[syriacus]

A little background on Shaker Assem, who is the representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Germany, whose apartment was raided last November. ISLAM IN EUROPE

Assem was drawn to Hizb ut-Tahrir 16 years ago, as a 22-year-old lost soul in Vienna. "I'd grown up in Egypt, where my father was from, and then moved to Austria, where my mother is from," he says. "I didn't really fit in with a lot of the Austrians I met, but I couldn't feel comfortable with those guys you see at European mosques either — the ones with the long beards and robes but nothing going on upstairs."

After a brief flirtation with Scientology, he re-embraced Islam just as someone told him about Hizb ut-Tahrir. The Hizb ut-Tahrir members "were educated and self-sufficient and open to the world around them," Assem recalls. "It wasn't all about beards and robes and prayer, but about logic."

[Mo1]

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[livius]

After a brief flirtation with Scientology, he re-embraced Islam

You've said it all.

Still, I wish these guys would just go back to Baba Ram Dass (whose picture on a giant billboard used to grace the freeway in San Francisco up until the earthquake), drop Allah-the-moon-god, and stop trying to kill the rest of us.