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Please find below the media release that was issued today by Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
A NOTE FROM HIZB UT-TAHRIR AUSTRALIA CONCERNING RECENT MEDIA ALLEGATIONS
Sydney, Australia, 11th July 2007 – The current debate purporting to examine the question of Hizb ut-Tahrir has proven to be nothing more than a poorly scripted melodrama. After observing the pitiful displays of pseudo-intellectuals, the contemptible words of ignorant commentators and the empty posturing of political aspirants, Hizb ut- Tahrir Australia will now respond as a matter of historical record.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is a global Islamic political party working to re- establish the Islamic Caliphate within the Muslim world. Since its inception in 1953, Hizb ut-Tahrir has been subject to the severest of repression at the hands of the tyrants in the Muslim world. Our members have been consistently persecuted, imprisoned, tortured and even murdered. Despite operating under the most horrendous conditions, Hizb ut-Tahrir continues to resolutely oppose all forms of tyranny and dictatorship exclusively through intellectual and political means, and in fact considers the recourse to violence as a means to achieve its objectives a violation of Islamic law.
Hizb ut-Tahrir has been brutally opposed in the Muslim world because of its leadership in championing political change. Its courageous stance in mobilising public opinion in the Muslim world has earned the party the universal support of the Muslim masses and caused widespread consternation amongst its opponents. But the alarm of the regimes in the Muslim world is superseded only by the concern of Western
governments.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is now being targeted in the West for three primary reasons:
1. the party continues to courageously expose the crimes of Western governments to a global audience;
2. the party unrelentingly challenges the West's neo-liberal interventionist policies in the Muslim world; and
3. the party works tirelessly to present Islam as an ideological alternative to Western secular capitalism as a model of governance in the Muslim world.
The current charges levelled at Hizb ut-Tahrir over the last week are certainly not worthy of a serious response. Rather than engaging in genuine ideological debate, critics of Hizb ut-Tahrir are desperately seeking to suppress such debate.
Media representative of Hizb ut- Tahrir Australia, Wassim Doureihi, comments in this regard:
“Our opposition to the illegal state of Israel, for instance, is howled as anti-semitism, our displeasure at the West's foreign policy labelled as subversion, our challenge to Western backed dictators characterised as rebellion, our work to generate political awareness described as radicalisation, and our call for the affairs of the Muslim world to be governed by Islam fought as extremism. Governments have even lent sympathetic ears to opportunistic individuals parroting the established government narrative by seeking to draw spurious and unfounded links between Hizb ut-Tahrir and the recent events in London and Glasgow”.
“Over the last century, Western governments have exercised a brutal and unashamedly interventionist policy in the Muslim world - a policy that has wreaked havoc upon the local population through ongoing military occupation, economic exploitation and political repression”.
”But despite the concerted effort to demonise and silence Hizb ut- Tahrir, we will continue in our efforts to engage in a serious and open debate concerning the way forward for the Muslim world”.
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For more information, please contact Wassim Doureihi, Media Representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia, on email: media@risala.org or mobile: 0438 000 465.
A NOTE FROM HIZB UT-TAHRIR AUSTRALIA CONCERNING RECENT MEDIA ALLEGATIONS
Sydney, Australia, 11th July 2007 – The current debate purporting to examine the question of Hizb ut-Tahrir has proven to be nothing more than a poorly scripted melodrama. After observing the pitiful displays of pseudo-intellectuals, the contemptible words of ignorant commentators and the empty posturing of political aspirants, Hizb ut- Tahrir Australia will now respond as a matter of historical record.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is a global Islamic political party working to re- establish the Islamic Caliphate within the Muslim world. Since its inception in 1953, Hizb ut-Tahrir has been subject to the severest of repression at the hands of the tyrants in the Muslim world. Our members have been consistently persecuted, imprisoned, tortured and even murdered. Despite operating under the most horrendous conditions, Hizb ut-Tahrir continues to resolutely oppose all forms of tyranny and dictatorship exclusively through intellectual and political means, and in fact considers the recourse to violence as a means to achieve its objectives a violation of Islamic law.
Hizb ut-Tahrir has been brutally opposed in the Muslim world because of its leadership in championing political change. Its courageous stance in mobilising public opinion in the Muslim world has earned the party the universal support of the Muslim masses and caused widespread consternation amongst its opponents. But the alarm of the regimes in the Muslim world is superseded only by the concern of Western
governments.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is now being targeted in the West for three primary reasons:
1. the party continues to courageously expose the crimes of Western governments to a global audience;
2. the party unrelentingly challenges the West's neo-liberal interventionist policies in the Muslim world; and
3. the party works tirelessly to present Islam as an ideological alternative to Western secular capitalism as a model of governance in the Muslim world.
The current charges levelled at Hizb ut-Tahrir over the last week are certainly not worthy of a serious response. Rather than engaging in genuine ideological debate, critics of Hizb ut-Tahrir are desperately seeking to suppress such debate.
Media representative of Hizb ut- Tahrir Australia, Wassim Doureihi, comments in this regard:
“Our opposition to the illegal state of Israel, for instance, is howled as anti-semitism, our displeasure at the West's foreign policy labelled as subversion, our challenge to Western backed dictators characterised as rebellion, our work to generate political awareness described as radicalisation, and our call for the affairs of the Muslim world to be governed by Islam fought as extremism. Governments have even lent sympathetic ears to opportunistic individuals parroting the established government narrative by seeking to draw spurious and unfounded links between Hizb ut-Tahrir and the recent events in London and Glasgow”.
“Over the last century, Western governments have exercised a brutal and unashamedly interventionist policy in the Muslim world - a policy that has wreaked havoc upon the local population through ongoing military occupation, economic exploitation and political repression”.
”But despite the concerted effort to demonise and silence Hizb ut- Tahrir, we will continue in our efforts to engage in a serious and open debate concerning the way forward for the Muslim world”.
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For more information, please contact Wassim Doureihi, Media Representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia, on email: media@risala.org or mobile: 0438 000 465.
This post has been edited by Hamza: 11 July 2007 - 03:53 PM
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 11:44 AM
Yummmmmmmm - with extra mayo 
himself but seriously sister, I cant give the same benefit of doubt in regards to the rest of the ummah. 
I was just on my way out myself! Ive got other projects to complete... MV is supposed to be my brains off time 
, as HD says it
