Monday, July 20, 2009

Islamist speakers urge shariah over Constitution










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Yesterday Hizb Ut-Tahrir held its “The Fall of
Capitalism and the Rise of Islam” conference at a Hilton Hotel in the
suburbs of Chicago. You may recall this was the same conference that was
originally scheduled to be hosted at an Islamic school in the area, until
the Islamic school pulled out.

In the report provided by IPT
below, some conference speakers minced no words when it came to whether or
not shariah law or the Constitution should be the supreme law of the land.
See the highlighted segments and links to video clips.

This is
precisely the kind of cultural jihad Brigitte Gabriel discusses in her
book They Must Be Stopped. If you haven’t yet read it we urge you
to
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against Islamic terrorism is not enough. If we are to preserve and protect
our liberties and our values we must also win the struggle against
cultural jihad.






Hizb Ut-Tahrir: Shariah Takes Precedence over U.S.
Constitution

Imam Promises to Fight "Until
Islam Becomes Victorious or We Die in the Attempt"



IPT News
July 20, 2009
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1100/hizb-ut-tahrir-shariah-takes-precedence-over-us



Oak Lawn, Illinois - Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), the
international movement to re-establish an international Islamic state or
Caliphate - kicked off a new campaign to win American recruits Sunday
afternoon in this Chicago suburb. Nearly 300 people packed the Grand
Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel for its Khalifah Conference on "The Fall of
Capitalism and the Rise of Islam" to listen to listen to HT ideologues
blame capitalism for World War I and World War II; the U.S. subprime
mortgage meltdown; the current violence in Iraq and Afghanistan; world
poverty and malnutrition and inner-city drug use.

A speaker
identified as Abu Atallah even blamed capitalism for the late singer
Michael Jackson's decision "to shed his black skin."

Hizb
ut-Tahrir aims to
restore
the Caliphate
that existed during the Ottoman Empire in Turkey.
Turkish leader Kemal Ataturk abolished it in 1924 in an effort to create a
secular, Europeanized state.

Security at the conference was very
tight. Oak Lawn police maintained a checkpoint outside the Hilton, and
local police and HT's own security people had a substantial presence
inside the hotel. In the ballroom where the conference took place, men and
women were largely segregated, with men in the front and women in the
back. This became a significant point of contention between HT supporters
and several members of the audience who objected to this arrangement. At
one point, an unidentified Hizb ut-Tahrir speaker became flustered over
this line of questioning.

"Men and women," he blurted out, must be
kept separate "to prevent people from behaving like animals."

A
woman in the audience responded: "How does intermingling between men and
women make you animals?" HT panelists didn't have a persuasive answer, and
soon adjourned that session.

The conference was sometimes poorly
organized. There was no list of speakers, forcing reporters to sometimes
guess at the spelling of speakers' names. But HT certainly appeared to be
serious about working for the larger goals of the conference: abolishing
capitalism and imposing Caliphate rule over the world.

According
to Hizb ut-Tahrir, the world's social and economic problems will not be
fixed until the world is governed by Shariah and the government controls
all major industries. Lenders would no longer be able to charge interest,
which one speaker decried as a "poisonous concept." Charity, or
zakat, was advertised as the way to alleviate "economic
inequality."

"Secular capitalism has made me devalue my skin" and
"has kept my family in ghettos," said one speaker, an African-American who
went on to blame it for the fact that he smoked marijuana and his
grandmother played the lottery. Capitalism, he added, is a form of
economic "terrorism" and "causes us to be sent to mental hospitals."
Barack Obama's presidency, he said, "is only a scheme or con" to trick
people into thinking that things will get better under capitalism.


But time and again on Sunday, Hizb ut-Tahrir officials seemed to
be playing slippery rhetorical games of their own - particularly when it
came to the behavior of despotic Muslim regimes and terrorists. When a few
skeptical audience members pressed speakers over the fact that Islamic
governments in Iran and Saudi Arabia are despotic, conference speakers
claimed those weren't "authentic" Muslim governments and that the CIA (and
by implication, the capitalist U.S. government) was to blame for the
problems in those countries. In an interview with WBBM-TV in Chicago, HT
deputy spokesman Mohammad Malkawi
refused
to specifically condemn Al Qaida and the Taliban.

Hizb ut-Tahrir
has not been designated a terrorist group by the U.S. government and it
insists it is only interested in instituting radical change by nonviolent
means. But HT's alumni include 9/ll mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the
late Iraqi terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi and would-be Hamas suicide
bombers, and the group's pro-jihadist rhetoric has led critics to label it
a "
conveyor
belt
for terrorists."

One Muslim American group
issued a statement
in advance of the conference condemning Hizb ut-Tahrir's radical ideology
and challenging others to follow suit.

"Hizb ut-Tahrir preaches an
ideology that calls for the destruction of the principles that America is
founded on," said Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American-Islamic Forum
for Democracy. "While their words are protected by our First Amendment,
their actions and movement must not be allowed to take hold. The silence
of American Islamist organizations like [the Council on American-Islamic
Relations] CAIR and [the Islamic Society of North America] ISNA in
condemning the ideologies of Hizb ut-Tahrir and their agenda of insurgency
in America speaks volumes to their own, albeit, more camouflaged Islamist
agenda."

HT's efforts to rehabilitate its image won't be helped by
the menacing tone on display Sunday. One late-afternoon panelist suggested
that modern industrial powers could fall to Muslims the way Mecca fell to
Mohammed nearly 1,400 years ago.

A speaker identified by
conference organizers as Imam Jaleel Abdul Razek said that
if they offer us the sun, or the moon, or a nice raise,
or a passport, or a house in the suburbs or even a place to pray at the
job, on the condition that we stop calling for Islam as a complete way of
life - we should never do that, ever do that - unless and until Islam
becomes victorious or we die in the attempt."
(To see the clip,
click
here.)


Later, the following dialogue ensued between the imam and a member
of the audience over whether Shariah or the Constitution should be the
supreme law of the land in the United States (click
here
to see the clip):

Audience member: "Would
you get rid of the Constitution for Shariah, yes or no?"

Imam: "Over the Muslim world? Yes, it would be gone."

Audience Member:
And so if the United States was a Muslim world, the Constitution would be
gone?"

Imam: "If the United States was in the Muslim world, the
Muslims who are here would be calling and happy to see the Shariah
applied, yes we would."

Audience Member: "And the Constitution gone. That's all."

Imam: "Yes, as Muslims they would be long gone."


While Hizb ut-Tahrir's controversial message
attracted demonstrators and some media attention, the group at least is
open about its ambitions. It not only is determined to destroy capitalism
— it would shred the United States Constitution as well in favor of
Shariah law.




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