Hizb ut-Tahrir has stepped up its activities in Australia against a backdrop of the war in Gaza and experts are concerned.
Australian members of a radical Islamist organisation recently banned as a terrorist group in the UK have infiltrated the mainstream pro-Palestinian movement, using front groups to spread their radical ideology and holding multiple events at the Sydney University encampment.has uncovered a sophisticated operation by supporters of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia to reinvigorate the group’s decades-long campaign to destroy Israel and create a caliphate ruled by sharia, or Islamic law.
Despite its limited membership and fringe nature in Australia, the resurgence of Hizb ut-Tahrir has caused concern among extremism experts in Australia and overseas, who fear the group is capitalising on the discontent caused by global events like the war in Gaza to seed radical ideology and recruit followers.
In a statement in response to questions by this masthead, camp organisers said the encampment was a coalition of groups and organisations: “We’re a broad and diverse community here to simply demand our university cut ties with genocide and Israel.”, almost eight weeks after it sprung up on university grounds.
“Hizb ut-Tahrir, like other extreme groups, will use any mechanism they can to push their agenda,” she said. “If a handful of Muslims could rattle the occupation and the entire international community in a single morning, what then could be achieved by the collective efforts of the surrounding armies of Muslim countries?” a Hizb ut-Tahrir press release dated October 8 read.
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