What IS the difference between the Hizbis and the other Islamic organisations?
The Hizbis say out loud the quiet part that all of them think.
Top Muslim body teams up with extremist hate organisation
The nation’s top Muslim organisation and the nation’s highest ranking imam has teamed up with antisemitic and radical Islamist body Hizb ut-Tahrir to attack the Albanese government’s move to list the latter as a hate group.
The controversial move to sign on was apparently a captain’s call by the Australian Federation of Islamic Council’s executive against pushback from some AFIC members about backing the extremist organisation, a senior official said on the condition of anonymity.
AFIC and stand4palestine – a protest group closely linked with Hizb ut-Tahrir – published a joint statement on Sunday that the Albanese government’s proposed hate groups laws were “part of a wider effort to hold the Muslim community collectively responsible for the Bondi attack”.
“One does not have to agree with Hizb ut-Tahrir, and can in fact be strongly critical of it, but banning Hizb ut-Tahrir under the pretext of hate is wrong and misleading,” they said.
“We cannot ignore the genocide in Gaza, which pro-Zionist advocates have spent the last two years defending.
“If hate speech is really a crime, then the words of pro-Zionist advocates, who have provided a cover for genocide, should first be prosecuted.
“Moreover, granting the executive arm of the government more discretionary power, through a politically subjective regime of hate laws and hate listings, is dangerous and counter-productive.”
This comes amid an internal war in AFIC’s leadership.
Its executives are currently locked in a legal stoush following an allegedly violent altercation at the organisation’s Sydney headquarters.
The Australian has previously revealed AFIC is separately under close monitoring by the charities regulator for allegedly “significant” governance failures.
On Sunday, an AFIC official speaking on the condition of anonymity said AFIC’s leadership signed on to the statement despite pushback.
“Discussions were made about this in the past week and the decision to be a signatory was not made through approved consent by all executive committee members,” the source said.
The joint statement had other signatories, including the grand mufti appointed by AFIC.
This relates to a years-long saga where AFIC appointed its own grand mufti – the highest ranked imam in Sunni Islam – to rival the Australian National Imams Council’s grand mufti.The statement was published after Anthony Albanese backed down on his omnibus extremism legislation and instead said he would split gun reform and hate groups regime into separate bills.
That hate groups regime, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has previously said, was designed to go after organisations like Hizb ut-Tahrir and the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network.
“There have been organisations which have played a game for a long time in keeping themselves just below the legal threshold … the Nazis, the National Socialist Network, and Hizb ut-Tahrir,” Mr Burke said.
“(These) two groups, which through their spreading of hate have a direct impact on increased risk of our national security environment, have kept themselves just below the law.
“For while they have created a pathway for others to engage in violence, (they) have been careful to not explicitly call for it themselves.
“They’ve kept themselves just below that threshold.”
Hizb ut-Tahrir – and stand4palestine – came under scrutiny for staging protests on the two anniversaries following the October 7, 2023, attacks and were also involved in the pro-Palestine encampment protest at the University of Sydney campus in the first half of 2024.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/top-muslim-body-teams-up-with-extremist-...TWO grand muftis. I bet you didn't know Australia has TWO grand muftis.
ANd that's just the sunnis. The shiites are extra.
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