Word: tahrir
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Taking Iraq, One Village at a Time AT TAHRIR SIMON ROBINSON...
...aren't convinced. "They are scared we will leave them like we did the first time," says the translator, referring to what happened in 1991. Yet they reveal a critical piece of info: the location of the local Baath Party headquarters a few kilometers down the road, near At Tahrir...
...knocked a little too loudly on the door, but otherwise they were very professional," he says. The surprise visit to Assem's Duisberg flat was one of a score of searches carried out across Germany that morning, as police raided homes and offices belonging to members of Hizb ut-Tahrir (Islamic Liberation Party), a 50-year-old pan-Islamic political organization that seeks to establish a modern version of the caliphate that ruled parts of the Arab world from Muhammad's death until 1924, when Turkey's Kemal Atatürk officially laid it to rest. The police visited Assem...
...Assem admits that Hizb ut-Tahrir's goals are incompatible with European political institutions, but insists the organization has no intention of making trouble. "People who say there is a conflict between Shari'a and Christianity don't understand Shari'a," he says. "But people who say there is a conflict between Shari'a and Western democracy are right." The problem in Assem's view is that "all men are not created equal, and democracy eventually lets the fortunate over-run the less fortunate." So Hizb ut-Tahrir members don't vote or run for office in secular elections...