Allah and the Prophet Are the Only Authorities That Count

We’ve reported previously on Hizb ut-Tahrir, a fundamentalist Islamic organization that aims to purify Islam and return Muslims to their roots. Its mission statement calls for the Khilafah — a caliphate — in the Middle East, and eventually the rest of the world. To accomplish that purpose, adherents of HuT work for the overthrow of the authoritarian regimes that govern most of the Muslim world. They see their current rulers as corrupt, oppressive, un-Islamic, and in violation of the laws of Allah. They intend to replace them with a “rightly-guided” caliph, just as in the early days of Islam.