Hizb uh-Tahrir, the radical Islamic “Party of Liberation” that is outlawed in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Holland, and other countries, operates freely in the United States.
Counter-terrorism expert lecturer and radio talk show host Gadi Adelman, writing for FamilySecurityMatters.org, says that the organization, known as HT for short, was to hold its second annual conference next week, entitled, “Emerging World Order: Global Campaign for Khilafah (Caliphate).” However, at nearly the last minute, the would-be host Chicago
Marriott Oak Brook hotel canceled the event. HT plans to hold it elsewhere before the end of the month, though it has not yet announced a location.
Last year’s event was entitled “The rise of Islam and the fall of Capitalism.”
Brigitte Gabriel, founder of ACT! for America, has said that HT “focuses on recruiting boys between the ages of 8 and 18 years old to become suicide bombers and Jihadists to advance Islam throughout the world.” Born in a Lebanese Christian community, Gabriel’s home was destroyed by radical Islamists, about whom she later wrote the books 'Because They Hate' and ‘They Must be Stopped.’”
Walid Phares and Muslim democratic leader Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, who called HT a “conveyor belt to terror,” are among many who have spoken out against HT as well.
HT came close to being banned in the UK in August 2005, Adelman writes, “when then-Prime Minister Tony Blair announced his intentions to ban the group.That was until threats of riots made him drop the idea.”
HT wants to overthrow every country the world over to instill a “Global Caliphate,” seeks to train teenagers for “jihad,” has reportedly been involved in threats against Jews, Hindus, and has reportedly threatened Muslim university officials. HT rejects the “gender equality movement” for women’s rights, saying that women must pursue a global Islamic caliphate instead. HT calls for the end of democracy and its replacement by Sharia law, as well as death for anyone who leaves Islam.
Family Security Matters editor Adrian Morgan wrote back in 2007: “It is difficult to believe that a group that threatens not only the Middle East but the West, too, should go without condemnation by the United States, as if it were the Girl Scouts.”