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Palestinians back caliphate over politics By Carolynne Wheeler in Kfar Aqab, West Bank Last Updated: 1:16am BST 27/08/2007 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/27/wpal127.xml By day, they are the middle class, putting in days as mild-mannered teachers, factory supervisors and office clerks. Tens of thousands of Palestinian supporters of the Islamic Hizb ut-Tahrir movement demonstrate at a rally in Ramallah But by night, the growing number of supporters of Hizb ut-Tahrir, the Islamic fundamentalists who reject modern democracy in favour of a pan-Islamic religious caliphate, are gathering in the West Bank to recruit the thousands who have grown disillusioned with the vicious stand-off between the...