Crying wolf: fear of Islam
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Hizb-ut-Tahrir is not known to have committed a
violent act in Pakistan. Instead, according to analysts, it looks for
turncoats, proselytizing among officials in inner circles who have the
power to bring the government down from within. If they succeed,
Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal might fall into hands that are even less
reliable than those of the military, which controls the country’s
security.
The organization operates in more than 40
countries, including Britain and the United States, and has been active
in Central Asia for more than a decade. But special concern arose in
Pakistan after an army brigadier named Ali Khan was arrested in May
2011; his six-month trial, on charges of having ties to Hizb-ut-Tahrir,
and of conspiring to overthrow the government, ended in June but a
verdict has not yet been announced.
Hizb-ut-Tahrir’s ultimate goal is a global
caliphate — an Islamic political and religious domain — across the
entire Muslim world, and Pakistani researchers suggest that it has
targeted Pakistan as a potential starting point. Several weeks before
Brigadier Khan’s arrest last year, Pakistani intelligence warned the
government that the movement was planning an Arab Spring-style uprising.
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op-ed article appeared in the New York Times.
