Fringe Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is using front groups to spread its message to young people.
Inside a suburban community centre, more than two dozen teenagers and young men sit on red plastic chairs, their eyes glued to a neatly dressed man addressing the audience from a makeshift stage.
In videos of the event posted online, Alwahwah warns the young men against socialising with women and engaging in sex out of wedlock, a practice he claims is disgusting and evil, “something that ruins society, that ruins individuals, and we shouldn’t go anywhere near it”. Hizb ut-Tahrir believes Muslim youth are at the centre of a campaign by the Australian government to erode their faith and subordinate them to “the prevalent secular democratic system”.During a Hizb ut-Tahrir lecture in Sydney in late November, a member of the group told the audience that children needed to know “what’s happening” and “get them involved in the Ummah’s affairs early on”.
In an article published in 2016, Hizb ut-Tahrir claimed young Muslims in Australia were being diverted from key Islamic concepts such as working for the interests of a global Islamic community, the caliphate, jihad and “presenting the Islamic way of life as a radical alternative to the current order” by institutions including schools, universities, and mentoring programs.
Events organised by The Convo Sydney have also featured a list of Hizb ut-Tahrir-affiliated speakers, including Mohammad and Anas Alwahwah. Anas Alwahwah did not respond to requests for comment.
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