Scrolling the website of the caliphate loving, supposedly pacifism professing, pan-Islamic organization Hizb ut-Tahrir BEIRUTSTATEofMIND happened upon this rather interesting profession backed by images of Pakistani political figures. An excerpt from the Hadith of the Prophet Mohammad BEIRUTSTATEofMIND couldn't help thinking that something had got a bit lost in translation. Since when did holes sting people? Zardari looks happy enough though. Maybe Hizb ut-Tahrir think he's a "believer"? Seems somehow doubtful.
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| Ahmad Qassas, Media Director of the Tripoli branch of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Lebanon. He might not even have been stung once. Tripoli, April 2013. |
An extract from BEIRUTSTATEofMIND's interview with Ahmad Qassas:
BSoM: So Ahmad, does Hizb ut-Tahrir accept donations from external donors?
Ahmad: Hizb ut-Tahrir refuses funding from anyone and everyone.
Whether the donations are offered from the West or the East. We only take funding through oUr youth groups and internally from supporters of the party.
BSoM: In 2009 Hizb ut-Tahrir accepted a grant in excess of £100,000 from the British state for the building of a number of Islamic schools in various London boroughs via the Islamic Shaksiyyah foundation whose lead trustee was Yusra Hamilton - a leading Hizb activist and wife of the party's chief spokesman in Britain, Taji Mustafa.
Given the party's stance on external aid and donations how would you jutify this?
Ahmad: (long pause...)Hizb ut-Tahrir doesn't take a single dollar. It's not true.
BSoM: Thanks Ahmad.
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