Hizb ut-Tahrir

Aug 13th, 2007, in News, by

Hizb ut-Tahrir’s caliphate conference in Jakarta.

About 70,000 people attended the International Khilafah Conference at Senayan stadium in Jakarta on 13th August hosted by Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), in the interests of furthering the goal of restoring the caliphate, or worldwide Islamic state.

Hizb ut-Tahrir
Hizb ut-Tahrir.

Waving flags and chanting “Allahu Akbar” (God is great), the crowd included a large number of women and children. After a number of speeches the conference ended with a theatrical performance purporting to show the Islamic nations of the world being invaded by Western imperialists. The last scene showed a triumphant Islamic Caliphate expelling the westerners and restoring the unity and glory of the Muslim world.

Two speakers for the conference, Sheik Ismail Al Wahwah from Australia, and Imran Waheed from Britain, were denied entry to Indonesia on arrival at Jakarta airport, while radical Indonesian-Arab cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was ordered not to attend by police. heraldsun

A number of mainstream Indonesian Muslim leaders attended, and sometimes addressed the crowd, including Din Syamsuddin of Muhammadiyah, and randy preacher Abdullah Gymnastiar or Aa Gym.

Aa Gym said Hizb ut-Tahrir should be accepted because they were not violent.

Din Syamsuddin
Din Syamsuddin.

Din Syamsuddin, who was not killed in the Garuda crash of March this year, said the idea of a caliphate was fine as long as it recognised the unitary state of Indonesia and the pluralism of the country. The caliphate was mentioned in the Quran, he said, but these days it should be understood not in terms of a concrete political structure but as a way of uniting the world’s Muslims, in some uncertain way.

Even though Hizb ut-Tahrir is banned in most Muslim majority countries, and also in Germany and Russia, he said it should be tolerated because Indonesia was democratic and pluralistic, and those who attempted to suppress the caliphate movement were being anti-democratic and anti-pluralistic. antara

Muhammad Ismail Yusanto
Muhammad Ismail Yusanto.

Muhammad Ismail Yusanto of HTI said the organisation rejected the democratic system because it placed sovereignty in the hands of the people rather than God. However HTI was willing to participate in elections, and was quite willing, in a pluralistic spirit, to cooperate with other Islamic groups, and it abhorred violence. antara

A video collation of news reports of the event:


39 Comments on “Hizb ut-Tahrir”

  1. Aluang Anak Bayang says:

    haha, Patung, I forget to add this one.

    the Arab – small brain
    the Chinese – large brain

  2. Cukurungan says:

    Aluang :

    Darn Chinese had been copying Allah’s ying and yang philosophy, and pass it as their own.

    Cukurungan :

    The Yin Yang philosophy is only a skin level of God knowledge, Yin Yang is only able to explain something can be seen and feel but it couldn’t be used to move the oil basin underneath Arab World’s to Chinese.

    Please be noted God already sent to earth around 124000 of His messangers since Adam to the last prophet when God taught Confusius and chinese about the yin yang God still keep screet the knowledge how to move the oil basin.

    regard,
    Your Guru

  3. KSJ says:

    Sheikh Cuk, you mean as in ‘yin and yang’? That is Chinese philosophy which they copied from Allah swt.

    I see your reasonings now – opposing pair:
    the Arab – big eyes, big nose
    the Chinese – small eyes, small nose

    the Arab’s religion – Islam
    the Chinese’s religion – Communism

    the Arab – fly on buraq
    the Chinese – fly on dragon

    the Arab – sex with underages children ok
    the Chinese – think it is repulsive

    the Arab – sex with animal ok
    the Chinese – can’t even imagine

    the Arab – wife swapping ok
    the Chinese – think it is shameful

    the Arab – ready to kill in Allah’s name
    the Chinese – ready to trade

    Surely, Allah swt has created hell for the despicable Chinese. It all make sense now.

    From what you said, I get a conclusion that Muslims are paedophile, pervert, and barbaric since their god allows them to have sex with underaged children, animal, to have polygamy and to kill.

  4. Jokoboyo says:

    Mas Jokoboyo feel insulted, there are many people in this forum hate Muslim fellows, Islam is a good religion who love live in peace.

  5. Roslan says:

    It was reported that attendeces for that conference more then 100,000 why in this blog said 70,000 people only? I think you are making propaganda here, to reduce quantities.

    I attended this conference, it is good for Muslim to seat and think a good solution to REBUILD Indonesia.

  6. Jokoboyo says:

    I agree mas Roslan, me too I was there. With Syairah ‘insya-Allah’ our core problems such as rampant corruption in Indonesia will naturally be solved. Who is dare to commit corruption if the public prosecution in kind of hand-chopping, whipping/caning, neck hanging, neck chopping?

  7. Tomaculum says:

    Mas Jokoboyo feel insulted, there are many people in this forum hate Muslim fellows, Islam is a good religion who love live in peace.

    Mbah Tomaculum feels being insulted reading such useless arguments. Such arguments are useless for Indonesia, aren’t they?
    Mbah Tomaculum says that many people in this forum don’t hate moslems but afraid of the development in Indonesia caused by some stupid moslems.

    I attended this conference, it is good for Muslim to seat and think a good solution to REBUILD Indonesia.

    And the solution is applying sharia?

    It were good for Indonesian to recognize the real problems, to take a seat, start to think calmly and stop babbling, and trying (seriously) to find solution. Which religion you ever follow. It would be more useful for Indonesia.

  8. Sylvester says:

    Who is dare to commit corruption if the public prosecution in kind of hand-chopping, whipping/caning, neck hanging, neck chopping?

    Death sentence hardly success in reducing crime and corruption. Look at US, China, Iran, also Indo. Sharia is evil, because it permits violence, killing, discrimination againts non moslem & women, and hypocrite. HT is a potential terrorist organization. It is banned in many countries, but in indo the govt is too weak to repress it. HT is using the economic issues politically for its own ambitions. Forget about bringing good life for indo people.

  9. Kiki says:

    Do you ever read a history when Islam rule the vast area of the world from morocco to Indonesia? There’s no poverty, no corruption, no genocide, and the gap between the poor and the rich not as much as in world now. You can read a history when a Jews in Andalucia calling for help from a Caliphate, because their treated so bad by their ruler, King of Spain. When Islam came and liberated Andalucia from their former ruler, the Andalucia became the magnet of science, culture, and art of the Europe. If you study history from elementary school, the history is full of western accomplishment. But in fact, they steal it from Islam civilization. When many countries in Europe in the dark age think the science is against church and god, the Caliphate brought many advance for the mankind. Such as oldest university in Egypt. If any of you thought that Islam is radical,extremist then you are wrong. Any religion in this world have that kind of people.

    And if you think Allies came to Iraq and Afghan to liberate the people from persecution from their ruler. You wrong!!!!!!!!!!! Allies just want Iraqi oil and strategic location from these countries. This is the real face of capitalism. They don’t care how many people they killed as long as they can get what they want. You can quote US Minister of Defense not long when they strike the Afghan.

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