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Hizb ut-Tahrir Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg

From Berlingske · () Danish

Translated from Danish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

Opinion Named sources Context piece
  • In this opinion article, Eva Gregersen argues that public criticism of Hizb ut-Tahrir should extend to other practicing Muslims who support Islamic rule but remain quiet about it.
  • Gregersen says Hizb ut-Tahrir dominated the debate at the start of the school year with a message urging Muslim secondary-school students to hold firmly to their Islamic identity.
  • She bases her concern about Denmark’s democratic future on previous conversations with mosques, imams, Islamic scholars and practicing Muslims.

Hizb ut-Tahrir had a successful August, writes Eva Gregersen, arguing that the organization used few tools to dominate the public agenda at the start of the school year.

Its message to Muslim high-school students was to stand firm in their Islamic identity. Gregersen describes Hizb ut-Tahrir as openly anti-democratic and says the attention directed at the group should not stop there.

Svend Brinkmann has compared Hizb ut-Tahrir with the Nazis. In Gregersen’s view, his condemnation should also target a much wider segment of practicing Muslims who support an Islamic system of government but do not say so publicly.

Gregersen says she previously visited mosques, met imams and Islamic scholars, and spoke with practicing Muslims in Denmark. Those encounters, she writes, made her seriously worried about the future of Danish democracy. The article is presented as a debate contribution and reflects the writer’s own position.

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Originally published by Berlingske in Danish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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