A bad few weeks for Hizb ut Tahrir Britain – the UK arm of the radical Islamist party which wishes to see its version of the medieval “Caliphate” established in Muslim lands and then across the entire globe. First, after a concerted campaign of complaints to the BBC following last November’s Newsnight program – when Hizb ut Tahrir in South London was infiltrated and exposed as being linked to violence, radicalization and threatening local mosques – their hundreds of complaints were summarily dismissed. Of thirty four complaints considered worthy of any investigation by regulators, and following a police investigation of the program, thirty-three were dismissed and only one was upheld and that was on a technicality – that the reporters involved should not have included a ten second clip (of a twenty minute piece) about a likely synagogue attack in the area, which may or may not have been planned by Hizb ut Tahrir members, but which police were investigating at the time of broadcast.

Second, a fortnight ago, another senior member of Hizb ut Tahrir Britain, who shall remain nameless, declared his intention to leave the group and declared interest in sharing his knowledge of the group and speaking out against it. This follows the high-profile departures from the group of Shiraz Maher and author of “The Islamist” Ed Husain – both of whom have spoken out against the group recently (notably, Shiraz Maher in giving a detailed account of his Cambridge Hizb ut Tahrir days, whose radical Islamist associates there included none other than Bilal Abdullah of failed Glasgow bomb attack infamy). For those who once doubted that Hizb ut Tahrir was a peace-loving talking-shop, suddenly the truth is emerging that Hizb ut Tahrir is without any doubt a conveyor belt to exactly the kind of extremism which breeds terrorism. As Ed Husain mentioned this week to the New York Times, “The only difference between Islamists from Hizb ut-Tahrir and jihadists is that the former are waiting for their state and caliph before they commence jihad, while the latter believes the time for jihad is now.” 

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