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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday morning conducted searches at 10 locations in Tamil Nadu in the Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT) case. The incident follows the arrest in May of six members of the international Islamist organisation HuT, who were arrested for anti-national activities such as propaganda against elections and democracy. Those arrested include a man in his fifties, his two sons and three others aged between 26 and 33 years. Provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) have been invoked against them.
One of the arguments of HuT members against democracy was that democracy and the rule of law are man-made and therefore subject to change and are not perfect. However, divine law does not fall into such a category and is supreme.
45 branches of Hizb ut-Tahrir
Hizb ut-Tahrir was founded in Palestine on 17 November 1952 in East Jerusalem by Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani. The party’s ideology views socialism and capitalism as external impositions in the Middle East and has sought to unite the global Muslim population (ummah) in Muslim-majority lands under a revived caliphate (caliphate, or Islamic state). Since its inception, the party has expanded, first in the Middle East and then beyond, currently having active branches in at least 45 countries. The first European branch was established in West Germany in the 1960s, before more significant branches were established throughout Western Europe in recent decades.
What is Hizb ut-Tahrir?
Hizb ut-Tahrir in the UK (or ‘Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain’, as the party brands itself) represents one of the more significant national branches (or wilayat in formal party parlance) of Hizb ut-Tahrir. It often works to produce and disseminate international major party literature in English and has been active in helping to establish other national branches in Denmark (1994), Pakistan (1999), Bangladesh (2000), Indonesia (2000) and Australia (2004). It is historically known for sometimes controversial activism in the street and university and statements rejecting integration and democracy – including the 2003 Birmingham conference “British or Muslim?” and the alleged takeover of several Islamic student societies, which led to them being banned by the National Union of Students
