Promoting A Universal Islamic Caliphate

"Hizb ut Tahrir Canada hereby announces, with regret, the cancellation of the Khilafah Conference 2025."

"This decision was necessitated by circumstances that were beyond our reasonable control."

"Hizb ut Tahrir categorically rejects the use of violence or material means in its methodology."

"The accusations linking the party to terrorism, extremism and violent activities are fabrications aimed at tarnishing its reputation."

Hizb ut Tahrir Facebook account

Inside Hizb ut Tahrir's  Khilafah Conference in 2023. Photo by Hizb ut Tahrir online promotion

"[Hizb ut-Tahrir's history of] glorifying violence and promoting antisemitism and extremist ideology and its support of terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah] are entirely contrary to Canadian values."

David McGuinty, Minister, Public Safety Canada

 

"[The conference and the organizing group is] extremist [and] radical [and would] jeopardize decades of progress made by Canadian Muslims in promoting inclusivity and dialogue."

"Its ideology not only threatens national unity but also isolates Muslim communities and endangers vulnerable youth."

The Global Imams Council

 

"This is important progress in keeping Canadians safe. We are relieved that this conference isn't  happening, but we also know that the fight against extremism cannot stop."

"We will continue to urge the government of Canada to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir as an illegal terrorist organization, as is the case in the U.K. and Germany."

Michelle Stock, vice-President, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs Canada

 

"This dangerous event, organized by an extremist group banned in 13 countries, sought to undermine the very values of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy that define Canada."

"Thanks to swift and decisive action, the voices of  hate and division will not find a platform here."

B'nai Brith Canada

 

"The Canadian government must take the necessary measures to list this organization as a terror group under Canadian law, ensuring that it will never again have the opportunity to propagate its vile, extremist ideology in our country."

Michael Levitt, president, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center

Members and supporters of the Islamist party Hizb Ut-Tahrir rally in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, in support of Palestinians and against Russian and US intervention in Syria, October 16 (credit: OMAR IBRAHIM / REUTERS)

The incident in question, that of a Canadian branch of an international Islamist group whose purpose it is to incite Muslims in the Western Islamic diaspora to take on the mantle of jihad for the purpose of infiltrating and dominating non-Muslim countries to effect a cultural-religious revolution in favour of Islamic conquest where as improbable as it might seem logically to the Western mind, the end result is the establishment of a worldwide Caliphate that would overrule all other religious faiths, cultures and laws through the primacy of Sharia law under Islamic rule.

The group speaks disparagingly of the 'colonialist' West and its deleterious impact on Islam, contrasted with its dedication to bringing world peace and security to all countries, unifying them under the banner of the one true religion, Islam. Its message also carries the impact of antisemitism, defining Jews throughout the world and Israel in particular, as a threat against peace and security in its designs to dominate everywhere, a irony of acute dimensions. 

 

The group is recognized for what it is in countries like Germany and the United Kingdom both of which banned its presence. By listing an entity as a terrorist group, its property can be seized or forfeited, its finances and assets become frozen and banks used for the group's finances cannot under the terrorism act in Canada dispose of or disperse its property. Anyone or any group that knowingly participates in or contributes to such a listed entity's activities commits a crime under the law.

The Canadian branch of this group had planned a conference and on its website, advertising for the conference plainly stated its purpose; to achieve a worldwide Caliphate and in the process destabilize and destroy Western and non-Muslim governments. The group's activities pose a security threat to Muslim-majority countries as well, most of which react to their agenda by banning them there, as well, as a threat to their ruling governments.

The Khilafah Conference 2025 promoted a revolutionary ideology that calls for overthrowing governments to replace them with a unitary, authoritarian Muslim Caliphate where everyone must live under strict Islamic Shariah law. Civic leaders and Jewish and Islamic groups, upon learning of the conference and its promoters took instant action reactively, reaching out to government agencies. The question is why would not Canada's intelligence agencies be ahead of the situation, in identifying the purpose of the group and bringing the threat of its agenda to the notice of the federal government, advising for action?

A letter had been sent to Public Safety Canada warning of the conference and the agenda of the organizing group as a threat, by the Global Imams Council, an independent NGO that adheres to mainstream Islamic teaching. Many Jewish advocacy and antisemitism groups also brought notice to the federal government of the conference and what it sought to advance, calling for it to be shut down, the group declared a terrorist entity.  

The Hizb ut Tahrir logo.

(photo credit: WIKIPEDIA)