Hizb ut-Tahrir driver barneskoler i UK

Den ekstreme gruppa Hizb ut-Tahrir har i to år drevet to barneskoler i Storbritannia med myndighetenes velsignelse, skriver Shiv Malik i Sunday Times. Et hundretalls småbarn blir undervist ut fra Hizb ut-Tahrirs prinsipper av lærere som har samme syn.

Statsminister Tony Blair sa etter togbombene 7/7 i 2005 at gruppa burde forbys. Men intet har skjedd. Hizbu ut-Tahrir er forbudt i Tyskland, Russland og en rekke land i Midtøsten.

Skolene drives av en stiftelse:

The Islamic Shaksiyah Foundation, a registered charity that runs private schools in Haringey, north London, and in Slough in Berkshire, was established two years ago by female members of the extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir.

Between them, the schools educate more than 100 children. A 2005 Ofsted inspection report for the school in Slough was glowing about its work, stating: “The school’s provision for the pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is very good.”

The schools’ curriculum contains elements of Hizb ut-Tahrir’s ideology, which calls for the union of all Muslim states into a worldwide empire, the khilafah (caliphate).
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According to the Islamic Shaksiyah Foundation’s curriculum document, children aged 7-8 are taught “our rules and laws come from Allah” and asked to contrast Islam with “other belief systems where human beings make rules”. At age 9-10 children should be taught: “There must be one khali-fah [ruler of the caliphate].”

Tahir Alam, education spokesman at the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), said he had seen the khilafah being taught as a historical subject, but never as an ideological principle.

“I know a lot of schools up and down the country and I’ve never seen khilafah being taught [in this way] at any school,” said Alam. “We’re in Britain and we’re dealing with a curriculum that prepares you to be a citizen of this country so I don’t really see the relevance for why a school should have that scheme of work.”

Hizb ut-Tahrirs organisasjonsmodell kan minne om leninismens avantgarde-teori. Det er liten tvil om at de ønsker å utnytte finansiering av alternative skoler til å oppdra nye medlemmer fra barnsben av.

Hizb ut-Tahrir minner om SUF (m-l) og AKP (m-l) i Norge: de forsøker å skape en kaderorganisasjon innenfor fiendens leir som skal stå klar den dag slaget står.

The people running the schools, which opened about two years ago, have close links to some of Hizb ut-Tahrir’s most prominent members. Yusra Hamilton, proprietor of both schools and one of three members of the foundation’s board of trustees, has spoken at Hizb ut-Tahrir events and is the wife of Taji Mustapha, media spokesman for the organisation, whose name is Arabic for “party of Liberation”.

Farah Ahmed, head teacher of the ISF’s Slough school and author of its religious curriculum, is the sister-in-law of Majid Nawaz, a British member of the party who was jailed and allegedly tortured by the Egyptian authorities in 2002 for spreading Hizb ut-Tahrir literature.

The author of the school’s history curriculum, Themina Ahmed, has previously written for Hizb ut-Tahrir about her hatred of western society and desire to see it destroyed.

Ahmed wrote in the July 2001 issue of Khilafah Magazine: “The world will, insha-Allah [God willing], witness the death of the criminal capitalist nation of America and all other [infidel] states when the army of jihad is unleashed upon them.”

Det er vanskelig å fatte at det undervises i det britiske samfunns destruksjon i landets egne skoler, fem år etter 7/7.

Eksperter ber britiske myndigheter ta skolene ytterst alvorlig.

Anthony Glees, director of Brunel University’s centre for intelligence and security studies and author of a report on extremism on British campuses, warned: “This is a matter of grave concern. The government needs to take another look at proscribing Hizb ut-Tahrir.”

Hizb ut-Tahrir senket profilen - men ikke aktiviteten - etter 7/7. De planlegger et gigantmøte i Jakarta neste søndag.

The party has operated in Britain since the mid-1980s but it is part of a much larger worldwide movement, founded in Palestine in 1953, that claims up to 10m supporters in 40 countries from Malaysia to Scandinavia.

It is banned in Germany, Russia and throughout the Middle East because of its antisemitism and its stated aim to establish a global Islamic state. It also calls for the destruction of Israel and the reunion of all lands that were ever under Muslim rule — including parts of southern Spain — through jihad if necessary.

Hundreds of Hizb ut-Tahrir supporters were gathering yesterday at the Alexandra Palace in north London for a conference on how to realise the khilafah. The group is also planning a global convention next Sunday for which it has booked a stadium with a capacity of 100,000 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Schools are run by Islamic group Blair pledged to ban