The extreme Islamist sect Hizb ut Tahrir al Islami, which has a fast-dwindling, part-time following of fake jihadis in the United Kingdom, as well as other cells across Europe, has sought to stem the tide of leavers doing so much damage to its international coffers.

Under pressure from its foreign leadership, Hizb ut Tahrir al Islami's British executive, headed by fantasist and wannabe Bangladeshi president Dr Nasim Ghani (known as "Patrick" to aid professional ascent in his capitalist day job) has been wielding the axe. In the true tradition of Islamist hierarchy and caliphate, he blames the pitiful state of the sect (image and numbers) in Britain on his lieutenants rather than taking the rap himself. 

Hizb ut Tahrir al Islami has become the current big joke in Islamist circles in Britain, even usurping its former leader Omar Bakri's ragtag band of benefits cheats and gullible members of society. Even hothead elements of British Muslim society have turned against them and are filled with rage at what they see as the sect's tarnishing of British Islam:

In one forum, on the 29th April this year, an Islamist commentator by the name of "Saracen" remarks on Hizb ut Tahrir al Islami, "It makes me sick to the back teeth that Muslims (HT) swan around with 'We are the victim attitude - everyone is against us. Yes, there is a hell a lot of Islamophobia out there, and that needs to be countered...........but when are we going to kick these goons up their backsides?? I mean complete isolation, condemnation, confrontation, exposition, challenging, laying the cards on the table - all out gloves-off scenario???? Why do we let them wander in our midst giving leaflets, attacking legitimate groups? Brainwashing youngsters, hijacking mosques, disrupting events, getting on the media, distorting the image of Islam and Muslims????" Saracen's tirade continues, "They need banning from Muslims places, injunctions taken out, police called, and public statements. Forget the softly, softly approach - it doesn't work. We need to confront these punks and tell them to stop leeching off us for their own egotistic pathetic meaningless failed miserable lives that they try to find meaning in by being extremists."

In another posting (29.04.08) by a senior MPAC(UK) activist, the HT backlash persists with "Muslims have this taboo when it comes to just stating things like they are, because they are scared that Allah(swt) might punish them. It is this selfish attitude that leads to enemies being free to declare to the world that the vile hatred they spout is Islam. We all need to stand together and say that these sub humans are not Muslims, they are unbelievers and they are the worst of the unbelievers. Then and only then will the rest of the world begin to stop hating Muslims."

Hizb ut Tahrir al Islami Britain is vital to Hizb ut Tahrir Al Islami's world plans - not because the UK arm of the sect has any hope of establishing a caliphate in vehemently secular Britain, but because the UK management has a history of recruiting and brainwashing young professionals and convincing them to donate a hefty percentage of their salaries to the sect's chocolate teapot cause, as well as skimming "purification" funds off the profits of Muslim drug dealers (who are only allowed to sell drugs to non-believers). This hard cash is used to fund the sect's efforts in deprived, vulnerable states where the sect sees its best chance of establishing itself in government and creating that first, elusive state from which its "political message" will turn into a wholesale, violent attempt to establish a worldwide Islamist caliphate.

Where does most of the group's British cash head these days?

Long gone are the days when the sect's money flooded central Europe - Bangladesh is still top of the sect's plans, though its infiltration of the army there has got nowhere and a source in the Bangladesh government recently described the chance of Hizb ut Tahrir al Islami succeeding in his homeland as akin to "Bangladesh winning the World Cup - football, not cricket."

Still the British bubble refuses to burst and the aforementioned Ghani is privately declaring that he is merely "re-jigging" his executive team. Extraordinarily, Ghani is still convinced the sect's funds are genuinely laying the foundations for him to fly into Dhaka, where he will be greeted by lines of schoolchildren waving black flags and tossing flowers in his direction as the saviour of the caliphate, before a cloud comes down from heaven and a loud voice sounds, "You, Patrick, are a very handsome, wonderful man and the world should listen to every word that cometh from your lips because you are mighty, talk more sense than Omar Bakri, and are the greatest thing out of Southend-on-Sea since Procul Harum."

So who's got the chop?

None other than Ghani's choice for future Bangladesh Minister for Food, Dr Imran Waheed. Formerly described on the sect's UK website as "Media representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, member of the party's UK Executive Committee and renowned figure amongst Britain's Muslim community" Waheed is no more. In his place comes Taji Mustapha - known as the "shouting zealot" for his tendency when losing the argument (alas, an Islamist tradition) to raise his voice to protect his bubble. Mustapha is well known for his disgraceful 911 views and his comments recorded at a university seminar are a key part of the growing dossier on the dwindling group.

So, where did Waheed go wrong?

A Hizb ut Tahrir Al Islami insider claims that Imran Waheed too much resembles the generation of Pakistani immigrants who rather enjoyed becoming assimilated into British society and got fat off the British capitalist system once they settled in Britain. The "too-much-ghee" generation - the same generation which 7/7 bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan chided in his testament video for being comfortable and contented with their semi detached houses and Japanese cars parked in the drive.

Ghani - even before he took the heat from foreign leaders - was already looking for a sleeker, fitter image for the sect, as well as a younger face - more appealing to those young Muslim professionals he can snaffle money off when they are wound up enough by him and his sect about the Iraq War and Guantanamo.

In addition, Waheed has been considered for a while now as being fundamentally flawed - his Machiavellian attempts at in-fighting (scurrilously planting comments on message boards and using the internet in other ways to blacken competitors' names - once referring to Mustapha as a homosexual) and desire to lead Hizb ut Tahrir al Islami in Britain were well-known. (Apparently, Waheed's favourite trick was setting up email accounts in the names of past members and using the old "he said this to him because he said this to him" technique to consolidate his position in the sect - this had become a standing joke amongst the sect's members before his fall).

But what finally pushed Ghani to act were outside forces within Hizb ut Tahrir al Islami who demanded scalps to stop the rot.

Those charged with preventing extremism in Britain are happy to see Taji Mustapha take over from Waheed. The file on Mustapha is valuable and now the Hizb ut Tahrir al Islami schools in Britain are directly linked to the face of the sect in Britain. Such schools are seen as a poisonous influence on vulnerable parts of Britain and the sect's school curriculum - now with the British and EU government - is based on hate.

Expect Mustapha's voice to rise several decibels in future weeks and months as Hizb ut Tahrir al Islami gets laughed off the British fringe stage. For, by Nixon's definition, Mustapha is a bad loser, as was Waheed. They will blame their persistent failure on all and sundry except themselves and their wacky ideas for a theocratic, inevitably porous state:

"You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his team mates." (Former US President Richard Nixon)

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