UK authorities says the group is anti-Semitic and encourages ‘terrorism’.
Britain has moved to ban the group Hizb ut-Tahrir, saying it’s anti-Semitic and needs to be designated as a “terrorist” organisation.
Parliament this week will debate a proposal to make becoming a member of the group unlawful in the UK underneath terrorism legal guidelines, the Dwelling Workplace stated on Monday.
“Hizb ut-Tahrir is an anti-Semitic organisation that promotes and encourages terrorism, together with praising and celebrating the appalling October 7 assaults,” Dwelling Secretary James Cleverly stated.
Hizb ut-Tahrir’s celebration of the October 7 Hamas assaults on southern Israel and descriptions of Hamas members as heroes on its web site has constituted selling and inspiring “terrorism”, Cleverly stated.
Cleverly stated the organisation has a historical past of praising and celebrating assaults on Jewish individuals.
Shortly after the Hamas assaults and the following conflict on Gaza, the group referred to as on Muslim nations to “Get your armies and go and take away the Zionist occupiers.”
Former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and David Cameron tried to ban the group whereas in energy, however each dropped the plans.
The group, based in 1953 with its headquarters in Lebanon, operates in 32 nations, together with Britain, america, Canada and Australia. It has a long-term purpose of creating a caliphate dominated underneath Islamic regulation, the Dwelling Workplace stated.
The group is already banned in a number of nations, together with Bangladesh, Egypt and Germany.
Based on the British Dwelling Workplace, if parliament agrees with the designation, the label will come into impact from Friday, placing the group on par with different designated teams, together with al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS).
The proscription can even make it an offence to assist the group, which might be punishable by as much as 14 years in jail and will result in asset seizures.
Based on the federal government’s web site, Cleverly might label a gaggle a “terrorist” organisation underneath British regulation if the organisation is believed to be “involved in terrorism, and it’s proportional to do”.
Labour Get together Dwelling Secretary Yvette Cooper welcomed the announcement.
“It’s proper that the federal government has appeared urgently on the proof and intelligence data out there to them concerning the risk posed by Hizb ut-Tahrir, and we welcome and assist the choice to proscribe them,” she stated.
“Those that incite violence and promote or glorify terrorism don’t have any place on Britain’s streets and should face the total drive of the regulation.”
On Hizb ut-Tahrir’s web site final month, the group stated the decision to ban the organisation in Britain was “an indication of desperation”.