re: #561 MandyManners

Here’s their website.

Or you can read the wiki page on them.

Hizb ut-Tahrir (Arabic: حِزْبُ التَحْرِير‎; English: Party of Liberation) is an international pan-Islamist, Sunni, vanguard[2] political party whose goal is to combine all Muslim countries in a unitary Islamic state or caliphate, ruled by Islamic law and with a caliph head of state elected by Muslims.[3]

Hizb ut-Tahrir believes a caliphate “will provide stability and security to all the people of the region, Muslims and Non-Muslims”.[5] The party promotes “an elaborate and detailed program for instituting an Islamist state”[6] that will “establish the laws of the Islamic Shariah and to carry the Da’wah of Islam to the world.”[7] It believes this “comprehensive solution” will provide “sincere leadership that cares for and protects its citizens from the colonial foreign policies of Bush and Blair” and bring an end to “US interventions, energy inspired wars, puppet (Muslim) governments and western values forced by the barrel of a gun.”[8] Hizb ut-Tahrir is strongly anti-Zionist and calls for “the dismantling” of the “illegal entity” of Israel.[9]

Hizb ut-Tahrir has generated mixed opinions. Some observers believe it is a victim of unjust and untrue allegations of connections to terrorism.[10] Others argue its stated opposition to violence is tactical and temporary,[11] and it works to create an atmosphere conducive to terrorism[12] by preaching hatred[13] and by actions such as calling suicide bombers “martyrs” and talking of the need to “destroy the new crusaders,” i. e. Western troops in Iraq.[14]