The importance of Hizb ut-Tahrir for Britain’s empire-servers

This is mostly from Bahukutumbi Raman's latest, although most of it, if not all of it, haas appeared in my articles over the years. I have added the first couple of paragraphs and  that little bit on Ahmed Rashid.

Ramtanu.

 

The importance of Hizb ut-Tahrir for Britain's empire-servers

Four Army Majors of the Pakistani military  are now being reportedly interrogated for their links to the preachers-cum-terrorists outfit, Hizb ut-Tahrir ( HuT), headquartered in London and with a strong base in Lahore, where Raymond Davis was arrested. These interrogations should not be, at least as of now, interpreted as a crackdown on the HuT. It is not likely simply because those who are interrogating and those are getting interrogated have  their strong links to the British intelligence, MI6. I have written extensively on how HuT has been protected by the Blair and Brown from getting labeled as a terrorist outfit. How the same B & B have created a counter outfit Quilliam Foundation, led by former HuT and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), who are now very active on the Libyan front, to whitewash all terrorist charges against the HuT, which is banned in many countries, including in Germany.

All these were reported in my articles in EIR over a period of time, except what I have written at the very end of this repor about Washington's Guru in divulging the secrets  of the Talibn, Ahmed Rashid.

The "Sunday Times" of London reported as follows on July 5, 2009: "British militants are pushing for the overthrow of the Pakistani state. Followers of the fundamentalist group Hizb ut-Tahrir have called for a "bloodless military coup" in Islamabad and the creation of the caliphate in which strict Islamic laws would be rigorously enforced.

"Members of the group, which describes itself as the Liberation party in Britain but is banned in Pakistan, revealed last week that it had targeted the country as a base from which to spread Islamic rule across the world.

"The Sunday Times has obtained the names of a dozen British Hizb ut-Tahrir activists based in Lahore and Karachi, or commuting between Britain and Pakistan. There are believed to be many more.

"One of Hizb ut-Tahrir's strategies in Pakistan is to influence military officers.

"Shahzad Sheikh, a Pakistani recruit and the group's official spokesman in Karachi, talked openly about persuading the army to instigate a "bloodless coup" against the present government who, he said, were "worse than the Taliban".

"It is the military who hold the power (in Pakistan) and we are asking them to give their allegiance to Hizb ut-Tahrir," he said. "I can't explain to you in detail how we are trying to influence the military . . . We never disclose our methodology of change. You may say it's a coup."

"In 2003 four army officers were arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of being linked to extremist groups, although the groups and men have not been named. A Hizb ut-Tahrir insider at the time claims they were recruited by the organisation's "Pakistan team" while training at Sandhurst.

And why all of this emphasis on Pakistan?

"The group is believed to have been set up in Pakistan in the early 1990s by Imtiaz Malik, a British-born Pakistani who may still be operating underground as its leader in the country. In 1999 a call was sent to British Hizb ut-Tahrir members to move to Pakistan. This prompted the movement of some of the UK's "top quality" activists to South Asia.

"Pakistan was neglected and ignored until it had a nuclear bomb and then the global leader realised it would be a good strategic base for the caliphate," said Maajid Nawaz, one of the organisation's pioneers in Pakistan, who has since renounced the group." Nawaz is one of Blair and MI6's man in the Quilliam Foundation

Pakistanis belonging to the HT in the UK  held a demonstration outside the Pakistan High Commission in Knightsbridge, London on  March 19 2011 to strongly denounce the release of  Raymond Davis by Pakistan's rulers. Hundreds of men and women gathered to condemn what the HT called the treachery of the Zardari-Gilani regime.

I have always considered Ahmed Rashid, the writer of two books which are considered as Bible on Talibanism by the nit-wits in Washington, a British intelligence operative putting out elaborate misinformation. A Pakistani retired military man told me why I should be careful in reading Ahmed Rashid. Rashid's two books are: Taliban and Descent into Chaos.

Besides the fact that Rashid worked years for the British intelligence-ran Far Eastern Economic Review, this is how Rashid whitewashes HuT, according to the Times of London. "Ahmed Rashid, author of a book on the Afghan Taliban, said Hizb was a movement based in Europe."Young Muslims living in the West get exposure to their culture through religion. I don't think they have any real popular support. Given the enormous number of Islamic schools and parties, it is difficult for someone like Hizb, which is seen as an import from England, to come in the field and make room for itself," said Mr Rashid. He said despite its radical ideas, there were no indications Hizb was involved in militancy. "The membership of Hizbut Tehrir could just be a passing phenomenon for Islamic radicals rather than a permanent one. From here they could move on to militant groups," Mr Rashid said.

Rashid's statement is similar, word by word, to  what the  B & B-created Quilliam Foundation says about the HuT.