HT's Strategy in the UK

Cross-posted from the Spittoon Blog Our report covers Hizb ut-Tahrir's (HT) violent ideology, its perspective of the West and its strategy in the UK. Having gone through HT's literature of its ideology, my colleague Hannah and I were actually worried about how sophisticated its tactics in the West have become. Despite having a violent ideology, our report found that HT deliberately and successfully downplays many aspects of its intolerant beliefs to the wider public in order to present and mainstream its fascist Islamist ideology as 'true' Islam. Seeing it self as 'representative' of Islam, HT presents any attacks on the party as part of a wider conspiracy by the West against Muslims - the West is supposadely engaged with a 'war on Islam'. Adopting a victim mentality, HT aims to legitimate its ideology and present itself as the vanguard for Islam. Our report found that HT attempts to do this through grassroots activities, such as operating front groups in order to indoctrinate young Muslims. Some front groups have even received support by local councilors. As the Spittoon has previously blogged, HT members are trustees of a charity which runs two primary schools in London and has received Government funding (which has now been suspended). An HT member wrote the schools' curriculum. This is no doubt a worrying new tactic and revels the hypocritical extent this group will go to in order to mainstream its beliefs - it hates democracy and Western systems, so why accept Government money? HT is divisive and seperarist. It is un-Islamic and propagates an Islamist supremacist violent ideology. Its Caliphate aims to implement a totalitarian and abusive government that wants to expand by annexing and colonizing all Muslim and non-Muslim majority countries - even if this meant killing 'millions' of civilians. HT should be viewed as intolerant as the BNP and white supremacist groups. Our report offers a recommendations for government on how to best tackle HT's tactics, which are pretty much designed to circumvent proscription. It is about time that this group is completely condemned and rejected by British Muslim communities and wider society.