The nation should not tolerate Hizb ut-Tahrir while at war against IS The Australian October 07, 2014 12:00AM THIS week promises to a test for Tony Abbott’s leadership. On Friday, the jihadist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is holding a public lecture at Lakemba — “The war to end a blessed revolution” on the US-led intervention in Iraq and Syria. Hizb ut-Tahrir is banned in a many countries, including some Muslim countries, but for some inexplicable reason are free to operate in Australia and seen by many as the reasonable “good cop”, the suits and ties of the Islamist movement, while at the same time holding to the same global ambition of promoting a program for the establishment of sharia and a worldwide caliphate. It is the enemy, but presents as its reasonable face. They must be proscribed and banned this week. No more hesitant, halting gestures and apologetic utterances and weasel words about freedom of speech. Our enduring democratic values have served us well but are now are under siege. It defies any test of logic that freedom of speech should be extended and afforded to the enemy in times of war so as to further spread its poison in its efforts to sow seeds of doubt about our alliances and undermine our national confidence. Affording a forum for a public lecture to a group that supports the ambitions of the barbarians of IS, particularly while Australian defence forces are in the field, is offensive.
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 22:38:48 +0000
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