Australian Muslims called to arms (by Hizb ut Tahrir)
November 06, 2005AN inflammatory pamphlet urging Muslims to oppose Western governments was handed out at a major Islamic festival in Melbourne yesterday.
The flyer, distributed at a family carnival to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan in Preston, bore the name of the fundamentalist group Hizb ut-Tahrir - which is banned in Britain and Germany...
...The pamphlet said Muslims overseas had "heroically resisted" invasion and "inflicted the most humiliating lesson on supposed superpowers"...
In August Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said he had no evidence that Hizb Ut-Tahir had breached current laws, but he was already reviewing the rules for declaring a terrorist organisation after elements of the group called for attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan, Iran, the US and Israeli interests...
"Ally yourselves with those who work day and night to confront this war against Islam," the pamphlet says in what was virtually a call to arms...
Yesterday's headlines. Things are heating up. Only one motor vehicle burned in the street so far, one journalist beaten up in front of a courthouse.