— Austrian Times and other media report:
— “A banned radical Islamic organisation has sent a threatening letter to Social Democratic (SPÖ) Women’s Minister Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek after she called for a ban on burkas, according to the Österreich newspaper.”
— “The newspaper reported today (Weds) that the Hizb ut-Tahrir organisation based in Lebanon had sent it a three-page email after Christmas in which it condemned the minister’s remarks last week and threatened her using the sentence from the Koran: ‘And know that Allah is strong in punishment.’ ”
— “Hizb ut-Tahrir – which experts say is the first transnational organisation dominated by Palestinians calling for a caliphate or world-wide Islamic state – is considered dangerous and was banned in 2003 in Germany for its support of violence.”
— “A spokesperson for Heinisch-Hosek said her ministry had been in contact with the Office for Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism and was taking the matter very seriously.”
— Gainesville Sun reports: “Detention officer fired for alleged KKK membership”
— “According to the Sheriff’s Office, the termination of Wayne Kerschner came after an internal investigation in which Kerschner said he had been a formal member of the organization since 2008 and became interested in it through his wife, Shanda Lynn Kerschner.”
— ” ‘It was jarring to find out that someone in our agency was involved with an insidious organization,’ Alachua County Sheriff Sadie Darnell said Wednesday. ‘Termination was warranted. I want the action to send a message that this is offensive behavior and is not acceptable at all.’ ”
— “Kerschner is quoted in an internal affairs report as describing the KKK as ‘faith-based, it is more of a religion-based organization, more of a political-based organization, that their hopes are to increase membership to further the political goals of the group, to look out for the white race ….’ ”
— Miami Herald reports: “Kerschner reportedly told investigators that the KKK was a faith-based group and said he believed in the organization’s ideology.”
— AP reports: “Florida jail fires officer for being KKK member – He defended group as a faith-based organization”
— “A county jailer in Florida has been fired after telling investigators he was an officer of the Ku Klux Klan.”
— “An internal affairs report by the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office says Detention Officer Wayne Kerschner defended the KKK as a faith-based organization.”
— “Kerschner told investigators that he blogged on a KKK Web site, attended a rally in Tennessee and paid dues to the United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He said his wife was also a member.”
— “Kerschner was fired Wednesday for violating a department ban on subversive or terrorist organizations. He had worked four years at the jail in Gainesville. A phone number for Kerschner could not be found Thursday.”
— “The investigation started after a tip from a sheriff’s deputy working on an FBI investigation.”
— The Tennessee-based white supremacist hate group, United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, claims “Our ideology is simple, self preservation and the advancement of the White Christian America”
— The hate group calls for “segregation of the races [or tribes ] as they were referred to in the Bible,” attacks and slurs Black Americans
— Tennessee-based white supremacist group seeks members “to play an active part in the preservation of the White race”… praising Robert E. Lee, attacking “race mixing” and “mongrelizing of the races,” attacking “queers,” and call the KKK a “white Christian resistance”
— The hate group’s motto is “Ku Klux Klan, bring hope to the white race!”
Alucha County Jail in Gainesville, Florida where Ku Klux Klan Member Wayne Kerschner Worked (Photo Alucha County Sheriff's Office)
We urge those who hate their fellow human beings through racial and religious extremism to drop the hate from their heart, accept our shared universal human rights, and rejoin the brotherhood of humanity.
— AP/CBS: “Men were Cooperating with Government Authorities in South-Central Afghanistan”
— “Police say militants have beheaded six Afghans for cooperating with government authorities.”
— “Juma Gul Hamit, police chief of Uruzgan province in south-central Afghanistan, says the men were beheaded Thursday near the provincial capital of Tarin Kot.”
— “Hamit defended the victims, saying they were not involved in any anti-government activities.”
— Voice of America reports: “Taliban militants are taking credit for separate attacks that killed eight Americans and one Afghan inside a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan, as well as four Canadian soldiers and a journalist in the south.”
— “The Taliban said the suicide attack in eastern Khost province Wednesday was carried out by a man wearing an Afghan national army officer’s uniform. He was able to detonate an explosive vest near the base’s gym.”
— New York Daily News reports: “The attack marks the worst loss of life for the U.S. in Afghanistan since October.”
— “The Taliban also took responsibility for a roadside bomb that left four Canadian soldiers and a journalist in their unit dead. Both attacks occurred Wednesday.”
— “Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the attacker at the CIA base in Khost Province was a ‘well-dressed’ officer in the Afghan army.”
— ” ‘This deadly attack was carried out by a valorous Afghan army member when the (CIA staff) were busy gaining information about the mujahedin,’ he said, using the Arabic word for a military force of warriors engaged in a jihad.”
— BBC: Afghanistan: CIA workers killed by ‘Afghan soldier’
— FOX News reports: “It was unclear how the bomber at U.S. Forward Operating Base Chapman at the edge of Khost city was able to circumvent security. Khost is the capital of Khost province, which borders Pakistan and is a Taliban stronghold.”
— “But an Afghan official in Khost said the U.S. has hired about 200 Afghans to help with security at the base. They are usually deployed on the outer ring of its walls, although some work inside, the official said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.”
— Haaretz reports: “Settler teen arrested over West Bank mosque arson”
— “Israel Police on Thursday arrested a settler teen suspected of involvement in the torching of a West Bank mosque three weeks ago.”
— “The teen, whose parents and grandfather were killed in Palestinian terror attacks, was arrested at the Tapuah Junction in the West Bank.”
— “The vandalism at the mosque in the West Bank village of Yasuf drew harsh rebuke from Israeli leaders, among them politicians and clergy. During the attack, the vandals torched books of the Koran and prayer carpets, and scrawled Nazi slogans in Hebrew across the walls.”
— “Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger visited the mosque following the attack to express his condemnation.”
— “‘I came here to expression my revulsion at this wretched act of burning a place holy to the Muslim people,” Metzger told the residents after he was escorted into the village under the protection of the Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian police. “This is how the Holocaust began, the tragedy of the Jewish people of Europe.’ ”
— “A delegation of West Bank settlers, led by renowned peacemaker Rabbi Menachem Froman, brought copies of the Koran to the village to replace those lost in the fire.”
NYT: "On Friday, Palestinians inspected the damage done to a mosque that was set on fire in the West Bank village of Yasuf." (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
— AFP reports: “Jordan jails man for 10 years over ‘honour killing’ ”
— “A Jordanian court sentenced a 61-year-old man to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after convicting him of killing his teenage daughter last year to ‘defend his honour,’ a judicial official said.”
— ” ‘In 2008, the 17-year-old girl was kidnapped and raped by a group of men, who are currently on trial,’ the official told AFP.”
— ” ‘But the father suspected that his daughter was involved in a sexual relationship with one of the men. He shot her dead before handing himself in to police, claiming he wanted to defend his honour.’ ”
— ” The court initially jailed the father for 15 years, ‘but decided to reduce the sentence after the man’s family urged leniency,’ he said, adding the murder took place in Ein Basha, outside Amman.”
— “In a separate case, a court commuted the death sentence of a man to 10 years in jail for strangling his married sister to death in 2007 ‘because he suspected the girl was involved in prostitution,’ in the Red Sea port of Aqaba, an official said.”
— “The official declined to elaborate.”
— “Murder is punishable by death in Jordan but in so-called ‘honour’ cases a court sometimes commutes or reduces sentences, particularly if the victim’s family urges leniency.”
Voice of America reports:
“A top Pakistani Taliban commander is claiming responsibility for Monday’s attack on a Shi’ite religious procession that killed 43 people and sparked fires that burned for days.”
“Asmatullah Shaheen said Wednesday his group sent the bomber who wreaked havoc on the Ashura ritual in the southern city of Karachi. He told Reuters news agency that the Taliban ‘will carry out more such attacks within ten days.’ ”
“Sunni Muslim extremists, including the Taliban, regard Shi’ites as heretics. Shi’ites make up one-fifth of Pakistan’s population, while Sunnis account for about 70 percent.”
“Monday’s bomb attack in Karachi was the third in as many days targeting Ashura observances by Pakistani Shi’ites.”
— Islington Gazette: Police’s honour killing pledge
— “An honour killing must never be allowed to happen in Islington – say detectives who discovered that a couple were threatened with death for having a forbidden relationship.”
— “The 25-year-old Egyptian Muslim woman and her 21-year-old Greek Orthodox boyfriend were allegedly assaulted by her family for their secret love affair.”
— “Police believe the woman was first beaten up by her father and brother until she revealed her boyfriend’s identity.”
— “The boyfriend was allegedly then bundled into a car, beaten up and taken to his girlfriend’s family home in Holloway.”
— “There they were threatened with death if they had any further contact.”
— “But charges have never been brought over the incident in June last year because no-one was willing to give evidence.
— “While a murder has never happened in Islington, police have revealed the borough has experienced four cases of ‘honour-based violence’ in the last year.”
Image from Hizb ut-Tahrir America's Web Site Promoting a Chicago Suburb Event on Pakistan on December 20
Three days before the HTA Lombard event, Hizb ut-Tahrir published an “open letter to the Ulema of Pakistan” calling for the Pakistan people to overthrow their government, and “uprooting the agent government,” and stating “the Ulema should issue a Fatwa for the expulsion of America from the region.” In this December 17 press release, Hizb ut-Tahrir further claimed that “America has planned to shift the blame of her crimes towards the Muslims…”
This message was conveyed to new American recruits in the Chicago area by Hizb ut-Tahrir America in a “lecture given by Abu Baseer.” Baseer spoke to a group of approximately 40 individuals, with women once again segregated in the back of the Lombard community building facility.
Anti-Democracy Hizb ut-Tahrir America December 20, 2009 Meeting at Govt-Managed Facility in Lombard, Illinois -- Women Segregated and Only Permitted to Sit in the Back of the Room
In the Lombard government-managed facility, Abu Baseer told new Hizb ut-Tahrir America recruits not to trust Christians and Jews as “allies,” stating that it was against Allah’s will. Abu Baseer also denounced “the Kafir” (“infidel”) stating that the “sanctity of Muslim blood is greater… than the sanctity of the Kafir.” (The next day, December 21, Hizb ut-Tahrir America posted an article stating that schools for other religions, such as Jews, would only be permitted for “Dhimmis” accepting a state of servitude.)
Hizb ut-Tahrir America December 20, 2009 Speakers in Lombard - Abu Baseer Denounces Kafirs and Denounces Pakistan Government as un-Islamic
Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s Abu Baseer described the circumstances in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan as one where that nation has suffered from a Pakistan government that is “bombing Muslims and burning innocent females and children alive.” He used this as the emotional centerpiece of his argument as to why extremism was necessary to end the “corruption” in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Nor did Abu Baseer tell new Hizb ut-America recruits that it was in fact a Lal Masjid Violent Extremist who spilled “Muslim blood” as reported in the London Times that “transformed from a seat of religious learning to an inferno by the suicide bomber who detonated his charge as the Pakistani commandos stormed the Red Mosque compound.” All the new American recruits for the extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir were told is that it was the Pakistan government “burning innocent females and children alive,” inciting hatred against the Pakistan government as “un-Islamic.”
Hizb ut-Tahrir America's Graphic Images of Suffering - Blamed on America at Chicago Suburban Meeting
Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s Abu Baseer used a showman’s countdown of a litany of “symptoms” of Pakistan’s problems, war, violence, poverty, describing “the Pakistani government bombing Muslims,” claims that Pakistani people were “bombed indiscriminately from the air,” describing the “Pakistan economy in shackles,” stating that “to get billions of dollars of aid, Pakistan has to agree to draconian measures… to increase poverty in the country,” Abu Baseer kept stating that all these were merely “symptoms,” not the “cause” of Pakistan’s problems. Abu Baseer got at least one audible “wow” from his audience when describing the suffering of the Pakistan people, which he blamed on the Pakistan government not being sufficiently “Islamic,” and described myriad imagined “plots” by America to take over Pakistan, including blaming President Barack Obama.
Abu Baseer claimed that “America wants to invade and occupy Pakistan for itself,” imagining a U.S. plot “to control the gateway to Southeast Asia” and “immense energy resources” and an imagined U.S. plot to create a “major front against America’s competitors like China and Russia,” viewing the “war on terror” as a “proxy war” intended to “partition Pakistan.” Never criticizing the Taliban, Abu Baseer claimed that the violence in Pakistan was not the result of terrorists, but was coordinated by the Pakistan government and U.S. contractor Blackwater. Abu Baseer claimed that U.S. contractor Blackwater is planning activities for inside Pakistan to “destabilize the country,” with Blackwater agents working to “make others look bad” using the “same devious practices used to create chaos in Iraq.” Abu Baseer claimed that “Pakistan rulers are providing all support to U.S. in this bloodbath” and that “the government is declaring every bomb blast a suicide blast to exonerate the [Pakistan] secret service and secret agencies like Blackwater…”
Abu Baseer continued to attack democracy at the Lombard event as well, claiming that democracy was part of “British colonial law” designed to subjugate the Pakistan Muslim population, and stating that democracy is something “other than what Allah” demands, which will result in continued “injustices towards the people.” Abu Baseer denounced the current “system of ruling” in Pakistan, stating that “a fair system can only come from Allah” – and that “system of Islam… an Islamic state” is required. Regarding democracy in Pakistan, Abu Baseer stated that Muslims must “replace [such] systems altogether” and that with its population and nuclear weapons that Pakistan would be more powerful if it became a true “Islamic state.”
Abu Baseer stated that there would be “great punishment” against the Pakistan army, and claimed that the rulers of Pakistan “have violated the command of Allah.” Their greatest crime, in Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s views, was Abu Baseer’s view on “security alliances.” Abu Baseer told the Lombard event audience “all you who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians for your allies, they are but allies to one another, and whoever allies themselves with them becomes one of them” and that “Allah does not prize such evil doers.”
The crowd concluded the event with a chant of “Allahu Akbar.”
Concluding Hizb ut-Tahrir America's Calls for Extremism in Pakistan and the World
The anti-democracy international Hizb ut-Tahrir organization has a long history of making death threats both in the U.S. and aroundthe world. In Bangladesh in November 2009, Hizb ut-Tahrir was reported as having threatened to murder a university vice chancellor who sought to prevent professors who promoted hate at a Bangladesh university. At the beginning of December 2009, Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia called for stonings and whippings as the answer to addressing the AIDS disease.
“Hizb ut-Tahrir is an Islamist network that is committed to creating an Islamic Caliphate that spans the globe. The organization is banned in Germany and Russia as well as several Arab countries and targets Muslim children between the ages of 9 and 18. Many compare their efforts to organizations like the Hitler Youth. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, is counted among their alumnus.”
Dr. Jasser stated that “Hizb ut-Tahrir preaches an ideology that calls for the destruction of the principles that America is founded on.”
BBC television broadcast on its Panorama television show on the Hizb ut-Tahrir, interviewing a British “influential Muslim figure” who stated about Hizb ut-Tahrir to BBC: “I believe that if Hizb ut-Tahrir are not stopped at this stage and we continue to let them to politicize and pollute the youngsters’ minds and other gullible peoples minds, that what will happen in effect is that these terrorism acts and these suicide bombings that we hear going on around us in foreign countries, we will actually start seeing these incidents happening right outside our doorsteps.”
We support our unqualified, universal human rights for all. We urge Hizb ut-Tahrir supporters to drop the burden of the hate of extremism from their hearts, and to rejoin the family of humanity in support of our universal human rights.
Extremist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir has been promoting its anti-democracy message at a public event sponsored by the Indonesian government in Jakarta, receiving an award for their public booth:
— “Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia stands at the Muharram commemorations weeks – 1431 H in Jakarta Islamic Center. This event took place during for a week and beginning on 14-20 December 2009. The event was organized by the Jakarta provincial government, and followed by the booths of various Islamic organizations in Indonesia. At the end of the show, stand Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia received an award as the best stand during the event. And stand HTI became a favorite booth for the visitors who visited the Islamic center in Jakarta.”
The extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir message in Indonesia is summarized as “Save Indonesia with Sharia” (Selamatkan Indonesia Dengan Syariah).
The well-organized, glossy booth and materials by the extremist, anti-democracy Hizb ut-Tahrir organization apparently got the attention of Indonesians attending the event.
Anti-Democracy Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) Booth at Indonesian Government-Sponsored Event
