In Indonesia Hizb ut Tahrir Protests Fla. Church’s Quran-Burning Day : NPR
Hizb ut Tahrir is a radical extreme group that is calling for world wide caliphate the same as Al Qaeda. They have cells and groups in every country, and they express most of the same goals as Ayman Al Zawahiri, the difference between HuT and AQ is that Hut’s flag has the colors reversed from the flag of AQ, and they have professed to be, and acted, non violent so far. Many charge them with being an “incubator” for extremism, and the group is outlawed in many countries. Put in terms of last century’s radicalism HuT would be the political wing while AQ is the armed wing.
That said, you can see how one set of extremists calls to another for an answer, and from there it just escalates. Dove World Outreach is an extreme hate church in the US, allied with Eurofascist bigots and their lobbyists like Robert Spencer and Pam Geller, and they march shoulder to shoulder with other hate groups like Westboro Baptist.
Just as rival gangs manage to find each other to fight in high crime areas, so do these hateful “clash of civilizations” groups find and speak to each. They both want the same thing: all out war between Islam and Christianity.
About 3,000 Muslims marched Saturday through Indonesia’s capital to the U.S. Embassy to protest plans by a Florida church to burn the Quran on Sept. 11.
Protesters from the hard-line Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir marched with banners and placards denouncing the burning set for Wednesday. Similar rallies were held in five other cities across Indonesia.
The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., said it will burn the Islamic holy book to mark the ninth anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks. Local officials have denied a permit for a bonfire on the church’s grounds. But the center — which made headlines last year by distributing T-shirts that said “Islam is of the Devil” — insists it will go ahead with the plan.