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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

FSB busts Hizb ut-Tahrir terrorist cell in Crimea

2025-02-06

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] FSB officers have stopped the activities of a cell of Hizbut Tahrir
...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate...
al-Islami (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) in Crimea. This was reported on February 5 by the press service of the agency.

Good job, FSB! You got rid of some of the bad guys.

“The activities of a covert cell of the international terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami, consisting of five citizens of the Russian Federation, have been stopped in the Republic of Crimea,” the department reported.

All members of the cell were detained.

The cell members spread the Hizb ut-Tahrir ideology among Crimean Muslims, based on the doctrine of creating a so-called global caliphate. They recruited citizens during underground meetings.

During the searches, the detainees were found to have propaganda materials banned in Russia, communication devices and electronic media that were used in terrorist activities. The FSB Investigative Department opened a number of criminal cases.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on February 14, 2003, the Supreme Court of Russia recognized Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami as a terrorist organization and banned its activities on the territory of the country.

In early March last year, FSB officers detained members of a Hizb ut-Tahrir cell in Crimea who were spreading terrorist ideology in the region and recruiting local Muslims to their ranks. In addition to propaganda literature and electronic media used for terrorist activities, large sums of Russian and foreign currency were confiscated from the cell members.

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Terror Networks

Islamic group seeking to destroy Israel, create caliphate to hold Canada conference

2025-01-11

[Jpost] Hizb ut Tahrir will be holding its annual Khilafah 2025 in Hamilton, Ontario, according to Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish, who had objected to the group holding the event in her city.

A group seeking to destroy the State of Israel and replace southern European, Middle Eastern, and African countries with an Islamic caliphate is set to hold a conference in Canada next Saturday.

Hizbut Tahrir
...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate...
will be holding its annual Khilafah event in Hamilton, Ontario, according to Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish, who had objected to the group holding the event in her city.

After the Islamic group — which has been banned in many countries, including the United Kingdom and Germany — indicated in advertisements that it was moving its January 18 event to Hamilton, Parrish said on X/Twitter that she was "pleased that the peaceful and respectful residents of Mississauga will not have to endure the fall out" of the "extremists" conference.

Parrish had warned on social media Friday that the city’s conditions of use for renting facilities allowed it to remove permits for organizations that exhibit "contempt or hatred." Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath issued a similar statement about the rental of city facilities on Monday, in which she also noted that she was in close contact with the Hamilton Police Service about monitoring the situation.

"There is absolutely no place in our city for individuals or groups spreading messages of division or tolerance," said Horwath.

HIZB UT TAHRIR CANADA DENIES IT'S A VIOLENT ORGANIZATION
Hizbut Tahrir Canada denied that it was a ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful organization in a Monday statement, assuring that it categorically rejected the use of violence in its objective to establish a caliphate in the Moslem world.

"The accusations linking the party to terrorism, extremism, and ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful activities are fabrications aimed at tarnishing its reputation and distracting from its call to establish Islam as a comprehensive system of governance and mercy for humanity," said HT Canada.

"The party operates in adherence to the Islamic prohibition of violence in political work, relying instead on intellectual engagement and political struggle to build public opinion and bring about societal change. Such baseless allegations are part of a wider effort to distort the image of Hizbut Tahrir and suppress its legitimate political call."

Advertisements for the Khilafah conference highlight the territory that HT wishes to establish the Khalifah (Caliphate), including Spain, Greece, India, much of the Balkans, and the upper half of Africa.

Noted.

The conference, subtitled "The Khilafah: Eliminating the Obstacles that are Delaying its Return," includes lectures on how nation-states are the enemies of Islam, how the US and colonial powers fear a restored Caliphate and how it could defeat America, and how only a caliphate would be able to "liberate Paleostine."

True.

On the HT Canada website, the group claimed that Moslem states didn’t come to the aid of Paleostinians because they were ruled by Western puppets and that the only way peace would reign was when Moslems and non-Moslems in the Levant would reside under the caliphate.

"SEEING THE carnage that the State of Israel has wreaked, not only in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, the West Bank, and Leb
Leb

...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
but also on the leadership of resistance groups, it is easy to lose hope," HT Canada said in an October article.

Y’all losing hope is a wonderful thing. Carry on.

"Instead of distracting ourselves by focusing on local MPs who are not allowed to challenge Zionism or watching resistance videos hoping for some victory to fall from the heavens without sufficient effort on our part, we should commit ourselves to the only thing that can liberate our brothers and sisters and honor the blood of our deaders: toppling the puppet regimes in the Moslem world and replacing them with a righteous Islamic leadership.

You just got Syria, but Iran will soon be lost to the cause, and the Gulf states are moderating . Interesting times, indeed.

"It is such a leadership that will cut off the State of Israel from the supplies it desperately needs to sustain its occupation and expansion, currently supplied to it by ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, Jordan, and the UAE."

In a draft constitution on its website, in which HT Canada explained how a jizya tax would be leveled on non-Moslem Caliphate residents, it explained that it would be illegal for the state to have treaties with a polity such as Israel established on "Islamic land" because it was against Islam to surrender Islamic territory.

Dream on, guys. You lost the possibility of Canada when Justin Trudeau announced his resignation. Austria just elected a rightwing, populist government because of the nonsense of your brothers, so your possibilities are shrinking, and in Britain Sir Keir Starmer is on his way out, to be replaced by Nigel Farage. It’s true that Belgium is toast, and France isn’t far behind, but up in Scandanavia things are changing, too, unthinkable as that was a few months ago.

"The situation of actual war has to remain with it, irrespective if there was a truce which was contracted with it by illegitimate rulers in the Moslem lands," reads the proposed caliphate constitution. "Islam requires that all of the Moslems fight against it, and so their armies must be sent to fight, and all those capable of fighting be gathered in the army, and for this to continue until the Jewish state is finished."

Hizbut Tahrir, founded in Jerusalem in 1953, is against liberal democracy, according to the Canadian chapter website.

Toronto-St. Paul’s Parliament Member Don Stewart said on social media on Sunday that not only should the conference be prevented from being held in Canada, but the organization should not be allowed to operate in the country. Stewart warned that Canada would be made part of a global caliphate.

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs on Tuesday also called on authorities to stop the conference and to designate the "antisemitic" Hizbut Tahrir as a terrorist organization. On Sunday, CIJA noted on social media that the organization was proscribed as a terrorist organization in the UK. Then-home secretary James Cleverly said the UK had made the decision because it promoted and encouraged terrorism and praised attacks against Jewish people and the October 7 massacre.

Germany banned the party in 2003 because the group rejected peaceful coexistence with Israel and advocated armed violence against Israel and Jews. According to Rooters, Egypt, Bangladesh, and Pakistain have also banned Hizbut Tahrir.

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Europe

Thousands of Islamists gathered tonight in Hamburg to demand the introduction of Sharia law in Germany

2024-10-14

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

BREAKING:

Thousands of Islamists gathered tonight in Hamburg to demand the introduction of Sharia law in Germany

🇩🇪 pic.twitter.com/GyGy9faakI
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 12, 2024

Update from the Jerusalem Post at 6:30 PM ET:

Over 2000 radical Islamists gathered in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday to call for a caliphate and the implementation of Sharia law, German news reported.

In the footage from the gathering, crowds could be heard chanting Allahu Akhbar, among other things.

The demonstration was organized by a group called Muslim Interaktiv, which is considered by German security and intelligence to be affiliated with Hizbut Tahrir
...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate...
, an organization banned in 2003 for promoting the killing of Jews.

Muslim Interaktiv has been classified as extremist by the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution, according to Tagesspiegel.

The group, founded in 2020, is led by Joe Adade Boateng, also known as Raheem Boateng, who spoke at the demonstration. Hamburg recently prohibited Boateng from working as a teacher due to his ties to Islamism, according to BILD.

In a post about the event on the group's Instagram, it was written, "The colonial order that can only be overcome by a rightfully guided caliphate – a caliphate that will once again allow Jews, Christians, and Muslims to live peacefully together."

"Caliphate - the end of occupation, extermination, genocide."

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Afghanistan

Taliban Oppression: 80 Arrested, 38 Executed in One Month

2024-09-29

[8am] Despite their promises of a general amnesty, the Taliban
Taliban

...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
continue to arrest former military personnel and civilians. In September 2024, they arrested around 81 people across 18 provinces and executed more than 25 individuals in 13 provinces. Some of these killings have been attributed to unidentified gangs. Among those executed, 14 were killed by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
— Khorasan Province (ISKP) at the Daykundi-Ghor border. The victims included former military personnel and civilians, accused of various offenses. The Taliban detained individuals for spreading critical content, being affiliated with anti-Taliban fronts, shaving their beards, or having ties to ISKP or the "Hizbut Tahrir
...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate...
" group. These figures, based on reports from the Hasht-e Subh Daily, suggest that due to widespread repression and censorship, the actual number of executions and imprisonments may be higher.

In September 2024, 25 people were executed in Takhar, Ghor, Ghazni, Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, Faryab, Daykundi, Khost, Badakhshan, Nuristan, Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.

He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.

After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
, and Balkh provinces. Of these, around 15 killings were attributed to unidentified gangs, but sources and relatives of the victims accused the Taliban of being responsible. Additionally, 13 Hazara
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
s from Daykundi were executed near the Ghor border, along with a Sunni resident from Ghor who was passing through the area. ISKP grabbed credit for the attack.

Last week, the Taliban shot six people in Takhar province and displayed their bodies in a market in the Baharak district center. Local sources reported that the Taliban left the bodies on public display in "Qayoom Bazaar" in Baharak district on Friday, September 20, for several hours. The group did not provide details about the victims’ identities, but sources claimed that the Taliban executed them on charges of theft.

Before these six executions, the Taliban killed Amanullah, a former local police commander of the previous government, in Rustaq district, Takhar province. Sources stated that the Taliban shot Amanullah, the leader of former local uprisings, in the village of Sarjoy as he was returning home.

The Taliban’s campaign of civilian killings continues, with reports of them brutally murdering a student in Ghor province. Sources say Kamaluddin Nizami, an accounting student at a university in Shiraz, Iran, had returned to Ferozkoh, the capital of Ghor, for the holidays. Taliban intelligence tortured him for three days before killing him.

In Badakhshan province, sources report that the Taliban’s head of education in Ishkashim district killed a teacher. The victim, Wali Mohammad Mosamim, taught mathematics and was about to be appointed as the district’s head of education. However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
a Taliban official killed him in his office, according to sources.

Since the Taliban’s takeover, extrajudicial, serial, and mysterious killings have surged. After many of these incidents, sources and victims’ relatives often accuse the Taliban, though the group frequently blames unidentified gangs while also claiming they have established nationwide security.

In the past month alone, three individuals were killed in Ghor, a former military member in Babaji district, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province, a former security officer in Faryab province, a man and a woman in Shahristan district, Daykundi province, a young man in Mandol district, Nuristan province, another young man in Faryab province, the head of the previous government’s Directorate of Transportation in Nangarhar province, a student in Khost province
... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
, a teacher in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh province, a man in Rashidan district, Ghazni province, a young man in Laghman province, and a driver in Kunduz. The Taliban attribute these attacks to unidentified gangs, but sources accuse the Taliban of being responsible for most of these killings.

ARRESTS OF FORMER MILITARY PERSONNEL AND CIVILIANS BY THE TALIBAN
The Taliban have arrested a former military officer in Baghlan province, two former security forces members in Kabul, and one other individual in Nangarhar province. While the group offers no explanation for these arrests, sources close to the detainees report that the Taliban frequently target former military personnel, often accusing them of being involved in anti-Taliban activities as part of their broader Dire Revenge against those who once opposed them.

In addition to former security forces, the Taliban have arrested civilians and former ~~babus~~ government employees on various charges. Over the past month, they have detained around 65 individuals for reasons ranging from alleged collaboration with the National Resistance® Front of Afghanistan to shaving their beards, clashing with nomads, publishing satirical content, and criticizing the Taliban. Many detainees were coerced into making confessions. The Taliban have also arrested some of their own members on charges of affiliation with Islamic State — Khorasan Province (ISKP), as well as members of the "Hizbut Tahrir" group.

Reports show these arrests took place in Kabul, Takhar, Nangarhar, Ghazni, Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
, Panjshir, and Baghlan, and the whereabouts of many detainees remain unknown. Sources confirm that the families of those arrested are unaware of their relatives’ locations, and the Taliban have provided no further information. It has been reported multiple times that the Taliban arrest individuals on various pretexts, demanding money or weapons for their release.

In recent weeks, the Taliban have detained three civilians in Baghlan, four in Takhar, 25 in Ghazni, 17 in Panjshir, 15 in Badghis, and three in Herat. Although the Taliban regime employed some of these individuals after being hired during the previous government, the group has given no reasons for the arrests, which appear arbitrary. Sources claim many detainees have been tortured and coerced into making confessions.

INTERNAL PURGES AND ALLEGATIONS OF ISKP AFFILIATION
The Taliban are grappling with severe internal divisions, leading to multiple festivities among their commanders and fighters across various provinces. These confrontations have escalated into the use of both light and heavy weapons. Amid rising tensions, the Taliban have arrested several of their fighters in some provinces, accusing them of belonging to the Islamic State — Khorasan Province (ISKP).

On Saturday, September 14, sources informed Hasht-e Subh Daily that the Taliban arrested seven of their members on charges of collaborating with ISKP. According to these sources, the arrests targeted individuals within the Taliban’s military ranks, reflecting the group’s ongoing concerns about ISKP infiltrators in their ranks.

Taliban intelligence forces also arrested Amirjan Fouladi, a former military officer, in Bamyan province and transferred him to an undisclosed location. Fouladi’s family has not been informed of his whereabouts. Sources indicate he had recently served as the "Plan and Operations Manager" for the Taliban police command.

For over three years, the Taliban have openly supported commanders and fighters accused of crimes. When a video leaked showing a Taliban commander in Takhar province committing sexual assault, the group arrested the person who filmed the incident, not the perpetrator.

In addition, members of "Hizbut Tahrir," who previously collaborated with the Taliban before their rise to power, have also faced arrests. On Thursday, August 22, Taliban intelligence in Takhar province detained several members of the group in Kalafgan district, rejecting mediation attempts by local elders. The Taliban had previously arrested other members of this ideological group.

Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind...
the UN Secretary-General recently presented a quarterly report on Afghanistan to the UN Security Council, revealing that between May 14 and July 31, 2,127 security incidents were recorded, marking a 53 percent increase from last year. The report also highlighted the ongoing torture, arrests, and killings of former military personnel, despite the Taliban’s promise of general amnesty. The arrest and killing of former government military personnel continue unchecked.

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Bangladesh

Hizb ut Tahrir Bangladesh wants withdrawal of its ban

2024-09-12

[NEWAGEBD] Leaders of Hizbut Tahrir
...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate...
Bangladesh at a press conference on Monday called on the interim government to withdraw the ban imposed on it by deposed Sheikh Hasina government.

Hizb ut Tahrir organised the press conference at the National Press Club where its central leader Imtiaz Selim said that the Awami League government had imposed the ban on the party unlawfully in 2009.

Imtiaz Selim said that, after the formation of the party in 2007, their party was not involved in any criminal and anti-state activities and Sheikh Hasina government had imposed the ban failing to face us politically.

After the fall of Sheikh Hasina government on August 5, situation has changed and the ban on Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is already lifted, Imtiaz said.

So, we hope that the interim government will lift the ban on our party immediately, Imtiaz said.

At the press conference, lawyer Nur Mohammad said that on behalf of Hizb ut Tahrir, they had filed a petition with the home ministry on September 5 in 2024 to withdraw the ban.

Awami League government imposed the ban on the party through a press note on October 22 in 2009, which was not valid as it was not acceptable under section 18(1) of anti-terrorism law 2009, Nur Mohammad said.

Nur Mohammad hoped that the interim government would take steps to withdraw the ban imposed on Hizb ut Tahrir.

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Europe

Islamists hold a mass rally in Hamburg demanding the creation of a caliphate

2024-04-30

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Do they now?

More on this story from yesterday.

[Regnum] More than a thousand Islamists in Hamburg took part in a rally demanding the creation of a caliphate in Germany, the German newspaper Bild reported.

According to journalists, the organizer of the action was 25-year-old student Joe Adade Boateng, who gained popularity on social networks. He criticizes the policies of Israel and Western countries.

A useful name to add to the archive, he’s the head of Muslim Interaktiv, a local branch of Hizbut Tahrir
...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate...
and for some reason he likes to be called Raheem.

Hamburg police spokeswoman Sandra Lövgrün, when asked why law enforcement did not ban the rally, replied that there were no reasons for this.

“There must be real evidence that there will be violent riots during the rally. Suspicions alone are not enough for a ban,” she said.

Lövgrun added that in Germany it is not prohibited to call for the creation of a caliphate, and the protesters did not violate the law prohibiting the propaganda of terrorism. Hamburg Interior Senator Andy Grote said he was disgusted by the action, but police found no legal reason to ban it. Journalists also established that law enforcement officers did not check the documents of the protesters, since there was no legal basis for this.

According to the newspaper, the Muslim Interactive group, which is close to the Hizb ut-Tahrir group (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), was involved in organizing the rally, according to the newspaper.

As reported by IA Regnum, in April, German media reported that schoolchildren in Germany are increasingly converting to Islam in order not to be outcasts in a class where the majority of Muslims. In a survey conducted by the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony among 786 Muslim students, 68% said that for them the rules of the Koran are more important than the laws of Germany.

Bild stated in October 2023 that there were many in Germany who despised non-Muslims and opposed the way of life established in the country. The publication published a 50-point manifesto for migrants, including noting that residents of Germany have the right to public protests as long as they do not glorify criminals or cause riots.

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Europe

Radical Islamists Rally in Hamburg Calling for Caliphate in Germany

2024-04-29

[BREITBART] The German city of Hamburg saw over a thousand Moslems rally on Saturday against the freedom of the press and other liberal values of the country while calling for the imposition of an Islamic caliphate.

Around 1,100 gathered in the central Hamburg district of St. Georg — a progressive area of Germany’s second-largest city often identified as a gay neighbourhood — to demonstrate against what they perceived as an attempt by the media to portray all Moslems in Germany as radical Islamists.

However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
the rhetoric reported from the event indicated the radical positions of the group itself, with chants of Allahu Akbar (God is great or Our God is greater than yours). Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight...
signs at the rally declare that a "Caliphate is the solution" and others read: "Germany = dictatorship of values", NTV reports.

The rally was also attended by members of the Moslem Interactive group, a successor to Hizbut Tahrir
...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate...
, an international Islamic fundamentalist political party seeking to institute a caliphate which was officially banned in Germany in 2003 for extremism.

Moslem Interaktiv, which was founded in 2020, previously organised a demonstration in St. Georg in October in the wake of the Hamas
Hamas

...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
terror attacks on Israel, despite the city placing bans on anti-Israel demonstrations at the time. The group has also been active outside of Germany, having organised a February 2023 protest against Qur’an burnings in Sweden.

Hamburg’s Interior Senator Andy Grote cited Moslem Interaktiv earlier this month as being part of a new generation of Islamist gunnies using social media to spread their messages to the youth of Germany.

The report noted that despite apparently violating some of the principles of Islam, the influencers often using top of the line video editing with a "very professional appearance" as well as using sports cars and luxury brands in an apparent effort to gain more interest in their Islamist message.

Senator Grote said that since attempting to take over the streets of Hamburg in October, local officials have launched a crackdown on the group, saying: "We responded with consistent prosecution, including searches, and some social media channels were shut down on the initiative of the security authorities."

However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
young Moslems in Germany are apparently still susceptible to the Islamist worldview. A survey of grade nine Moslems around the age of 15 this month found that nearly half (45.8 per cent) believe that an Islamic theocracy is the best possible government, while over two-thirds said the rules of the Qur’an were more important than the laws of Germany.

[Twitter] Courtesy of 3dc.

BREAKING:

Hundreds of Islamists are demonstrating in Hamburg, Germany.

They are demanding that a caliphate is established in the country.

The organization behind the protest is called Muslim Interaktiv, and is monitored by the authorities but not banned pic.twitter.com/RISFYJEKAY
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 27, 2024

Hamburg has long been notorious for its active Salafi-Islamist community. The Al Qaeda 9/11 plotters lived there for some time, regularly worshipping at al-Quds Mosque, which the authorities closed in 2010. The membership were known to have links to jihadi groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

FSB stops the activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir cell in Crimea

2024-03-07

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] FSB officers stopped the activities of the Hizbut Tahrir
...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate...
cell in Crimea, the department’s press service reported on March 6.

“The Federal Security Service in the Republic of Crimea suppressed the activities of a secret cell of the international terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami,” the FSB reported.

Good job, guys.

As department officials established, members of the cell carried out anti-constitutional activities in Crimea. At the same time, they were guided by the doctrine of creating a so-called global caliphate and destroying the institutions of secular society. The goal of the extremists was to overthrow the current government in Russia by violent means.

Members of the cell spread terrorist ideology among Crimeans, and they also recruited Crimean Muslims.

During the searches, a lot of propaganda materials banned in Russia were found on the members of the cell. Security forces also seized communications equipment and electronic storage media used for terrorist activities.

Large sums of money in Russian and foreign currencies were also seized from members of the banned organization.

As Regnum reported, the FSB announced on March 6 that a criminal case had been opened against a resident of the village of Emelyanovo in the Krasnoyarsk Territory due to calls for violent actions against Russian military members of the SVO. He posted the corresponding video on his personal YouTube channel. He faces up to five years in prison.

In the city of Karabulak in Ingushetia, FSB special forces eliminated six militants as part of a counter-terrorism operation. Regnum news agency published a fragment of the operation.

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Britain

UK to ban Sunni Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir for antisemitism, promoting terror

2024-01-17

[IsraelTimes] Home Secretary Cleverly notes that group, already banned in other countries, praised and celebrated October 7 Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
attacks

Britannia’s interior minister James Cleverly said on Monday he had begun the process of banning the Sunni Islamist political organization Hizbut Tahrir
...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate...
, saying it was antisemitic and promoted "terrorism."

The group is already banned in Bangladesh, Egypt, Germany, Pakistain, and several Central Asian and Arab countries.

"Hizbut Tahrir is an anti-Semitic organization that actively promotes and encourages terrorism, including praising and celebrating the appalling 7 October attacks (on Israel)," Cleverly said, referring to the devastating massacres by Paleostinian terror group Hamas.

If a draft order laid before parliament by Cleverly is approved by MPs, the ban will come into force on January 19, making it an offense to support the group punishable by up to 14 years in prison. It can also lead to an asset seizure.

"Hizbut Tahrir’s praise of the 7 October attacks and associated incidents, as well as describing Hamas as ’heroes’ on their central website constitutes promoting and encouraging terrorism," a government statement said.

"Hizbut Tahrir has a history of praising and celebrating attacks against Israel and attacks against Jews more widely. The UK stands strongly against antisemitism and will not tolerate the promotion of terrorism in any form," it added.

Hizbut Tahrir’s long-term goal is to establish a Caliphate ruled under Islamic law.

Founded in 1953, it is headquartered in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
and operates in at least 32 countries including the UK, United States, Canada, and Australia, according to the UK’s Home Office.

The Islamist group has a few thousand supporters in the West Bank, where the Paleostinian Authority has also sought to clamp down on its activities.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

HTS in Idlib: arrests media activist in north, now requires schoolgirls to wear ’Islamic attire’

2023-08-08

[NPASyria] Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else

...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS) arrested on Monday a media activist in north Idlib, northwestern Syria, soon after he returned from ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
A local source reported to North Press that General Security Service (GSS) of HTS arrested Youssef al-Moa’athen, a media activist and an IDP from the countryside of Damascus, in Killi town, north of Idlib city.

The source added that al-Moa’athen, who hails from the town of Kafr Batna in the Eastern Ghouta in Rif Dimashq, was arrested a few days after his return from Turkey.

A source added that the GSS arrested him in front of his house along with his son, but later released the child.

The source pointed out that his family requested the giving back his belongings, especially his laptop, but their efforts were in vain.

HTS continues to launch campaigns against activists and opponents in the region, particularly those affiliated to Hizbut Tahrir
...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate...
, an Islamic political party. HTS arrested more 40 members of the party in the last three months.

HTS forces school students to wear Islamic attire in Syria’s Idlib

[NPASyria] On Sunday, Salvation Government, the civil wing of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS – formerly al-Nusra Front), imposed Islamic attire and sex segregation on school students in the city of Idlib, northwest Syria.Education ministry, affiliated with the HTS, said, in a statement, all educational institutions in Idlib must abide by the new rules.

The ministry also ordered removing all haram drawings [forbidden by Islam] on schools walls.

All female teachers and employees must stick to the Islamic dress, the statement read.

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Bangladesh

3 Arsa members held for killing Rohingya man in Ukhiya camp

2023-03-04

[Dhaka Tribune] Law enforcers held three members Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa)

... in Arabic Harakah al-Yaqin or Harkat ul Yaqin (Faith Movement, HaY), they’re led by a committee in Saudi Arabia and commanded on the ground by a group of 20 jihadis fronted by one Ata Ullah a.k.a. Hafiz Tohar a.k.a. Jununi, etc., who was born in Karachi and reared in Saudi Arabia. ARSA may or may not be a false-nose-and-mustache front for Aqa Mul Mujahideen, a minor jihadi group linked to al-Qaeda. At any rate, ARSA has the vocal support of al-Qaeda’s Bangladesh offshoot Ansar al-Islam as well as Hizbut Tahrir, and has been running amok in the Cox’s Bazaar refugee camps...

for their alleged involvement in killing a Rohingya man in Cox's Bazar's Ukhiya camp.
They have those Red Kettle things too?
The detainees are Asmat Ullah, Abdur Rahman, and Abu Shama.

Additional Superintendent of Police of RAB-15 Abu Salam Chowdhury said that the joint team of RAB-15 and APBN-8 raided the Rohingya camp no 18 on Friday, and arrested three members of the Rohingya group Arsa.

Ukhiya cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge (OC) Sheikh Mohammad Ali said that some 12-13 masked miscreants had kidnapped the victim, Rafiq, and took him to camp no 11. He was later shot to death.

The dear departed, Rafiq, 35, was a resident of Block A/9 at camp no 19.

The body has been sent to a local hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Convicted in the case of 'Hizb ut-Tahrir' died in the pre-trial detention center of Novocherkassk

2023-02-11

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] Dzhemil Gafarov, convicted on charges of involvement in a terrorist organization, died in the Novocherkassk detention center.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Dzhemil Gafarov and four other Crimean Tatar activists - Servet Gaziev, Alim Karimov, Seyran Murtaz and Erfan Osmanovadel - were accused of involvement in the Hizbut Tahrir
...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate...
terrorist organization.

In September 2022, a court in Rostov-on-Don extended their terms of arrest. At the same time, Jemil Gafarov stated that, as a disabled person of the second group with renal insufficiency, he suffers in the conditions of an inter-regional tuberculosis hospital and cannot fully prepare for meetings. Gafarov asked to cancel the preventive measure or replace it with any other, not related to detention.

Dzhemil Gafarov died in a pre-trial detention center, said the chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Refat Chubarov. His information was confirmed by lawyer Lilya Gemedzhi, the human rights project OVD-Info reports today**.

Gafarov, 60, was diagnosed with kidney failure and needed regular dialysis, and the disease progressed under arrest. Even before his arrest, Gafarov had a disability group III, and in November 2022 he suffered a heart attack, after which he hardly got up and suffered from chest pains.

In January, Gafarov and the other four defendants were sentenced to 13 years in prison, found guilty of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization (part 2 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and preparing to seize power (Article 278 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), human rights activists reported.

Gafarov died in the Novocherkassk pre-trial detention center, the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Rostov region has not yet responded to a request in connection with his death, Kavkaz.Realii writes today. On the website of the Federal Penitentiary Service, as of 13.05 Moscow time, there is no information about the death of the prisoner.

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