Paleostinian Authority, turning from armed struggle to negotiations with Israel, and ceding most of Paleostine. Haniyeh said Wednesday that Hamas would accept the creation of a Paleostinian state in the West Bank and Gazoo. "We don't have a problem with establishing a viable Paleostinian state with illusory sovereignty on the land that was occupied in 1967, with a just solution for the refugees, including the release of all Paleostinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and with elections as the only way to transfer authority from one party to another." The Gazoo Prime Minister said his government would respect the results of a referendum on any peace deal agreed in negotiations with Israel, in line with the 2007 Mecca agreement that established the Hamas-Fatah unity government. "These respective documents granted President Abbas and the PLO full control over the negotiations, allowing them to come back with the results if there are any, to call for a referendum, to call on the Paleostinian people if they agree with what has been achieved in the negotiations and the establishment of a state." Hizb Ut-Tahrir said Haniyeh's statements confirmed information revealed in a US diplomatic cable released by the whistleblowing group WikiLeaks. In a document originating from the US embassy in Doha, Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani is reported to have said Hamas leaders were ready to recognize Israel. According to the cable, Al-Thani said Hamas leaders realized they would have to time the announcement carefully, as their supporters were not ready for the change.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hizb Ut-Tahrir: PA arrests thousands

2010-07-18

[Ma'an] Officials from the Islamist movement Hizb Ut-Tahrir said Palestinian security services set up checkpoints on Friday to harass party supporters en route to an annual conference in Ramallah, which itself was quashed. "Security forces in Ramallah began installing security checkpoints early this morning on all of the entrances to Ramallah," a statement from the organization, which promotes the re-establishment of an Islamic Caliphate in the Middle East, read, accusing the officers on the checkpoints of detaining men they believed were on their way to a party meeting. By evening, members of the movement said PA security had "shut down the gates of the school, confiscated equipment and arrested hundreds," in addition to what a statement said was hundreds of others detained at the PA checkpoints. Witnesses confirmed heavy security forces presence at checkpoints erected around Ramallah, and around the location where the conference was set to take place. "Since early morning, the PA has arrested 1,000s of Hizb Ut-Tahrir members," a statement from officials estimated. Security forces entered the yard of the school where the conference was scheduled to be held in Ramallah, a representative for the movement said, and security officers in civil uniforms were seen deployed at the scene and were observed to have assisted in dozens of arrests. A statement from the organization said security personnel with the government had broken into the offices of Watan TV because they believed that a photojournalist had captured the arrests on tape. Events organized by Hizb Ut-Tahrir to mark the 89th anniversary of the fall of the last caliphate have been repressed in areas of the West Bank and Gaza, with 17 said to have been arrested near Hebron, and limited violence erupting north of Gaza City last week. A large event was planned by the group in Ramallah for Saturday evening, and a statement said similar tactics were employed by PA forces throughout the West Bank, targeting smaller events in other villages. In one case, the statement added, PA security services were dispatched around a school where an event was scheduled, "turning the school, the venue for a conference, into a military post." There has been no comment from government officials on the accusations.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hizb Ut-Tahrir: Gaza forces assault, detain supporters

2010-07-14

[Ma'an] Hizb Ut-Tahrir said Gaza government security forces assaulted and detained dozens of the faction's supporters on Tuesday, who were trying to stop the convening of a festival, a statement read. The pan-Islamist party said forces arrived at the event and opened fire in the air to disperse conveners, injuring an infant at a nearby balcony. Palestinian medical sources confirmed the injury, saying the baby girl was evacuated to the Ash-Shifa Hospital in Gaza Strip for treatment, where she was transferred to the intensive care unit. Hizb Ut-Tahrir further said several supporters were detained and violently beaten. Security forces disassemble the stage erected for the festival, the movement added. A Gaza government police representative denied the report, but said the festival was being held without the required permit.

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Down Under

Moderate Islam 'forced on Australian Muslims'

2010-07-06

A spokesman for international Islamist group Hizb Ut-Tahrir has said democracy is an illusion and that the government is forcing moderate Islam on Australian Muslims. Uthman Badar told the TODAY show the illusion of secular democracy "short-sold the people". "I think people have come to see that democracy is more of an illusion in that it secures the interests not of the people but of the economic elite," he said. "What we're saying is the secular democratic process has short-sold the people and it's better that people go back to the grassroots." Mr Badar said the government was funding inter-faith dialogues and institutions in Sydney and Melbourne that promote moderate Islam. "All people should accept that it's not acceptable for a state to tell people this is what you should believe and this is what you should not believe," he said. "The issue is the government should not be taking sides in saying 'This is the Islam we have chosen for you — it's a secular, apolitical, localised Islam'. "'If you do anything else, here's the anti-terror laws, we're going to chuck you in jail.'" More than 500 participants at a Hizb Ut-Tahrir conference in Western Sydney heard on Sunday that Australia was a "god-forsaken country" and that moderate Islam was a "perverted concoction of western governments".

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Shots fired as PA arrests Hizb Ut-Tahrir official

2009-12-23

[Ma'an] Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces opened fire on a car driven by an official in the pacifist Islamist movement Hizb Ut-Tahrir on Monday night, officials said. Shots were fired at Maher Al-Jabari, one of Islamic Jihad's press officers, moments before he was arrested by PA security services near his office at the Palestine Polytechnic University in the West Bank city of Hebron. In a statement about the incident, Hizb Ut-Tahrir said Al-Jabari was also assaulted during the arrest. He is now being held at an unknown location. A PA security official told Ma'an that Al-Jabari failed to obey a police order to stop his car, and while trying to escape crashed his vehicle into three other cars. The source, who insisted on anonymity, said PA officers fired in the air to force Al-Jabari to stop, he was then arrested and taken to a detention center. The official also noted that there was a standing order to arrest Al-Jabari on sight. Last Thursday Hizb Ut-Tahrir reported that the PA surrounded Al-Jabari's house in Hebron in a bid to arrest him, but then left the area without doing so. Hizb Ut-Tahrir's mandate calls for the reestablishment of an Islamic caliphate in Arab countries but shuns the use of violence. The group does not recognize the PA's authority. The PA has clamped down on Islamist opposition throughout the West Bank since the take-over of Gaza by the Hamas government.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hizb Ut-Tahrir: PA attempts arrest of member

2009-12-18

[Ma'an] Pacifist Islamist party Hizb Ut-Tahrir>Hizb Ut-Tahrir said on Thursday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) attempted to arrest one of its media officers in the West Bank city of Hebron. The party said PA intelligence officers surrounded the house of Maher Al-Jabari and ordered him into the street on Wednesday night. Al-Jabari refused the order, they said in a statement. Yelling out the window, Al-Jabari demanded that the commanding officer introduce himself, the statement added. The officers cursed the party official and then left, threatening to return later. Ma'an could not independently verify the report. PA officials made no immediate comment. The main Palestinian Islamist faction, Hamas, has reported that the PA arrested hundreds of its members in the past two weeks in the lead up to the movement's anniversary celebration on Monday.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hizb Ut-Tahrir: Hamas and PA are equally illegitimate

2009-09-07

Ma'an -- Pacifist Islamic movement Hizb Ut-Tahrir released a statement on Sunday arguing that "elections under occupation" would be "abominable and criminal act" regardless of being held upon national agreement or not. The comments came in response to Gaza government Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's remark last week that "elections in the West Bank without national agreement would be a criminal act." Haniyeh himself was responding to President Mahmoud Abbas' declaration that he plans to proceed with elections as scheduled in January. Hizb Ut-Tahrir, worldwide movement favoring the peaceful creation of a transnational Islamic state, sees both the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas government in Gaza as illegitimate. The group has a small but devoted following in the West Bank and Gaza. The statement also criticized Haniyeh saying he would not oppose a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital while making sure Palestinian refugees return to Palestine. Hizb Ut-Tahrir also slammed Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) official Hasan Khreisha for saying, "If elections are not held in time, all officials will become illegitimate." According to the Hizb Ut-Tahrir, "All political actions which are not based on Sharia (religious law) are illegitimate. Everybody who agrees on a Palestinian state within 1967 borders is illegitimate because that will mean giving up on Palestinian territories occupied in 1948. In this regard, Hizb Ut-Tahrir says the de facto government in Gaza is similar to the Palestinian Authority in religious terms. "Continuing to speak about accepting a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, the authority in Gaza proves to be following the footsteps of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah as they have the same political proposal," the statement explained.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hizb Ut-Tahrir: Violence won't lead to Islamic rule

2009-08-17

Ma'an -- The Hizb Ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation) on Sunday condemned Friday's bloodshed in the Gaza Strip as immoral and illegal, according to a statement sent to Ma'an. The pan-Islamist party, which seeks the establishment of an Islamic caliphate through peaceful means, rejected the declaration by radicals declaring Gaza an "Islamic emirate." "Killing and fighting will never be a legal means of establishing an Islamic emirate," Hizb Ut-Tahrir insisted, condemning the bloodshed on Thursday that it said was caused by the declaration from Jund Ansar Allah, a group thought to be ideologically aligned with Al-Qaeda. Most Palestinian groups and parties, including Hamas, are national liberation movements very much opposed to radical organizations such as Al-Qaeda, which seek to instate Islamic rule on what they see as Islamic land. Hizb Ut-Tahrir's aims are similar to Al-Qaeda's, except that the movement exclusively advocates nonviolent struggle to establish the Islamic nation. The party has a relatively small following since it recognizes neither the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority nor the Hamas-ruled de facto government in the West Bank. However Hizb Ut-Tahrir is comparatively much more mainstream than the relatively new Jund Ansar Allah, a violent extremist group that boldly took on Hamas' authority with armed members barricading themselves inside a mosque and declaring Gaza's de facto government illegitimate. The defiance led to an unprecedented crackdown on the part of Hamas and its militant wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, which stormed the mosque late Friday and killed a dozen Jund Ansar Allah loyalists by Saturday morning. Six civilians also died in the operation, as well as six members of Hamas' forces. Hizb Ut-Tahrir called on both sides to reject violence in the name of any authority, Islamic or secular, saying it would be impossible to declare either under the present Israeli occupation. "Those who rule have sovereignty dependent on what the occupation allows, and thus it is not possible to declare an Islamic emirate in a country under occupation."

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Economy

A Caliphate of Toxic Assets

2009-06-29

Of particular interest to those of you who dabble -- or work -- in financial investing. For the rest of us, it's good to understand one of the major weapons employed by those who choose to be our enemies. Click on the title to go read the whole thing. When a pro-terrorist organization announces its intention to launch a financial jihad against the West, it is well worth learning their methods. More significant than the promotion of a religious pseudo-financial scheme is the possibility their largely unregulated practices could release a new wave of toxic assets into the wider economy and trigger a series of small-scale Enrons. The Muslim organization Hizb Ut Tahrir capitalizes on Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna's 20th century derivative, encouraging followers to build a parallel financial structure. Al-Banna envisioned the resultant Shari'a-compliant finance as a “back door” into Western financial markets and institutions through which to supplant liberty and prosperity with Islam. Muslim clerics including MB spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi promote Shari'a finance as generally safer than Western investments, a diversification method to steady personal assets -- and a stable economic system that should replace capitalism. Call it “financial replacement theology,” if you wish. In July, Hizb Ut Tahrir plans to launch its U.S. arm with a huge Chicago “Khalifah conference” heralding the coming Caliphate and global Islamic supremacism. After 9/11, Germany and Sweden outlawed Hizb Ut Tahrir. In July 2005, Pakistan's then-president Pervez Musharaf warned Britain not to tolerate its continued U.K. presence. But in the U.S., Hizb Ut Tahrir has proudly announced intentions to replace capitalism with Islam. Major banks from Citigroup, HSBC, Chase, Bank of America and Lloyds TSB -- probably unaware of the etymology of Islamic finance -- established subsidiaries offering Shari'a-compliant products. Mutual funds at Principal Financial Group, UBS, Amana Funds and SEI Investments, among others, followed suit. Especially late last year as the devastating toll of sub-prime mortgage lending mounted, clients were assured that Islamic banking -- in many respects a dangerous financial fad -- was much safer than other banks and investment houses. Yet bad economic news has not escaped the supposedly secure Islamic investing sector. Islamic securities can also (like all other asset classes) go into default, moreover. Holders of East Cameron Partners LP's “safe,” asset-backed Islamic bonds (sukuk) now line up before a Louisiana bankruptcy judge with all the other hapless creditors of the Texas-based Easter Cameron Oil and Gas Co. that filed for Chapter 11 reorganization last October.

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Europe

Radical PvdA Councillor Refusing to Resign

2008-01-27

Follow up to that story. ROTTERDAM - Labour (PvdA) politician Bouchra Ismaili is refusing to resign. She is ignoring requests from her party to step down because she lied about signing a petition of the radical Muslim organisation Hizb Ut Tahrir. Ismaili, a Muslim immigrant of Moroccan origin, is a PvdA member of Rotterdam's Charlois district council. Last week, she wrote in an e-mail to a citizen: "You filthy idiot. WE ARE HERE TO STAY hahahahahahhahah DROP DEAD". The email contained reams more similar remarks and urged the man to convert to Islam. Ismaili's email was a reply to an email in which the citizen, Jos Parbleu, had confronted the council member with statements by Okay Pala, a spokesman for Hizb ut-Tahrir Nederland. Pala had said in newspaper De Telegraaf: 'We do not agree with freedom of expression, as we reject democracy' and 'what you need is a big bomb attack!' The PvdA leadership in Charlois did not consider it necessary to boot Ismaili out. But meanwhile, during a meeting of Charlois district council, it has become clear that Ismaili also signed a petition from Hizb Ut Tahrir and lied about it. The Hizb ut Tahrir petition stated: "It is time to rid ourselves of a culture that damages our Islam." Initially, Ismaili denied emphatically that she signed the petition. But when opposition party Liveable Rotterdam (LR) produced a printout of the Internet page with her signature, she had to admit it. Ismaili said after being unmasked by Liveable Rotterdam that she felt ashamed because she had "embarrassed the Muslim community in the Netherlands." Both Ismaili and her PvdA colleagues rushed out of the building after the meeting and declined to comment further. Yesterday, the PvdA decided after all that Ismaili should resign because she lied. But a spokesperson for Ismaili stated she was not prepared to leave the Charlois council. The PvdA cannot force her to resign. Hizb Ut Tahrir is banned in Germany due to its extremist and anti-Semitic character, but not in the Netherlands. The national PvdA did not want to comment.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Palestinian security arrest 29 Hamas members in the West Bank

2007-11-30

Ma'an – Hamas said on Thursday that Palestinian security had arrested 29 Hamas of its members across the West Bank. They said in a statement that the arrestees were from Hebron and Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, Ramallah and Jericho in the centre and Qalqilia, Nablus and Tulkarem in the north. The statement added that Palestinian security services also arrested a number of Hizb Ut-Tahrir members in Hebron.

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