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.


Their plans for the non-Islamic world are slightly different. The Koran requires Muslims who live in Dar al-Harb (the “House of War”, the non-Muslim world) to adhere to the laws of the infidel until the believers become numerous enough to institute sharia and enforce Allah’s law — in other words, until it is time to take over and incorporate the formerly infidel nations into the Khilafah.

It comes as no surprise that Hizb ut-Tahrir is banned throughout the Middle East, where its political ideology poses an immediate threat to the established order. Western nations are more lenient towards the group, however. This may be because the activists of HuT are careful to be at least ostensibly law-abiding in their activities, thus giving Western authorities scant legal justification for shutting them down. They are particularly active in Britain, Denmark, the United States, and Australia.

Hizb ut-Tahrir held a conference in Australia earlier this month. The video below was adapted by Vlad Tepes from an advance promotion of the “Khilafah conference”. It presents the revolutions of the Arab Spring as a “step on the way to a Caliphate”. Vlad points out that the zealots who made this clip stole the music for their theme song from Christians: 

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